As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PERSON or PERSONS
Taken and construed to mean and include corporations, partnerships,
associations and other business entities, individuals or natural persons.
PUBLIC PLACE
Those areas used by the public, including but not limited
to streets, sidewalks, parks, open spaces, commercial parking lots,
vehicles of mass transportation, property owned by the Township, county,
state, or any other sovereign entity. An otherwise private place may
become a public place upon issuance of a permit or license granting
permission for the general public to access the property for a specific
purpose.
PUBLIC VIEW
The area visible to persons in or on a public place or private
place.
No person shall within the limits of the Township of Elk in
the County of Gloucester:
A. Utter any loud and offensive or indecent language or make offensive
remarks to any person or persons or interfere with any person or persons
lawfully being at any public places.
B. Throw or discard any paper, cardboard, wood, metal, tin cans, bottles,
garbage, debris, junk, or any rubbish of any kind whatsoever in or
upon any sidewalk, public street, road, highway or other public place,
or in or about any public building.
C. Permit, allow or cause any unnecessary noise which shall disturb
the comfort, rest and repose of any person or persons being in his,
her, or their place of abode, or at any public or private meeting,
or at any church service or services.
D. Permit, allow or cause any vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating
odor or odors that may be vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating
to any person or persons.
E. Maliciously or intentionally destroy, damage or injure any public
property or private property.
F. Maliciously or intentionally turn in or give false fire alarms or
hinder, prevent or deter any fireman or other person from rendering
lawful assistance in abating or quelling a fire or hinder or interfere
with any fireman going to or returning from any fire, or place from
which a fire alarm proceeds, or hinder or obstruct any fire engine,
hook-and-ladder truck, hose cart or other fire apparatus going to
or from any place from which a fire alarm proceeds or where any building
or property may be burning.
G. Permit, allow or cause smoke, cinders, soot, fly ash, or steam to
be discharged or escape into the open air in such quantities as to
be an annoyance and detriment to any person or persons, or to endanger
the comfort, health, safety or repose of any person or persons, or
in such manner as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or damage
to any person or persons or property.
H. Permit, allow or cause dust, dirt, sand, particles of earth, lime,
fertilizer, mineral compounds, chemical compounds, or any other materials
or substances whatsoever to be discharged or escape into the open
air in such quantities as to be an annoyance and detriment to any
person or persons, or to endanger the comfort, health, safety or repose
of any person or persons, or in such manner as to cause or have a
tendency to cause injury or damage to any person or persons or property.
I. Permit, allow or cause gases, fumes, vapors or liquid to be discharged
or escape into the open air in such quantities as to be an annoyance
and detriment to any person or persons, or to endanger the comfort,
health, safety or repose of any person or persons, or in such manner
as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or damage to any person
or persons or property.
J. Urinate or defecate in any public place, or private place within
public view.
Any person who shall violate any of the terms or provisions
of this chapter or shall commit or do any act or thing prohibited
by the terms of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to a fine not exceeding $1,250, imprisonment for a term not exceeding
90 days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days. Offenses
on separate days shall be deemed to be separate offenses, so that
a continued violation from day to day shall be construed to be a new
violation for each day such violation occurs.