[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the
City of Gloucester City 6-2-1949. Amendments noted were applicable.]
Any person who shall go about from door to door or place himself
in streets or highways to beg or solicit alms or charity, or who shall
lodge in taverns, inns, saloons or in the open air and not give a
good account of himself, and any person who shall leave or threaten
to leave his family to be maintained by the city or to become chargeable
thereto, and any person who, not having sufficient property or means
for its assistance or support, shall live idle or not engage in some
honest employment or not provide for himself or his family, shall
be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall use or pretend to use or have any skill
in physiognomy, palmistry or like crafty sciences, or who shall pretend
to tell destinies or fortunes, shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall be a vagrant, vagabond, common drunkard,
common thief, burglar or pickpocket, common night-walker and common
prostitute shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall, by word, act, sign or device, invite or
solicit unlawful sexual intercourse or any other unlawful, indecent,
lewd or lascivious act, shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall be apprehended having upon him any picklock,
key, crowbar, jack, bit or other implement with intent to break and
enter into any building, or shall have upon him any pistol, knife,
bludgeon or other offensive or dangerous weapon with intent to assault
any person, or who shall be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse,
garage or any place or public resort or assemblage for business, worship,
amusement or other lawful purpose, with intent to steal any goods
or chattels, shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
[Amended 4-6-2009 by Ord.
No. O09-2009]
Any person who shall loiter or assemble on the streets, at the
street corners or in any public place in this city, or any person
who shall, on such streets, at such street corners or in such public
places, indulge in and utter loud and offensive or indecent language,
or shall address any audible and offensive remarks upon any person
passing along such streets or in such public places, or shall obstruct
or interfere with any person lawfully being in and upon such streets
or public places, shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
[Amended 4-6-2009 by Ord.
No. O09-2009]
Any person who shall loiter in any public place or any private
property not his own, or who, not being under the influence of intoxicating
liquor, shall indulge in and utter loud and offensive or indecent
language, shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall maliciously destroy or injure property
shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall willfully and maliciously ring or cause
to be rung any fire alarm in the city and thereby give or cause to
be given a false alarm of fire shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall have in his possession or custody any lottery
slips, books or records pertaining to a lottery, or any person who
shall have in his possession or have in an automobile in his custody
any ticket or tickets, slip or slips, paper, document or memoranda
in any way pertaining to the business of a number game, shall be adjudged
a disorderly person. "Number game," as used in this paragraph, is
defined as any betting on any number or numbers or sets or arrangements
of numbers, on or according to any plan or method whatsoever.
[Amended 10-20-2011 by Ord. No. 16-2011]
A.Â
It shall be a violation of this section for any person to maintain
a disorderly house. For the purposes of this section, the following
definitions shall apply:
(1)Â
PERSON — Any owner, tenant, individual or business entity which
has control over the property in question.
(2)Â
DISORDERLY HOUSE — A premises where (i) any illegal activity
occurs or (ii) which is subject to more than four legitimate police
service calls within a period of six months, the legitimacy of each
police service call to be determined on the totality of the circumstances
taking into account the activity giving rise to the police service
call. If the Court determines there was good cause for the police
to be there due to the activity or nonactivity by persons covered
by this section, then said service call should be considered legitimate.
B.Â
For a first offense, the Court shall impose a fine of $1,200. For
a second offense the Court shall impose a fine of $1,200, revoke the
person so convicted of his or her right to operate any commercial
business at the location of the offenses for a period of up to six
months, and impose a term of imprisonment not to exceed six months.
Any person who shall set up, keep or maintain, or permit to
be set up, kept or maintained, in any house or premises, any faro
table, bank, craps table, numbers bank or facilities for the placing
of bets, or any game on the racing of horses, shall be adjudged a
disorderly person.
Any person who shall deal, play or engage in any game of faro
or craps, either as banker, player or dealer or otherwise, for the
purpose of gambling, shall be adjudged a disorderly person.
Any person who shall appear in any street or public place in
a state of nudity or any indecent or lewd manner or dress, or who
shall make any indecent exposure of his or her person or perform any
indecent or lewd act, or exhibit, sell or offer to sell any indecent
or lewd book, picture or thing, or shall exhibit or perform any indecent,
immoral or lewd play or other performance, shall be adjudged a disorderly
person.
Any person adjudged a disorderly person by the Judge of the
Municipal Court of Gloucester City shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding
90 days or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by both such fine and
imprisonment in the discretion of the Judge before whom conviction
is had.
