[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Holland 12-5-1989 as part of Ord. 1989-12. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Parks and Recreation Committee — See Ch. 37.
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 43.
Outdoor burning — See Ch. 53.
Land use — See Ch. 100.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 170.
[Amended 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
Whenever used in any of these rules and regulations, the following respective terms, unless otherwise expressly defined, shall mean as follows:
BRIDLE PATH or HORSE TRAIL
Any path maintained for persons riding on horseback.
COMMITTEE
The Holland Township Municipal Committee.
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP PARKS or PARKS, PRESERVATION
All real property acquired by or under the jurisdiction and care of; or which may be hereafter acquired by the Board or come under its jurisdiction.
OFF-ROAD VEHICLE
Any powered vehicle designed for cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, sand, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other terrain which would include, but not limited to, such vehicles as all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), dirt bikes, snowmobiles, amphibious and air-cushion vehicles; other than those vehicles utilized for fire, emergency or law enforcement purposes and any vehicle whose use is expressly authorized by the Holland Township Committee.
OWNER
Any person, firm, association, copartnership or corporation owning, operating or having the exclusive use of a vehicle, under a lease or otherwise.
PARKING PLACE or PARKING SPACE
Any part of any drive or space designed as a place for the standing vehicles.
PERMIT
Any written authorization issued under the authority of the Holland Township Committee, permitting the performance of a specified act or acts.
PERSON
Any natural person, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, firm or copartnership.
PUBLIC AREA
Any and every public park, public playground, parking lot, area of land subject to restrictions granted to the State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection (pursuant to the Green Acres Program), which is within the jurisdiction and control of the Township, and any municipally owned and/or operated facility, including the publicly owned grounds surrounding or comprising it.
[Amended 5-6-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-5]
PUBLIC STRUCTURE OR BUILDING
Any structure or building owned or operated by the federal, county, state or Township government or any governmental agency.
PUBLIC WAY
Any public sidewalk, public street or road or highway or public alley in the Township.
RULE or REGULATION
Any ordinance or resolution adopted by the Committee, posted and published by Holland Township.
SUNRISE or DAWN
The time each day that the sun rises.
SUNSET or DUSK
The time of each day that the sun sets as determined by the National Weather Service.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Holland, in the County of Hunterdon, New Jersey.
WALK or TRAIL
Any path maintained for pedestrians or nonmotorized cyclists.
WEAPON
Any weapon shall include, but is not limited to, firearms, paint guns, toy cannons, bows and arrows, air guns and sling shots.
VEHICLE
Any motorized vehicle or any vehicle propelled by muscular power.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13[1]]
Any term contained in these rules and regulations shall be construed as follows:
A. 
Any term in the singular shall include the plural;
B. 
Any term in the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter; and
C. 
The prohibition of any act shall extend to and include an attempt to commit such an act and the causing and/or the procuring, directly or indirectly, of such act.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also renumbered former § 125-2 as § 123-5.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
The provision of these rules and regulations shall be effective within, upon and in, the air space above, all property that is presently, or shall be in the future, under jurisdiction, custody or control of the Committee and shall regulate the use thereof by all persons.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
A. 
A written permit issued by the Committee for any activity shall authorize the activity only insofar as it may be performed in strict accordance with the terms and conditions thereof.
B. 
Any violation by a permit holder or his or her agents or employees of any terms or condition thereof, shall constitute grounds for its revocation by the Committee or by its authorized representative, whose action shall be final.
C. 
In case of the revocation of any park permit, all moneys paid for or on account thereof shall, at the option of the Committee, be forfeited to and be retained by the Committee. The holder of such permit, together with his agents and employees who violated such terms and conditions, shall be jointly and severally liable to the Committee for all damages and loss suffered by it in excess of the money so forfeited and retained. Neither such forfeiture and retention by the Committee of the whole or part of such moneys, nor the recovery or collection thereby of such damages, or both, shall in any manner relieve such person or persons from liability to punishment for any violation of these regulations.
D. 
These rule and regulations shall be deemed a part of each permit issued.
E. 
