[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Village of Ridgefield Park 11-23-1993 by Ord. No. 18-93 (§ 150-15
of the 1985 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Peace and good order — See Ch. 276.
No person shall sleep or loiter in or upon any
street or public place within the Village.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Encompasses but shall not necessarily be limited to one or
more of the following acts:
Includes public parks; any school property of the Ridgefield
Park school system; any place or property that the Board of Education
or the Village has under its supervision, control or management; the
quasi-public area in front of or adjacent to any store, shop, restaurant,
luncheonette or other place of business and shall include also any
parking lot or other vacant private property not owned by or under
the dominion of the person charged with a violation of this chapter.
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 a violation of any
of the provisions of this chapter, that police officer may, if deemed
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 so ordered shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years
is arrested for violating the provisions of this chapter, the juvenile
officer shall notify the parent, guardian or other person having custody
of such minor of such arrest.
