Township of Harrison, NJ
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2023-10-02
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 189 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article IV Regulation of Basketball
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Claims
- Ch 8 Cooperative Pricing and Purchasing
- Ch 11 Court, Joint Municipal
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Election Districts
- Ch 20 Environmental Commission
- Ch 22 (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Fire District
- Ch 26 Farmland, Open Space and Historic Preservation Trust Fund
- Ch 27 Special Improvement District
- Ch 28 Green Team Advisory Committee
- Ch 30 Housing Authority
- Ch 32 Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Advisory Board
- Ch 34 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 38 Mutual Aid
- Ch 41 Official Street Map
- Ch 43 Officers and Employees
- Ch 47 Recreation Commissioners, Board of
- Ch 48 Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee
- Ch 50 Personnel Policies
- Ch 53 Police Department
- Ch 55 Public Works Department
- Ch 56 Retirement
- Ch 58 Sewer Utility
- Ch 61 Utilities Authority
- Ch 63 Veterans Commission
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 67 Affordable Housing
- Ch 70 Alarms, Key Boxes and Parapet Wall Placards
- Ch 73 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 76 Amusement Devices
- Ch 79 Animals
- Ch 85 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 88 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 90 Carnivals, Circuses and Traveling Shows
- Ch 91 Certificate Transfer Occupancy or Certificate Transfer Ownership
- Ch 92 Checks, Returned
- Ch 97 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 100 (Reserved)
- Ch 105 Drug-Free and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 106 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Land Development Review Environmental Worksheet
- Ch 110 Fees
- Ch 113 Fences
- Ch 117 Films, Video and Television
- Ch 119 Fire Prevention
- Ch 123 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 128 Graffiti
- Ch 129 Gravel Pits
- Ch 133 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 138 Littering
- Ch 145 Noise
- Ch 146 Nuisances
- Ch 149 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 152 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 155 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 157 Planned Developments
- Ch 159 Property Maintenance
- Ch 163 Rental Unit Registration
- Ch 167 Septic Systems
- Ch 170 Sewers
- Ch 174 Site Plans, Major
- Ch 176 Site Plans, Minor
- Ch 180 Smoking on Public Property
- Ch 183 Soil and Fill Importation and Placement
- Ch 185 Source Separation and Recycling
- Ch 187 Storm Sewer System
- Ch 188 Stormwater Management
- Ch 189 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 189 Art IV Regulation of Basketball
- § 189-28 Purpose.
- § 189-29 Prohibition.
- § 189-30 Noise.
- § 189-31 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 192 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 196 Taxation
- Ch 204 Towing
- Ch 207 (Reserved)
- Ch 210 Vacant and Abandoned Real Property
- Ch 211 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 214 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 217 Vehicles, Motor Driven
- Ch 221 Water
- Ch 222 Water and Sewer Main Extensions
- Ch 224 Youth Sports Code of Conduct
- Ch 225 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A229 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 2-3-2020 by Ord. No. 02-2020]
The Township of Harrison defines and declares that the purpose
of this article is to protect and preserve the safety and welfare
of its residents, including the children, by prohibiting the construction
or placement of basketball hoops and standards, or basketball hoop
apparatus structures, in any Township right-of-way or on the Township
roadways in an effort to promote the safe playing of basketball within
the Township of Harrison, as well as safe vehicular passage.
A.
No person or entity shall allow or cause to allow the construction
or placement of any basketball hoop or basketball hoop structure in
any Township right-of-way or on any roadway that, by its nature or
design, is dangerous or hazardous to the safety of those playing basketball
or the vehicular traveling public.
B.
In no event shall any basketball hoop structure, basketball hoop,
basketball hoop backboard and/or apparatus, or any individual player
cause the obstruction of traffic, trash/recycling material removal
and/or snow removal.
In no event shall the playing of basketball violate any of the provisions of Chapter 145, entitled "Noise."
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of not more than $1,250. The continuation of such violation for
each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person
or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation
may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
