[HISTORY: 1968 Code Chapter 45 §§ 45-1 —
45-8 as amended through 12-28-2015. Chapter
45 originally established by Ord. No. 6 on 1-22-1911. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[New]
Any person who shall leave standing or lying in or along the
roadside, sidewalks or other public places in said borough any wagon,
cart or other vehicle or conveyance or to put or place, or cause to
be placed, in or on any street, sidewalk or other place, as aforesaid,
any lumber, wood, stone, brick, lime, mulch, soil, tree limbs, branches,
barrels, boxes, coal, ashes, oyster shells, wastepapers or other obstruction
or rubbish in any form, except as otherwise provided in this ordinance,
shall be deemed a nuisance, and he shall be guilty thereof and shall
be liable to a fine of not more than $2,000 for each and every such
offense or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more
than 90 days, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Any person who shall keep or put any decaying matter or other
deleterious substance, matter or thing in any sluice, cesspool or
on any property or in any buildings or unnecessarily leaving upon
the ground any dead animals, putrid flesh or any other matter of any
offensive character which are hereby declared to be a nuisance within
the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty thereof and shall
be subject to the penalties herein imposed.
[New]
Any person who shall permit the running at large in, on or over
any of the streets, sidewalks or other public places of the borough
or the harboring or keeping upon private property within the limits
of the borough of any horses, cows, cattle, goats, swine or fowl which
are hereby declared to be a nuisance within the provisions of this
ordinance shall be subject to the penalties herein imposed unless
otherwise provided by law.
A.
FEED
PERSON
WILDLIFE
Definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following terms,
phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated
herein unless their use in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates
a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural
number include the singular number, and words used in the singular
number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory
and not merely directory.
To give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter any
edible material with the intention of feeding, attracting or enticing
wildlife. Feeding does not include baiting in the legal taking of
fish and/or game.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
All animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
B.
Prohibited conduct. No person shall feed, in any public park or on
any other property owned or operated by the Borough of Wildwood Crest
any wildlife, excluding confined wildlife (for example, wildlife confined
in zoos, parks or rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at
environmental education centers, or feral cats as part of an approved
Trap-Neuter-Release program).
D.
Violations and penalties. Any person(s) who is/are found to be in
violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject, upon
conviction, to a fine not exceeding $2,000, or imprisonment in the
County Jail for a period not exceeding 90 days, or both.
[New]
Any person who shall write, draw, post or expose or advertise
any obscene word, picture or drawing upon any picture, poster, building
or other place along the streets, sidewalks or public places of the
borough or to improperly expose or display the person on any of the
streets, sidewalks or other public places of the borough shall be
deemed and is hereby declared to be a nuisance within the provisions
of this ordinance and shall be subject to the penalties herein imposed.
[New]
Any person or persons wishing to place or deposit in or along
any street, sidewalk or other public place in the borough any lumber,
lime, cement, sand, gravel or other building material, mulch or soil,
and any person wishing to use any street, sidewalk, public place or
part or portion thereof for the purpose of moving any building in
the borough, may procure the privilege of using said street, sidewalk
or other public place temporarily by first getting consent therefor
from the Police Department of the borough in manner following:
A.
Application to be made to said Police Department of the borough,
setting forth the nature of the use of said street, sidewalk or other
public place desired, the part or portions of said street, sidewalk
or other public place to be used and the length of time during which
they are to be used.
B.
The furnishing of bond to the Board of Commissioners, approved by
the Director of Public Safety, in a reasonable sum to be fixed by
said Director of Public Safety, conditioned for the full and faithful
performance of the requirements exacted by said Director of Public
Safety as to the injury to or destruction of sidewalks, streets, sewers,
sluices, trees or other public property, and the placing and maintaining
of proper lighting, lanterns, barricades, guards or other public protection
by daytime or night.[1]
In all cases where the streets, sidewalks or other public places are to be occupied in the moving of any building, a bond, as in the immediate foregoing section provided, shall be necessary and a condition precedent to such use in all cases of the use of said streets, sidewalks or other public places temporarily for the deposit of building materials, and the person or persons so desiring to use the streets, sidewalks or other public places shall make application for a permit as in § 45-5 provided. It shall be discretionary with the Director of Public Safety whether a bond shall be required or not; in this last-mentioned case, the Director of Public Safety shall take into consideration the extent of the use of said street, sidewalk or other public place, both as to the space to be covered and the period of time during which it will be occupied.
[New]
Any person or persons using the street, sidewalk or other public
place, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, shall be subject
to a penalty of $2,000 for each and every offense or imprisonment
in the County Jail for a period of not more than 90 days, or to both
such fine and imprisonment.
This ordinance shall be known as Chapter 45, Nuisances, and shall remain in effect.
