[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Carneys Point 6-11-1975 as Ord. No. 263. Section
144-4 amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any person under the age of 18 years.
Either or both parents or legal guardian, whether or not
the minor resides with the offending parent.
Defacing, damaging or destroying public property or the private
property of another within the Township of Carneys Point; committing
an assault and battery upon another within the Township of Carneys
Point; indecent exposure; obstructing, violating or interfering with
any person lawfully in any public place, including the making of unsolicited,
audible 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; trespassing on the private property of
another so as to create a disturbance and annoyance to the lawful
owners or occupants thereof; making, continuing or causing to be made
or continued any loud, unnecessary or unusual noise or any noise which
either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose,
health, peace or safety of others, or creating any unreasonably loud,
disturbing and unnecessary noise of such character, intensity or duration
as to be detrimental to the life or health of any individual or persons
within the limits of the Township of Carneys Point; consuming alcoholic
beverages on a public street.
It shall be unlawful for any parent or guardian
to assist, abet, allow, permit, suffer or encourage a minor to commit
a violation of the public peace as defined herein, either by overt
act or lack of supervision and control over such minor.
An offense by a parent or guardian under this
chapter shall be presumed when the following events occur: If the
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, or any successor court having
jurisdiction over juveniles, has declared such minor delinquent or
otherwise in violation of the laws of the State of New Jersey or to
be in need of supervision which finding the parent or guardian shall
be presumed to have knowledge of, and such minor shall thereafter
again come within the jurisdiction of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Court, which Court finds that the minor has committed an act which
constitute a violation of the public peace within the meaning of this
chapter, then in that event, it shall be presumed that the parent
or guardian has allowed, permitted or suffered said minor to commit
a violation of the public peace.
[Amended 5-20-1985 by Ord. No. 393]
Any parent or guardian who shall violate the
term of this chapter shall be, upon conviction thereof, subject to
punishment by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not in excess
of 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
The Municipal Court of the Township of Carneys
Point shall have jurisdiction to hear cases involving violations of
this chapter.
