[1969 Code § 5-1.1]
The cost of maintaining the public bathing beaches within the
Borough has greatly increased due to the unprecedented increase in
the number of persons using the same. It is the considered opinion
that the cost of maintaining such beaches in a clean, healthy and
safe manner should be borne by those desiring to use such beaches.
[1969 Code § 5-1.2; Ord. No. 03-11 § I]
Places of resort, beaches, bathing and recreational facilities
safeguards and equipment, are hereby established in the Borough for
the public health, recreation and entertainment. Such places of resort
shall be located at the oceanfront, upon all of the lands owned by
the Borough fronting on the Atlantic Ocean including but not limited
to the portion of each beach entrance from the street and barrier
to the oceanfront, in those portions of a tract of land sometimes
known as Ocean Avenue, together with the lands east of and adjacent
thereto in the Borough wherein it has ownership, easement rights or
the right to use and occupy the same, and all the lands owned by the
Borough fronting on Barnegat Bay.
[1969 Code § 5-1.3]
The Borough shall acquire, construct, use and maintain such
beaches, bathing and recreational facilities, safeguards and equipment
as shall be necessary for the proper establishment and maintenance
of these places of resort. The Borough shall have the right and authority
to purchase, rent or otherwise acquire lifeboats, ropes, poles and
other safeguards and equipment for recreation, protection and safeguard
of those persons utilizing these places of resort.
[1969 Code § 5-1.6]
The Borough reserves the right to establish, change or abolish
the precise location of any one or more bathing beaches referred to
in this section by resolution or order as safety and attending circumstances
shall require.
[1969 Code § 5-1.7; New]
Places of resort shall be kept open during the usual bathing
season in the Borough, which is generally from June 25 to September
7. The hours when beaches shall be open are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Daylight Saving Time, except during inclement weather and unless changed
by resolution of the Governing Body. The Borough Council shall have
the right to determine by resolution or order the period during each
year when each of the paid bathing beaches shall be opened and closed.
[1969 Code § 5-1.8; Ord. No. 71-4 § 1; Ord. No. 75-2 § 1; Ord. No. 76-3 § 4; Ord. No. 80-3; Ord. No.
85-4; Ord. No. 86-6; Ord. No. 87-2; Ord. No. 89-4 §§ 1 — 2; Ord. No. 93-4; Ord. No.
94-2; Ord. No. 95-7; Ord. No. 96-1 § 1; Ord. No. 98-5 § I; Ord. No. 99-2 § I; Ord.
No. 2000-1 §§ I, II; Ord. No. 2002-4 § I; Ord. No. 04-04 § I; Ord.
No. 2006-01 § I; Ord.
No. 2007-02 § I; Ord.
No. 2007-8 § I; Ord. No.
2009-4 § I; Ord. No. 2012-03; Ord. No. 2014-03; Ord. No. 2016-03; Ord.
No. 2016-07 § 2; Ord.
No. 2016-08]
In order to provide the necessary funds to improve, maintain
and police the beaches and recreational areas, including the employment
of lifeguards and the purchase of necessary equipment for the protection
and safeguard of bathers, the following beach badge fees shall be
charged for such facilities:
a.
No fees shall be charged to or collected from any child under the
age of 12 years.
b.
No fee shall be charged to or collected from any individual while
attired in street clothing upon the beach. For purpose of this section,
street clothing shall be defined as long pants or jeans and a short
or long sleeve shirt, with or without a collar.
c.
Forty dollars per person, per season, or any fractional part thereof,
of the bathing season, provided that application is made to the proper
authorities on or before May 31.
[Amended 10-9-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-14; 11-9-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-10]
d.
Fifty dollars per person, per season, or any fractional part thereof,
of the bathing season if the application is made after May 31.
[Amended 10-9-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-14; 11-9-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-10]
e.
Twenty dollars per person, per week, or any fractional part thereof,
of the bathing season.
f.
Ten dollars per person, per day, or any fractional part thereof,
of the bathing season.
[Amended 4-10-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-07; 6-9-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-10]
g.
