[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Harrison as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 10-1-1951 by Ord. No. 1-1951]
[Amended 10-6-2008 by Ord. No. 23-2008]
No person shall within the limits of the Township
of Harrison in the County of Gloucester:
A.
Utter any loud and offensive or indecent language
or make offensive remarks to any person or persons or interfere with
any person or persons lawfully being at any public places.
[Amended 10-20-2014 by Ord. No. 28-2014]
B.
Throw or
discard any paper, cardboard, wood, metal, tin cans, bottles, garbage,
debris, junk, or any rubbish of any kind whatsoever in or upon any
sidewalk, public street, road, highway or other public place, or in
or about any public building.
C.
Permit, allow or cause any unnecessary noise which
shall disturb the comfort, rest and repose of any person or persons
being in his, her, or their place of abode, or at any public or private
meeting, or at any church service or services.
D.
Permit, allow or cause any vile, offensive, obnoxious
or nauseating odor or odors that may be vile, offensive, obnoxious
or nauseating to any person or persons.
E.
Maliciously or intentionally destroy, damage or injure
any public property or private property.
F.
Maliciously or intentionally turn in or give false
fire alarms or hinder, prevent or deter any fireman or other person
from rendering lawful assistance in abating or quelling a fire or
hinder or interfere with any fireman going to or returning from any
fire, or place from which a fire alarm proceeds, or hinder or obstruct
any fire engine, hook-and-ladder truck, hose cart or other fire apparatus
going to or from any place from which a fire alarm proceeds or where
any building or property may be burning.
G.
Permit, allow or cause smoke, cinders, soot, fly ash,
or steam to be discharged or escape into the open air in such quantities
as to be an annoyance and detriment to any person or persons, or to
endanger the comfort, health, safety or repose of any person or persons,
or in such manner as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or
damage to any person or persons or property.
H.
Permit, allow or cause dust, dirt, sand, particles
of earth, lime, fertilizer, mineral compounds, chemical compounds,
or any other materials or substances whatsoever to be discharged or
escape into the open air in such quantities as to be an annoyance
and detriment to any person or persons, or to endanger the comfort,
health, safety or repose of any person or persons, or in such manner
as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or damage to any person
or persons or property.
I.
Permit, allow or cause gases, fumes, vapors or liquid
to be discharged or escape into the open air in such quantities as
to be an annoyance and detriment to any person or persons, or to endanger
the comfort, health, safety or repose of any person or persons, or
in such manner as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or damage
to any person or persons or property.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Taken and construed to mean and include corporations, partnerships,
associations and other business entities, individuals or natural persons.
[Amended 12-6-2004 by Ord. No. 40-2004]
Any person who shall violate any of the terms
or provisions of this article or shall commit or do any act or thing
prohibited by the terms of this article shall, upon conviction thereof,
be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,250, imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service not exceeding
90 days. Offenses on separate days shall be deemed to be separate
offenses, so that a continued violation from day to day shall be construed
to be a new violation for each day such violation occurs.
[Adopted 7-6-2004 by Ord. No. 20-2004]
No person shall urinate or defecate in any public
place, or private place within public view.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Those areas used by the public, including but not limited
to streets, sidewalks, parks, open spaces, commercial parking lots,
vehicles of mass transportation, property owned by the Township, county,
state, or any other sovereign entity. An otherwise private place may
become a public place upon issuance of a permit or license granting
permission for the general public to access the property for a specific
purpose.
The area visible to persons in or on a public place or private
place.
[Amended 12-6-2004 by Ord. No. 40-2004]
Any person who shall violate any provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
not exceeding $1,250, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days
or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days.
