[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Township
of Mount Olive 7-19-1994 by Ord. No. 8-94 (Ch. 178 of the 1990
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions contained
in any section of this chapter shall be deemed and adjudged to be
a disorderly person and, for such violation, should be subject to
the penalties hereinafter prescribed.
A.
Any person that shall appear in any street or public place in a state
of nudity or in any indecent or lewd dress; or that shall make any
indecent exposure of his or her person or be guilty of exhibiting,
giving, distributing, having in possession, selling or offering for
sale any lewd or indecent book, picture or thing; or that shall exhibit
or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other representation
or behave in a lewd, indecent manner shall be deemed and adjudged
to be a disorderly person.
B.
Any person that shall, within the limits of said Township, bathe
in the state of nudity, swim in the state of nudity or be found in
the state of nudity in the waters of any lake, pond or stream or in
the waters adjacent thereto shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly
person.
C.
Any person that shall, from a street, highway or other public place,
intentionally or willfully look into any window, door or other opening
of any house or building with the intention of looking at or watching
any person or persons partially or completely disrobed therein or
engage in the practice of what is commonly known as a "peeping tom"
shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
D.
Any person, on property not his own, that intentionally or willfully
looks into any window, door or other opening of any house or building
with the intention of looking at or watching any person therein, engages
in the practice of what is commonly known as "peeping tom" or frightens
or interferes with the occupant of said house or building shall be
deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
[Amended 9-27-1994 by Ord. No. 12-94]
A.
All persons who shall use or pretend to use or have any skill in
physiognomy, palmistry or like crafty science or who shall pretend
to tell destinies or fortunes shall be deemed and adjudged to be a
disorderly person.
B.
Any person practicing physiognomy, palmistry or like crafty science
as part of a religious service or prayer involving a bona fide church
or religious organization or as part of an event or function sponsored
by said church or religious organization shall be exempt from the
provisions of this section.[1]
Any person who shall loiter in any public place, in any quasi-public
place or in or upon any private property not his or her own within
the Township of Mount Olive, being under the influence of intoxicating
liquors or drugs, or who, not being under such influence, shall there
indulge in and utter loud and offensive or indecent language shall
be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall be apprehended having upon his or her person
any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with an intent
to break and enter into any building, or who shall have upon him or
her any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive or dangerous
weapons with the intent to assault any person, or who shall be found
in or near any dwelling house or building or in any place of public
resort or assemblage for business, worship, amusement or other lawful
purposes, with an intent to steal any goods or chattels, shall be
deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall enter the building or go upon the lands
belonging to the Board of Education of Mount Olive Township or used
and occupied for school purposes by any school in this Township and
shall break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or
shall disturb the exercises of such public school or molest or give
annoyance to the children attending such school or any teacher therein
shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who, by noisy or disorderly conduct in any public
library or reading room in this Township, disturbs or interrupts the
quiet and good order of those who resort to and use said library or
reading room for reading and study shall be deemed and adjudged to
be a disorderly person.
[Amended 9-27-1994 by Ord. No. 12-94]
Any person who shall be arrested at any public place, property
or right-of-way or any place, property or right-of-way held open to
the public for any lawful purpose in the Township of Mount Olive and
to have been frequenting or attending such place or places for an
unlawful purpose shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall cast or throw any stick, stone,
pebble or other substance, or who shall shoot from any air gun, machine
gun, shotgun, pistol or rifle any shot or ball at, against or into
any motor vehicle or other vehicle or building of any kind or lake
or any other body of water, or who shall place any stick, stone or
other substance upon any public thoroughfare in the Township of Mount
Olive with the intent to injure any car or cars passing thereon or
passengers therein, or who shall place any stick, stone or other substance
in any lake or other body of water with the intent to injure persons
or property in the enjoyment and the use of said lake or other body
of water shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall willfully and maliciously give or cause
to be given a false alarm of fire in any manner or a false or fictitious
police call in any manner, or any person who shall willfully and maliciously
make a false or fictitious report to any member of the Police or Fire
Department of the Township of Mount Olive in any manner or any person
who shall willfully and maliciously represent himself in any telephone
conversation to be another person or a fictitious person shall be
deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
A.
Any person who shall, within the limits of the Township of Mount
Olive, maliciously destroy, damage, deface or injure any property,
public or private, other than his own shall be deemed and adjudged
to be a disorderly person.
