[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township
of Robbinsville 2-9-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-6. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall drink, imbibe or consume any alcoholic beverage
in or upon a public street, lane, roadway, avenue, sidewalk, public
parking place, park, playground, recreation area or any other public
or quasi-public place, or in a public conveyance or private motor
vehicle while the same is in motion or parked in any public street,
lane, public parking lot or public or quasi-public place, or on any
private property not his own without the express permission of the
owner or other person having authority to grant such permission. No
person shall have in his possession or possess any alcoholic beverage
in, on or upon any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, park, playground
or in, on or upon any land or building owned or occupied by the Township,
unless the same is contained within a closed or sealed container.
A.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to urinate or defecate in any
public place, except in such places as may be provided for such use.
B.Â
No person shall appear or travel on any street, avenue, highway,
road, or waterway located in the Township of Robbinsville or appear
in any public place, store or any business open to the public in said
Township in a state of nudity. A person shall be found in a state
of nudity when clothing or absence of clothing completely exposes
to public view a person's anus, genitals, pubic area or female breasts.
No person shall dress or undress in any public place or in public
view within the Township of Robbinsville.
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Sound-reproduction equipment. The following restrictions shall apply
to all sound-reproduction equipment and portable sound systems, including
sound-reproduction equipment located in motor vehicles and boats:
(1)Â
Sound-reproduction equipment may not be plainly audible at a distance
of 50 feet. If sound-reproduction equipment is plainly audible at
a distance of 50 feet, the operator of the sound-reproduction equipment
shall be in violation of this article.
(2)Â
Sound-reproduction equipment may not be plainly audible at a residential property line between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. If sound-reproduction equipment is plainly audible at a residential property line between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., the operator of the sound-reproduction equipment shall be in violation of this article. The nighttime regulations contained in this subsection are in addition to, and shall not be construed to limit, the regulations contained in Subsection A(1) above.
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Noise may not be plainly audible between neighboring dwellings based
on an indoor assessment of sound taken by a law enforcement officer
from within the complaining dwelling. This restriction shall apply
to all neighboring residential dwellings, whether a dwelling is attached
to another dwelling, as in a multiunit dwelling, or is completely
detached from any other dwelling, separated by space. Any person who
causes, suffers, allows, or permits noise which is plainly audible
between neighboring dwellings as described and defined herein shall
be in violation of this article.
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"Plainly audible" shall mean any sound that can be detected by a
person using his or her unaided hearing faculties. As an example,
if the sound source under investigation is a portable or personal
vehicular sound amplification or reproduction device, the detection
of the rhythmic bass component of the music is sufficient to verify
plainly audible sound. The law enforcement officer need not determine
the title, specific words, or the artist performing the song.
No person or persons shall, within the limits of this Township,
create any disturbance by violence.
No person or persons shall, within the limits of this Township,
maliciously destroy, damage or injure any property.
[Added 3-18-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-6]
No person or persons shall, within the limits of this Township,
remove or damage any plant, structure or other object, or dig up or
remove any dirt, stone, or other substance used for landscaping purposes
on public property.
No person shall park a vehicle in any private driveway or on
any private property within the limits of this Township without having
first obtained the permission of the owner.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
store or place outdoors vehicles in a state of major disassembly,
disrepair or in the process of being stripped or dismantled or to
carry on the repairing of said vehicles outdoors, including automobiles,
buses, motorcycles or any other motorized vehicles used for transportation.
No person shall, within the boundaries of the Township, by any
means or instrumentality, interfere with or annoy the comfort or general
well-being of the inhabits of the Township; disturb the public peace
and quiet by loud, boisterous or vulgar conduct; create or participate
in a diversion, disturbance or disorderly assemblage, in any public
place, tending to breach the peace; engage in acts of vice and immorality
in any public place; or obstruct or interfere with any person lawfully
being in a public place.
Each and every one of the acts hereinbefore declared to be unlawful
are hereby declared and considered nuisances.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to commit any
nuisances on any of the streets or other public places within the
limits of this Township.
No person shall resist, obstruct or interfere with any peace
officer while in the lawful performance of duty, nor shall any person
disobey the lawful and reasonable order or instruction of any such
officer. "Peace officer," as included in this section, shall be as
defined in N.J.S.A. 2A:154-1 et seq.
No person shall purposely interfere with, hinder, disturb, or
obstruct any retail or wholesale business operation, function or activity,
nor shall any person purposely interfere with, hinder, disturb, or
obstruct any retail or wholesale business owner, employee, agent,
or personnel acting in the furtherance of the interests of that business
with the intent to prevent, undermine or otherwise obstruct the lawful
retail or wholesale practices of that business. This section does
not apply to conduct considered lawful competitive economic practices.
[Added 8-28-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-23]
No person shall carelessly, recklessly, or negligently interfere
with, hinder, disturb, or obstruct, or allow another to use such person's
property to interfere with, hinder, disturb, or obstruct, any retail
or wholesale business operation, function or activity, nor shall any
person carelessly, recklessly, or negligently interfere with, hinder,
disturb, or obstruct, or allow another to use such person's property
to interfere with, hinder, disturb, or obstruct, any retail or wholesale
business owner, employee, agent, or personnel acting in the furtherance
of the interests of that business with the effect of preventing, undermining
or otherwise obstructing the lawful retail or wholesale practices
of that business. This section does not apply to conduct considered
lawful competitive economic practices.
No person shall, within the boundaries of the Township, invade
the privacy of any person by going upon the private property of another
surreptitiously or furtively for the purpose of peering through windows,
doors or other openings, thereby engaging in conduct associated with
what is commonly known as a "Peeping Tom."
A.Â
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of no less than $100 and no more than $1,250, by imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days, or by community service of not more than 90
days, or any combination of fine, imprisonment and community service,
as determined in the discretion of the Municipal Court Judge. The
continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute
a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting
the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above
for each separate offense.
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The violation of any provision of this article shall be subject to
abatement summarily by a restraining order or injunction issued by
a court of competent jurisdiction.
