[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Maple Shade 10-1-1997 by Ord. No. 1997-20. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes corporation, partnership, association and individual,
and shall include the plural. The masculine pronoun shall include
the feminine.
[Amended 10-15-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-18]
A.
Any person who consumes alcoholic beverages while
in or on a public street, lane, sidewalk, public parking lot, public
or quasi-public place or in any public conveyance or in a private
motor vehicle while such vehicle is in motion or parked in any public
street, lane or public parking lot or while upon any private property
not his or her own without the express permission of the owner or
other person having authority to grant such permission shall be a
disorderly person.
B.
Any person who discards alcoholic beverage containers
upon any public street, lane, sidewalk, public parking lot public
or quasi-public place or upon any private property not his or her
own without the express permission of the owner or other person having
authority to grant such permission shall be a disorderly person.
C.
There shall be a rebuttable presumption of consumption against each person charged with the offense of consumption of an alcoholic beverage as set forth in Subsection A above if that person is knowingly in possession of an open container which contains or recently contained an alcoholic beverage.
D.
The Township Council in connection with public celebrations
or similar special events may, by written permit, specifically authorize
the consumption of alcoholic beverages in a public park, square, parking
lot or other public place or area or portion thereof, as specified
in such permit and in the date and the hours therein specified, subject
to the conditions set forth in the approved permit.
A.
No person within the limits of the Township of Maple
Shade shall:
(2)
Throw or discard any tin cans, bottles, garbage, debris,
junk or refuse of any kind whatsoever into the waters of any spring,
pond, stream, lake, river or any other body of water, or upon any
public street or public place, or discharge any sewage or waste into
said waters or places or any of them or pollute the said waters in
any manner; or so place any of said articles that the acts prohibited
above shall result therefrom.
(3)
Place or cause to be placed any obstruction of any
kind whatsoever in any stream, pond, spring or lake so as to interfere
with the natural flow or change the course thereof in any manner whatsoever
without first obtaining the necessary permit to do so.
(4)
Throw any paper or posters, stones, sticks, glass,
metal or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any sidewalk,
street, highway or public or private place or at any car, vehicle,
house, building, fence or person.
(5)
Appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other
public place, including balconies, in a state of nudity, or make any
indecent exposure of his or her person, or commit or do any lewd or
indecent act or behave in a lewd or indecent manner.
(6)
Disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while
the same is upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or
other public place.
(7)
Sell or offer to sell any indecent picture, book or
thing, or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or
other representation.
(8)
Keep or maintain a disorderly house or a house of
ill fame, or allow or permit any house, shop, store or other building
or structure owned by him or her to be used as a disorderly house
or house of ill fame.
(9)
Solicit, invite or in any manner suggest by word of
mouth or any writing or other communication or by any device whatsoever
any lewd, lascivious or other immoral act.
(10)
Permit any house, shop, store or other building or
structure owned by him or her to be frequented or resorted to by noisy,
riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants.
(11)
Maliciously or intentionally destroy, damage or injure
any property, public or private.
(12)
Cause or permit to be emitted any vile, offensive,
obnoxious or nauseating odor that may be vile, offensive, obnoxious
or nauseating to any person.
(14)
Have in his or her possession or custody, any automobile
in his or her possession or custody, any ticket or tickets, slip or
slips, paper or papers, document or documents or memoranda in any
way pertaining to the business of a numbers game. The term "numbers
game" as used in this subsection shall mean any betting on any number
or sets or arrangements of numbers on or according to any plan or
method whatsoever.
(15)
Carry, without lawful authority, any revolver, pistol
or other instrument of the kind known as a blackjack, slingshot, blowgun
or similar device, billy club, sandbag, bludgeon, metal knuckles,
dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive
concealed in or about his or her clothes or person or in any portable
vehicle, carriage, motorcycle or other vehicle.[3]
(16)
Have upon his or her person or in his or her possession
any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with any intent
to break and enter any building.
(17)
Participate in any sport or exercise having a tendency
to annoy, disturb or frighten any person or persons on any sidewalk,
street, road, park or other public or private place, or having a tendency
to annoy or frighten horses or other animals.
