[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.
