As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
See § 132-127.
Twenty or more rental units owned or operated by the same
owner or corporation contained within a three-square-block area.
Any public or private housing complex, rental dwelling or
rooming house containing 50 or more dwelling units or lodging rooms.
Structures containing less than 50 dwelling units or lodging rooms,
but existing with other buildings which are physically contiguous
and operated as a single housing complex and owned by the same person
or entity, shall be considered large rental structures.
Any public or private housing complex, rental dwelling or
rooming house containing 49 or fewer dwelling units or lodging rooms.
See § 132-127.
[Amended 3-17-2016 by Ord. No. 16-10; amended 11-14-2019 by Ord. No.
19-69]
A.
Except as otherwise provided, all owners/developers of public and
private buildings operating in the City of Trenton shall be required
to have present on the premises a security guard as follows:
(1)
Twenty-five to 50 housing units:
(a)
One armed security guard for the eight hours between 11:00 p.m.
and 7:00 a.m. the following morning and an unarmed security guard
for the remaining 16 hours per day, during each day of the year.
(2)
Fifty to 100 housing units:
(a)
One unarmed security guard for the eight hours between 7:00
a.m. and 3:00 p.m. during each day of the year.
(b)
One armed security guard for the eight hours between 3:00 p.m.
and 11:00 p.m. during each day of the year.
(c)
One armed security guard for the eight hours between 11:00 p.m.
and 7:00 a.m. the following morning, during each day of the year.
B.
If no one building entrance has access to the housing units, then
the security guard shall be required to patrol the entire complex
and provide adequate proof of the regular patrol of the entire premises.
The provisions of this section shall apply to any dwelling unit which
is a condominium, development or any rental or condominium building
with units each having an individual exterior entrance.
C.
Housing units which are situated on the grounds of hospitals, regularly
patrolled by a security force and wherein such grounds are revisited
by a security patrol at least once per hour shall be exempt from the
requirement of maintaining an armed security guard on the premises.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
As used in this section:[1]
A uniformed guard armed with a handgun who is a Trenton police
officer, Trenton special police officer or an employee of a licensed
security officer company.
Each individual certificate of occupancy issued for occupancy
as a residence, under one ownership entity within a one- or two-block
radius). The determination of housing units shall be made based on
building plans and original certificates of occupancy issued by the
City of Trenton, not the number of currently occupied units. Any attempt
to falsely reduce the number of housing units in a building having
previously been shall be considered a violation of this chapter punishable
by a fine of up to $500 per day for each day the owner/operator is
found to be in violation of this chapter.
A uniformed Trenton special police officer or a uniformed
employee of a licensed security officer company who is not armed with
a handgun.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
All Trenton police officers, Trenton special police officers
and employees of licensed security officer companies shall comply
with the requirements as set forth in the Security Officer Registration
Act, N.J.S.A. 45:19A-1 et seq., where applicable.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
Violations of this article[1] by any person or corporation shall be punishable by a
fine of at least $250 but not exceeding $1,000 per day. Each day's
violation of this chapter shall constitute a separate offense.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
A.
All public and private housing buildings in the City of Trenton which
contain parking lots or parking garages for 25 or more vehicles shall
be required to install and maintain on the premises video surveillance
cameras which shall be in a state of good repair and operating condition
on a twenty-four-hour-per-day, seven-days-per-week basis. Said video
surveillance cameras shall be positioned in such a manner as to reasonably
cover the entire parking lot/parking garage and all driveways and
ramps.
B.
All public and private housing buildings in the City of Trenton shall
be required to install and maintain on the premises video surveillance
cameras which shall be in a state of good repair and operating condition
on a twenty-four-hour-per-day, seven-days-per-week basis. Video surveillance
cameras shall be positioned in such a manner as to reasonably cover
all entrances and exits in the housing building that provides access
to the housing units.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
The owner/operator of public or private housing buildings shall
be required to keep and maintain on the premises the video tapes for
a period of 60 days.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
A.
The owner/operator of public or private housing buildings with 50
units or more contained in a concentrated area and located with the
City shall be required to submit for approval a security plan to the
office of the Police Director and the office of the Director of Inspections
by October 1 of each year. This plan shall set forth in detail the
proposed twenty-four-hour-a-day security measures, above and beyond
the requirements of this chapter, for each rental structure. If approved,
the security plan shall be implemented by January 1 of each year.
Approval of these plans will be based upon the assessment of the number
of reports received during the previous registration year which indicate
whether the current security plan adequately provides for the safety
and well-being of its occupants and the surrounding community.
B.
The security plans shall include certain twenty-four-hour-a-day crime-deterrent
devices, which may include, but not be limited to, security lighting,
fencing, doorbells, self-closing devices, signs, managerial staff
or security personnel or any other means that adequately provide security
to the housing properties.
C.
The security plan should include a list of known occupants that may
need assistance during an emergency, power outage or other crisis.
The owner shall retain full responsibility for providing and maintaining
the required security measures for these buildings.
D.
Submission of a security plan shall not be required for public or
private housing buildings with 50 units or less. However, the Police
Director and the Director of Inspections have the discretion to require
the owner to implement security measures based upon reports received
during the registration year which indicate that the property poses
a risk to the safety and welfare of its occupants or the surrounding
community in the absence of such security measures.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
A.
The provisions of this ordinance[1] are severable, and if any of its sections, clauses or
sentences shall be held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional, such
provision shall not affect or impair any remaining sections, clauses
or sentences of the same.
B.
All other applicable sections of the Code of the City of Trenton
governing required security measures shall in all other respects be
and remain in full force and effect.
C.
If any portion of this ordinance,[2] or its application to any person or circumstances, is
held invalid, the validity of the ordinance as a whole, or any other
portion thereof, or the application of the provisions to other persons
or circumstances is not affected.
[Added 11-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-69]
This ordinance[1] shall take effect 20 days after its adoption and publication
by law. This ordinance applies to any and all existing and future
public or private housing buildings established in the City of Trenton,
which are fully bound by all provisions regulating same herein, upon
adoption of this ordinance. All owner/operators of public or private
housing buildings, as required by this ordinance, shall execute all
necessary steps to come into compliance within 120 days of adoption
of this ordinance.
