[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Winslow 8-28-70 as Ord. No. 0-12-70 as
Ch. 50 of the 1970 Code of the Township of Winslow.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Boarding of windows — See Ch. 90.
Dangerous buildings — See Ch. 96.
Housing standards — See Ch. 159.
Public health nuisances — See Ch. 183.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 204.
Abandoned vehicles — See Ch. 272.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed an ordinance generally
referred to as the "Ordinance on Peace and Good Order," adopted 2-25-50.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any individual, corporation, association, organization, firm
or partnership.
The Township of Winslow, County of Camden and State of New
Jersey.
No person shall, within the limits of the township, disrobe
in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon any parking
place, street, road, avenue, highway, park or other public place.
No person shall, within the limits of the township, bathe, sun
or swim out of doors in a state of nudity.
[Amended 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
No person shall, within the limits of the township and in public
view, appear in a state of nudity.
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
[Amended 12-19-84 by Ord. No. 0-22-84; repealed 3-22-11 by Ord. No. 0-2011-010]
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
[Added 8-22-79 by Ord. No. 0-22-79]
A.
Reserved. [Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
B.
Reserved. [Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to idle any bus, truck, tractor
or other equipment/machinery in residentially zoned areas between
the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. It shall also be unlawful for
any person to repeatedly accelerate, decelerate or start and stop
any type of motor vehicle or motorcycle in any residential area between
the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
[Added 12-17-96 by Ord. No. 0-17-96; amended 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
D.
It shall be unlawful for any person or business to perform construction
or any type of construction activity or maintenance activity on property
in residential areas between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
[Added 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
[Added 12-19-79 by Ord. No. 0-32-79; amended 9-24-02 by Ord. No. 0-24-02]
Unless otherwise preempted or exempted by Federal or State law
or regulation, it shall be a violation for any person to transmit,
continue or cause to be transmitted or continued any radio emission,
signal or transmission which either causes or creates electrical,
visual or audible interference or, by said transmission, annoys, disturbs
or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety or general
well-being of others within the limits of the township. Examples of
violations of this section, though not limited to those below, would
be radio emissions, signals and transmission interference as follows:
A.
The transmission of radio signals and/or emissions causing any interference
upon the visual and/or auditory operation of a television in such
manner as to disturb the peace, quiet and comfort of the neighboring
inhabitants.
B.
The transmission of radio signals and/or emissions causing any interference
upon the visual and/or auditory operation of receiving sets, musical
instruments, phonographs or other machines or devices designed for
the production or reproduction of sound in such a manner as to disturb
the peace, quiet and comfort of the neighboring inhabitants.
C.
Subsections A. and B. do not apply to use from operators complying with Federal regulations in the operation of their equipment. Any enforcement of this section shall be by an action filed by either the township or a private property owner with the Federal Communications Commission in accordance with procedures established for addressing complaints concerning radio frequency interference problems. The penalty provisions of Chapter 196 shall not otherwise apply to this section.
[Amended 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
No persons shall, within the limits of the township, enter the
building or go upon the lands of any school and break, damage or deface
such building or any part thereof or the fences or other property
belonging to or connected with such buildings or lands; and no persons
shall disturb the exercises of any school or interfere or annoy the
children attending such school or any teacher or employee therein,
as well as any school bus driver or school bus attendant in the performance
of their duties, either while on the school property or while going
to or coming from the school.
No person shall, within the limits of the said township, disturb
any lawful assembly of persons or of any neighborhood, family or person
by any loud or unnecessary noise or by shouting or by using any profane,
indecent or obscene language or by quarreling, assaulting or fighting
or otherwise disturbing the peace and quiet.
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history for former Section
196-17 includes portions of Ordinance No. 0-2-89.
[Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
[Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions
of Ordinance No. O-2-2001.
No person shall hinder, obstruct or interfere with any township
officer in the performance of his duties; nor shall any person willfully
refuse or neglect to assist any township officer, when lawfully called
upon by him to do so, in the execution of any process or in the suppression
of any breach of the peace or disorderly conduct or in case of an
escape or when such officer is resisted in the discharge of his duty;
nor shall any person knowingly resist, hinder, obstruct or interfere
with any officer or person authorized by law in serving or attempting
to serve any summons, writ, subpoena, order or other process or when
making an arrest.
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
[Deleted 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-003]
Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions
of Ordinance No. O-14-05.
[Amended 3-28-00 by Ord. No. O-2-2000; 5-28-13 by Ord. No. O-2013-016]
A.
BOW AND ARROW
DISCHARGE
FIREARMS
Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
Any bow and arrow or slingshot and crossbow, including but
not limited to a recurve and compound crossbow.
To shoot or fire a firearm or other weapon.
Any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic
or semiautomatic rifle or any gun, device or instrument in the nature
of a weapon from which may be fired or ejected any solid projectile,
ball, slug, pellet, missile or bullet or any gas, vapor or other noxious
thing by means of a cartridge or shell or by the action of an explosion
or the igniting of flammable or explosive substances. It shall also
include, without limitation, any firearm which is in the nature of
any air gun, spring gun or pistol or other weapon of a similar nature
in which the propelling force is a spring, elastic band, carbon dioxide,
compressed or other gas or vapor, air or compressed air, or is ignited
by compressed air, and ejecting a bullet or missile smaller than three-eighths
(3/8) of an inch in diameter, with sufficient force to injure a person.
It shall also include any other instrument or weapon in which a loaded
or blank cartridge, except as noted herein, is used or may be used.
B.
Prohibited acts.
