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City of Rahway, NJ
Union County
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[Adopted 7-9-1984 by Ord. No. A-12-84 as Ch. 146, Art. I, of the 1984 Code]
No person shall 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 such person to be used as a disorderly house or house of ill fame.
No person shall permit any house, shop, store, hall or other building or structure owned or occupied by such person to be frequented or resorted to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants.
A. 
No person shall set up, keep, maintain or permit to be set up, kept or maintained in any house, room, hall, place of business or other premises any faro table, faro bank, roulette wheel or any other device or game of chance for the purpose of gaming.
B. 
No person shall deal, play or engage in faro, roulette or other game of chance either as a banker, player, dealer or otherwise for the purpose of gaming.
A. 
No person shall keep, maintain or permit to be kept or maintained on any lands or in any building, structure or premises or any part thereof within the city any cockpit or other place for animals to fight.
B. 
No person shall hold or permit to be held on any lands or in any building, structure or premises or any part thereof within the city any cockfight, dogfight or other animal fight.
No person shall:
A. 
Make, aid, countenance or assist in making any loud or unnecessary noise, riot, disturbance or breach of the peace in any street, public place, place of amusement or any place of assemblage.
B. 
In company with others, assemble in crowds or groups for any unlawful purpose or disturbance of the peace or obstruct the lawful passage of others.
No person shall, by noisy or disorderly conduct, disturb or interfere with the quiet or good order of any place of assembly, public or private, including schools, churches, libraries and reading rooms.
[Amended 3-14-2022 by Ord. No. O-10-22]
A. 
Graffiti.
(1) 
No person shall write, paint, or place with ink, paint, chalk, or other substance graffiti on real or personal property of another, whether said personal or real property is publicly or privately owned, unless the owner of said property shall have, prior to the writing, painting, or placing of the graffiti, specifically consented to the same.
(2) 
Responsibility of parent or guardian.
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any parent, legal guardian, or other person having legal custody and care of any minor child under the age of 18 years of age to assist, aid, abet, allow, permit, or encourage said minor to violate the provisions of this chapter, as defined herein, either by words, overt act, by failing to act, or by lack of supervision and control over said minor child.
(b) 
Any minor child under the age of 18 years apprehended for a violation of this chapter shall be brought before a Judge of the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part, and the parent, legal guardian, or other person having care and custody of said minor shall be summoned or arrested and brought before the Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Rahway and be subject to the penalties provided herein.
No person shall publicly mutilate, trample upon or otherwise deface or defile any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America or the flag of the State of New Jersey, whether the same is on public or private property.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Section 15-8, Noise for commercial activity, and former Section 15-9, Intoxication, of the former Revised Ordinances of the City of Rahway, adopted 4-13-1966, previously codified herein, were repealed 7-9-1984 by Ord. No. A-12-84.
No person shall go about from door to door or place himself in the streets to beg or gather alms.
No person shall obstruct or interfere with any person lawfully being in any street, public place or public building.
No person shall utter any loud and offensive or profane or indecent language or make offensive remarks to any person or persons:
A. 
Passing along or being upon any sidewalk, street, park or other public place.
B. 
In or about any public building, schoolhouse, library or other public or quasi-public place, store, auditorium or place of amusement.
C. 
In any common hallway, vestibule or common yard connected with any private dwelling housing two or more families.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former § 146-14, Public indecency, which previously followed this section, was superseded 7-10-2000 by Ord. No. O-45-00. See now Art. V, Public Indecency.
No person shall exhibit or perform in any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other representation.
No person shall solicit, invite or in any manner suggest, by word of mouth or any writing or other communication or any device whatsoever, any indecent, lewd, lascivious or other immoral act.
No person shall, without just cause, utter or expose to the view of another or possess with intent to utter or expose to the view of another or sell any obscene or indecent book, pamphlet, picture or other representation, however made, or in any way advertise the same or, in any manner, whether by recommendation against its use or otherwise, give any information how or where any of the same may be had, seen, bought or sold.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.