[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Colts Neck as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-26-1969 as Ch. 36, Art.
I, of the 1969 Code]
[Amended 10-8-1997[1]]
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
bathe, swim or be found in a state of nudity in the waters of any
pond, stream or lake located therein. In addition, no person shall
bathe or swim in any pond, stream or lake located on township property.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon
any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public place.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
sell or offer to sell any indecent or lewd picture, book or thing
or exhibit, or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other
representation.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
keep or maintain a disorderly house or a house of ill fame or allow
or permit any house, shop, store or other building or structure owned
or occupied by him or her to be used as a disorderly house or house
of ill fame.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
permit any house, shop, store or other building or structure owned
or occupied by him or her to be frequented or resorted to by noisy,
riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
operate or use any radio receiving set, phonograph, horn or other
sound-producing instrument, device or apparatus in such manner that
the sound thereof shall annoy any person or persons or disturb the
comfort, rest or repose of any person or persons being in his, her
or their place or places of abode.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
make or continue or cause to be made or continued, or permit, any
unnecessary noise which shall disturb the comfort, rest or repose
of any person or persons or annoy any person or persons being in his,
her or their place or places of abode.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
discard, deposit, throw or leave any wastepaper, 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.
[Amended 6-12-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-13]
A.
Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
- LOITERING
- Remaining idle or walking aimlessly about in essentially one location.
- PARENT or GUARDIAN
- Includes any adult person having care or custody of a minor, whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or otherwise.
- PUBLIC PLACE
- A place to which the public has access and shall include any public building and grounds, street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or the neighborhood of a 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 or under the control of his parents or guardian.
B.
Certain types of loitering prohibited. No person shall loiter in
a public place in such a manner as to:
(1)
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace.
(2)
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the
comfort and repose of any person.
(3)
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
(4)
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in a 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 whom, or in whose hearing, they
are made.
C.
Throwing objects. In addition to the conduct described § 164-9B the throwing of stones, snowballs or other objects at any person or vehicle shall be deemed to be a violation of this article.
D.
Failure to obey order to move. Any person violating the provisions of § 164-9 shall be ordered to move on by a police officer. Any person who fails to move on after being ordered to do so shall be guilty of a violation of this article.
E.
Loitering by minors. No parent or guardian of a minor under the age
of 18 years shall knowingly permit that minor to loiter in violation
of this article. Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years is charged
with a violation of this article, his parent or guardian shall be
notified of this fact by the ranking police official or any other
person designated by the Chief of Police to give such notice If at
any time within 30 days following the giving of notice the minor to
whom such notice relates again violates this article, 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.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
go about from door to door or place himself or herself in any street
or streets or other public place or places to beg or gather alms,
except upon obtaining a written permit from the Police Department.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 36-12,
False alarm of fire, which immediately followed this section, was
deleted 10-8-1997.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
maliciously destroy, damage or injure any property.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original §§ 36-14,
Gambling, and 36-15, Concealed weapons, which immediately followed
this section, were deleted 10-8-1997.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
enter the building or go upon the lands of any public school and break,
injure or deface such building or any part thereof, or the fences,
structures or outhouses belonging to or connected with such building
or lands, and no person shall disturb the exercises of any public
school or molest or give annoyance to the children attending such
school, or annoy any teacher therein.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
disturb the quiet and peace of any public library reading room or
other public building.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
be intoxicated or drunk and disorderly in any street, highway, thoroughfare
or public place, or in any private house or in any hotel, boardinghouse,
store, restaurant or other quasi-public place, to the annoyance of
any person or persons.
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
hinder or obstruct any township officer in the performance of his
or her duties; nor shall any person knowingly resist or oppose any
officer or person authorized by law in serving or attempting to serve
any writ, bill, order or process, or when making any arrest, either
with or without a warrant.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 36-20,
Interfering with police and fire-alarm systems, which immediately
followed this section, was deleted 10-8-1997.
[Amended 10-8-1997]
No person shall, within the limits of said township,
during an alarm of fire, or while first aid or emergency medical personnel
are in response to a medical emergency, hinder, prevent or deter by
any device whatsoever any fireman, police officer, first aid or emergency
medical personnel or other person from rendering lawful assistance
in abating or quelling such fire, or delivering medical emergency
services, or hinder or interfere with any fireman, police officer
or first aid or emergency medical personnel from going to or returning
from the place where any building or other property is on fire, or
from which an alarm proceeds, or from providing first aid or emergency
medical services; nor shall any person hinder or obstruct the passage
of any fire engine, hook-and-ladder truck, hose cart or any fire apparatus
or ambulance or emergency medical vehicle in going to or from the
place from which an alarm of fire proceeds, or where any building
or other property may be burning or any medical emergency exists.
