[Adopted 7-22-1976 as Art. I of Ch. 125 of the 1976 Code[1]]
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Editor's Note: Article I of Ch. 125 of the 1976 Code was originally derived from Ord. No. 343, adopted 7-14-1932, as amended.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to change from street clothes to a bathing suit and from a bathing suit to street clothes while in any automobile and/or motor car on the public streets or other public places within the City of Margate City. The penalty for violation of this subsection shall be in the amount of $100.
[Amended 4-17-2014 by Ord. No. 19-2014]
B. 
No person shall, in any street or public place, beach or park, perform or commit any lewd or indecent act or behavior or expose or allow to be exposed any portion of his or her specified anatomical areas. For the purposes of this section, "lewd or indecent act or behavior" means any activity displaying or depicting a specified anatomical area or specified sexual activity which emits sensuality with sufficient impact to concentrate prurient interest on the area or activity. "Specified sexual activity" means human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal or any act of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse or fondling or other erotic touching of covered or uncovered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast. For the purposes of this section, "specified anatomical areas" means human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola. The penalty for violation of this subsection shall be in the amount of $100.
[Added 6-14-1979 by Ord. No. 995; amended 4-17-2014 by Ord. No. 19-2014]
C. 
No person shall urinate or defecate in any street or public place, beach or park within the City of Margate City. The penalty for violation of this subsection shall be in the amount of $150.
[Added 6-14-1979 by Ord. No. 995; amended 4-17-2014 by Ord. No. 19-2014]
Such dressing and undressing in the places aforesaid shall be deemed a disorderly act, and this article is hereby declared to be necessary as a police measure.
Any officer or member of the Police Department or police force shall have the power and authority to arrest, without warrant, any person found by him violating any of the provisions of this article.
[Amended 1-25-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-1]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not to exceed $1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or to both.