All permits that are granted must be produced upon demand of any duly authorized representative of the Committee.
A. 
No person shall use any public area within the Township for the purpose of overnight accommodations except where expressly permitted.
B. 
No person shall light fires or stoves for the purpose of cooking food in any public area except in facilities authorized for that purpose, such as permanent barbecue pits, except with the express written permission of the Township.
C. 
No person shall perform toilet functions in any public areas, public structures or buildings or public ways of the Township except in facilities designed for that purpose and open to public.
D. 
No person shall hunt, trap, fish or discharge firearms in any public areas except with the express written permission of the Township.
E. 
No alcoholic beverages shall be consumed in public areas, public ways or public structures or buildings except where expressly permitted.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13[1]]
A. 
County, state and federal laws. No person shall commit any act that is prohibited by county, state, or federal laws, including, but not limited to, regulations of the NJ DEP Division of Fish & Wildlife.
B. 
Advertising. No person shall advertise within the parks without the written authorization of the Committee.
C. 
Solicitation. No person, business, group or organization shall solicit for business, alms or contributions for any purpose without written authorization of the Committee.
D. 
Animals.
(1) 
No person without a permit shall cause or permit any animal to be released or be in park areas except as by the rules and regulations.
(2) 
All persons shall immediately clean up waste from their animals.
E. 
Poisons. No person shall bring or have park areas any poison or poisonous substance.
F. 
After-hours use. No person shall be permitted in park areas except during the hours of operation without written authorization from the Committee.
G. 
Hours of operation. Park areas will be opened sunrise and closed at sunset. No one should be permitted in a park prior to sunrise and after sunset.
H. 
Merchandise sale. No person shall sell or offer for sale any object or merchandise or any other thing, whether corporeal or incorporeal, except pursuant to a permit issued by the Committee.
I. 
Prohibition of alcoholic beverages. No person shall consume or possess alcoholic beverages anywhere within the Holland Township Park, except that an alcoholic beverage that is either beer or wine may be consumed within designated areas with a special permit or by written permission from the Committee only.
J. 
Amplified speakers. No person shall use any loudspeaker, public address system and/or amplifiers as well as any stereo, record player, compact disc, portable radio, band or musical instrument that is played in such a manner that may create a nuisance.
K. 
Signage. Posted instructions:
(1) 
No person shall disobey any sign or posted instructions erected by the Committee.
(2) 
No person shall erect or post any sign without authorization of the Committee.
L. 
Attire. No person shall appear nude in any park areas or facilities. No person shall dress or undress, except in areas that may be designated by the Committee.
M. 
Rock climbing. No person shall climb on or repel from any cliff, rock face, or boulder
N. 
Sleeping. No person shall sleep in a park.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also renumbered former § 125-6 as § 125-11.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
No personal shall make an excavation on, destroy, paint, damage, fill in, deface, cut, remove or tamper with any property, organic or inorganic, within the Holland Township parks without written authorization of the Committee.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
A. 
Wildlife.
(1) 
No person shall kill, throw objects at, wound, harass, trap, hunt, remove, pursue or have in their possession any animal, reptile, bird or nest or remove the eggs or young of any of the above without written authorization of the Committee.
(2) 
No person shall hunt on any parkland except those persons who have been issued a permit in accordance with procedures as establish by the Committee.
(3) 
No person shall fish in any of the park waters, unless in possession of the required New Jersey license except in those cases or on those occasions when the NJ DEP Division of Fish & Wildlife does not require a fishing license.
(4) 
No person shall feed any animal or waterfowl, any food or other substance except as permitted by the Committee.
B. 
Vegetation. No person shall excavate, pick, take, destroy, deface, remove, fill in, cut or create any disturbance to vegetation without specific permission by the Committee.
C. 
Pollution of waters. No person shall, within or without park areas discharge into the waters of the parks or any tributary river, brook, stream, storm sewer or drain flowing into park waters any substance which may result in the pollution of the park waters.
D. 
Metal detecting. No person shall metal detect on Township property.
E. 
