This chapter shall be known as "Disorderly Conduct."
All of the following named acts shall be deemed
disorderly and against the public peace and order and are hereby prohibited
within the Borough of Sea Bright, New Jersey:
A. Soliciting. Any person who shall, by word, act, sign
or any device, invite or solicit unlawful sexual intercourse or any
other unlawful, indecent, lewd or lascivious act shall be adjudged
in violation of this chapter.
B. Common thieves, burglars and pickpockets. Any person
who shall be arrested at any house of worship, banking institution,
broker's office, place of public amusement, auction room, store or
crowded thoroughfare or other place of public resort or assemblage
for business, worship, amusement or other lawful purpose in this Borough,
and who shall be proved to the satisfaction of the judge before whom
he shall be brought to be a common thief, burglar or pickpocket, and
to have been frequenting or attending such place for an unlawful purpose
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
C. Carrying weapons. Any person who shall be apprehended
having upon him any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement
with intent to break and enter in any building, or who shall have
upon him any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive
or dangerous weapon with intent to assault any person, or who shall
be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse, stable, barn or
any place of public resort or assemblage for business, worship, amusement
or other lawful purposes, with the intent to steal any goods or chattels,
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
D. Malicious injury to property. Any person who shall
maliciously destroy, damage or injure property may, where the damage
does not exceed the sum of $25, be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
E. Unlawful dumping. Any person, firm or corporation
that shall dump on or tow to open fields or other private property
any abandoned automobile, automobile parts or other junk shall be
adjudged in violation of this chapter.
F. Injuring school property. A person who shall enter
the building or go upon the lands belonging to a public school district
or used and occupied for school purposes by a public school and shall
break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the fences
or outhouses belonging to or connected with such building or lands
or shall disturb the exercises of the school or molest or give annoyance
to the children attending such school or any teacher therein shall
be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
G. Giving false alarm of fire. Any person who shall willfully
and maliciously ring or cause to be rung any bell or alarm of any
fire company in this Borough and thereby give or cause to be given
a false alarm of fire or shall willfully and maliciously send a message
of false alarm of fire by telephone or by any other method or means
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
H. Damaging or disturbing private property. Any person
who shall willfully cut any tree, shrub or vine upon or remove any
earth, gravel or sand from any property belonging to another person
in this Borough without his consent or who shall willfully cause injury
or damage to or destroy any livestock, poultry, cultivated crop, orchard,
fence, sign, signboard, notice or building belonging to any other
person while on such person's land without such person's consent shall
be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
I. Signs. Any person who erects, within the limits of
this Borough, any sign or encroachment of any nature without first
having obtained permission to do so from the Borough or the Board
of County Commissioners, as the case may be, shall be adjudged in
violation of this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
J. Damaging property. Any person who shall maliciously
destroy, damage or injure property of another shall be adjudged in
violation of this chapter.
K. Misrepresentation of age. Any person who shall misrepresent
or mistake his or her age or the age of any other person for the purpose
of inducing any licensee or any employee of any licensee to sell,
serve or deliver any alcoholic beverage to a person under the age
of 21 years shall be deemed and adjudged in violation of this chapter.
L. Act of graffiti. Any person committing an act of graffiti
in the Borough shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter. For
purposes of this section, an "act of graffiti" shall mean the drawing,
painting or the making of any inscription on a bridge, building, public
transportation vehicle, rock, wall, sidewalk, street, signs or other
exposed surface on public, quasi-public or private property without
the permission of the owner.
M. Fighting and other brawling. Any person or persons
fighting or brawling in the Borough of Sea Bright shall be deemed
in violation of this chapter.
N. Interference with law enforcement officer. Any person
who shall knowingly misstate a fact, incident or event to a law enforcement
officer in the performance of such officer's duty or who shall otherwise
engage in conduct, unreasonable under the circumstances, which conduct
shall be intended to interfere with or which shall result in the actual
interference with the official duties of a law enforcement officer,
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
O. Nudity and undress. No person shall, within the limits
of said Borough, appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other
public place in a state of nudity or disrobe in any automobile, truck
or vehicle while the same is upon any parking place, street, road,
avenue, park or other public place. Further, no person shall, within
the limits of said Borough, bathe, swim or be found in a state of
nudity in the waters of the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers or the
Atlantic Ocean.
P. Littering and wastepaper. No person shall, within
the limits of said Borough, discard, deposit, throw or leave any waste
paper, tin cans, bottles, garbage, waste or refuse of any kind whatsoever
upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public
place or upon any lot or other premises, except in receptacles or
containers provided for such purpose.
Q. Driving over fire hose. No person shall at any time
willfully drive, propel or cause to be driven or propelled any vehicle
over any hose or other fire apparatus.
[Added 12-15-1998 by Ord.
No. 94-98]
R. No person shall, within the limits of said Borough,
urinate or defecate upon any public street or way or upon public or
private property, except in toilet facilities.
[Added 12-15-1998 by Ord.
No. 94-98]
[Amended 12-15-1998 by Ord. No. 94-98]
Penalties for violations of this chapter shall be as provided in Chapter
1, Article
I, General Penalty, unless otherwise specified in this chapter.