Borough of Kenilworth, NJ
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2023-12-27
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 127 Loitering
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Access to Public Records
- Ch 7 Americans With Disabilities Act Compliance
- Ch 8 Checks, Returned
- Ch 10 Claims Approval; Payroll Accounts
- Ch 12 Consumer Affairs, Office of
- Ch 13 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Court
- Ch 14A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 Departmental Structures
- Ch 16 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 17 Environmental Commission
- Ch 21 Firemen's Survivors' Pensions
- Ch 23 (Reserved)
- Ch 25 (Reserved)
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 33 Library Trustees
- Ch 37 Personnel Policies
- Ch 39 Police Department
- Ch 41 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 43 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 45 Sewerage Authority
- Ch 46 (Reserved)
- Ch 48 Traffic Bureau
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 55 Alarm Devices
- Ch 57 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 59 Amusements, Coin-Controlled
- Ch 63 (Reserved)
- Ch 66 Bicycles
- Ch 71 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 73 Business Operations
- Ch 75 Cats
- Ch 78 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 83 Dogs
- Ch 87 Entertainment and Amusement Places
- Ch 88 (Reserved)
- Ch 91 Fees and Licenses
- Ch 93 Filming
- Ch 94 Fire Prevention
- Ch 97 Fireworks and Firearms
- Ch 98 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 100 Food Handling Establishments
- Ch 102 Games of Chance
- Ch 104 Garage Sales
- Ch 106 Garbage, Rubbish, Refuse and Recycling
- Ch 108 Gasoline Stations
- Ch 109 Graffiti
- Ch 110 (Reserved)
- Ch 112 Grading, Excavations and Landfills
- Ch 114 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 116 Industrial Waste
- Ch 118 Insurance
- Ch 120 Land Use
- Ch 121 Library
- Ch 125 Littering
- Ch 127 Loitering
- § 127-1 Definitions.
- § 127-2 Restrictions.
- § 127-3 Power of police officer.
- § 127-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 129 Massage and Bodywork Establishments
- Ch 131 Senior Center, Use of
- Ch 134 Nuisances
- Ch 138 Obscene Material and Acts
- Ch 140 (Reserved)
- Ch 141 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 142 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 144 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 150 Property Maintenance
- Ch 154 Retail Sales
- Ch 158 Sewers
- Ch 160 Shopping Carts
- Ch 163 (Reserved)
- Ch 165 Smoke Detectors and Lock Boxes
- Ch 166 Smoking
- Ch 167 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 169 Stormwater Control
- Ch 170 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 174 (Reserved)
- Ch 176 Taxation
- Ch 177 (Reserved)
- Ch 179 Taxicabs
- Ch 181 Tennis Courts
- Ch 181A Towing
- Ch 181B Towing, Police-Requested
- Ch 182 (Reserved)
- Ch 185 Trees
- Ch 186 Unmanned Aircraft/Drones
- Ch 190 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 194 Wildlife Feeding
- Ch 197 (Reserved)
- Part III: Board Of Health Legislation
- Ch 199 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 202 Food and Beverage Vending: Licensing of
- Ch 207 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 212 Sanitary Standards
- Ch 213 Tanning Facilities
- Ch 214 Body Art Establishments
- Appendix
- Ch A216 (Reserved)
- Ch A217 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A218 Public Utilities
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Kenilworth 9-12-1978 by Ord.
No. 78-27.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance superseded former Ch. 127,
Loitering, adopted 11-28-1961 by Ord. No. 61-13, as amended.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include
the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly,
and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Any place to which the public has access and shall include
any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include
the front or neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or
other place of business, and public grounds, areas, and parks, as
well as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned by
or under the control of the person charged with violating this chapter
or, in the case of a minor, not owned or under the control of his
parent or guardian.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such a manner as
to:
A.Â
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace.
B.Â
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the
comfort and repose of any person.
C.Â
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.Â
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 127-1. This subsection shall include the making of unsolicited 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.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 127-2, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
[Amended 9-11-1979 by Ord. No. 79-19; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
