Township of Irvington, NJ
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2024-02-26
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 419 Parental Responsibility
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Administration
- Ch 13 Attendance at Meetings
- Ch 18 Audit Reports and Expense
- Ch 22 Commissions, Committees, Councils and Other Agencies
- Ch 24 (Reserved)
- Ch 26 Court, Municipal
- Ch 32 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 37 Employment Applications
- Ch 49 First Source Employment Linkage Program
- Ch 91 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 96 Portrait Photographs
- Ch 100 Purchasing
- Ch 105 Residency Requirements
- Ch 110 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 114 Sexual Harassment
- Ch 120 Township-Owned Property
- Ch 122 Township-Owned Vehicles
- Ch 128 Urban Enterprise Zone
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 140 Abandoned Property
- Ch 149 Air Pollution
- Ch 154 Alarm Systems
- Ch 158 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 163 Amusement Games in Amusement Parks
- Ch 167 Animals
- Ch 174 Barbershops
- Ch 180 Beauty Products, Hair Braiding and Nail Salons
- Ch 192 Bowling Alleys
- Ch 200 Buildings, Moving or Demolition of
- Ch 222 Claims Against Township
- Ch 229 Coin-Operated Machines and Vending Machines
- Ch 234 Condominium and Cooperative Conversions
- Ch 240 Construction Code, Uniform
- Ch 245 Contractors, Licensing of
- Ch 249 Curfew
- Ch 253 Dances and Dance Halls
- Ch 255 Day-Care Facilities
- Ch 266 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 277 Employer Regulations
- Ch 282 Escrow Fees for Redevelopment and Foreclosure Matters
- Ch 290 Fees and Licenses
- Ch 294 Fences
- Ch 299 Filming
- Ch 304 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 307 Fire Prevention
- Ch 313 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 318 Florists
- Ch 324 Food Establishments
- Ch 331 Games of Chance
- Ch 336 Golf Courses, Miniature
- Ch 342 Graffiti
- Ch 355 Housing Standards
- Ch 360 Junk Dealers
- Ch 365 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 369 Laundromats
- Ch 374 Library Rules
- Ch 380 Littering
- Ch 390 Murals and Public Art
- Ch 397 Noise
- Ch 402 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 409 Obscene Materials
- Ch 413 Outdoor Dining
- Ch 415 Parades
- Ch 419 Parental Responsibility
- § 419-1 Purpose.
- § 419-2 Definitions.
- § 419-3 Prohibited conduct.
- § 419-4 Defenses.
- § 419-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 428 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 439 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 443 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 449 Pest Control
- Ch 455 Poolrooms and Billiard Rooms
- Ch 460 Property Maintenance
- Ch 462 Records
- Ch 464 Registration of Commercial and Multifamily Properties
- Ch 467 Rental Property
- Ch 472 Rent Control
- Ch 478 Sales
- Ch 483 Sanitary Sewer Laterals
- Ch 491 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 499 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 508 Shopping Carts
- Ch 510 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 513 Signs and Billboards
- Ch 524 Smoking
- Ch 535 Solid Waste and Recycling
- Ch 544 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 550 Stormwater Management
- Ch 555 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 560 Subdivision and Site Plan Review
- Ch 566 Sunday Construction
- Ch 571 Swimming Pools
- Ch 577 Taxation
- Ch 582 Taxicabs
- Ch 586 Tax Liens
- Ch 593 Theaters, Motion-Picture
- Ch 598 Tobacco Products, Sale of
- Ch 604 Towing
- Ch 610 Trees
- Ch 620 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 632 Video Stores
- Ch 639 Water
- Ch 650 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A670 Cable Television and Communications System
- Ch A675 Communications Facilities Franchises
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Municipal Council of the Township
of Irvington 10-10-2001 by Ord.
No. MC 3181 (Ch. 139, Art. X, of the 1981 Revised
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to reduce the incidence of misconduct
by juveniles by requiring proper supervision on the part of the custodial
parents or parent.
Whenever the following words or terms are used in this chapter,
they shall be construed to have the following meanings:
A parent/parents or legal guardian of a juvenile who has
legal custody of said juvenile.
A person age 12 years old to 17 years old.
A custodial parent of an unemancipated juvenile residing
with such custodial parents shall be presumed, by virtue of his/her
uniquely intimate and ongoing relationship to the juvenile, to have
the greatest obligation and the greatest opportunity to deter delinquent
behaviors.
Every custodial parent has a duty to properly supervise his
or her child. Any custodial parent whose juvenile is convicted of
a Municipal Code violation twice within a six-month period or three
or more times within a twelve-month period is guilty of failing to
properly supervise said juvenile. The six- and twelve-month periods
shall be measured from the date of the first conviction.
A.
The following shall be defenses to a violation of § 419-3:
(1)
Where the parent has made all reasonable and available efforts under
the circumstances to prevent the juvenile misconduct.
(2)
Where the parent can provide specific evidence of enrollment or ongoing
participation in parenting classes, family therapy, or group counselling.
(This is not to exclude other such activities associated with making
a reasonable effort at enhancing one's parenting effectiveness.)
(3)
Where the parent was not legally responsible for the supervision
of the juvenile at the time the misconduct occurred.
(4)
Where the parent has a physical or mental disability or incompetency
rendering them incapable of supervising the juvenile at the time the
misconduct occurred.
(5)
Where the parent reported the act to the appropriate authorities.
B.
It is not a defense where the parent assigns his or her parental
responsibility to another, except pursuant to legal proceeding, which
results in a court order effectuating the same.
