Borough of Emerson, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 204 Peace and Good Order
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Affirmative Action
- Ch 7 Ambulance Corps
- Ch 9 Assessor
- Ch 10 Beautification Committee
- Ch 11 (Reserved)
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 17 Cooperative and Intermunicipal Agreements
- Ch 21 Court, Municipal
- Ch 23 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 27 Environmental Commission
- Ch 31 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 35 Fire Department
- Ch 39 Health, Board of
- Ch 43 Housing Authority
- Ch 47 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 49 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 50 Library Board
- Ch 51 (Reserved)
- Ch 53 Municipal Services, Department of
- Ch 57 Officers and Employees
- Ch 61 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation, Department of
- Ch 65 Payroll
- Ch 69 Pensions
- Ch 70 Payroll Disbursement, Third-Party
- Ch 73 Personnel Policies
- Ch 77 Police Department
- Ch 79 Purchasing
- Ch 81 (Reserved)
- Ch 82 Restricted Areas in Municipal Offices
- Ch 85 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 87 Sexual Harassment
- Ch 89 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 102 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 104 Alarm Systems
- Ch 106 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 110 Amusement Devices
- Ch 111 Bamboo
- Ch 112 Block Parties and Street Closings
- Ch 114 Bowling Alleys
- Ch 118 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 121 Building Materials
- Ch 124 Business Hours, Retail
- Ch 125 Business Insurance Registration
- Ch 128 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 130 Charitable Donation Bins
- Ch 132 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 133 (Reserved)
- Ch 134 (Reserved)
- Ch 135 (Reserved)
- Ch 136 Crane Regulations
- Ch 138 Development Fees
- Ch 140 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 146 Fees
- Ch 147 Filming
- Ch 148 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 150 Fire Prevention
- Ch 156 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 160 Games of Chance
- Ch 163 Historic Preservation
- Ch 166 Hotels and Tourist Houses
- Ch 168 Housing
- Ch 170 Hunting and Firearms
- Ch 176 Laundries and Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 180 Library
- Ch 184 Littering
- Ch 187 Municipal Facilities, Use of
- Ch 190 Noise
- Ch 194 Parking for Handicapped Persons
- Ch 196 Parking Lots
- Ch 198 (Reserved)
- Ch 200 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 204 Peace and Good Order
- § 204-1 Loitering in public places; disturbing the peace.
- § 204-2 Begging.
- § 204-3 Disorderly houses.
- § 204-4 Gaming houses and houses of ill fame.
- § 204-5 Injuring public property.
- § 204-6 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 208 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 210 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 212 Precious Metals and Jewelry, Dealers in Secondhand
- Ch 216 Property Maintenance
- Ch 218 Public Records
- Ch 222 Recycling
- Ch 224 Rental Property
- Ch 228 Sewers
- Ch 232 (Reserved)
- Ch 236 Site Plan Review
- Ch 240 Snow and Ice, Removal of
- Ch 244 Soil Movement
- Ch 246 Solid Waste
- Ch 247 Stormwater Management
- Ch 248 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 252 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 256 Swimming Pools
- Ch 260 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 262 Tobacco
- Ch 264 Towing
- Ch 266 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 273 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 274 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 277 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 290 Zoning
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 291 Animals
- Ch 294 Fees
- Ch 298 Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishments
- Appendix
- Ch A300 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A301 Telephone Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Emerson 5-28-1974 by Ord. No. 628 (Ch. 78 of the 1966 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person or persons shall loiter or assemble
in or upon any street or public place or in or about any building
in such a manner as to obstruct passage through such street or access
to such building or utter any loud, indecent, abusive or offensive
language in any street or public place or address or make any offensive
remarks or comments to or upon any person or persons in any street
or public place or building; and no person or persons shall, in any
house, building or grounds belonging thereto, by any offensive or
disorderly act or language disturb or endanger the public peace or
health.
No person or persons without visible means of
support shall beg or ask alms, provisions, clothing, money or material
assistance of any kind.
No person or persons shall allow or permit his,
her or their house, shop, saloon or other place connected therewith
to be used, frequented or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons,
drunkards, prostitutes, gamblers, vagrants or common mendicants or
suffer or permit his, her or their house, shop, store, saloon or other
place as aforesaid to become riotous or disorderly at any time, either
by day or night.
No person or persons shall keep any gaming house
or house of ill fame or assignation of any description or keep any
disorderly house or any house or place of public resort by which the
peace, comfort or decency of a neighborhood is disturbed or shall,
as agent or owner, let a building or any portion of a building knowing
that it is intended to be used for any of the purposes specified in
this section or shall as agent or owner permit any building or any
portion of a building to be so used.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to destroy, injure, deface or tarnish any public building or any property
of the Borough or any fence, tree, electric light, pole or light or
any useful or ornamental public work or improvement in said Borough
or any grass plot enclosed or unenclosed or by lounging or otherwise
trespassing upon the same.
[Amended 2-18-2003 by Ord. No. 1218]
Any person violating the provisions of this
chapter shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment
in the County Jail of Bergen County for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both, and the officer before whom any person offending may be brought
is hereby authorized and empowered, on conviction, to impose any fine
in his discretion not exceeding the amount of $500 or to imprison
for any term not exceeding 90 days, or both, in his discretion.
