[Adopted 3-27-1990 by Ord. No. 4081 (Ch.
22, Art. I, of the 2004 Code)]
Members of the Township Committee shall observe
order and decorum during Township Committee meetings. A member of
the Township Committee shall neither, by conversation or otherwise,
delay or interrupt the proceedings of the Committee nor disturb any
member while speaking nor refuse to obey the orders of the Chairman.
Township Committee members shall inform the Chairman before leaving
their seats during a Committee meeting.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 et seq.,
the Open Public Meetings Act.
Members of the Township staff shall observe the same rules of order and decorum applicable to the Township Committee in § 102-5 above.
Any person(s) making personal, defamatory or
profane remarks or who willfully utters loud, threatening or abusive
language or engages in any disorderly conduct which disturbs or disrupts
the orderly conduct of any meeting shall be called to order by the
Chairman. If such conduct continues, the Chairman of the Township
Committee, at his discretion, may order such person removed from that
meeting by the Sergeant at Arms.
[Amended 10-26-2004 by Ord. No. 4842]
Persons addressing the Township Committee shall
be allowed a maximum of five minutes for their presentations and may
comment on any governmental issue that a member of the public feels
may be of concern to the residents of the community.
No person in the audience shall engage in disorderly
conduct such as handclapping, stamping of feet, whistling, using profane
language, shouting or other similar demonstrations which may disturb
the peace and order of the Township Committee meeting.
All persons shall, at the request of the Chairman,
be silent. If, after receiving a warning from the Chairman, a person
persists in disturbing the meeting, the Chairman may order that person
to leave the meeting. If he does not remove himself, the Chairman
may order the Sergeant at Arms to remove him.
The Chief of Police, or such member of the Department
of Police as the Chairman may designate, shall be Sergeant at Arms
at the Township Committee meetings. The Sergeant at Arms shall carry
out all orders given by the Chairman for the purpose of maintaining
order and decorum at the Township Committee meeting. On the instruction
of the Chairman, the Sergeant at Arms shall remove from the meeting
any person who disturbs the proceedings of the Committee.
Any person who resists removal by the Sergeant
at Arms shall be charged with violating N.J.S.A. 2C:33-8, Disrupting
meetings and processions.
[Amended 4-10-2007 by Ord. No. 4999]
The Township Committee will permit the videotaping
of Township Committee meetings provided the following guidelines are
complied with:
A.
All videotaping
is to be conducted from designated locations.
(1)
The last
two rows in the northwest corner of the main meeting room shall be
designated as the location for the recording of said public meetings.
The last two rows shall be clearly marked, alerting any member of
the public who wishes to videotape a meeting that such videotaping
must be conducted from this designated location.
(2)
The southeast
corner of the conference room shall be designated as the location
for the recording of said public meetings. Such rows shall be clearly
marked, alerting any member who wishes to videotape a meeting shall
do so from this designated location.
B.
All video cameras
must be privately owned and have self-contained recording devices
with built-in lighting and power sources.
C.
A person shall
not operate more than one video camera at a time.
D.
Unrestricted
videotaping will be permitted prior to the start of the approval of
minutes at the Township Committee Regular Meeting.
Township Committee meetings shall be conducted
pursuant to Robert's Rules of Order.
