[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Bellmawr 9-25-2025 by Ord. No. 08:09-25. Amendments noted where applicable.]
LEGAL GUARDIAN
A person, other than a parent, to whom legal custody of the juvenile has been given by court order or who is acting in place of the parent or is responsible for the care and welfare of the juvenile.
MINOR
An individual who is under the age of 18 years.
PARENT
Any natural parent or any adult person over the age of 21 or who is responsible for the care, custody, and control of a minor child.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public has access, including but not limited to a public street, road, throughfare, sidewalk, bridge, plaza, park, recreation or shopping area, public transportation facility, vehicle used for public transportation, parking lot, or any other public building, structure, or area.
A. 
Offenses against the public peace, safety and morals shall be punishable as herein provided.
B. 
Offenses against the public peace, safety and morals are hereby defined to include:
(1) 
A felony, high misdemeanor, misdemeanor, or other offense.
(2) 
Violation of any penal law or municipal ordinance.
(3) 
Any act or offense for which he or she could be prosecuted in the method partaking of the nature of a criminal action or proceeding.
(4) 
Being a disorderly person.
(5) 
Habitual vagrancy.
(6) 
Incorrigibility.
(7) 
Immorality.
(8) 
Knowingly associating with thieves or vicious or immoral people.
(9) 
Growing up in idleness or delinquency.
(10) 
Knowingly visiting gambling places, or patronizing other places or establishments, his or her admission to which constitutes a violation of law.
(11) 
Idly roaming the streets at night.
(12) 
Habitual truancy from school.
(13) 
Deportment endangering the morals, health, or general welfare of said child.
(14) 
Including any and all state statutes under Title 39 of the Motor Vehicle Act as to violations in the operation and use of a motor vehicle but not including violations for parking.
(15) 
Sale and use of narcotics or other drugs.
(16) 
Defacing the property of another (graffiti).
(17) 
Destroying any property of another.
(18) 
Mugging.
(19) 
Assaults.
(20) 
Assaults and battery.
(21) 
Loitering in groups of three or more on any public streets, highways, or alleys.
(22) 
Loitering or destruction or defacing of public property owned by the governments of the Borough, county, or state.
(23) 
Destruction of playground equipment and public parks.
(24) 
Consumption of alcoholic beverages on a public street.
(25) 
Drunkenness.
(26) 
Begging.
(27) 
Lack of supervision by a parent, legal guardian or other person having the care or custody of a minor child under the age of 18. A "person" is defined to include parents, guardians, or persons having custody or control of minor children.
(28) 
Indecent exposure.
It shall be unlawful for any parent, legal guardian or other adult person having the care or custody of a minor child under 18 years of age, by any act or word, or the failure to act or by the lack of supervision and control over said minor to encourage, contribute toward, cause or tend to cause said child to violate this ordinance by reason of the activity of said minor child within the Borough of Bellmawr.
Supervision is the exercise of control over a minor child, knowing his whereabouts, knowing with whom he or she associates and in what activities he or she may engage in which could affect or offend the public peace, safety, and morals.
It shall be unlawful for any parent, legal guardian or other person having custody and care of any minor child under the age of 18 to assist, aid, abet, allow, permit or encourage said minor to violate the provisions of this chapter or any other ordinance of the Borough of Bellmawr as defined herein, either by overt act, by failing to act or by lack of supervision and control over said minor child.
The fact that a child under the age of 18 years is apprehended while on any public streets, highways, alleys or parks during hours of curfew shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this chapter on the part of the parents, legal guardian or other person having custody or care of said minor.
When any person under the age of 18 years is apprehended in violation of this chapter or violation of any laws of the state as outlined in this chapter and has been brought before the Judge of the Division of Camden County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court and upon the Court's determination that the child is guilty of the offense within the purview of this chapter, the parent, legal guardian or other person having care and custody of said minor may be summoned before a Judge of the Municipal Court of the Borough of Bellmawr and ordered to provide supervision of the minor. The failure of said parent, legal guardian or other person having legal custody of said minor child, upon a second offense, shall cause the parent, legal guardian or the other person having custody of said minor child to be subject to the penalties herein.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days or both.