Borough of Lawnside, NJ Peace and Good Order

Specific conduct prohibited. No person shall, within the limits of the Borough of Lawnside:

Be intoxicated or drunk or disorderly in any public omnibus, street, highway, thoroughfare, or on any sidewalk, or in any private house, home, or in any boarding house, store, restaurant or other private, public, or quasi-public place or house, to the annoyance of any person;

(2)

Loiter on any sidewalk, street, road, avenue or other public place, or in or about any public building, school, house, store, or place of amusement; or utter any loud and offensive or indecent language or make offensive remarks to any person or persons in any of the places mentioned in subsection A, above; or, while passing along or being upon any such sidewalk, street, road, avenue or other public or private place, obstruct or interfere with any person or persons lawfully being upon any of the same;

(3)

Operate or use any radio receiving set, phonograph or other sound-producing instrument, device or apparatus in such manner that the sound thereof shall annoy any person or persons or disturb the comfort, rest or repose of any person or persons;

(4)

Permit, make or continue or cause to be permitted, made or continued, 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 church services;

(5)

Keep or harbor any dog which shall disturb the neighborhood by excessive barking, whining or howling;

(6)

Throw or discard any tin cans, bottles, garbage, debris, junk or refuse of any kind whatsoever into the waters of any spring, pond, stream, lake, river or any other body of water, or upon any public street or public place, or discharge any sewage or waste, into said waters or places or any of them, or pollute the said waters in any manner;

(7)

Place or cause to be placed any obstruction of any kind whatsoever in any stream, pond, spring, or lake so as to interfere with the natural flow or change the course thereof in any manner whatsoever without first obtaining the necessary permit so to do;

(8)

Throw any paper or posters, stones, sticks, glass, metal or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any sidewalk, street, highway or public or private place, or at any car, vehicle, house, building, fence or person;

(9)

Appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other public place in a state of nudity, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or commit or do any lewd or indecent act or behave in a lewd or indecent manner;

(10)

Disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public place;

(11)

Sell or offer to sell any indecent picture, book or thing or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other representation;

(12)

Keep or maintain a disorderly house or a house of ill-fame or allow or permit any house, shop, store, or other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be used as a disorderly house or house of ill-fame;

(13)

Solicit, invite or in any manner suggest by word of mouth or any writing or other communication or by any device whatsoever any lewd, lascivious or other immoral act;

(14)

Permit any house, shop, store or other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be frequented or resorted to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants;

(15)

Maliciously or intentionally destroy, damage or injure any property, public or private;

(16)

Cause or permit to be emitted any vile, offensive, obnoxious, or nauseating odor, or any odor that may be vile, offensive, obnoxious, or nauseating to any of the residents of the Borough of Lawnside;

(17)

Remove, change, alter, obstruct, destroy, tap, shut off, or interfere in any way whatsoever with any water, or sewer line or any utility or any mechanical device connected thereto on any property, either public or private, within the Borough of Lawnside;

(18)

Possess, keep or maintain any faro table, roulette wheel, equipment or supplies for lottery and numbers game or other games of chance, or any pinball machine designed for gambling, or other gambling device whatsoever;

(19)

Possess, keep, sell or distribute any firecrackers, Roman candles, sky rockets or any fireworks of any explosive nature commonly used as fireworks display;

(20)

Have upon his or her person or in his or her possession any pick lock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with any intent to break and enter into any building;

(21)

Go about from door-to-door or place himself or herself on any sidewalk, street or store or other public or private place or places to beg or gather alms;

(22)

Participate in any practice, sport or exercise having a tendency to annoy, disturb or frighten any person or persons on any sidewalk, street, road, park or other public or private place or having a tendency to annoy or frighten horses or other animals;

(23)

Enter any building or any public or private lands and break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof, the fences or other property belonging to or connected with such building or lands; or disturb the exercises of any public school or molest or give annoyance to children attending such school or annoy any teachers therein;

(24)

Hinder or obstruct any borough officer or employee in the performance of his duties or willfully refuse or neglect to assist any borough officer or employee when lawfully called upon by him so to do in the execution of any process or in the suppression of any breach of the peace or disorderly conduct or in case of escape or when such officer or employee is resisted in the discharge of his duty; or resist or oppose any officer or person authorized by law in serving or attempting to serve any writ, bill, order or process or when making any arrest;

(25)

Unnecessarily obstruct any sidewalk, street, or public place with any kind of vehicle or vehicles or with any kind of box or boxes, lumber, wood, or other thing; but the provisions of this section shall not prevent persons who are building from occupying such portion of the sidewalk, street or public place designated in a permit therefor first obtained from the Building Inspector;

(26)

Hinder, prevent or deter by any device whatsoever, 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;

(27)

Enter upon or trespass upon the land or property of any other person without lawful permission so to do;

(28)

Have in his or her possession or custody, or under his or her control, any unregistered still or any unregistered distilling apparatus, set up, dismantled, or in the process of construction;

(29)

Manufacture, sell, or possess with intent to sell, any alcoholic beverage, except pursuant to and within the terms of a license;

(30)

Have in his or her possession or custody, or automobile, any ticket or tickets, slip or slips, paper, book, document or memoranda, in any way pertaining to the business of a number game. "Number game", as used in this paragraph, is defined as any betting on any number or numbers, on or according to any plan or method whatsoever;

(31)

Play for money or other valuable thing at cards, dice, or with any other instrument or device.

Additional prohibitions. All other riotous, indecent or disorderly conduct, breach of the peace and vagrancy not hereinabove specifically mentioned are hereby prohibited.