B.
Any person who shall intentionally, willfully or maliciously destroy
or injure any of the wires, posts, machines, bells, sirens, boxes,
locks or other apparatus of any police call system or fire alarm system
and any person who shall intentionally, willfully or maliciously destroy,
deface or damage any street sign or other signs of the Township shall
be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any driver of any vehicle carrying passengers for hire or for
any other person who makes any false statement or false representations
to any passenger or to any other person of or concerning any hotel,
boardinghouse or lodging house with the intention of inducing any
such person to enter, lodge at or become a guest of any other hotel,
boardinghouse or lodging house or who by any false statement or false
representation induces any person to not enter, lodge at or become
a guest of any hotel, boardinghouse or lodging house shall be deemed
and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall drive any horse, mule or other
beast of burden over any public street or highway in the Township
of Mount Olive while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or
drugs shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall obtain food, lodging or other accommodations
or services for any hotel, inn, boarding or eating house or culinary
establishment or clubhouse with the intent to defraud the owner or
keeper thereof shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Proof that lodging, food or other accommodation or service were obtained
by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any
baggage or other property, or that the person refused or neglected
to pay for such food, lodging or other accommodation or service on
demand, or that he gave in payment for such food, lodging or other
accommodation or service negotiable paper on which payment was refused,
or that he absconded without paying or offering to pay for such food,
lodging or other accommodation or service, or that he surreptitiously
removed or attempted to remove his baggage shall be prima facie proof
of the fraudulent intent mentioned therein.
Any person who shall travel on any bus or taxicab without having
paid his fare and with the intent to avoid payment thereof or any
person who, having paid his fare or having traveled on such bus or
taxicab to a point where an additional fare is due, shall, on demand
of the operator or other person in charge of such bus or taxicab,
refuse or fail to pay such additional fare or leave such bus or taxicab
shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall invite or solicit, by work, act, sign or
any device, unlawful sexual intercourse or any other unlawful, indecent
or lewd act, shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons who shall disrobe in any automobile, truck,
bus or other means of conveyance upon any public street, highway,
parking space or any other public place or in any quasi-public place
whereon any automobile, truck, bus or other means of conveyance may
be parked or standing shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly
person.
Any person or persons who shall be apprehended in the Township
of Mount Olive, either on foot or in any automobile, vehicle or public
conveyance, who cannot give good account of themselves or who shall
have no legitimate business in the Township of Mount Olive shall be
deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall, upon apprehension, be proven to the satisfaction
of the Judge before whom such person or person shall be brought to
have consorted with thieves, burglars, pick-pocs, swindlers, confidence
men or other classes or criminals shall be deemed and adjudged to
be a disorderly person.
Any person who shall have in his or her possession or custody
in the Township of Mount Olive any lottery slips, books or records
pertaining to a lottery other than for legalized games of chance shall
be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
A.
Any person who shall during any alarm of fire willfully hinder, prevent
or deter in any manner or by any device whatsoever any firemen or
other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating or quelling
such fire, or willfully hinder or interfere with any firemen going
to or returning from the place where any building or other property
is on fire or from which an alarm proceeds, or if any person shall
hinder or obstruct the passage of any fire engine, hook and ladder
truck or any other apparatus in going to or from the place in which
an alarm of fire proceeds or where any building or other property
may be burning shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
B.
Any person who shall hinder or obstruct any officer of the law in
the performance of his duties, or any person who willfully refuses
or neglects to assist any officer of the law, lawfully called upon
him to do so, in execution of any process or in the suppression of
any breach of the peace or disorderly conduct or in the case of an
escape or when such officer is resisted in the discharge of his duty,
or any person who shall knowingly resist or oppose any officer or
person authorized by law in serving or attempting to service any writ,
bill, order or process or when lawfully making an arrest, shall be
deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
C.
Any person who shall interfere with, hinder, disturb or obstruct
the proceedings, functions or deliberations of the Township Council
of the Township of Mount Olive or any other official body of the Township
of Mount Olive shall be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person.
Any person or persons being convicted of having violated any
provision of any section of this chapter shall be fined an amount
not less than $250 and not more than $1,000 and may be sentenced to
imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 90 days,
or both. In addition to the foregoing penalties, a sentence of community
service may be imposed not to exceed 180 hours.
