City of Garfield, NJ
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2024-01-05
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Part I Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 12 Court
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Article I Municipal Court
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 9 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Court
- Ch 12 Art I Municipal Court
- § 12-1 Court established.
- § 12-2 Name of Court.
- § 12-3 Seal.
- § 12-4 Judge of the Municipal Court.
- § 12-5 Salary of Judge.
- § 12-6 Functions, powers, duties and jurisdiction.
- § 12-7 Sittings of Court.
- Ch 16 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 18 Elections, Municipal
- Ch 19 Employment Separation Program
- Ch 23 Fire Department
- Ch 27 Historic Preservation
- Ch 30 Housing Authority
- Ch 35 Library
- Ch 39 Officers and Employees
- Ch 41 Parking Authority
- Ch 44 Personnel Regulations
- Ch 48 Police Department
- Ch 51 Public Safety Communications
- Ch 53 Purchasing
- Ch 56 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 58 Retirement
- Ch 60 Sick Leave Documentation
- General Legislation
- Ch 64 Adult Bookstores and Massage Parlors
- Ch 69 Alarm Systems
- Ch 73 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 77 Amusements
- Ch 80 Animals
- Ch 94 Builders and Contractors
- Ch 100 Cannabis
- Ch 102 Carnivals and Shows
- Ch 105 Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 109 Christmas Tree Sales
- Ch 111 Clothing Bins
- Ch 114 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 116 Criminal History Background Checks
- Ch 119 Curfew
- Ch 120 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 125 Dumping
- Ch 128 Dwelling Certificates
- Ch 131 Dwelling and Rooming Units
- Ch 134 Dwellings, Unlawful
- Ch 140 Fertilizer Application
- Ch 141 Filming
- Ch 142 Fire Prevention
- Ch 144 Flag Etiquette
- Ch 146 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 150 Food Handlers, Mobile
- Ch 151 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 153 Fortune-Tellers
- Ch 157 Games of Chance on Sunday
- Ch 161 Garage Sales
- Ch 164 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 172 Grading of Land
- Ch 176 Graffiti
- Ch 181 Housing Standards
- Ch 185 Junkyards
- Ch 187 Landscaping
- Ch 188 Land Use
- Ch 191 Laundromats
- Ch 195 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 198 Limousines
- Ch 201 Littering
- Ch 208 Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 210 Mausoleums, Public
- Ch 213 Meat Packaging
- Ch 216 Moving Permits
- Ch 218 Newsracks
- Ch 220 Noise
- Ch 221 Nuisances
- Ch 224 Parades and Special Events
- Ch 226 Parking
- Ch 230 Parking Lots
- Ch 233 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 237 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 239 Plastic Bag and Straw Regulation
- Ch 242 Property Maintenance
- Ch 243 Property, Vacant and Abandoned, Registration
- Ch 244 Public Property, Obstruction of
- Ch 246 Railroad Use
- Ch 249 Recycling
- Ch 252 Relocation Assistance
- Ch 256 Retail Business Hours
- Ch 260 Sanitation
- Ch 263 Secondhand Merchandise Dealers
- Ch 265 Sewers
- Ch 266 Sex Offenders
- Ch 268 Shopping Carts
- Ch 272 Signs
- Ch 275 Site Plan Review
- Ch 278 Smoking
- Ch 280 Snow Removal
- Ch 284 Stormwater Control
- Ch 285 Stormwater Management Regulations
- Ch 287 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 290 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 294 Tattoo Artists and Body Piercing
- Ch 298 Taxation
- Ch 301 Taxicabs
- Ch 305 Telephones, Public
- Ch 308 Tobacco Retail Establishments; Vape Shops; Retail Electronic Smoking Establishments
- Ch 310 Tow Trucks
- Ch 314 Trapping
- Ch 318 Urination in Public
- Ch 322 Vehicles, Abandoned and Unclaimed
- Ch 325 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 328 Vehicle Repair and Auto Body Repair Facilities
- Ch 329 Vehicle Sales Businesses
- Ch 333 Water
- Ch 337 Waterfront Drift and Debris
- Ch 341 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A342 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-27-1948 by Ord. No. 1020 (Ch.
15, Art. I, of the 1979 Code)]
[Amended 1-22-2008 by Ord. No. 2519]
A Municipal Court for the City of Garfield is
established as of January 1, 1949, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter
264 of the Laws of 1948, as amended and supplemented by N.J.S.A. 2B:12-1
et seq.
The name of the Municipal Court shall be the
"Municipal Court of Garfield."
The Municipal Court shall have a seal which
shall bear the impress of the name of the Court.
[Amended 1-22-2008 by Ord. No. 2519]
There shall be a Judge of said Municipal Court,
who shall be appointed according to law and who shall serve for a
term of three years from the date of his appointment and until his
successor is appointed and qualified; provided, however, that the
Recorder who shall be in office upon this article's becoming effective
shall be the Judge and shall continue to be such Judge for a term
equal to the balance of the term for which he was originally appointed.
[Amended 5-20-1980 by Ord. No. 1723]
The Judge shall receive an annual salary to
be established from time to time by the City Council in the Salary
Ordinance[1] and to be paid in the same manner as the salaries of other
municipal officers are paid and which shall be in lieu of all fees,
costs and any other allowances whatsoever.
[1]
Editor's Note: The currently effective Salary
Ordinance is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Amended 1-22-2008 by Ord. No. 2519]
Said Municipal Court and the Judge thereof shall
have, possess and exercise all the functions, powers, duties and jurisdiction
conferred by the provisions of N.J.S.A. 2B:12-1 et seq., as amended
and supplemented, or by any other law.
[Amended 5-20-1980 by Ord. No. 1723]
The Municipal Court shall be held in the City
Hall. The Judge shall sit at such times as may be hereafter provided
until the calendar is completed and at such other times as the business
of the Court may require, subject to the rules applicable to municipal
courts.
