[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Cape May as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Sec. 3.12 of the 1997 Revised General Ordinances]
No person, either male or female, shall be attired in a bathing suit, trunks or other than usual dress on any public street or in any public place, after 7:00 p.m. and prior to 7:00 a.m. With reference to the boardwalk or promenade, usual dress includes appropriate footwear.
[Amended 4-18-2005 by Ord. No. 23-2005]
A. 
All persons over the age of 14, while in bathing attire, shall be required to wear a shirt together with their bathing attire while appearing in public or in any public place or public building in the City except along the promenade and boardwalk, where males are not required to wear a shirt during times when the beaches are open for bathing.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to appear nude on the beaches, boardwalk or promenade, or streets, or within any public place or quasi-public place in the City.
This article shall be enforced by the Police Department, the beach patrol and such other duly authorized agents as shall be appointed from time to time.
[Adopted by Ord. No. 590 (Sec. 3-13 of the 1997 Revised General Ordinances)]
[Amended 4-18-2005 by Ord. No. 23-2005]
No person shall:
A. 
Use any public or quasi-public bench, seat or chair for sleeping or for the storage of baskets, bundles, clothing or other like objects or stand on the benches or sit on the back rests so as to prevent the reasonable use by others.
B. 
Use any public or quasi-public or City-owned building or property for sleeping or loitering in any manner, so as to inconvenience others or disrupt and disturb the public peace.
C. 
Enter upon any public or quasi-public place or private property without the consent of the owner or person in lawful control and possession and to there picnic, change apparel, dress or undress, defecate or commit any other nuisance.
D. 
Use any type of vehicle, truck or trailer for the purpose of changing clothes or sleeping.
E. 
Enter, without legitimate and reasonable business, upon any private property, hotel, rooming house, apartment house, lodging place, City-owned buildings or property or any other public place or public accommodation, not having previously obtained permission of the owner or person in lawful control and possession of the place to use the furniture, showers, toilets or any other facilities, or loiter or roam about the premises.
F. 
Obstruct any sidewalk, street or public place. This shall include, without limitation, with any kind of vehicle or with any kind of box, lumber, wood, merchandise, debris or other thing or device, but the provisions of this section shall not prevent a person who is building from occupying a portion of the sidewalk, street, or public place designated in a permit.
G. 
Use any boardwalk, asphalt promenade, steps or ramps adjacent thereto, or any street, alley, parking lot, public or quasi-public place for picnicking.
[Added 7-3-2023 by Ord. No. 504-2023]
A. 
Any person found guilty of a violation of any provision of this article shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalty stated in Chapter 1, Article III, Penalty.
B. 
Any violation of this article constitutes a breach of the peace.