Township of Hillside, NJ
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2015-12-15
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 108 Alcoholic Beverages
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Article II Public Consumption
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 8 (Reserved)
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 (Reserved)
- Ch 23 (Reserved)
- Ch 26 (Reserved)
- Ch 29 (Reserved)
- Ch 35 (Reserved)
- Ch 38 Fire Department
- Ch 44 Health, Board of
- Ch 47 Historian, Local
- Ch 55 Library
- Ch 58 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 60 Local Emergency Management Council
- Ch 64 Meetings
- Ch 70 Officers and Employees
- Ch 73 Personnel
- Ch 75 Physician
- Ch 78 Police Department
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 82 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Purchasing
- Ch 88 Recreation Advisory Council
- Ch 89 Senior Citizen Transportation Services
- Ch 91 Senior Citizens Advisory Council
- Ch 93 Swimming Pool Commission
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 103 Air Pollution
- Ch 106 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 108 Art II Public Consumption
- § 108-10 Definitions.
- § 108-11 Consumption and possession in public places.
- § 108-12 Exceptions.
- § 108-13 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 110 Amusement Devices
- Ch 113 Animals
- Ch 114 Arts, Council on the
- Ch 115 Body Art Facilities
- Ch 117 Bowling and Skee-Ball Alleys and Poolrooms
- Ch 121 Building, Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 122 Vacant Property Registration and Maintenance
- Ch 124 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 130 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 134 Circuses, Carnivals and Traveling Shows
- Ch 140 Dance Halls
- Ch 143 Disabled Veteran Tax Refund
- Ch 147 Drugs
- Ch 151 Emergencies
- Ch 154 Filming
- Ch 155 Firearms
- Ch 157 Fire Prevention
- Ch 160 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 164 Games of Chance
- Ch 167 Golf Courses
- Ch 171 Graffiti
- Ch 178 Insurance
- Ch 182 Junkyards and Junk Dealers
- Ch 186 Landscaping
- Ch 188 Land Use
- Ch 203 Licenses
- Ch 207 Liquid-Fuel-Burning Equipment
- Ch 210 Loitering
- Ch 210A Public Urination and Defecation
- Ch 211 Schools
- Ch 212 Massage Parlors and/or Therapy Centers
- Ch 213 Salons and Ancillary Services
- Ch 214 Newsracks
- Ch 217 Noise
- Ch 220 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 223 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 228 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 232 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 239 Records
- Ch 249 Sales
- Ch 253 Sewers
- Ch 257 Soil Removal
- Ch 261 Solid Waste
- Ch 265 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 269 Swimming Pools
- Ch 272 Taxation
- Ch 274 Taxicabs, Omnibuses, Jitneys and Liveries
- Ch 277 Tennis Courts
- Ch 279 Towing
- Ch 280 Trailers
- Ch 282 Tree Removal
- Ch 283 Trees and Shrubs
- Ch 288 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 291 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 295 Vending Machines
- Ch 300 Yard Waste
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 306 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 310 (Reserved)
- Ch 313 Electronic Smoking Device Establishments
- Ch 316 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 322 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 326 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 330 Graduate Nurse, Public Health
- Ch 336 Heat, Furnishing of
- Ch 341 Inspections
- Ch 345 Meat, Sale of
- Ch 349 Milk
- Ch 355 Personnel
- Ch 359 Poultry
- Ch 363 Records
- Ch 367 Rodent Control
- Ch 371 Rummage and Secondhand Sales
- Ch 375 Sanitation and Drainage
- Ch 381 Toilet Facilities
- Appendix
- Ch A390 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A391 Utilities
- Ch A392 Veterans Memorial Building and Property
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 1-20-1981 by Ord. No. G-194-81 (Ch. VI, Sec. 6-15, of the 1971 Code)]
For the purpose of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A container shall be considered to be open when:
[Amended 5-9-1995]
[Amended 5-9-1995]
A.
No person shall at any time consume any alcoholic
beverages within the boundaries of the Township of Hillside or have
in his of her possession any unsealed alcoholic beverage container
with unconsumed alcoholic beverages contained therein:
(1)
In or on a public street, roadway, avenue, sidewalk,
parking area or lot, park, playground or recreation area, whether
owned by the municipality, county or state, school buildings or grounds
and all other public or semipublic places or in any public building.
This includes drinking in private motor vehicles on public streets
or other roadways as described above.
(2)
While in or about any place where the public is invited,
including boundaries or other commercial or professional establishments
within the Township of Hillside, provided that such consumption or
possession of alcoholic beverages may be allowed given the express
consent or permission of the owner or person so authorized to give
such permission.
(3)
All lands or buildings owned or occupied by the county,
state or federal government shall also be included as places prohibiting
such conduct as so proscribed herein.
B.
Consumption on private property absent the consent
of the owner is also prohibited.
C.
All parking areas adjacent to or connected with an
alcoholic licensed premises are also subject to the prohibitions contained
herein.
None of the foregoing provisions shall apply
to any park, public picnic area, land or building owned or occupied
by any federal, state, county or municipal government when the consumption
of alcoholic beverages at an occasion or event held by a bona fide
nonprofit organization or other group is specifically permitted by
resolution of the Township of Hillside, nor shall any of the provisions
of this article apply where the authority of the New Jersey Division
of Alcoholic Beverage Control and/or the Hillside Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board to issue temporary licenses for the consumption of alcoholic
beverages has been exercised, pursuant to law.
[Amended 5-9-1995 ; 10-21-2003]
Any person who violates any provision of this
article shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000; imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days; and/or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days at the discretion of the court.
