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Township of Knowlton, NJ
Warren County
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New Laws (25) Index Notes (1)
No person shall, within a park or other recreational area, sell or offer for sale any goods or wares or play musical instruments without permission from or by contract with the Township Committee.
No person shall act as a solicitor, agency, peddler, mendicant, musician or showman in any park or recreational area.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 138, Peddling and Soliciting.
No person shall conduct or carry on any games of chance in any park or recreational area.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 113, Games of Chance.
A. 
No intoxicated person shall enter or remain in any park or recreational area.
B. 
No alcoholic beverages or hallucinatory drugs shall be allowed in any park or recreational area.
No person shall place or erect any structure, sign, bulletin or bulletin board or advertising device of any kind whatsoever in any park or recreational area without first obtaining permission from the Township Committee.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area:
A. 
Disfiguration and removal. Willfully mark, deface, disfigure, injure, mutilate, tamper with, displace, destroy or remove any building, structure, rest room, statue or monument, fountain, bridges, tables, benches, fireplaces, railings or paving material, waterlines or other public utilities or parts or appurtenances thereof, signs, notices or placards, whether temporary or permanent, monuments, stakes, posts or other boundary markers or other structures or equipment, facilities or park property or appurtenances whatsoever, either real or personal.
B. 
Removal of natural resources. Dig or remove any sand, solid rock, stones, trees, shrubs or plants or other wood or materials or make any excavation by tool equipment, blasting or other means or agency.
C. 
Protection of grounds. Bring into any park area any material which if spilled or spread would be injurious to the turf or plant growth.
D. 
Dumping of refuse. Dump or deposit, throw, cast, lay, scatter or leave or cause to be dumped, deposited, thrown, cast, laid, scattered or left in or upon any park or recreational area any "waste or refuse matter" as that phrase is defined in § 134-1 of this chapter.
A. 
No person in any park or recreational area shall bring or have in his possession or set off or otherwise cause to explode or discharge or burn any gun or other firearm of any type whatsoever, including BB guns, or firecracker, torpedo, rocket or other fireworks or device or explosives of inflammatory material.
B. 
No person shall discharge or throw any such device described in Subsection A of this section into any park or recreational area from any land or highway adjacent thereto.
No person shall go onto the ice in any of the waters in the parks or recreational areas except such areas as are designated for skating, and provided that a safety marker is displayed.
No person shall operate any gasoline or battery-powered go-carts, model airplanes, midget motor cars, mopeds or motorcycles of any type or description in any park or recreational area.
No person shall clean, wash, polish or make other than emergency repairs upon any automobile, motorcycle or motor-driven vehicle in any park or recreational area.
No person shall operate any public-address system without prior written permission from the Township Committee; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not include the use of small portable radios to receive regularly broadcasted programs if such radios are operated at such volume as not to disturb other persons present in the park or recreational area.
No person shall unnecessarily disturb or interfere with spectators or participants in any event conducted in any park or recreational area nor enter any area provided for or occupied by spectators or participants at any such event for the purpose of doing any such acts.
No person shall camp or lodge in any manner in or upon any park or recreational area unless prior written permission is obtained from the Township Committee.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 81, Campgrounds.
No person shall play or engage in the hitting of golf balls in any park or recreational area.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area, practice the throwing of javelins, shot put, discus or any other dangerous items that may cause injury, including, but not by way of limitation, bow and arrows, knives, boomerangs and the like.
No person shall change clothes anywhere in the parks or recreational areas except in buildings or structures designated for that purpose.
No person shall light fires in parks or recreational areas except in areas designated for that purpose.
No person or group of persons shall picnic or prepare food in any park or recreation area except in areas designated for that purpose by the Township Committee. No person or group of persons shall consume any prepared food in any park or recreation area except in areas designated for that purpose. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prevent citizens of the Township of Knowlton from consuming within the park such items as candy, ice cream and the like, which items may or shall have been purchased elsewhere. The Township Committee, upon the receipt of proper applications, shall be able to grant permission in appropriate circumstances for the holding of picnics or the allowing of the preparation of food in connection with the celebration of national and local holidays or on other special occasions when such activities may have been sanctioned or permitted by the action of the Township Committee.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area, deposit litter except in the containers provided for that purpose.
No person shall within any park or recreational area:
A. 
Hunt, molest, harm, frighten, kill, trap, chase, tease, shoot or throw missiles at any animal or bird.
B. 
Remove or have in his possession the young of any wild animal or the eggs or nest of birds.
C. 
Fish for, seine, catch or take from the waters situated in any park or recreational area any fish of any type whatsoever.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area, use boisterous or insulting language or act in a disorderly, lewd or lascivious manner or perform any act which may endanger others.
[Added 9-14-1998 by Ord. No. 98-14]
No person shall operate or have parked a vehicle except in designated driveway and parking areas. No person shall operate or have parked a vehicle on playing fields or areas covered by grass unless said area has been specifically designated, by the use of signs, to be a parking area.