No person shall in any way injure, destroy,
break, mutilate, deface or tamper with any streetlight, pole or fixture
or any part thereof in any street, highway, park or other public place
within the limits of said township.
[1]
Editor's Note: Original §§ 36-22,
Fighting, rioting, breaches of peace, and 36-23, Discharge of firearms,
which immediately preceded this section, were deleted 10-8-1997.
No person shall paste, write, clip, paint, print,
nail, clamp or otherwise fasten, inscribe or affix any notice, placard
or advertisement against or upon any way, gate, house, store, shop,
shed, fence, rock, stump, tree, shrub, bush, building or structure
without the written consent of the owner or occupant of the same,
except when done by a public officer in the performance of his or
her duties.
No person shall paste, clip, paint, nail, clamp
or otherwise fasten, inscribe or affix any notice, placard or advertisement
upon any public building, sidewalk, fence, curbstone, wall, bulletin
board, park or other public property or place within the limits of
said township, except with the permission of the Police Department.
No person shall open, injure, destroy, deface,
mutilate, break or tamper with any fire hydrant in any public street
or public place within the limits of said township, except members
of the Township Fire Department actually engaged in the performance
of their duties.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original §§ 36-28,
Autobuses and taxis, avoiding payment of fare; 36-29, Abandonment
of automobiles and other junk; and 36-30, Obtaining food, lodgings,
accommodations by fraud, which immediately followed this section,
were deleted 10-8-1997.
[Added 2-24-1999[1]]
No person shall, within the limits of the township,
on any public property, including but not limited to public parks,
playgrounds, open space, recreation facilities or any other public
facility, discharge or set off any air guns, pellet guns or paintball
guns or any other instrument which propels projectiles.
[Added 12-29-1999[1]]
The use or operation by any person of all-terrain
vehicles, snowmobiles and dirt bikes on township-owned property is
strictly prohibited at all times.
Riotous conduct, indecent conduct, breaches
of the peace, vagrancy, and prostitution not hereinbefore mentioned
are hereby prohibited within the limits of said township.
[Amended 12-29-1999]
A.
The term "person" and the term "persons," as used
in this article, shall, wherever appropriate, in connection with the
context, include "corporation" and "corporations," respectively.
B.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
- ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE
- A motor vehicle, designed to travel over any terrain, of a type possessing between three and six rubber tires and powered by a gasoline engine.
- DIRT BIKE
- A motor-powered vehicle possessing two or more tires, designed to travel over any terrain and capable of travelling off of paved roads, whether or not such vehicle is subject to registration with the Department of Motor Vesicles.
- SNOWMOBILE
- A motor vehicle, designed primarily to travel over ice or snow, of a type which uses sled-type runners, skis, an endless belt tread, cleats or any combination of these or other similar means of contact with the surface upon which it is operated, but does not include any farm tractor, highway or other construction equipment or any military vehicle.
All fines imposed and collected under and by
virtue of this article shall be paid into the treasury of said township.
[Amended 10-8-1997; 3-8-2006]
A violation of any provision of this article shall be punishable as provided in § 1-9 of this Code.
[Adopted 4-11-2018]
The following acts, among others, are declared to be a nuisance
in violation of this article:
A.
Construction. The operation of any equipment used in commercial construction,
repair, alteration or demolition work on buildings, structures, streets
or appurtenances thereto in residential or commercial land use zones
on weekdays between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following
day, or between 7:00 p.m. Saturday night and 7:00 a.m. Monday morning
and on legal holidays, except in the case of urgent necessity in the
interest of public health and safety and then only with permission
from the Township Council.
B.
Landscaping equipment. The operation of power mowers and power tools
used in landscaping outdoors between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00
a.m. the following day.
C.
Loading operations. Loading, unloading, opening or otherwise handling
boxes, crates, containers, garbage cans, recycling containers or similar
objects between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following
day.
D.
Refuse-compacting vehicles. Operating or permitting the operation
of any motor vehicle which can compact refuse and which creates, during
the compacting cycle, a disturbing noise between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00
a.m. the following day.
E.
Solid waste/recycling collection. The collection of solid waste or
recyclable materials between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
the following day.
