[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Hopewell 8-10-1949 by Ord. No. 36. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall, within the limits of the Township of Hopewell, appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other place in a state of nudity or make any indecent act or behave in a lewd or indecent manner.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township of Hopewell, bathe, swim or be found in state of nudity in the waters in any pond, stream, or lake located therein.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, sell or offer to sell any indecent or lewd picture, book or thing or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other representation.
No person shall write or cause to be written any lewd, indecent or offensive word or words, mark or marks whatsoever, or draw or cause to be drawn any lewd, indecent or offensive figure upon any house, building, wall, fence, sidewalk, road or public or private highway or other place in the Township.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, discard, deposit, throw or leave any wastepaper, tin cans, bottles, garbage, waste or refuse of any kind upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public place or upon any lot or other premises, except in receptacles or containers provided for such purpose or except at public dumps established and designated as such by the Township by resolution of the Township Committee.
[Added 6-9-1964 by Ord. No. 86]
No person shall keep, store, abandon or leave upon any parcel of land, street, road, alley, way or parkway, within the limits of said Township any motor vehicle not currently used for transportation and not being licensed for the current year, or any unused machinery or equipment; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the placing, keeping, storing or abandonment of any such motor vehicle, machinery or equipment in a garage or other building in the Township.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, loiter on any street, road, avenue, or other public place or in or about any public building, and that no person shall, on any street, road, avenue or other public place within the limits of said Township, utter any loud and offensive or indecent language or make offensive remarks to or about any person or persons, or obstruct or interfere with any person or persons being upon any street, road, avenue or other public place.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, go about from door to door or place himself or herself in any street or streets or other public place to beg or gather alms.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, willfully and maliciously ring or cause to be rung any bell or alarm of any fire company and thereby give or cause to be give a false alarm of fire.
No person shall play for money or other thing with a slot machine or device in the nature of a slot machine, or with any other instrument, engine, apparatus or device having one or more figure or figures, number or numbers thereon; and no person shall have or keep in his or her place of business or other premises any such slot machine or device in the nature of a slot machine which may be used for the purpose of playing for money or other valuable thing.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, and without lawful authority, carry any revolver, pistol, or other firearm or other instrument of the kind known as "black-jack," "slingshot," "billy," "sandclub," "sandbag," "bludgeon," "metal knuckles," "dagger," "dirk," "dangerous knife," "stiletto," "bomb" or other high explosive concealed in or about his or her clothes or person, or in any automobile, carriage, motorcycle or other vehicle.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, have upon his or her person any picklock, key, crow, jack bit or other implement with an intent to break and enter into any building of another, or have upon his or her person any pistol, hangar, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive or dangerous weapon with intent to assault any person; and no person shall hide or be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse, stable, barn, garage, schoolhouse or any place of public lawful purposes with an intent to steal any goods or chattels.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, enter the building or go upon the lands of any public school and break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the fences or outhouses belonging to or connected with such building or lands, and no person shall disturb the exercises of any public school or molest or give annoyance to the children attending such school, or annoy any teacher therein.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Sec. 17, regarding public intoxication, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
No person or persons, whether owner, tenant, occupant or guest in any building, whether public or private, shall suffer or take part in any drunken, riotous or other conduct of such nature that such conduct shall disturb the peace and quiet of any other persons or inhabitants of this Township.
No person shall injure or mutilate at any time or place any fire engine, hook and ladder truck, hose truck, hose, ladders, buckets or other fire apparatus belonging to the Fire Departments of the Township, nor in any way interfere with the same, nor shall any person drive a vehicle or vehicles over any hose or other fire equipment during a fire or when such hose is in use by Township authorities without permission of the Township authorities in charge thereof.
No person shall, within the limits of said Township, during an alarm of fire, hinder, prevent or deter by any device whatsoever, any fireman or other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating or quenching such fire, or hinder or interfere with any fireman from going to or returning from the place where the building or other property is on fire, or from which an alarm proceeds; nor shall any person hinder or obstruct the passage of any fire engine, hook or ladder truck, hose cart, or any fire apparatus in going to or from the place from which an alarm of fire proceeds to where any building or other property may be burning.
No person shall engage in, or attempt to offer to engage in, or aid, abet or participate in any fight, assault, quarrel, brawl, battery, altercation, disturbance, riot or unruly boisterous, noisy, unlawful or disorderly assemblage, nor shall any person in any way breach or disturb the peace.
No person shall fire or discharge any pistol, revolver, rifle, gun, air-gun or fowling piece or any kind of firearm or a cannon in, on, along, or near any street, highway, sidewalk, footpath, park or other public place within the limits of said Township, except when expressly permitted by law.
No person shall paste, clip, paint, nail, clamp, or otherwise fasten, inscribe or affix any notice, placard, or advertisement upon any public building, park or other public property or place within the limits of said Township, except with the permission of the Township Committee.
[Added 8-7-1956 by Ord. No. 49]
No person shall burn any trash, refuse or other discarded matter, except in a closed container sufficient in size and construction to permit the burning thereof without the fire escaping or burning matter escaping therefrom.
[Added 8-7-1956 by Ord. No. 49]
No person, at any time, shall permit any burning outside of any buildings to be done and leave the fire unattended nor shall any person leave any burned area unattended until the fire and all hot embers therefrom are totally extinguished.
The term "person" and the term "persons" as used in this chapter shall, wherever appropriate in connection with the context, include "corporation" and "corporations" respectively.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in an amount not exceeding $200 or imprisonment in the county jail for a time not exceeding 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Municipal Judge or other duly authorized judicial officer before whom said violator shall be convicted.