This chapter is intended to establish a set
of comprehensive regulations for the installation and maintenance
of public telephones installed upon the streets and sidewalks of the
Township of Saddle Brook. Municipalities have experienced considerable
problems including illegal activities in connection with the use of
public telephones. Such activities often include the facilitation
of drug activities and drug transactions. This chapter is also designed
to regulate the proliferation of public telephones and to provide
a uniform and standard process for the issuing of permits for those
telephones which intrude upon the public right-of-way. This chapter
is intended to apply not only to applications for new installations
but also to preexisting installations.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ILLEGAL OR ILLICIT ACTIVITY
Activity which is proscribed by Title 2C of N.J.S.A. or any
Township ordinance or any federal law or regulation.
PERMITTEE
Any person responsible for placing and maintaining a public
telephone on sidewalk or street, as hereinafter defined, and receiving
a permit therefor.
PERSON
An individual, business, firm, corporation, association,
partnership or any other organization, group or entity.
PUBLIC TELEPHONE
Any self-service, coin- or credit-card-operated telephone
or bank of such telephones placed adjacent to each other located in
or over a public sidewalk or street.
SIDEWALK
That portion of a highway or street intended for the use
of pedestrians, between the curbline or the lateral line of a shoulder
or, if none, lateral line of the roadway and the adjacent right-of-way
line.
STREET
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is opened to the use of
the public for the purposes of vehicular traffic, and shall include
but not be limited to roadways, parkways, alleys and highways.
Any violation of this chapter shall subject
the violator to a fine or not less than $100 and no more than $1,000
and/or imprisonment of up to 90 days. Each noncomplying public telephone
violation will constitute a separate violation. Each day of said violation
shall constitute a separate violation.