Township of Monroe, NJ Nuisances, Public Health

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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal of former Ch. 215 (originally adopted as Ch. 268, but renumbered to maintain the alphabetical sequence of the Code), adopted 7-25-2000 by Ord. No. O-21-2000, as amended.

It shall be unlawful, and shall be a public nuisance, for any person:

To make any indecent exposure or exhibition of any kind in or upon any street, road, highway, place, alley or lane, public or private, in the Township of Monroe;

To expose to public view, within the aforesaid Township, his or her genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, perineum, anal region or pubic hair region;

To engage, within the Township of Monroe, in any practice having a tendency to annoy persons passing on the streets or sidewalks while sitting or standing on porches or lawns or yards facing the streets or sidewalks, by the making of indecent gestures or acts;

To engage, within the aforesaid Township, in any practice while passing on the streets or sidewalks, having a tendency to annoy persons sitting or standing on porches or lawns or yards facing the streets or sidewalks, by the making of indecent gestures or acts;

To make any indecent exposure of his or her private parts or engage in any lewd or indecent act or behavior;

To urinate or defecate in public places or streets, or on the lawns or yards of private homes and residences, or in the public view;

To possess a radio, phonograph, tape or cassette player, television, musical instrument, loudspeaker, or amplifier, or other machine or device for the electronic or stereophonic production or reproduction of sound that is operated on any public street, highway, building, sidewalk, park, recreation area, thoroughfare, or other public place, and any vehicle on a public street, highway or public space that disturbs the quiet enjoyment of the Township;

To bring, consume or possess an open container of alcoholic beverage or wine in any public place within the Township other than those public places covered by an alcoholic beverage consumption license issued pursuant to Title 33 of the New Jersey Statutes or where consumption of malt alcohol or wine is permitted by N.J.S.A. 2A:170-25.21;

To set off or discharge any revolver, rifle, shotgun, pistol, gun, cannon, weapon or firearm of any description using cartridges or gunpowder for ammunition, provided that nothing contained herein shall be construed to extend to any police officer in the line of duty. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to hunters and sportsmen and any activities which involve the use of a firearm as permitted by state regulations and state law;

[Amended 5-10-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-2005]

To possess, discharge, set off, fire or light any roman candle, carbide cannon, dynamite cap, rocket, firecracker or other fireworks within the Township;

To revel, quarrel, fight, brawl or otherwise engage in any disorderly conduct so as to disturb the public peace and quiet;

To beg or solicit food or monies within the Township;

To disturb a person of ordinary sensibilities so as to cause such person to react immediately in such a way as to threaten by physical violence the peace and order of the public. A disturbance within the scope of this subsection is the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to whom or in whose hearing they are made;

To sleep in any parked vehicle in any location within the Township;

To interfere or annoy the comfort or general well-being of the inhabitants of this Township;

To make, cause, or suffer or permit to be made or caused upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by him or it, or upon any public street, alley or thoroughfare in this municipality, any unnecessary noises or sounds by means of the human voice, or by any other means or methods which are physically annoying to persons, or which are so harsh, or so prolonged or unnatural, or unusual in their use, time and place as to occasion physical discomfort, or which are injurious to the lives, health, peace and comfort of the inhabitants of this municipality; or

To create, cause or discharge any air pollution, fumes, gas, emissions, foul odors and the like, which cause or threaten the health, safety, welfare and property of any of the residents of the municipality.