Dumping. No person shall dump any material, organic or inorganic, anywhere within the parks including depositing into any dumpster, garbage can, or recycling can any waste which is generated outside of the parks.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
A. 
Obstruction of duty. No one shall disobey an order, direction, or command of a Township police officer or any other law enforcement officers or any Township official in the discharge of his or her duty or shall interfere with, harass, obstruct, hinder, or prevent the preceding in performing his or her duty.
B. 
Interference with visitors. No one shall harass, obstruct, hinder or interfere with any other person or group within the parks.
C. 
Unsafe acts. No person shall act or attempt to act in any unsafe manner which may result in bodily injury or create a hazardous situation. The following is a nonexhaustive list of acts which the Township has determined to be unsafe on Township Park property:
(1) 
Possession or use of any explosives;
(2) 
Possessions or use of any poisonous substances;
(3) 
Possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages without a special permit;
(4) 
Possession or discharge of any weapon;
(5) 
Climbing on or repelling from any cliff, rock face or boulder;
(6) 
Possession or use of narcotics or other controlled dangerous substances;
(7) 
Operation of all-terrain (ATVs), dirt bikes, and snowmobiles;
(8) 
Operation of any aviation apparatus;
(9) 
Bathing, wading or swimming in any water;
(10) 
Using, operating, launching or landing a boat, canoe, inflated float or raft in any park area;
(11) 
Failure to utilize life preservers while in a boat, canoe, inflated float of raft;
(12) 
Coasting, sledding or skiing in park areas;
(13) 
Roller-skating, roller-blading, bicycling, tricycling, or skateboarding in undesignated areas;
(14) 
Ice skating, ice fishing, or other on-ice activities in undesignated areas;
(15) 
Use of gas- or battery-powered model aviation devices, combustion-powered model rockets, model boats or model motor vehicles in undesignated area;
(16) 
Horseback riding in undesignated areas;
(17) 
Walking unleashed dogs;
(18) 
Building fires or discarding burning materials and;
(19) 
Failure to monitor or extinguish unattended fires.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
A. 
Aviation. No Person shall launch, land or operate any aviation apparatus within the parks without written authorization of the Committee.
B. 
Bathing. No person shall bath, wade or swim in any park waters, except at such times and in such places as the Committee may designate.
C. 
Boating.
(1) 
No person shall use, operate, launch, or land, on park areas, a boat, canoe, inflated float or raft in any park waters except in designated areas or by written permit.
(2) 
Where boating is permitted, life preservers must be worn at all times while in the boat.
D. 
Skating, skiing, bicycling and sledding.
(1) 
No person shall sled, or cross-country ski except on those areas designated by the Committee.
(2) 
No person shall downhill ski or snowboard in any park.
(3) 
No person shall ice skate, ice fish or participate in any other on-ice activities, except at such times and upon such places as designated by the Committee.
E. 
Models. No person shall engage in the use of gas- or battery-powered model aviation devices, combustion-powered model rockets, model boats or model motor vehicles, whether radio controlled or not, except in areas that are designated by the Committee.
F. 
Horses. No person shall ride a horse except as such times, and only in horse trails and areas designated by the Board.
G. 
Dogs. Dogs must be restrained with a leash not exceeding six feet in length and in areas designated by the Committee only.
H. 
Camping. No person shall camp or set up a campsite.
I. 
Fires.
(1) 
No person shall build any fires or discard any burning materials such as a lighted match, cigar, cigarette, charcoal, or other burning object, except in designated areas provided for such purposes. Fires must be continually monitored until extinguished and must not be left unattended.
(2) 
Portable propane grills (PPG) are permitted in marked locations. PPG must be continually monitored until extinguished and must not be left unattended.
J. 
Groups.
(1) 
No group of 15 or more persons shall use an area or facility without first having obtained permission by permit in advance from the Committee.
(2) 
Adult supervision of children is required at all times.
(3) 
No person shall call or hold a public meeting or give any concert or entertainment of any kind or erect any structure, stand, tent, or platform, utilize any loudspeaker, public address system or amplifier except by the specific authority of the Committee
(4) 
When a permit has been issued, only those persons designated by the permit may act under the permit.