(1)
It shall be unlawful to discharge, fire, carry or to have possession
of any loaded firearm as defined in this section within the territorial
limits of the Township of Winslow, except as specifically provided
herein.
(2)
It shall be unlawful to discharge or fire any bow and arrow as defined
in this section on or within two hundred (200) feet of any occupied
residence, farmhouse, barn, building, structure, day-care facility,
place of worship, public or private school building or grounds or
publicly owned open space or park, except as specifically provided
herein.
(3)
It shall be unlawful to discharge any firearm or bow and arrow as
defined in this section upon or across any state, county or township
road or highway.
C.
Exceptions. Nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted
to prohibit the use, discharge or possession of firearms or bow and
arrow as defined in this section as follows:
(1)
Law enforcement officers of any governmental agency, federal, state,
county and/or municipality, acting in the course of his or her official
duty.
(2)
Members of any legally recognized military organization while in
the performance of their official duties.
(3)
Privately employed security personnel who are authorized by law to
carry firearms while in the performance of their official duties.
(4)
Persons lawfully using firearms or bows and arrows in the protection
of their person or property for self-defense.
(5)
Persons engaged in the discharge of firearms loaded only with blanks
for commemorative events or historic pageants; provided, however,
that such persons shall obtain a special permit from the Township
Police upon application prescribed by the Director of the Department
of Public Safety or designee.
(6)
Members of any full-time paid or part-time paid Fire Department or
force assigned full-time or part-time to a municipal or county arson
investigation unit while in the performance of their official duties.
(7)
Civilian employees of the state and federal government while in the
performance of their official duties,
(8)
Any representative of the Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP), State of New Jersey, or deputy
state conservation officer or full-time employee of the State Division
of Parks and Forestry or a New Jersey transit police officer while
in the performance of their official duties.
(9)
A guard in the employ of any railway express company, banking or
building and loan or savings and loan institution of the State of
New Jersey while in the actual performance of official duties.
(10)
Persons, keeping or carrying but not discharging any firearms
or bow and arrow about their residence, premises or business or on
land leased by them; or to or from any place of purchase or repair
of firearms or bow and arrow and their residence, premises, business
or leasehold; provided, however, that they fully comply with the appropriate
sections of Title 2A of the New Jersey Revised Statutes, as amended.
(11)
Persons transporting any firearm or bow and arrow while traveling
directly to or from any proper hunting place, provided that such persons
have in their possession a valid hunting license, or while traveling
directly to or from any proper place for practice, match, target,
trap or skeet shooting or shooting exhibitions; provided, however,
that during the course of traveling for the purposes set forth in
this subsection, the firearm or bow and arrow is unloaded and contained
in a closed and fastened case, gun box, securely tied package or locked
in the trunk of the automobile in which the person is transporting
the firearm or bow and arrow; and provided farther that the course
of travel to or from such places may include such deviation as may
be reasonable or necessary under the circumstances.
(12)
Shooting or discharging of a firearm or bow and arrow by a person having in his or her possession a validly issued and current hunting license, which firearm or bow and arrow is actually aimed at legal game and during a legal open season recognized by the Fish and Game laws or under a depredation permit issued under the direction of the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife or the US Fish and Wildlife Service; provided that the firearm or bow and arrow so used must be a legal weapon allowed to be employed for the type of hunting or damage control being so conducted; and further provided that the firearm or bow and arrow is being employed in the manner required by the Fish and Game Laws; and further provided that the person so engaged is not in violation of any statute or ordinance related to trespass or to the use of property. Under this subsection, the prohibitions set forth in Sections 196-25B(2) and (3) above shall still apply.
D.
Violations and penalties. Any person, firm or corporation violating
or failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall, upon
conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars ($1,000.), a term of imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90)
days or community service not exceeding ninety (90) days, or a combination
thereof in the discretion of the Court. The continuation of such violation
for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense and the
person, firm or corporation allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
No person shall, within the limits of the township, willfully
or maliciously take down, remove or injure any notice, advertisement
or other placard legally and publicly set up by an officer or person
in accordance with law, before the time to which such notice, advertisement
or placard relates.
[Amended 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
No persons shall, within the limits of the township, allow,
suffer or permit the display of any goods, wares or merchandise upon
the streets, walkways or sidewalks of the township without a permit
issued by the township establishing the time, manner and place where
said merchandise display shall be permitted.
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
[Amended 3-28-95 by Ord. No. 0-7-95]
Any person who shall violate any of the terms or provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.) or imprisonment for
a term not to exceed ninety (90) days or both such fine and imprisonment.
[Added 6-21-94 by Ord. No. 0-15-94; amended 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
No person who operates a store, newsstand, booth, concession,
or similar business with unimpeded access for persons under eighteen
(18) years old, who is in the business of making sales of periodicals
or other publications at retail containing pictures, drawings or photographs,
shall display or permit to be displayed at his/her business premises
any obscene material at a height of less than five (5) feet or without
a blinder or other covering placed or printed on the front of the
material displayed. The public display of the obscene material shall
constitute presumptive evidence that the retailer knowingly made or
permitted the display.
A.
OBSCENE MATERIALS
For the purpose of this section, the definition of obscene materials
as set forth in N.J.S.A. 2C:34-3.a. (1) is adopted herewith as follows:
Any description, narrative account, display, depiction of
a specified anatomical area or specified sexual activity contained
in, or consisting of, a picture or other representation, publication,
sound recording, live performance or film, which by means of posing,
composition, format or animated sensual details, emits sensuality
with sufficient impact to concentrate prurient interest on the area
or activity.
[Repealed 3-27-01 by Ord. No. 0-2-2001]
Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions
of Ordinance No. 0-12-97.
