[Ord. No. 2014-04]
Whenever any words and phrases are used in this chapter, the meaning respectively ascribed to them in Subtitle I of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein unless specifically defined as follows:
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The public property area between the paved roadway and the property line.
Whenever certain hours are named in this chapter, they shall mean either Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the borough.
The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person of the duty to observe other more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles as set forth in R.S. 39:4-138, any other New Jersey statute or as hereinafter provided.
a. 
No person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule I attached to and made a part of this chapter.
b. 
It shall be unlawful to park any automobile or other vehicle within 25 feet of an intersection of any two public streets or highways, or within 50 feet of the end of any dead-end street within the borough.
c. 
No person shall park a vehicle in a parking space designated and marked as being set aside for the physically handicapped in any parking facility unless said vehicle shall have affixed thereto an identification certificate or marker issued by the New Jersey Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Parking in a handicapped space without the aforesaid vehicle identification shall create a rebuttable presumption that use of the space was not for the physically handicapped.
d. 
Any person violating any provision of Subsection 8-3.2c of this chapter for the first time shall be fined $100.
e. 
Any person charged with a second or subsequent offense for violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon commission hereof, be punishable by a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $1,000, or 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. 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.
f. 
The violation of any provision of this chapter shall be subject to abatement summarily by a restraining order or injunction issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
[Ord. No. 2021-11]
No person shall park a vehicle in any one spot upon any of the streets or parts of streets within the Borough for longer than seven consecutive days other than directly in front of the person’s own property.
No person shall park a vehicle for longer than the time limit shown in Schedule IV at any time between the hours listed in Schedule IV of any day upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule IV attached to and made a part of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful to leave any truck, omnibus or other commercial vehicle standing or parked, except for loading and unloading purposes, upon any of the public streets of the borough.
[Ord. No. 2014-04; Ord. No. 2015-04; Ord. No. 2020-11]
a. 
Trailers Prohibited. No person shall cause or permit to be parked any trailer upon the following public streets within the Borough of Harvey Cedars:
Bay Terrace
West 80th Street
b. 
Parking and Storage of Trailers.
1. 
Trailers are permitted to be parked or stored on private property.
2. 
Trailers are permitted to be parked on public paved streets when attached to a motor vehicle unless otherwise prohibited.
c. 
Trailers – Non-Watercraft. No person shall cause or permit to be parked any non-watercraft trailer upon any street or right-of-way from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
d. 
Trailers – Exceptions. Construction trailers are permitted as per Chapter 13 Zoning.
e. 
Penalty. Any trailer in violation of this section for more than 48 hours shall be removed and stored by the Borough and charged in accordance with § -15. Any person violating any provision of Subsection 8-3.7 of this chapter shall be fined a minimum of $50.
[Ord. No. 2019-11]
Parking for the Harvey Cedars Borough Hall located at 7606 Long Beach Boulevard between West 76th and West 77th Streets shall be designated for Municipal or Post Office business only. Any vehicle found parked in the Municipal Lot for other than municipal business during regular business hours or during municipal meetings may be subject to removal by the Borough, and the owner of said vehicle shall be in violation of this subsection and subject to the penalty as set forth in § 8-11 of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 2020-11]
a. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to occupy or otherwise reside within, or in any manner relating thereto, any recreational vehicle, camper, trailer or other mobile structure while it is being parked or stored on any residential or commercial lot, or on any public roadway or easement.
b. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to connect any recreational vehicle, camper, trailer or other mobile structure to water, natural gas, or sanitary sewer service while being parked or stored within the Borough.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VI attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as One-way streets in the direction indicated.
Pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 39:4-140, the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VII attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as Through Streets. STOP signs shall be installed on the near right side of each street intersecting the Through Street except where YIELD signs are provided for in the designations.
Pursuant to the provisions of R.S.39:4-140, the intersections described in Schedule VIII attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as Stop Intersections. STOP signs shall be installed as provided therein.
Pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 39:4-140, the intersections described in Schedule IX attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as Yield Intersections. YIELD signs shall be installed as provided therein.
The locations described in Schedule X attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as Loading Zones.
The locations described in Schedule XI attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as Taxi Stands.
The locations described in Schedule XII attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby designated as Bus Stops.
No person shall make a turn at any of the locations described in Schedule XV attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 2021-03]
The following speed limits shall apply to designated streets within the Borough:
Street Name
Traffic Direction
Speed Limit
Location
West 80th Street, aka County Road #2
Both
20 mph
Entire length
[Added 12-15-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-26[1]]
a. 
When there is accumulated water on the surface of any portion of the public street or roadway, including any designated shoulder, no motor vehicle shall be operated at a rate of speed on any public street or roadway in a manner that causes a discharge of a wave that carries beyond the edge of the street or curbline.
b. 
This section shall not preclude individuals who are operating a motor vehicle for the purposes of a medical emergency.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also renumbered former § 8-12 as § 8-13.
[Ord. No. 2021-03]
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by New Jersey Statute, every person convicted of a violation of a provision of this ordinance or any supplement thereto shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $50 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days or both.
All former traffic ordinances of the Borough of Harvey Cedars covered in this traffic chapter are hereby repealed except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking effect of this ordinance.