[Amended 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
A. 
Motor Vehicle Act and Traffic laws. All the provisions of the New Jersey Traffic Code shall apply in the parks and shall be strictly enforced with also such further restrictions set forth in these rules and regulations.
B. 
Unauthorized areas. No person shall cause or permit a motor vehicle to be driven or otherwise moved off of a roadway or designated parking area except by designated access drive or except as otherwise provided in these rules and regulations.
C. 
No public areas shall be used for the servicing and/or repair of any vehicle, except in cases of emergency road service, nor for the washing, waxing, cleaning or polishing of any vehicle, with the exception of municipally owned vehicles.
D. 
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any human-powered locomotion device in any public areas except where expressly permitted. Such human-powered devices for locomotion shall include but not be limited to skates, skateboards, sleds or scooters, but shall not include bicycles or other properly equipped pedicycles or wheelchairs or other means of transportation for handicapped individuals.
E. 
Parking.
(1) 
No person shall park any vehicle anywhere outside of designated parking spaces.
(2) 
No person shall park any vehicle in any park area during closed hours.
(3) 
No vehicle shall be parked in a parking space which is not designed or designated for the vehicle's type, including, but not limited to, horse trailer, semitrailer, mobile homes, commercial, box trucks, or any vehicle larger than the parking space.
(4) 
No person shall have a vehicle parked or standing which:
(a) 
Impedes or obstruct the normal flow of traffic;
(b) 
Block entrances or exits, loading zones, dumpsters, oil or gas fills;
(c) 
Are parked upon any grass area, fire zone or pedestrian walkway;
(d) 
Are parked within the park after closing hours;
(e) 
Presents a safety traffic hazard.
These vehicles may be removed by towing. The cost of towing and storage shall be borne by the owner and shall be paid before regaining possession of the vehicles.
(5) 
No person shall park or cause to be parked any motor vehicle in any public area maintained by this Township (including, but not limited to, the Riegel Ridge Community Center complex and the Holland Township Municipal Building complex on Church Road) except in parking areas specifically designated by the Township.
F. 
Off-road vehicles. No person shall drive or operate any off-road vehicle or snowmobile anywhere within the Township parks, except at such times and places as may be designated by the Committee.
G. 
Restricted traffic. No vehicle shall be driven upon or through any area or roadway which has been designated as closed or restricted to use.
H. 
Obstruction of traffic. No person shall intentionally and without reasonable cause impede or obstruct any vehicle within park areas.
[Added 6-16-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-8]
No person shall, without the written permission of the Township (as for, example for a special event), or in an emergency after notifying a Township representative, enter into or remain within a public area or public structure or building (as defined in this chapter) except during the hours the public area or public structure or building is open to the general public as established from time to time by resolution of the Township governing body. The foregoing shall not apply to Township or other governmental officers or employees acting in the course of their official duties or employment, nor to fire or medical first responders responding to a perceived emergency.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
The rules and regulations of the Holland Township parks shall be enforced by all duly authorized law enforcement officers. Any person who enters into a Township park for any purpose whatsoever has a duty and is presumed to be aware of the provisions of these rules and regulations governing the use of the facilities and properties administered by the Holland Township Committee.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
All previous versions of these regulations are hereby superseded by this present version of the regulations. However, the present version of the regulations does not apply, affect or impair any act done, offense committed, right accrued or acquired or liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred prior to the time of this present version of the regulations taking effect. Such act done, offense committed, right accrued or acquired or liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred may be enjoined, asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same extent as if the present version of the regulations have not been adopted and shall be governed for disposition purposes by the previous versions of these regulations, which are continued in effect for that purpose.
[Added 8-1-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-13]
Any person violating any of the provisions of these regulations shall, upon conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction, be liable for the replacement, repair or restoration of damaged property, if any, and shall pay a penalty of not more than $1,000 or may be sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, provided that this section shall not supersede any applicable penalty provision for specific offenses, which may be set forth in the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice, N.J.S.A. 2C:1-1, et seq., or in any other applicable state or federal law.