(18)
Enter any building or public or private lands and
without lawful authority break, injure or deface such building or
any part thereof or the fences, outhouses or other property belonging
to or connected with such building or lands, or disturb the exercises
of any public school, church or other place of public assemblage,
or molest or give annoyance to children or persons attending such
school or annoy any teachers therein or persons conducting such exercises.
(19)
Hinder or obstruct any city officer or employee or
the officer or employee of any agency, department, board, commission,
authority or other instrumentality of this municipality in the performance
of his or her duties or willfully refuse or neglect to assist such
officer or employee when lawfully called upon by him or her so to
do in the execution of any process or in the suppression of any breach
of the peace or disorderly conduct or in the case of escape or when
such officer or employee is resisted in the discharge of his or her
duty or resist or oppose any officer or person authorized by law in
serving or attempting to serve any writ, bill or order to process
or when making any arrest.
(20)
Hinder, prevent or deter in any manner or by any device
whatever any fire fighter or other person from rendering lawful assistance
in abating or quelling a fire, or hinder or interfere with any fire
fighter going to or returning from any fire or place from which a
fire alarm proceeds, or hinder or obstruct any fire engine, hook and
ladder truck, hose cart or other fire apparatus going to or from any
place from which a fire alarm proceeds or where any building or property
may be burning.
(21)
Hinder, obstruct, prevent or deter in any manner or
by any device whatever any ambulance or emergency squad member or
other person from rendering lawful assistance at any accident, disaster
or other emergency, or any ambulance or emergency squad equipment
while going to or from or attending at an accident, disaster or other
emergency.
(22)
Willfully and maliciously ring or sound or cause to
be rung or sounded any bell, siren or other alarm of any fire, ambulance
or emergency company or squad, and thereby or by any other means give
or cause to be given a false alarm of fire or emergency.[4]
(23)
Enter upon or trespass upon the land or property of
any other persons without lawful permission to do so.
(24)
Leave or threaten to leave his or her minor child,
children or other lawful dependent to be maintained by the township
or to become chargeable thereto.
(25)
Being without sufficient property or means for his
or her subsistence or support, live idly or not engage in some honest
employment or fail to provide for himself or herself or for his or
her family.
(26)
Pretend to use or have any skill in physiognomy, palmistry
or like crafty science, or pretend to tell the destinies or fortunes
for pay or other reward.
(27)
Remove, interfere with or disturb any lantern, warning
signal, obstruction or barricade lawfully placed in or across any
public street or alley by the public authority, its contractors, agents,
servants or employees.
B.
All other riotous, indecent or disorderly conduct,
breach of the peace and vagrancy not hereinabove specifically mentioned
is hereby prohibited.
[Amended 9-20-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-11; 4-16-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-07]
[Added 10-18-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-14]
A.
No person under the legal drinking age, without legal
authority, shall knowingly possess alcoholic beverages on private
property.
B.
No person under the legal drinking age, without legal
authority, shall knowingly consume alcoholic beverages on private
property.
C.
Any person found guilty of underage possession and/or
consumption shall be fined $250 for a first offense and $350 for any
subsequent offense. In addition to the above fine, the court may suspend
or postpone said person's driving privilege for a period of six months.
If said person is under the age of 17 years, the period of license
postponement, including a suspension or postponement of the privilege
of operating a motorized bicycle, shall commence on the day the sentence
is imposed and shall run for a period of six months after said person
reaches the age of 17 years of age. If the person convicted under
this section is not a resident of the State of New Jersey, the Court
shall suspend or postpone, as appropriate, the nonresident driving
privilege of the person based on the age of said person.
D.
This section shall not apply to underage persons consuming
or possessing an alcoholic beverage in connection with a religious
observance, ceremony or rite or consuming or possessing an alcoholic
beverage in the presence of and with the permission of a parent, guardian
or relative who has attained the legal age to purchase or consume
alcoholic beverages.
E.
This section shall not prohibit the possession of
alcoholic beverages by any underage person while actually engaged
in the performance of employment by a person who is licensed under
Title 33 of the Revised Statutes or while actively engaged in the
preparation of food while enrolled in a culinary arts or hotel management
program at a county vocational school or post secondary educational
institution.