[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Palisades Park 7-8-1976 as Section 3-4 of the Revised General
Ordinances of 1975. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes printed handbills, dodgers, circulars, leaflets,
pamphlets, booklets, posters, cards in excess of 2Â 1/2 inches
by four inches and any other printed matter advertising for sale,
describing or calling attention to any product, business, enterprise,
person, firm or corporation for any purpose other than solely for
religious, educational, charitable, political or labor union purposes,
but excluding a newspaper.
Includes the terms distribute, deposit, hand out, pass out,
give out, deliver and throw away, as well as causing or permitting
any of the foregoing.
Includes every house, dwelling, building, structure, enclosure,
business establishment, lot, yard, location, place, alley, parkway,
sidewalk, street and public way and every vehicle.
Includes the terms mimeographed, lithographed, multigraphed,
multilithed, photocopied or photostated, handwritten, stereotyped,
typewritten and printed.
It shall be unlawful for any person to disseminate
advertising matter to, at, upon or onto any premises in the borough
except in, at or upon the premises of an owner or tenant in lawful
possession thereof who has signed and filed with the person disseminating
the advertising matter a written request that such advertising matter
be delivered to his premises. All such written requests shall be maintained
at all times in the office or place of business of the person disseminating
such advertising matter and shall be kept on file for a period of
six months after the last dissemination of advertising matter pursuant
to such requests. Such written request once made by an owner or tenant
in lawful possession of premises shall remain applicable as to the
premises described in such consent until countermanded in writing
by the owner or tenant in lawful possession of the same premises.
The owner of vacant property shall be deemed to be in lawful possession
of premises for the purposes of this section. All such written requests
shall be available for inspection by any police officer of the borough
during all regular business hours.
All advertising matter disseminated in the borough
shall have printed thereon or affixed in legible form the name, address
and telephone number of the person responsible for the dissemination
of such advertising matter, together with a legible notice to the
effect that anyone who does not desire to receive such advertising
matter shall notify the person responsible for the dissemination thereof
in writing to that effect. Thereafter, the person thus notified shall
disseminate no such advertising matter to the premises described in
such notification.
It is deemed in the best interest of the public
welfare and the protection of the citizens of this borough that no
person shall undertake the dissemination, in any manner, of advertising
matter as defined in this chapter without first appearing at the office
of the Police Department of the borough in the Municipal Building
and leaving with the Police Chief or his designee the true and full
correct name and address of the person responsible for the dissemination
of such advertising matter, together with a specimen copy of the advertising
matter which is proposed to be disseminated. This section shall not
be deemed as intending to require the payment of a fee for the issuance
of a permit.
It shall be unlawful for any person to disseminate
any advertising matter between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.,
prevailing time.
All advertising matter disseminated in the borough
shall either be handed to some person above the age of 10 years upon
the premises where such advertising matter is disseminated or shall
be deposited in a container or device as may exist upon the premises
for the purpose of catching or holding the same. In the event that
no person above the age of 10 years shall be present to accept delivery
of the advertising matter and in the absence of a suitable container
or device in which to deposit the same, no delivery shall be made
hereunder unless the person disseminating such advertising matter
shall provide a suitable device or appliance to attach the advertising
matter in question to some portion of the premises where it cannot
be reached by the elements and blown so that it will be about or upon
the premises; provided, however, that, in the event that delivery
or dissemination can be made by inserting the advertising matter under
any door between the door and the door sill, then and in such case
the delivery and dissemination shall be in compliance with the provisions
of this section.
No person shall distribute or cause to be distributed,
placed or strewn about in any street or in any automobile or public
place any newspaper, paper, periodical, book, magazine, placard, handbill,
circular, card or pamphlet.
No person shall throw about, distribute or cause
to be distributed or place or cause to be placed in or on any areaway
or lawn in front of or along the side or rear of any house or upon
the doorstep or porch or plaza or doorway thereof any newspaper, paper,
periodical, book, magazine, placard, handbill, circular, card or pamphlet
unless the same has been previously ordered by the person in actual
occupation of the house.
No person shall go from house to house to distribute
or deliver personally to the occupants of any house any newspaper,
paper, periodical, book, magazine, placard, handbill, circular, card
or pamphlet unless the same has been previously ordered by the person
in actual occupation of the house.
No person shall attach or cause to be attached
to any tree, telegraph pole, sign, billboard, post or fence any circular,
card or pamphlet designed primarily for advertising sales of goods,
wares or merchandise.
[Added 9-23-2022 by Ord.
No. 2022-10
A.Â
No person
or entity, including a public safety agency, shall advertise or otherwise
promote the use of any telephone number for emergency police, fire,
or medical response services other than "9-1-1."
B.Â
Violation
and penalty. A minimum penalty of not less than $500 will be imposed
on any person or entity in violation of same.
