[Adopted 1-1-1982 as Sec. 3-16 of
the 1982 Recodification]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any two or more persons gathered together and acting in a
boisterous, offensive or threatening manner toward each other or others
or committing an act or acts which are a breach of the peace or which
tend to create a breach of peace.
Any structure or any part thereof which is used for gambling
or is frequented by gamblers, prostitutes, vagrants or persons violating
the law or in which the law is habitually violated.
Any structure or any part thereof in which prostitution,
lewdness or other immoral or unlawful sexual acts are permitted.
Any Justice of the Peace, Recorder or other officer vested
with jurisdiction to hear complaints or violations of the criminal
laws of the state or ordinances of the Borough of East Rutherford
and to either hold the person so charged for action of the grand jury
or to hear and determine the complaint and to impose penalties for
the violation of any of the ordinances of the Borough of East Rutherford
or the laws of the State of New Jersey.
Any proceeding before a Judge as defined above.
A person without visible means of support who is idle and
though able to work for his maintenance refuses to do so, but lives
without labor or on the charity of others.
A.
The several acts and offenses hereinafter set forth
are hereby prohibited within the limits of the Borough of East Rutherford,
and any person, his agent, servant or representative, offending against
any of them shall be deemed a disorderly person.
(1)
Disturbing the quiet of the Borough or of any lawful
assemblage of persons of any neighborhood, family or person:
(2)
Throwing stones, sticks or any hard or offensive substances
into or in any street or public place or quasi-public place or into
any cars, vehicles, houses or structures.
(3)
Firing or discharging any pistol, gun, air gun or
fowling piece or any kind of firearm or cannon or shooting any firearm
or weapon whatsoever or discharging or exploding fireworks, except
when expressly permitted by law.
(5)
Making loud or indecent remarks or comments upon any
person passing upon any street or public place.
(6)
Obstructing or interfering with any person or persons
being in or upon any street or public or quasi-public place.
(8)
Injuring any of the streetlights, poles or fixtures
lawfully in any street or public place or placing, posting or maintaining
of signs, posters and advertisements (except legal notices and signs
denoting the names of streets, avenues and public places), whether
written, printed or painted, on any trees, telegraph, electric light
and electric railway poles or poles or fixtures of any nature on any
public highway, street or place.
(9)
Bathing, washing or swimming at any time when naked
or insufficiently clothed in any brook, lake, river or pond.
(10)
Maintaining or aiding, assisting or abetting in the
maintenance of a disorderly house.
(11)
Maintaining or aiding, assisting or abetting in the
maintenance of a house of ill fame.
(12)
Interfering with the proceedings of a Judge's Court
or the Mayor and Council or any public hearing of any other public
board or body of the Borough of East Rutherford or using any offensive
or abusive language to any Judge or the Mayor or members of the Council
or the presiding officer of members of such public board or body,
while holding any public proceedings as aforesaid.
(13)
Engaging in a fight or personal encounter or using
or attempting to use physical violence to another.
(14)
Taking part in or aiding, assisting or abetting a
disorderly assemblage.
(15)
Conducting, taking part in or aiding or abetting any
cockfight, dogfight or any unlawful prizefight or boxing contest.
(16)
Injuring, defacing or mutilating any fire alarm box
or system or any part thereof or of any apparatus or appurtenances
connected therewith.
(17)
Expectorating upon any street or part thereof, sidewalk
or upon the sides, walls, floors or platforms of any building, car,
cab, bus or other public vehicle.
(18)
Playing any hand organ, street organ, hurdy gurdy
or other musical instruments in any of the streets or public places
after the hour of 9:00 p.m. in the evening without the permission
of the Borough Council.
(19)
Disturbing, strewing about or placing in any public
street, areaway or any yard or upon the steps or porch of any public
building or causing to be distributed, strewn about or placed any
papers, circulars, cards or pamphlets without the permission of the
Mayor and Council, except such matter as may be ordered or subscribed
for by the occupants of the premises.[3]
(21)
Depositing upon the surface of any road bordering
upon any street, lane or alley any rubbish or matter likely to decompose
or be blown about by the wind or using any such substance to fill
in or raise the surface or level of ground unless a written permit
is obtained from the Mayor and Council.
(22)
Intentionally obstructing or hindering any Borough
official or member of the Police or Fire Department in the performance
of his duty or willfully refusing or neglecting to assist when lawfully
required to do so in the execution of any process or in the suppression
of a breach of discharge of his duty.
(23)
Willfully breaking down or injuring any fence or enclosure
belonging to or in the possession of any person or carrying away any
portion of such fence or enclosure without the owner's consent.
(24)
Obstructing the free passage of pedestrians by loitering
or assembling on the streets or on the sidewalks or in front of any
public or private building or church or place where religious services
are held or interfere with or annoy, in any way whatever, persons
going to or returning from any place where religious or other services
have been held.[5]
(25)
Engaging in any practice, sport or exercise having
a tendency to annoy any person passing on the street, highways, alleys
or sidewalks in the vicinity, or playing baseball, football or other
similar games in any public street.
(26)
Injuring, defacing or destroying or causing or assisting
to be destroyed any bridge or its apparatus or any public building
or property of the Borough or any other property.
(27)
Pasting, painting or fastening any notice or advertisement
upon any private wall, gate, fence, signboard or upon any rocks or
structures without the consent of the owner, except when done by a
public officer in the performance of his duty.
(28)
Pasting, painting or fastening upon any curbstone,
sidewalk, retaining wall, billboard or elsewhere in a public street
or public place, unless with the permission of the Borough Council.
(29)
Placing or maintaining any obstruction to navigation.
(30)
Opening any fire hydrant in any of the public streets
or public places of the Borough other than by a Borough officer or
member of the Fire Department in the performance of his duties.
(31)
Appearing in any street or public place in a state
of nudity or in any indecent or lewd dress or making any indecent
exposure of his or her person or being guilty of any indecent or lewd
behavior.
(34)
Unnecessarily or cruelly beating any animal.
(35)
Ringing any bell or bells, blowing any horn or making
any public outcry, at or for any public sale, auction or vendor or
to attract any attention to or gain passengers for any cab, hack,
bus or other vehicle in any public street or place.
(37)
Loading or unloading any matter or thing at night
if the loading or unloading cannot be done without the production
of disturbing noises or unnecessarily causing or permitting blowing
steam or factory whistles or the operation of stationary combustion
engines without suitable or sufficient mufflers or the emission of
steam or other gases if said emission cannot be done without the production
of disturbing noises.
(38)
Making or permitting the making of any disturbing
noises after having been given notice to desist from so doing by the
Borough Council or Police Department.
(39)
Participation in the consumption of alcoholic beverages
in any public street, public conveyance or common hallway or entrance
in the Borough.
(40)
Participation in the consumption of any alcoholic
beverages in any park or in any recreation area within the Borough.
(41)
Operating or parking a motor vehicle within the confines of any park or recreational facility (as defined in § 210-2 of the Code) except as otherwise may be permitted by law.
[Added 7-17-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-09]
(42)
Participating
in the consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property without
the consent of the owner or lawful occupant of that property.
[Added 1-1-2016 by Ord.
No. 2015-32]
