[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Borough
of West Wildwood 4-4-1958 by Ord.
No. 109. Amendments noted where applicable.]
For the purpose of this chapter:
Includes groups, associates, and companions engaged in a
common activity.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discard, except in receptacles
provided therefor, containers made of glass, tin, cardboard, or other
trash, material or substance, upon the streets, pavements, alleys,
highways, public or quasi-public places, or private property
It shall be unlawful to consume alcoholic beverages upon the
streets, highways, sidewalks, public or quasi-public places, or in
automobiles, or other vehicles, parked upon the streets, highways,
alleys, parking lots, or other places not expressly licensed for the
sale and consumption of such beverages, so as to inconvenience others
or disrupt and disturb the public peace.
It shall be unlawful to use any public or quasi-public bench
or seat for sleeping, or to lie upon the same, or to usurp the use
thereof for the storage of baskets, bundles, clothing, or other like
objects, so as to prevent the reasonable use thereof by others.
It shall be unlawful as offensive to enter upon any public or
quasi-public place or private property, without the consent of the
owner or person in lawful control and possession thereof and to there
picnic, change apparel, dress or undress, defecate any of the functions
of the human body, or commit any other nuisance.
It shall be unlawful and offensive to use any vehicle as a place
for the purpose of completely changing from street attire into a bathing
suit, or vice versa, or to engage, at any time, either day or night
in the practice commonly known as sleeping in cars.
It shall be unlawful and illegal to enter, without legitimate
and reasonable errand or business, upon any private property, hotel,
rooming house, and lodging place, or other place of public accommodation,
and not having previously obtained express or implied permission of
the owner or person in lawful control and possession of such places
above-described, to make use of the furniture, showers, toilets, or
other like facilities there installed, or wander or roam about the
premises.
It shall be unlawful and offensive conduct for any individual
or group of individuals to revel, disport or behave in a noisy, boisterous
manner, emitting loud cry's and other noises, or jostling others about
them, or causing inconvenience to those about them, or to otherwise
disrupt and disturb the public peace and dignity, in any public or
quasi-public place, and public rights-of-way, or in any building open
for the accommodation of the public for entertainment, or for room
accommodations.
It shall be unlawful to continuously blow the horn of any automobile
while operating in traffic, except in an emergency for the procurement
of medical aid for the sick or injured or to use the horn of an automobile
as a means of announcing the presence of a car for the purpose of
attracting attention of prospective passengers or riders therein,
at any public or quasi-public place, particularly theaters, saloons,
taprooms, hotels, or rooming or lodging houses, so as to disturb the
peace, quiet sleep and rest of others, or otherwise than as a warning
signal for and in traffic.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof, be subject to one or more of the following:
a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more than 90
days or a period of community service for not more than 90 days. Each
day upon which a violation of this chapter continues shall be considered
a separate offense.
