[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Andover by Ord. No. 9-9-1975 (§§ 6-8
through 6-25 and 6-29 of the 1973 Code); as amended through Ord. No.
92-7. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person shall commit an assault or an assault and
battery. No persons, two or more in number, shall fight together or
commit or attempt to commit assaults and batteries upon each other,
either in public or in a private place, nor be present, aiding, assisting
or abetting the same.
B.
No person shall willfully engage in any fight, assault,
quarrel, brawl, battery, or altercation; nor shall any person participate
in or incite by overt act or acts any disturbance or riot, or any
unruly, boisterous, noisy, unlawful or disorderly assemblage constituting
a breach or disturbance of the peace.
A.
Intent to defraud. No person, either for himself or
as agent or representative of another person, or as an officer or
agent of any corporation, or as a member of a partnership, with intent
to defraud, shall make, draw, utter or deliver any check, draft or
order for the payment of money in a sum not in excess of $100 upon
any bank or other depository knowing, at the time of so doing, that
the maker or drawer has no funds or insufficient funds in, or credit
with, such bank or other depository for payment in full of such instrument
upon its presentation, although no express representation is made
in reference thereto.
B.
Evidence of intent to defraud. The making, drawing, uttering or delivering of a check, draft or order as stated in Subsection A shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud, and the certificate of protest of nonpayment of same shall be presumptive evidence that there were no funds or insufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depository and that the person making, drawing, uttering, or delivering the instrument knew that there were no funds or insufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depository.
No person shall conduct himself in or about
the Township having concealed upon him any picklock, key, crow, jack,
bit or other implement with an intent to break or enter into any building
or shall have upon him any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other
offensive or dangerous weapon, nor shall any person be apprehended
having upon him, whether concealed or not, any of the foregoing articles
or things with the intent of committing any unlawful act, nor shall
any person be found in or near any dwelling, house, warehouse, stable,
barn, coach house, garage, smoke house or any place of public resort
or assemblage for business, worship or amusement, or other lawful
purpose, with intent to steal any goods or chattels, provided that
this section shall not apply to law officers and other persons duly
authorized under certain statutes of this state to carry proper weapons
of defense. Possession of any of the foregoing articles on public
thoroughfares shall be prima facie evidence of such intent.
A.
No person shall directly or indirectly, acting as
agent or otherwise, sell, give or furnish to a minor under the age
of 16 years, any cigarette made of tobacco or of any other matter
or substance which can be smoked, or any cigarette, paper or tobacco
in any form.
B.
Any person violating the provisions of this section
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.
A.
Vandalism. No person shall maliciously destroy, deface,
damage or injure property. Where the damage does not exceed the sum
of $200, any person violating this section may be adjudged a disorderly
person.
B.
Demolition. No person possessed of a dwelling house
or other building, or part thereof, held for any term of years or
other less term, or at will, or held over after the termination of
any tenancy, shall unlawfully or maliciously:
A.
No person shall be drunk or intoxicated in, on, near
or about any public or private place within the Township to the annoyance
of or danger to any other person or against the peace of the Township.
B.
No person, whether owner, tenant, occupant or guest,
shall suffer or take part in any drunken, riotous or other disorderly
conduct that shall disturb the peace and quiet of any family or neighbor,
or of any of the inhabitants of this Township.
C.
No person, under the influence of intoxicating liquor,
shall loiter or create a disturbance in any public street or public
or quasi-public place or in any public conveyance, nor shall go in
or upon any private property not his own without the permission of
the owner or other person having authority to grant such permission.
No person shall, by word, act or other means,
willfully and maliciously give or cause to be given a false fire alarm,
a false police alarm or a false alarm for medical treatment or first
aid.
No person shall, in or about the Township, play
for money or other valuable thing at cards, dice, or other game, with
one or more dice or with any other instrument, engine or device in
the nature of dice, having one or more figures or numbers, or at billiards,
pool, tennis, bowling, or shuffleboard, or A.B.C. or E.O. tables,
or other tables, or at faro bank, or other bank of a like nature by
whatever name known or with any slot machine or device in the nature
of a slot machine or with any other instrument, engine, apparatus
or device having one or more figures or numbers thereon.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 107-10, Indecent behavior,
was repealed 9-28-2009 by Ord. No 2009-33.
No person shall interfere with, hinder, disturb
or obstruct the proceedings, functions or deliberations of the Township
Committee, the Board of Health, or any other officials of the Township,
nor shall any person molest, obstruct, hinder, or interfere with any
officer of the Township or any official engaged in the performance
of his duty, or knowingly resist or oppose any person authorized by
law to make arrests or to serve any writ, bill, order or process when
the person so authorized is acting in the performance of his duty.
