[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Readington 2-19-2013 by Ord. No. 05-2013. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as "Prevention of Disorderly Conduct,"
and its purpose is to amend and codify an ordinance previously enacted
by the Township of Readington entitled "An Ordinance to Prevent Disorderly
Conduct, to Preserve Public Peace and Good Order, and to Prevent,
Disperse and Quell Crowds, Riots and Disorderly Assemblages and to
Establish Curfew in the Township of Readington, in the County of Hunterdon
and Providing Penalties for Violations Therefor," also known as "G-91."
The following regulations for the prevention of disorderly conduct
are hereby enacted:
A.
False fire alarms. No person shall give or cause to be given any
false alarm of fire.
B.
Unnecessary use of horns. No person shall sound his or her automobile
horn other than as a warning signal necessary and essential in driving
said vehicle nor sound the horn repeatedly or for long periods of
time, except at weddings or other public celebrations.
C.
Interference with religious worship or assembly. No person shall
disquiet or interrupt any congregation or assembly meeting for religious
worship or disquiet or interrupt any other meeting within the Township
by making a noise or by rude or indecent behavior or profane discourse
within the place of worship or other meeting place.
D.
Noise. No person shall permit, make or continue, or cause to be permitted,
made or continued, any unnecessary noise at any unreasonable hour
which shall disturb the comfort, rest and repose of any person being
in his or her place of abode.
E.
Profanity; interference with person; telephone harassment.
(1)
No person shall:
(a)
Address or make audible any offensive remarks to or concerning
any person in any place, public or private.
(b)
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in or
upon any place, public or private.
(c)
Repeatedly telephone another for the purpose of annoying or
molesting such person or telephone another and address any lewd, lascivious,
indecent or disgusting remarks to such person.
F.
Throwing objects. No person shall throw, discard, deposit or sweep
any papers or posters, stones, sticks, glass, metal or any hard, dangerous
or offensive substance upon a sidewalk, street, highway or public
place or at any car, vehicle, house, building, fence or person; or
dump any trash or garbage upon private property not his or her own.
G.
Malicious destruction of property. No person shall maliciously destroy,
damage or injure any property, public or private.
H.
Annoying persons in public places. No person shall participate in
any practice, sport or exercise having a tendency to annoy, disturb
or frighten any person or persons or animal on the sidewalk, street,
road, park or other public place.
I.
Obstructions on streets or sidewalks. No person shall unnecessarily
obstruct any sidewalk, street or public place within any kind of vehicle
or vehicles 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 or repairing from occupying such portion of the sidewalk,
street or public place designated with a permit or other municipal
approval therefor.
Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days and/or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days.
This chapter supersedes any other Township ordinance or portion
of the Code inconsistent herewith and, in particular, all inconsistent
portions of the ordinance known as "G-91."
