Borough of Haddon Heights, NJ
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2023-03-21
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 293 Loitering
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Budget, Municipal
- Ch 12 Claims Approval
- Ch 14 Heights Grow Committee
- Ch 16 Business Advisory Committee
- Ch 18 Court, Municipal
- Ch 24 Criminal History Record Background Check
- Ch 28 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 32 Environmental Commission
- Ch 38 Fire Department
- Ch 43 Health, Board of
- Ch 50 Municipal Alliance Committee
- Ch 59 Officers and Employees
- Ch 66 Personnel Policies and Procedures
- Ch 71 Police Assistance, Reciprocal
- Ch 75 Police Department
- Ch 78 Records, Public
- Ch 86 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 90 Shade Tree Commission
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 107 Advertising Materials
- Ch 112 Alarm Systems
- Ch 116 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 120 Amusements, Licensed
- Ch 125 Animals
- Ch 131 Borough Buildings, Usage of
- Ch 138 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- Ch 144 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 151 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 158 Cannabis and Cannabis Products
- Ch 162 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 175 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 178 Public Contract Reform
- Ch 183 Curfew
- Ch 196 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 205 Dumpsters and Storage Containers
- Ch 213 Fees
- Ch 224 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 229 Fire Lanes
- Ch 233 Fire Prevention
- Ch 236 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 242 Fuel Oil
- Ch 250 Grading Inspections
- Ch 256 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 261 Housing Standards
- Ch 262 Residential Certificate of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 277 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 278 Precious Metals, Gems and Jewelry
- Ch 282 Life Safety
- Ch 288 Littering
- Ch 291 Lockboxes
- Ch 293 Loitering
- § 293-1 Definitions.
- § 293-2 Prohibited conduct.
- § 293-3 Discretion of police.
- Ch 296 Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 301 Noise
- Ch 304 Obscene Materials
- Ch 306 Official Map
- Ch 307 Oil-Burning Equipment
- Ch 314 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 320 Parking
- Ch 326 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 337 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 340 Portable Storage Units
- Ch 348 Property Maintenance
- Ch 350 Rental Property
- Ch 365 Sewers
- Ch 368 Sex Offenders
- Ch 374 Skateboards, Skateboard Parks and Tennis Courts
- Ch 382 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 385 Smoking and Vaping on Public Property
- Ch 393 Solid Waste
- Ch 397 Stormwater Management
- Ch 400 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 407 Swimming Pools, Private
- Ch 416 Tattooing and Body Piercing
- Ch 417 Taxation
- Ch 418 Tax Map/GIS Database Updates
- Ch 425 Tobacco Products
- Ch 432 Tree Protection
- Ch 440 Wireless Communications
- Ch 450 Zoning and Land Development
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 465 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 477 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 484 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 491 Plumbing
- Ch 496 Sanitation
- Ch 503 Swimming Pools, Public
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Haddon
Heights 6-8-1971 by Ord. No. 431 (Ch.
73 of the 1975 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
To stand idle, to move slowly about in a small area, to dawdle, lounge,
hang around, linger idly or aimlessly, or any combination of them.
No person shall loiter in a public building or other public place in
such a manner as to:
A.Â
Create or cause to be created a danger or a breach of
the peace; or
B.Â
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort or repose of any person; or
C.Â
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles;
or
D.Â
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place, including the making of 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 a person is loitering in a public building or other public place in any manner described in § 293-2 hereof, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace or safety, order that person to leave the place. Any person who shall fail or refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by the police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
