[HISTORY: Adopted by the Wallington Recreation Commission 5-8-1974 (Ch. A367 of
the 1992 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Whenever used in any Wallington Recreation Commission rule or
regulation, the following respective terms, unless otherwise therein
expressly defined, shall mean and include each of the meanings herein
respectively set forth:
The Borough of Wallington.
The Wallington Recreation Commission.
Any crossing, whether marked by a pavement or otherwise;
the extension of any sidewalk space across any intersecting drive,
street, highway or bridle path.
Any boundary of any street, road, avenue, boulevard or drive,
whether or not marked by a curbstone.
Any street, road, avenue, drive or boulevard maintained by
the Commission for vehicular use.
Any person who propels, operates or is in charge of a vehicle.
Any path maintained for pedestrians.
Any part of any drive or space designated as a place for
the standing of vehicles.
Any written license issued by or under the authority of the
Commission permitting the performance of a specified act or acts.
Any natural person, corporation, company, association, joint-stock
association, firm or copartnership.
Any rule or regulation duly adopted, posted and published
by the Wallington Recreation Commission.
Any conveyance (except a baby carriage), including a motor
vehicle; also bicycles, tricycles, sleds, sleighs, pushcarts or vehicles
propelled by other than muscular power; also any horse.
All the real property situated in the Borough of Wallington
acquired by or under the jurisdiction and care of the Wallington Recreation
Commission, or which may be hereafter acquired by it or come under
its jurisdiction.
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Editor's Note: The following introductory material preceded
this section: "RESOLVED by the Wallington Recreation Commission that
the following Rules and Regulations are hereby adopted for the protection,
regulation and control of parks, roads, driveways, sidewalks, paths,
pools, fountains, trees, flowers, shrubs, statuary, buildings and
other things contained in and upon property controlled by the Wallington
Recreation Commission in the Borough of Wallington, County of Bergen
and State of New Jersey."
In the interpretation of Wallington Park Rules and Regulations,
their provisions shall be construed as follows:
A.Â
Any term in the singular shall include the plural, and the plural
shall include the singular;
B.Â
Any term in the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter;
C.Â
Any requirement or prohibition of any act shall, respectively, extend
to and include the causing or procuring, directly or indirectly, of
such act;
D.Â
No provision hereof shall make unlawful any act necessarily performed
by any officer or employee of the Commission in the line of duty or
work as such, or by any person, his agents or employees, in the proper
and necessary execution of the terms of any agreement with the Commission;
and
E.Â
Any act otherwise prohibited by Wallington Recreation Commission
Rules and Regulations, provided that it is not otherwise prohibited
by law or local ordinance, shall be lawful if performed under, by
virtue of and strictly within the provisions of a permit so to do,
and to the extent authorized thereby.
All Wallington Recreation Commission Rules and Regulations shall
be effective within all the parks, tennis courts, etc., and parkways
of the Wallington Park System and regulate the use thereof by all
persons.
A permit to do any act shall authorize the same only insofar
as it may be performed in strict accordance with terms and conditions
thereof. Any violation by its holder or his agents or employees of
any term or condition hereof shall constitute grounds for its revocation
by the Commission, or by its authorized representative, whose action
therein shall be final. In case of the revocation of any Park Commission
permit, all moneys paid for or on account thereof shall, in the option
of the Commission, be forfeited to and be retained by it; and the
holder of such permit, together with his agents and employees who
violated such terms and conditions, shall be jointly and severally
liable to the Commission for all damages and loss suffered by it in
excess of the money so forfeited and retained; but neither such forfeiture
and retention by the Commission of the whole or any part of such moneys,
nor the recovery or collection thereby of such damages, or both, shall
in any manner relieve such person or persons from liability to punishment
for any violation of any Wallington Recreation Commission rule or
regulations. These rules and regulations shall be a part of each permit
issued.
No person shall post, paint, affix, distribute, hand out, deliver,
place, cast or leave about any bill, billboard, placard, ticket, handbill,
circular or advertisement; display any flag, banner, transparency,
target, sign, placard, blimp, balloon, airplane, searchlight or any
other matter for advertising purposes; or operate any musical instrument
or drum for advertising purposes, or for the purpose of attracting
attention to any exhibition, show, performance or other display without
the permission of the Commission.
