[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Lower as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
False alarms — See Ch.
148.
Conduct at beaches — See Ch.
178.
Drug-free zones — See Ch.
278.
Tampering with fire-fighting equipment — See Ch.
324.
Parental responsibility — See Ch.
459.
Conduct in parks and recreation areas — See Ch.
475.
Pornography — See Ch.
486.
[Adopted 12-10-1975 as Sec. 3-2 of the 1975 Code]
It is necessary that interference with persons
lawfully on the streets of the Township be stopped, and the Township
Committee is desirous of controlling the same.
No person shall loiter, sit, lounge, idly stand,
or sleep in or on the streets, sidewalks, public parks, or other public
places in the Township, or obstruct the passage of any person in or
on any street, sidewalk, public park, or other public place in the
Township.
No person shall indulge in or utter loud, offensive,
indecent, or profane language, nor address, nor make audible and offensive
remarks or comments upon or to any person passing along or being on
or in any public street, sidewalk, park, or other public place in
the Township or in or on any property, public or private.
No person shall within the Township carelessly
or recklessly drop, throw, cast or strike with any stick, stone, brick,
ball, snowball or other missile or projectile or object of any kind
whatsoever in any manner, doing injury to or likely or calculated
or intended to do injury to any person, property or animal.
No person within the Township shall take any
plant or flower or any other thing from, or mutilate in any manner,
any property, real or personal, public or private, or write, paste
or post or place in any manner any obscene or vulgar words, phrases,
languages, pictures, drawing, prints or characters on any wall, house,
fence, signboard, billboard or any other structure.
[Amended by Ord. No. 86-15]
It shall be unlawful for any person to appear
or travel on any street, avenue, highway, road, boardwalk, beach,
beachfront or waterway located in the Township of Lower, or to appear
in any public place, store or business in said Township in a state
of nudity or in an indecent or lewd dress or garment, or to make any
indecent or unnecessary exposure of his or her person.
[Adopted 12-10-1975 as Sec. 3-3
of the 1975 Code]
No person shall permit any house, shops, store
or other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to
be frequented or resorted to by noisy, riotous, or disorderly persons.
[Amended 10-3-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-17]
A. No person
shall cause or permit to be emitted any smoke, fumes, gases or other
substances of a nature or of such quantity as to be injurious to life
or health or property or of such a nature or of such quantity as to
be offensive, obnoxious or nauseating to any member of the public
or to any Township official.
B. No person
operating an outdoor wood-burning boiler (also known as OWBs, outdoor
furnaces, outdoor wood heaters, or outdoor wood-fired hydronic heaters)
shall allow smoke or other products of combustion to escape from the
unit in such a manner as to be offensive, obnoxious or injurious to
any person to create a nuisance of any duration that negatively impacts
any property by the infiltration of such property or any structure
thereupon by smoke or other products of combustion.
C. This section
may be enforced by the issuance of a complaint-summons as attested
to by a private citizen in accordance with the New Jersey Rules of
Court and/or the policies of the Administrative Officer of the Courts
or by any appropriate Township official after personal observation
of the offensive condition.
D. This section
does not limit or relieve any operator of any outdoor wood-burning
boiler (also known as OWBs, outdoor furnaces, outdoor wood heaters,
or outdoor wood-fired hydronic heaters) from the obligation to comply
with all laws and regulations applicable to such units, including,
but not limited to, the Uniform Fire Code, the Uniform Construction
Code and regulations of the State of New Jersey applicable to such
units.
E. Any person
operating such a unit in violation of any of the above shall be deemed
in violation of this section, and any penalties assessed hereunder
shall be in addition to and supplementary of any other penalties assessed
by any other governmental agency.
No person shall unnecessarily obstruct any sidewalk,
street, or public place with any kind of vehicle or with any kind
of box or boxes, lumber, wood or other thing, but the provisions of
this section shall not prevent persons who are building from occupying
such portion of the sidewalk, street, or public place designated in
a permit therefor.
No person shall start or maintain any fire at
any time outside the confines of his or her own property, or fail
to adequately care for and supervise any fire to prevent the same
from spreading beyond the confines of his or her own property or becoming
a nuisance beyond the confines of the same.
[Amended 8-19-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-17]
No person shall cause, permit or allow any fence,
sign, bush, hedge, weeds, brush or tree foliage to obstruct vision
over 42 inches or under 12 feet in height as measured from the shoulder
of the roadway in a triangular area extending 30 feet from a road,
street or highway intersection parallel to the shoulder of each intersecting
street, road or highway.
Nothing herein contained shall apply with respect
to the police, fire and rescue personnel or vehicles while in the
performance of their duties.