Requests for refunds shall only be considered by the Governing Body
at a regularly scheduled meeting, on a case by case basis. Approval
of any such request shall be charged a 15% administrative fee which
will be deducted from said refund prior to issuance.
[Ord. No. 91-1; Ord. No. 92-4]
No person over the age of 11 years shall bathe at or otherwise use the lands, facilities or privileges of any bathing beach or recreational areas in the Borough, including the Borough tennis courts located in the Richard A. Zachariae Recreation Area, without having first acquired and then having conspicuously displayed, as hereinbelow set forth in Subsection 19-1.8, a proper and effective beach badge, license or permit to use the beaches.
[Ord. No. 91-1]
Any person using the lands, facilities or privileges of any
bathing beaches or recreational areas in the Borough, including the
Borough tennis courts located at the Richard A. Zachariae Recreation
Area, shall, while bathing or otherwise using such lands, facilities
and privileges, prominently and conspicuously display a beach badge
upon his or her person, by affixing the same to their garments or
clothing actually worn by them, in such a manner as to be clearly
visible. The wearing of such badge on the tennis courts shall be mandatory
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
[Ord. No. 91-1]
[1969 Code § 5-1.4]
The Borough shall engage, hire and pay such lifeguards as shall
be required for the proper maintenance of places of resort.
[1969 Code § 5-1.5]
The Borough shall have the right to police places of resort.
[Ord. No. 2008-09 § 1; Ord. No. 2009-01 § 1]
No person shall manufacture, possess or display a counterfeit,
forged, altered or fictitious beach badge, or beach badge not issued
or authorized by the Borough of Surf City or otherwise lacking in
authenticity, for the purpose of using the lands, facilities or privileges
of any bathing beaches or recreational areas in the Borough, or misleading
a public servant in the performance of his or her official duties.
No person shall convey to another a beach badge which he or she knows
to be counterfeit, forged, altered or fictitious, or a beach badge
not issued or authorized by the Borough of Surf City or otherwise
lacking in authenticity which purposely creates a false impression
or invites reliance on said beach badge to use the lands, facilities
or privileges of any bathing beaches or recreational areas in the
Borough. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not less than
$100 nor more than $2,000, by imprisonment for a term not to exceed
90 days or by community service of not more than 90 days, or any combination
of fine, imprisonment and community service as determined by the Municipal
Court Judge.
[1969 Code § 5-2.1; Ord. No. 71-3 § 3; Ord. No. 96-1 § 2; Ord. No. 2013-01]
No person shall do any of the following things at or upon the
beaches of the Borough:
a.
Throw, drop, or pass out any wastepaper, garbage or other refuse.
b.
In any way litter, make unsightly, damage, destroy or disfigure any
beach or any public or private property thereat.
c.
Make any loud noise, sound or music to the annoyance of any other
person.
d.
Use loud, profane or indecent language.
e.
Play ball or any other game, engage in any activity which will endanger
another person or interfere with the enjoyment of the quiet use of
such places of resort by another person.
f.
Conduct or engage in any beach party, picnic or similar outing, or
take any intoxicating liquor onto places of resort.
g.
Take or permit his or her dog to be on such places of resort, except
dogs shall be permitted on the Ocean Beach from October 1 up to and
including April 30.
h.
Go into the water at any beach when it is unsafe to do so; when directed
by any lifeguard to come out of the water; or when intoxicated.
i.
Remain in the water at any beach when it is unsafe to do so; when
directed by any lifeguard to come out of the water; or when intoxicated.
j.
Molest or disturb any person in the peaceful enjoyment of places
of resort.
k.
Do anything to endanger the life or safety of himself, herself or
any other person.
l.
Dump or throw garbage or other refuse in the water at any beach.
m.
Go out in the water at any beach farther then directed to by any
lifeguard or in violation of any reasonable order of the lifeguard
when the safety of any bather is or may be endangered by going into
the water.
n.
Refuse or neglect to obey the orders and directions of any lifeguard
as to time, place and distances for bathing.
o.