No person, group or organization shall solicit alms or contributions
for any purpose without the permission of the Commission.
No person without a permit or consent of the Commission shall
cause or permit any animal owned by him, in his custody or under his
control, except a dog when restrained by a leash not exceeding six
feet in length, to go or be in any park or park area, and each such
animal so found at large may be seized and disposed of as provided
by the law or ordinance covering disposal of stray animals on highways
or public property then in effect at the place where such stray animal
may be seen.
No person shall utter loud and offensive or profane or indecent
language; do any obscene or indecent act; throw stones or other missiles;
annoy, obstruct, molest or interfere with any person; interfere with,
encumber, obstruct or render dangerous any drive, path, walk or public
place; loiter or create a disturbance while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor; do any act tending or amounting to a breach of
the peace; climb or stand upon any wall, fence, shelter, statue or
other erection; enter or leave except at established entranceways
or exits; introduce, carry or fire any firecrackers, torpedoes or
fireworks; engage in, instigate, aid or encourage a contention or
fight, whether or not a ring or prizefight; assault any person; play
games of chance, participate in the conduct of a lottery or use or
operate any gaming machine, gaming table or instrument or tell fortunes
or futures; drink, take, use or have in his or her possession or be
under the influence of any opiates or other habit-forming drugs; spit
upon any walk crossing, safety zone or the floors of any structure,
bridge, platform or stairway; cast, throw or deposit on any walk,
crossing, path, safety zone, floor or parkway surface any portion
of any fruit, vegetable, foodstuff, paper, pasteboard litter or other
substance; or enter upon any portion of the parks in disregard of
signs or posted notices forbidding the same; or fail to obey or interfere
with an officer in the proper performance of his duties.
No person shall bring into or have in said parks any explosive,
including any substance, compound, mixture or article having properties
of such a character that, alone or in combination or continuity with
other substances or compounds, may decompose suddenly and generate
sufficient heat, gas or pressure, or any or all of them, to produce
rapid flaming or combustion or administer a destructive blow to surrounding
objects without the approval of the Commission.
No person shall bring into or have in said parks any poison
or poisonous substance without the permission of the Commission.
No person shall have or carry, whether or not concealed upon
his person, any pistol, revolver or other deadly weapon or any instrument
or weapon commonly known as a "toy pistol" or in which or upon which
loaded or blank cartridges may be used, or any loaded or blank cartridges
or ammunition therefor, or any tools or instruments, skeleton keys,
pick-locks, jimmies or other things known or used as burglar tools,
except when authorized by law. No person shall bring into the parks
or have in his possession therein any rifle, pistol using loaded or
blank cartridges, shotgun or fowling piece or any air gun, spring
gun, slingshot, bow and arrows or other instrument or weapon in which
the propelling force is a spring or air.
No person shall kindle, build, maintain or use a fire in said
parks. No person shall throw away or discard any lighted match, cigar,
cigarette, tobacco, paper or other material within or against any
building, structure, car, vehicle or enclosure or under any tree or
in underbrush, unless it be to deposit the same in a suitable container
provided for the reception thereof.
No person or vehicle shall, between April 1 and August 31 after
10:00 p.m. and between September 1 and March 31 after 9:00 p.m., loiter
or remain in said parks, except in an emergency and after notifying
a police officer; and except when, where and for whom permission has
been granted by the Commission for a group gathering, activity or
function.
No person shall sell or offer for sale any object or merchandise
or any other thing, whether corporeal or incorporeal, except pursuant
to a permit issued by the Commission.
No parent, guardian or custodian of any minor shall permit or
allow him to do any act prohibited by any Wallington Recreation Commission
rule or regulation.
All other uses as prohibited by the Code of the Borough of Wallington
are hereby incorporated and made a part of these rules and regulations.
