[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of East Hanover 5-17-1973 as Art. 5 of Ch. 13 of the Revised Ordinances.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location, and includes
the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly,
and also includes the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Any adult person having care or custody of a minor, whether
by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or otherwise.
Any place to which the public has access, and includes any
street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the
front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or
other place of business, and public grounds, areas, 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 by or under the control of his parent
or guardian.
No person shall loiter in a public place in
such manner as to:
A.
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach
of the peace.
B.
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
C.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 102-1. 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 § 102-2, 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 such public place after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
A.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of
18 years shall knowingly permit that minor to loiter in violation
of this chapter.
B.
Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years is charged
with a violation of this chapter, his parent or guardian shall be
notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other person designated
by the Chief to give such notice.
C.
If at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice as provided in Subsection B, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.
A.
Any parent, guardian or other person of the age of
18 or over who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.
B.
Any minor under 18 years of age who
shall violate the provisions of this chapter shall be placed in the
jurisdiction of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court for such
disposition as the Court may decide.