Interfere with or obstruct any Police Officer, lifeguard and badge
checker in the performance of his duties.
p.
Bring or allow to be brought upon the beaches any insulated to thermal
type cooler or device used for holding food and beverage with the
intent of consuming such food or beverage upon the beaches, except
that a small insulated or thermal type cooler no larger than 10 inches
H by 11 inches W by 14 inches L containing non-alcoholic beverages
used solely for the purpose of personal hydration.
q.
Structures
are prohibited on the beach except a monopole device to be set up
as per the manufacturer’s directions not to exceed eight feet
by eight feet with all sides open not to obstruct views. Any unattended,
unsafe device will be removed at the owner’s expense.
[Added 9-14-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-07]
[1969 Code § 5-2.5; Ord. No. 92-13]
No persons shall:
a.
Sleep on any beach, either oceanside or bayside, between the hours
of 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m.
b.
Sleep in any car or motor vehicle parked in any street or park, or
on any beach or public property.
c.
Consume any alcoholic beverage upon any beach, street or in any automobile
or other vehicle on any street or beach, in any public park or in
any public building except a licensed establishment.
d.
Engage in the consumption of any food, lunches or beverages on any beach, street or highway or in any alley, public place or public park except as so noted in Subsection 19-2.1p.
e.
Engage in the peddling of food, food products, beverages, ice cream
or similar products, or confections on any bay or ocean beach, or
in any public park.
f.
The hours of operation of the recreational areas located within the
Borough shall be set by resolution of the governing body.
[1969 Code § 5-2.2]
No person shall ride or operate a surfboard in any area of the
beaches not designated for that purpose. The Borough Council, by and
through its Beach Committee acting as its agent and representative,
shall designate areas of the beaches for the use of those persons
desiring to engage in surfing. In these areas, no bathing or fishing
shall be permitted while areas are being used for surfing. The use
of the designated surfing areas shall be subject to the control and
supervision of the Beach Committee. The Committee may change the location
of the surfing areas, designate the hours of use of the areas and
adopt such other regulations for the management thereof as the public
welfare may require. Any area designated for surfing purposes shall
be so posted.
[1969 Code § 5-2.3]
No person shall surf fish, fish or crab in any area of the beaches
not designated for that purpose. The Borough Council, by and through
its Beach Committee, shall designate areas of the beaches for the
use of those persons desiring to engage in surf fishing or crabbing.
In these areas, no bathing shall be permitted when the areas are being
used for surf fishing or crabbing. The use of the designated surf
fishing and crabbing areas shall be subject to the control and supervision
of the Beach Committee. The Committee may change the location of the
surf fishing and crabbing areas, designate the hours and use of these
areas, and adopt such other regulations for the management thereof
as the public welfare may require. Any area designated for surf fishing
and crabbing purposes shall be so posted.
[1969 Code § 5-2.4]
a.
No boat or raft of any description shall operate within the bay bathing
zone between the south sideline of Fifteenth Street, extended, and
the northside line of Seventeenth Street, extended.
b.
No boat or raft shall be launched or pulled out of the water for
any purpose within any portion of the bay bathing beach.
c.
No boat or raft shall be anchored or moored in any way on the waters
adjacent to the bay bathing beach.
d.
No fishing or crabbing shall be permitted in the bay bathing zone.
e.
No seines or fish nets shall be operated in any part of the bay bathing
zone.
[Ord. No. 71-3 § 1; Ord. No. 92-13; New; Ord.
No. 2000-3 § I]
a.
Every person desiring to operate a motor vehicle on the strand of
ocean beach of the Borough shall first register the same with the
Surf City Police Department and upon payment of the $25 fee shall
be issued a permit which will be effective from September of the current
year to May of the next year.
b.
No vehicle, except Municipal, State or Federal vehicles shall be
operated on the strand or beachfront during the period from the fourth
Saturday in May to the third Saturday in September.
c.
No vehicle shall be operated on the strand or beachfront at a speed
in excess of 20 miles per hour.
d.
