[Adopted 5-14-1951 by Ord. No. 5-1951]
A.
No person shall vagrantly loiter, lounge or sleep
in or on the streets, sidewalks, Boardwalk, public pavilions, public
parks, beaches or other public places in the City of Ventnor City
or obstruct the passage of persons on the Boardwalk or any sidewalks,
streets or other public places with boxes, crates, baskets, stands,
wares, merchandise or with a rolling chair or chairs or any vehicle
after being ordered by a police officer or special officer to move
on or disperse or leave any such public places or remove such obstruction.
B.
No person shall consume any kind of alcoholic beverage
in any public place or quasi-public area of said City. No person shall
have in his or her possession an open container of any kind in which
alcoholic beverages are contained in any public place or quasi-public
area of said City.
[Amended 8-20-1979 by Ord. No. 7914; 8-4-1980 by Ord. No. 8016; 9-18-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-13]
C.
No person shall utter loud, offensive, indecent or
profane language nor address nor make audible and offensive remarks
or comments on or to any person passing along or being on or in any
of such streets, sidewalks, the boardwalk, public pavilions, public
parks, beaches or other public places or on or in any property, public
or private, nor obstruct or interfere with any person or persons lawfully
being on or in any streets, sidewalks, the boardwalk, public pavilions,
public parks, beaches or other public places nor while on or in any
highways, sidewalks, the Boardwalk, public parks, beaches or other
public places, accost or annoy any person or persons upon such places,
by begging or soliciting alms or by soliciting him or them to hire
vehicles, engage boarding or hotel accommodations or purchase tickets
of admission to visit or view amusements, shows or exhibitions.
D.
No person shall revel, quarrel, brawl or otherwise
misbehave in a disorderly manner to the disturbance or annoyance of
the peaceable inhabitants of the City nor be guilty of any other disorderly
conduct in or on the streets, sidewalks, Boardwalk, public pavilions,
public parks, beaches or other public places.
E.
No person shall keep, manage, maintain, reside in,
frequent, resort to or be an inmate of a gambling house, disorderly
house or houses of ill fame or permit his or her house, hotel, shop
or other building, or place to be used, frequented or occupied by
or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons, gamblers, thieves,
vagrants, common mendicants, palmists, fortune-tellers, persons who,
for gain, assume to foretell destinies, persons of ill fame or prostitutes.
F.
No person shall make or assist in making or take active
part in any riot, noise, quarrel, brawl or disturbance at any house,
hotel, shop, store or other building or place, either public or private.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Section 3, which immediately
followed this subsection and prohibited having gambling devices in
one's possession, was deleted 6-4-1979 by Ord. No. 7904.
G.
No person shall, within the boundaries of Ventnor
City, carelessly or recklessly drop, throw, cast or strike with any
stick, stone, brick, ball or snowball or other missile or projectile
of any kind whatsoever, in any manner doing injury to or likely or
calculated or intended to do injury to another's person or property.
H.
No person shall, while on the public lands, parks
or beaches adjacent to the Boardwalk or on the public highways in
said City, pitch, throw, toss or project any ball, projectile or missile
whatsoever, provided that this section shall not be construed to prohibit
the playing of games on such portions of said public lands, parks
or beaches as shall from time to time be designated by the Chief of
Police, the Chairman of the Parks and Playgrounds Committee of the
Board of Commissioners or the Captain of the Beach Patrol as play
areas.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Original Section 5, which immediately
followed this subsection and prohibited discharge of certain explosives,
was deleted 6-4-1979 by Ord. No. 7904.
I.
No person shall take plants or flowers or other things
from or mutilate in any manner any property, real or personal, public
or private, or write, paste, post or place in any manner any obscene
or vulgar words, phrases, language, pictures, drawings, prints, lithographs
or characters on any wall, house, fence, signboard, billboard or other
structure.
J.
No person shall make any indecent or lewd exposure
of themselves or peep or look upward through apertures or openings
in the Boardwalk or other elevated walks in said City while persons
are walking or standing thereon.[3]
[3]
Editor's Note: Original Sections 7 and 8,
which immediately followed this subsection and dealt with discharge
of and possession of weapons, were deleted 6-4-1979 by Ord. No. 7904.
K.
Laser beam devices. It shall be unlawful for any person
to focus, point or shine a laser beam directly or indirectly upon
another person or animal in such a manner as to unreasonably cause
harassment or annoyance to said person or animal.
[Added 10-22-1998 by Ord. No. 9821]
[Added 8-16-1982 by Ord. No. 8232[1]; amended 8-2-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-4; 9-15-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-15]
A.
From the first day after Labor Day until the Thursday before Memorial
Day, no construction of any kind shall commence in the City of Ventnor
before 7:30 a.m. and shall cease by 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
On Sundays, no construction shall commence before 8:30 a.m. and shall
cease by 6:00 p.m.
B.
From the Friday before Memorial Day until Labor Day, no construction
of any kind shall commence in the City of Ventnor before 8:00 a.m.
and shall cease by 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. On Saturdays,
no construction shall take place prior to 8:30 a.m. and cease by 4:00
p.m. Pile driving, demolition, the use of jack hammers or generators
shall be prohibited. On Sundays, there shall be no construction of
any kind.
[Amended 5-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-07]
C.
In the event of a hardship, a homeowner or contractor may request
a waiver of the aforesaid hours through the Building Department.
Any officer or member of the Police Department
or police force shall have the power and authority to arrest, without
warrant, any person found by him violating any of the provisions of
this article or committing any of the acts herein specially or generally
set forth.
[Amended 6-4-1979 by Ord. No. 7904; 2-2-1989 by Ord. No. 8903; 10-22-1998 by Ord. No. 9821]
Any person violating any provision of this article,
upon conviction thereof before the Judge of the Municipal Court or
other office having jurisdiction thereof, shall be liable to a fine
of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment in the City or county jail
for a period of not more than 90 days, or both. In addition to or
as a substitute for the previously mentioned fine, the imposition
of community service shall be authorized as an additional penalty,
which community service shall not exceed 90 days.
