Borough of Highland Park, NJ Article I General Regulations

[Adopted 7-7-2009 by Ord. No. 09-1763]

§ 165-1 Prohibited activities.

No person shall, within the limits of the Borough, engage in any of the following activities:

A. Sleep or create a disturbance on any street, sidewalk or other public place or in or about any school, store or other business establishment, or utter any loud and offensive or indecent language or make offensive remarks to any person or persons passing along, in or upon any such sidewalk, street, park, school, store or other public place or business establishment.

B. Congregate with others on a sidewalk, street, park, school, store or other public place or business establishment and refuse to move when ordered by the police.

C. Obstruct, molest, hinder, frighten, threaten, or interfere with any other person lawfully upon the streets, parks, public places or in any automobile, bus or other public or private conveyance lawfully upon any street.

D. Be intoxicated or drunk or disorderly in any public omnibus, street, highway, thoroughfare, or on any sidewalk or in any private house, home or in any boardinghouse, store, restaurant or other private, public or quasi-public place or house to the annoyance of any person.

E. Permit any house, shop or other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be involved in illegal activities.

F. Throw or discard any refuse, paper posters, glass, metal or any hard or dangerous substance whatsoever upon any public street, sidewalk, highway or public place in violation of Chapter 253, Article I, of this Code.

G. Commit or attempt to commit an assault or an assault and battery either in a public or private place, or aid or assist or abet any person about to commit or attempt to commit an assault or an assault and battery.

H. Make or assist in making any riot or disturbance at any house, shop, theater or other place of amusement.

I. Appear on any street or in any park or other public place or in public view in a state of nudity, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person or commit or do any lewd or indecent act or behave in a lewd or indecent manner.

J. Maliciously destroy, damage or injure any property, public or private.

K. Cause or permit to be emitted any vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating smoke or odor, or any smoke or odor that may be vile, offensive, obnoxious or nauseating to any of the residents of the Borough.

L. Station himself on the streets or follow pedestrians for the purpose of soliciting alms, or solicit alms on the streets without lawful authority.

M. Enter any building or trespass upon lands belonging to the Board of Education of the Borough, or break or injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the fences or outbuildings belonging to or connected with such building or lands, or disturb the exercises of such school or molest or annoy the children attending such school or any teachers thereof.

N. Hinder or obstruct any officer in the performance of his duties, or willfully refuse or neglect to assist any officer when lawfully called upon by him so to do in the execution of any process or in the suppression of any breach of the peace or disorderly conduct or in case of any escape or when such officer is resisted in the discharge of his duty, or knowingly resist or oppose any officer or person authorized by law in serving or attempting to serve any writ, bill, order or process or when making any arrest, either with or without a warrant.

O. Intentionally enter upon or trespass upon the land or property of any person without permission so to do.

P. Invade the privacy of any person by going upon the private property of others in stealth and at night for the purpose of "peeping" through windows, doors or other openings, thereby engaging in conduct associated with what is commonly known as a "Peeping Tom."

Q. Accost or approach any person unknown to such person any by word, sign or gesture attempt to speak or to become acquainted with such person against his or her will, upon a public street or other public place in this Borough, except in the transaction of legitimate business.

R. Attempt to entice or procure a person to commit an unlawful act, or accost or approach any person and by word, sign or gesture suggest or invite the doing of any indecent or unnatural act.

S. Any person, while operating a motor vehicle on any street or highway in the Borough, who knowingly flees or attempts to elude any police or law enforcement officer after having received any signal from such officer to bring the vehicle to a full stop is a disorderly person.

T. No person shall purposely or knowingly, as said terms are defined in Title 2C of the New Jersey Revised Statutes, feed wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the Borough, on land either publicly or privately owned. It shall be presumed that the person is purposely or knowingly feeding deer unless the feed is placed on a platform that is raised at least four feet off the ground and has a lip around the edge of the platform; placed on a platform that is raised at least five feet off the ground, if the platform has no lip around the edge of the platform; or is placed in a feeder whose opening is sufficiently restricted so as to prevent deer from accessing the feed. Notwithstanding the requirements of § 165-3 with regard to violations and penalties, if any person violates this section of the Code, the Police Department upon the first violation shall issue a warning to that person not to feed the deer or to comply with the provision set forth hereinabove. After the first warning, any person violating this section shall be subject to penalties provided for in § 165-3 hereinbelow.

[Added 9-1-2020 by Ord. No. 20-2010]

§ 165-2 Enumeration not exhaustive; definitions.

A. All other riotous, indecent or disorderly conduct, breach of the peace not herein above specifically mentioned are hereby prohibited.

B. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated:

PERSON

Includes "individual," "firm," "corporation," "partnership," "association," "company," or "organization" of any kind and shall include the plural.

C. The masculine pronoun shall include the feminine.

§ 165-3 Violations and penalties.

[Amended 9-21-2010 by Ord. No. 10-1792]

Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction therefor, be punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article III, General Penalty. The continuation of such violation on each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.