Only motor vehicles properly registered and licensed to drive on
the public highways of the State of New Jersey and equipped with four-wheel
drive and used for the purpose of sport fishing shall be permitted
on the strand or beachfront.
e.
No permitted vehicle shall be operated on the sand dunes, and all
permitted vehicles shall obtain access to the beach front from the
public streets only at places specifically designed by the Police
Department.
f.
All permitted vehicles shall be required to maintain a reasonable
distance from congested bathing beaches or other areas where bathers,
and fishermen or others using the beach are present.
g.
No rubbish, debris or litter of any sort shall be discarded from
any vehicle while being operated on the ocean beach.
h.
No vehicles shall be operated on the beach front at night without
adequate lights.
i.
Every vehicle being operated on the beach shall be operated in a
safe, reasonable and careful manner at all times so as not to endanger
the lives and safety of other persons using the beach front.
[1969 Code § 5-3.1]
The facilities of the Borough-owned parking area between South
First Street and North First Street, extending from the westerly side
of Barnegat Avenue to the bayfront, all such premises lying within
the boundaries of the Richard A. Zachariae Recreation Area, is to
be used for parking, solely by cars with trailers attached, or detached
boat trailers, in either case bearing stickers as hereafter provided,
and shall be used for such parking only in connection with boat launching
or retrieval.
[1969 Code § 5-3.2; Ord. No. 88-9 § 1; Ord. No. 89-5 § 2; Ord. No. 99-2 § 2; Ord. No. 2007-8 § II; Ord. No. 2016-04 § 1; Ord. No. 2017-04]
Stickers for the purposes stated in Subsection 19-3.1 and for use of the boat ramp shall be issued by the Municipal Clerk in accordance with the following fee schedule for annual stickers. The parking of any motor vehicle or trailer or utilization of the boat ramp without an official sticker is specifically prohibited.
a.
To owners of property in the Borough using the boat ramp or parking lot, upon proof of such ownership, one pass (for one boat) per property at no fee (for personal use). Any additional boats will be required to pay pursuant to the fee schedule outlined in Subsections b — d. In the case of a legal condominium, the owner of each condominium shall be entitled to one pass pursuant to this section.
b.
To all other persons using the boat ramp or parking lot, for personal
use only, $70 per season.
c.
To any person using the boat ramp or parking lot, for commercial
purposes, $200 per season.
d.
To all other persons using the boat ramp or parking lot, for personal
use only, $20 per day.
e.
Requests for refunds shall only be considered by the Governing Body
at a regularly scheduled meeting, on a case by case basis. Approval
of any such request shall be charged a 15% administrative fee which
will be deducted from said refund prior to issuance.
[1969 Code § 5-3.3; Ord. No. 2016-04 § 1]
Any provision of this section to the contrary, notwithstanding,
only the automobiles of persons utilizing the children's playground,
ball field, tennis courts and basketball courts may use the foregoing
area for parking without a sticker/permit. Such parking may only be
for the period in which the above mentioned recreational areas are
being utilized.
[1969 Code § 5-3.4]
Any person applying for a parking sticker as authorized herein
must present his registration certificate for car, boat and/or trailer
in order that the date of issuance of the parking stickers may be
stamped on such certificate.
[Ord. No. 2000-1 § III]
The parking of vehicles and/or trailers overnight shall be strictly
prohibited. For the purpose of this subsection, overnight shall be
between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
[Ord. No. 90-14 § 1]
As used in this section:
Shall mean and include all boats or vessels registered with
the State of New Jersey, documented pursuant to the laws of the United
States of America or registered in any other State and shall also
include surfboards, kayaks, canoes, paddleboats, as well as any other
flotation device designed so that the operator and any passengers
to be carried, if any, may be carried so that they are not immersed
in the water upon which the flotation device rests. Inner tubes, rubber
rafts and other flotation devices commonly used for water sports where
the occupant or users thereof is immersed wholly or partially in the
water are not included in this definition.