No person shall have in his possession or custody
any illegal lottery slips, books or records pertaining to a lottery,
nor shall any person have in his possession or have in his automobile
in his custody any ticket or tickets, slip or slips, paper, document
or memoranda in any way pertaining to the business of a number game.
"Number game," as used in this section, shall mean any betting on
any number or numbers or sets or arrangements of numbers on or according
to any plan or method whatsoever. This section shall not apply to
any lottery or number game authorized by law.
A.
No person shall practice prostitution nor shall any
person, by word, act, sign or any device, invite or solicit unlawful
sexual intercourse or any other unlawful indecent, lewd or lascivious
act.
B.
No person shall maintain, or cause or permit to be
maintained, a disorderly house or house of ill fame in any building
or structure, or on any premises owned, occupied or controlled by
him; nor shall any person permit any building or other structures
or any premises owned or occupied or controlled by him to be frequented
or used by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons, or by prostitutes,
gamblers, or vagrants.
No person shall discard or abandon in any public
or private place accessible to children, whether or not such children
are trespassers, any refrigerator or icebox having a capacity of 1 1/2
cubic feet or more, with an attached lid or door which may be opened
and fastened shut by means of an attached latch, or being the owner,
lessee or manager or such place, shall knowingly permit such abandoned
or discarded refrigerator, icebox or chest to remain there in such
condition. Any person violating this section shall be punished by
a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment in the county jail
for not more than five days, or both.
A.
No person shall operate or cause to be operated, or
shall attempt to operate or cause to be operated, any automatic vending
machine, slot machine, coin box, telephone, or other receptacle designed
to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection
with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, by means of
a slug or any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or foreign
coin, or by any means, method or trick or device not lawfully authorized
by the owner, lessee, or licensee of such machine, coin box, telephone
or receptacle.
B.
No person shall take, obtain or receive from or in
connection with any such automatic vending machine, slot machine,
coin box, telephone or other receptacle, any goods, wares, merchandise,
gas, electric current, article of value, or the use or enjoyment of
any telephone or telegraph facilities or service, or any musical instrument,
phonograph or other property or service, without depositing in and
surrendering to such machine, coin box, telephone or receptacle lawful
coin of the United States of America to the amount required therefor
by the owner, lessee, or licensee of such machine, coin box, telephone
or receptacle.
A.
Trespass signs.
(1)
No person shall willfully or maliciously remove, deface
or alter any notice posted pursuant to law and forbidding trespassing,
with intent to destroy such notice.
(2)
Any person violating this section shall be punished
by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment for not more than
30 days, or both.
B.
Highway signs.
(1)
No person shall mutilate or remove any notice or damage,
destroy or remove, any warning sign or signal or remove any barricade
placed or posted on any highway in connection with or relating to
the closing of any road.
(2)
No person shall drive any vehicle over or upon the
closed portion of any highway nor violate any rule or regulation for
the use of any highway.
No person shall fail to relinquish a telephone
party line, consisting of a subscriber line telephone circuit with
two or more main telephone stations connected therewith each having
a distinctive ring or telephone number, after he has been requested
to do so, to permit another to place a call, in an emergency in which
property or human life are in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of
a fire or police department or medical aid or ambulance service is
essential. No person shall request the use of such a party line by
falsely stating that the line is needed for any of such purposes knowing
the statement to be false, provided that such party line at the time
of the request not being used for any other emergency call.
No person while on or upon the Lake Iliff Bridge
(County Bridge No. A-9) shall fish, swim or dive therefrom or cause
to be dropped or thrown any article or thing from said bridge.
All acts constituting lewd, immoral or indecent
conduct, unlawful destruction of property, willful injuries to or
unlawful interference with persons, hazards to the public health and
breaches or disturbances of the peace not expressly hereinbefore mentioned
are severally prohibited.
[Added 3-12-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-01; amended 4-23-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-06]
A.
Compliance with statutory provisions. No person or entity shall offer
or expose for sale, sell, distribute, possess, use or explode any
fireworks or pyrotechnics or any devices in which explosives are used
for fireworks or pyrotechnics except under the provisions of N.J.S.A.
§§ 21:3-1 to 21:3-9, as amended, as relates to public
displays.
B.
Permit required. In accordance with N.J.S.A. §§ 21:3-3
and 21:3-4, in addition to all state permits and requirements set
forth therein, a permit must be obtained from the Township Committee
for any fireworks display to be conducted within the Township. The
permit shall be issued providing all conditions of N.J.S.A. §§ 21:3-3
to 21:3-9 are complied with by the applicant.
D.
Noncompliance with this section shall result in a violation of N.J.S.A.
§ 21:3-8.
E.
Waiver. In the event that the applicant demonstrates to the Mayor
and Township Committee that a donation has been made to the Fire Department
which will sufficiently cover the cost for the use of equipment and
resources of the Department, then the Township Committee may waive
up to $500 of the application fee.
