Wherever used in this chapter, the following terms shall be
deemed and construed to have the following meanings:
LOITERING
Remaining idle in essentially one location, whether on foot
or in or upon any conveyance, and shall include the concepts of spending
time idly, loafing, moving about aimlessly, and shall also include
the colloquial expression "hanging around."
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Any real property, building or other place under private
ownership or control.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any street, sidewalk, park, building or other place under
the ownership or control of the Township of Washington, or any other
place, whether publicly or privately owned, upon which the public
is invited or over which it has access, including, by way of illustration
but not limitation, the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant,
tavern, school property, mall, shopping center or other place of business,
including parking areas.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, determine that any person is loitering in the manner described in §
296-2A hereof, the police officer shall direct such person to cease such loitering or to leave such public place, and any person who shall fail to comply with such directive shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, determine that any person is loitering in the manner described in §
296-2B hereof, the police officer shall direct such person to cease such loitering or to leave such private property, and any person who shall fail to comply with such directive shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
Any person who has received a directive as described in §§
296-3 or
296-4 of this chapter and who commits an act prohibited by §
296-2A or
B in the same place in which such directive was given within five calendar days after the date on which such directive was given shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.