[Ord. No. 90-14 § 1]
The launching of any boat or watercraft into the waters of the
Atlantic Ocean or Barnegat Bay from the upland located in the Borough
is strictly prohibited, except as in this section expressly permitted.
[Ord. No. 90-14 § 1]
The only launchings of boats, vessels and watercrafts permitted
in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean or Barnegat Bay from the upland
located in the Borough shall be:
a.
Boat launchings from the Municipal launching ramp owned and operated
by the Borough.
b.
Boat launchings from any marina located in the marine commercial
district or on the bayfront in the Borough; and
c.
Launching of surfboards in the designated surfing beach on the beachfront,
giving access to the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the Borough.
[Ord. 90-14 § 1]
Exceptions may be made only by formal Resolution of the governing
body of the Borough of Surf City.
[Ord. No. 90-14 § 1]
[Ord. No. 89-8 § 1; Ord. No. 03-06 § I]
It shall be unlawful for any person to moor or cause to be moored
any boat or vessel of any kind, sort or description to a Borough owned
breakwater, bulkhead or the bulkhead or lands situated on Shore Avenue
between North 1st Street and North 3rd Street except for the purposes
of the immediate loading or unloading of passengers; provided, however,
in cases of emergency, the boat may be moored for a period of up to
two consecutive hours.
[Ord. No. 89-8 § 1]
There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any boat or vessel moored in contravention of Subsection 19-5.1 was created by the owner of the vessel or boat.
[Ord. No. 89-8 § 1]
Any boat or vessel moored longer than two hours to the Borough
owned bulkhead may be ordered to be towed by the Surf City Police
or their designee, or the State Police, and it shall be the responsibility
of the owner of the vessel or boat to pay all charges including but
not limited to towing or storage charges prior to the release of the
boat or vessel.
[Ord. No. 89-8 § 1]
The provisions of this section shall not pertain to the boat
ramp owned by the Borough or the launching area at Division Avenue.
[Ord. No. 95-18; Ord. No. 2016-07 § 2]
a.
The tennis courts are to be used solely for the playing of tennis
by persons wearing rubber soled tennis shoes. No other sport, recreation
or use shall be permitted.
b.
The basketball courts shall be used solely for the playing of basketball
by persons wearing rubber soled shoes. No other sport, recreation
or use shall be permitted.
c.
No person above the age of 11 years shall be permitted to utilize
or play upon the equipment located at the Division Avenue children's
playground.
[Ord. No. 01-12 § I]
N.J.S.A. 40:48-1 and 40:48-2 provide the authority for enaction
of a municipal ordinance prohibiting the smoking or carrying of lighted
tobacco products. This section is created inasmuch as the areas below
named are primarily used by children.
[Ord. No. 01-12 § I]
The carrying or smoking of lighted tobacco products is prohibited
in the following public places which shall be designated by adequate
notice conspicuously posted:
a.
The entire bay bathing beach located between 15th and 17th Streets
on Barnegat Avenue.
b.
The children's playground located at the area known as the Richard
A. Zachariae Recreational Area. Specifically the children's playground
located at the northwest corner of So. 1st Street and Barnegat Avenue
also known as Lots 1, 2 and 5 in Block 96 being 100 feet by 200 feet
in overall size and a forty-foot by 200-foot portion located on the
southerly side of Lot 3 in Block 96.
c.
The carrying or smoking of lighted tobacco products is prohibited
along the ocean beaches in accordance with state statute. An exception
to the smoking prohibition shall be in an area not to exceed 15% of
the total beach area, which area shall be designated by resolution
of the governing body.
[Added 3-13-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-03]
d.
The carrying or smoking of lighted tobacco products is prohibited
in the Veterans' Memorial Park.
[Added 3-13-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-03]
e.
For the purposes of this section, the term "lighted tobacco products"
shall include but not be limited to a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe
or any other matter or substance which contains tobacco or any other
matter that can be smoked, or the inhaling or exhaling of smoke or
vapor from an electronic smoking device.
[Added 3-13-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-03]
[Ord. No. 01-12 § I]
Enforcement shall be through police or citizen complaint.