No person, without a permit, shall erect any structure, stand,
tent or platform, hold any meeting, perform any ceremony, make a speech,
address or harangue, exhibit to the public any dramatic performance
or the performance in whole or in part of any interlude, tragedy,
comedy, opera, ballet, play, farce, minstrelsy, dancing, entertainment,
motion pictures, circus, juggling, rope walking or any other acrobatics,
engage in any parade, drill, maneuvers or civic or other procession;
or shall bring into, sell, give away, display or drink, consume or
cause or procure to be sold, given away, displayed or drunk any alcoholic
or spirituous liquors or beverages, except only such alcoholic or
spirituous liquors as may be specifically permitted by the Commission,
and only at such times and places as specifically designated and approved
by the Commission.
All regularly scheduled games to be played or conducted on park
facilities shall require a permit issued by the Commission noting
the day, hour and duration of the game. No other person or group of
persons shall use such facilities during the time covered by any such
permit, except by the specific authority of the Commission.
All the provisions of the New Jersey State Motor Vehicle Act
and Traffic Laws shall apply in the parks and shall be strictly enforced,
with such further restrictions as may be hereinafter stated.
No owner or driver shall cause or permit his vehicle to stand
anywhere outside of designated parking spaces, except for a reasonable
time in a drive to take up or set down passengers.
No person without a permit shall injure, deface, displace, remove,
fill in, raise, destroy or tamper with any drive, path or walk; take
up or remove or carry away any asphalt, concrete, flagstone, rock,
stone, gravel, sand, clay or earth; or make any excavation of any
kind, name or nature; or injure, deface, displace, remove or destroy
any structure, building, post, railing, bench, seat, platform, stand,
tree guard, telephone, telegraph, pipe or main for conducting gas,
water or wires, or any hydrant, sewer, drain, pipe, main, receiving
basin, covering, manhole or vent forming a part thereof, or any appurtenance
or appendage connected therewith; or any other property or equipment,
real or personal, owned by or under the jurisdiction or control of
said Commission or appertaining to the creation, government, use or
maintenance of said parks; or injure or in any way interfere with
the operation of any machine, instrument or contrivance used in said
parks; or injure, deface, displace, remove or destroy any sign, inscription,
post or monument erected or marked for any purpose; or any danger
sign or signal, guide sign or post or any signaling device sanctioned,
installed or placed by said Commission or by the Borough for the purpose
of directing, restricting or regulating traffic, establishing zones
or giving information or direction to the public; or interfere with
any lamp, lamppost, gas or electric light apparatus, or extinguish
the light therein, except upon proper authority; or attach, string,
adjust or carry any wire or other object in, on or over any part of
said parks.
No person without a permit shall destroy, cut, break, deface,
mutilate, injure, disturb, sever from the ground or remove any plant,
flower, flower bed, shrub, tree, growing thing, plant growth or any
branch, stem or leaf thereof; or pile or maintain any material or
debris of any kind against or upon the same; or attach any rope, cable
or other contrivance thereto; or set fire, or assist another to set
fire, to any timber, trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, grass or plant
growth, except at such time when permission to do so shall have been
given by the said Commission to the public.
No person shall take into, carry through, leave in or throw,
cast, lay, drop or discharge into or on or suffer or permit any servant,
agent, employee or person in his or her charge to take into, carry
through, leave in or throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or on
said parks any ashes, dross, cinders, bottle, shells, paper, cans,
dirt, sand, oil, grease, clay, loam, stone or building rubbish, brush,
stumps, hay, straw, oats, sawdust, shavings, or manufacturing, trade
or household waste, old iron or other metal or objects made therefrom,
or rubbish of any sort; or sick, diseased or dead animals, organic
refuse or other offensive matter, including swill, brine, urine, offal,
fecal matter, garbage or rubbish.
All rules and regulations or parts thereof and all amendments
thereto heretofore adopted are hereby repealed. The foregoing repeal
of any rule or regulation shall not affect or impair any act done,
offense committed, right accruing or acquired, or liability, penalty
or forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time these rules
and regulations take effect; but the same may be enjoyed, asserted,
enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same extent
as if these rules and regulations had not been adopted.
Any person violating any of the provisions herein shall, upon
conviction thereof before a Municipal Judge, according to the provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40:12-6, be adjudged a disorderly person.
