No signs shall be constructed within the street lines of any public
street within the Township of Montclair, except as follows:
A. Signs erected by a governmental agency for the convenience
or control of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
B. Directional signs to direct vehicles carrying persons
requiring emergency treatment for mental or physical distress to institutions
affording such treatment within Township limits, including Mountainside Hospital.
Such signs shall not exceed 20 inches in width and 24 inches in height, and
not more than six such signs shall be erected within Township boundaries by
any single institution.
C. Fraternal and civic organizations.
(1) Signs carrying emblem and meeting place of a fraternal
or civic organization authorized by special resolution of the Township Council.
Such signs shall not exceed 18 inches in height and 24 inches in width and
shall be attached on one side, facing traffic, as long as space may be available,
to a single support to be erected by the Township, the display portion of
which shall be approximately 24 inches in width and 90 inches in height. Not
more than one such structure shall be erected at the following locations within
750 feet, more or less, of the Township line, and not more than five signs
shall be attached to each support:
(a) Bloomfield Avenue at the Glen Ridge line.
(b) Bloomfield Avenue at the Verona line.
(c) Grove Street at the Clifton line.
(d) Valley Road at the Clifton line.
(e) Orange Road at the southerly line.
(2) All existing signs of fraternal and civic organizations
other than those authorized by this subsection shall be removed.
D. By special resolution, in such locations and dimensions
as the Township Council may from time to time deem appropriate as being in
the public interest and in furtherance of the Township public welfare; provided,
however, that any signs so authorized under this subsection shall remain erected
only so long as the governing body deems said signs to further the public
purpose for which they were originally authorized.
[Added 9-27-1983 by Ord. No. 83-37]
E. No sign shall be erected without the prior approval of
the Township Engineer as to location, size and manner of construction of said
sign.
Any signs presently or hereafter erected or maintained within the street
lines of any public street within the Township of Montclair may be removed
by the Township Engineer, without notice, whenever such signs shall become
dilapidated or unsafe.
[Amended 5-23-2000 by Ord. No. 00-19; 4-10-2007
by Ord. No. 07-17]
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment in the county/municipal
jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or a period of community service not
exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof as determined by the Municipal
Court Judge. Each day on which a violation of an ordinance exists shall be
considered a separate and distinct violation and shall be subject to imposition
of a separate penalty for each day of the violation as the Municipal Court
Judge may determine.