[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee (now Township Council)
of the Township of Hillside 12-21-1971 as Ch. VI, Sec.
6-3, of the 1971 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Parental responsibility — See Ch. 223.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include the
concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly and shall
also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Any adult person having care or custody of a minor, whether by reason
of blood relationship, the order of any court or otherwise.
Any place to which the public has access and shall include any street,
highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or the neighborhood
of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and public
grounds, areas and parks, as well as parking lots or other vacant private
property not owned by or under the control of the person charged with violating
this chapter or, in the case of a minor, not owned by or under the control
of his parent or guardian.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner as to:
A.
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of
the peace.
B.
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
C.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place. This subsection shall include the making of unsolicited
remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated
to annoy or disturb the person to or in whose hearing they are made.
Whenever any police officer in the exercise of reasonable judgment decides that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 210-2, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place. Any person who refuses to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 years shall knowingly
permit that minor to loiter in violation of this chapter.
Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years is charged with a violation
of this chapter, his parent or guardian shall be notified of this fact by
the Police Chief or any other person designated by him to give such notice.
If, at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice as provided in § 210-5, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punishable by 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.
