[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Alexandria 5-25-1950. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall, within the limits of the Township
of Alexandria:
A.
[1]Operate or use any radio receiving set, phonograph or other
sound-producing instrument, device or apparatus in such manner that
the sound thereof shall annoy any person or persons or disturb the
comfort, rest or repose of any person or persons.
B.
Permit, make or continue, or cause to be permitted,
made or continued, any unnecessary noise which shall disturb the comfort,
rest and repose of any person or persons being in his, her or their
place of abode or at any public or private meeting or at church services.
C.
Keep or harbor any dog which shall disturb the neighborhood
by excessive barking, whining or howling.
D.
Throw or discard any tin cans, bottles, garbage, debris,
junk or refuse of any kind whatsoever into the waters of any spring,
pond, stream, lake, river or any other body of water, or upon any
public street or public place or discharge any sewage or waste into
said waters or places or any of them or pollute the said waters in
any manner.
E.
Place or cause to be placed any obstruction whatsoever
in any stream, pond, spring or lake so as to interfere with the natural
flow or change the course thereof in any manner whatsoever without
first obtaining the necessary permit so to do.
F.
Throw any paper or posters, stones, sticks, glass,
metal or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any sidewalk,
street, highway or public or private place, or at any car, vehicle,
house, building, fence or person.
G.
Appear on any street, road, avenue, park or other
public place 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.
H.
Disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while
the same is upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or
other public place.
I.
Sell or offer to sell any indecent picture, book or
thing or exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or
other representation.
J.
Keep or maintain a disorderly house or a house of
ill-fame or allow or permit any house, shop, store or other building
or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be used as a disorderly
house or house of ill-fame.
K.
Solicit, invite or in any manner suggest by word of
mouth or any writing or other communication or by any device whatsoever
any lewd, lascivious or other immoral act.
L.
Permit any house, shop, store or other building or
structure owned or occupied by him or her to be frequented or resorted
to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers
or vagrants.
M.
Maliciously or intentionally destroy, damage or injure
any property, public or private.
N.
Cause or permit to be emitted any dense smoke which
contains soot or other substance in sufficient quantities to permit
the deposit of such soot or other substances on any surface within
the limits of the Township of Alexandria.
O.
Cause or permit to be emitted any vile, offensive,
obnoxious or nauseating odor or any odor that may be vile, offensive,
obnoxious or nauseating to any of the residents of the Township of
Alexandria.
P.
Remove, change, alter, obstruct, destroy, tap, shut
off or interfere in any way whatsoever with any water or sewer line
or any utility or any mechanical device connected thereto on any property,
either public or private, within the Township of Alexandria.
Q.
Possess, keep or maintain any faro table, roulette
wheel, equipment or supplies for lottery and numbers game or other
games of chance, or any pinball machine destined for gambling or other
gambling device whatever.
R.
Carry without lawful authority any revolver, pistol
or other firearm or other instrument of the kind known as a blackjack,
sling shot, blow gun or similar device, billy sand club, sand bag,
bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, stiletto,
bomb or other high explosive concealed in or about his or her clothes
or person, or in any portable vehicle, carriage, motorcycle or other
vehicle.
S.
Possess, keep, sell or distribute any firecrackers,
Roman candles, sky rockets or any fireworks of any explosive nature
commonly used as fireworks display.
T.
Have upon his or her person, or in his or her possession,
any pick lock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with any intent
to break and enter into any building.
U.
Go about from door to door or place himself or herself
on any sidewalk, street or store or other public or private place
or places to bet or gather alms.
V.
Participate in any practice, sport or exercise having
a tendency to annoy, disturb or frighten any person or persons on
any sidewalk, street, road, park or other public or private place
or having a tendency to annoy or frighten horses or other animals.
W.
Ring any bell or blow any horn or make any public
outcry at or for any public sale or auction or to advertise any goods,
wares or merchandise for sale or to attract any attention or to gain
passengers for any cab, taxicab, hack or omnibus.
X.
Enter any building or any public or private lands
and break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the
fences, outhouses or other property belonging to or connected with
such building or lands or disturb the exercise of any public school
or molest or give annoyance to children attending such school, or
annoy any teachers therein.
Y.
Hinder or obstruct any Township officer or employee
in the performance of his or her duties or willfully refuse or neglect
to assist any Township officer or employee when lawfully called upon
by him or her 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 escape
or when such officer or employee is resisted in the discharge of his
or her duty; or 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.
Z.
Tether any horse or any other domestic animal on or
upon any sidewalk, street or other public or private place or permit
his or her horse or other domestic animal to feed upon any public
place or upon the private lands of others without permission or ride
or drive any such animal through or along any such street or public
place unless securely held in leash or led or driven with a halter
to it as a secure means to keep such animal from straying.
AA.
Unnecessarily obstruct any sidewalk, street or public
place with any kind of vehicle or vehicles or with any kind of a box
or boxes, lumber, wood or other thing; but the provisions of this
subsection shall not prevent persons who are building from occupying
such portion of the sidewalk, street or public place designated in
a permit therefor first obtained.[2]
BB.
Intentionally, willfully or maliciously destroy or
injure any of the wires, posts, machines, bells, sirens, boxes, or
other apparatus of any fire alarm system or intentionally willfully
or maliciously interfere with the same or any part thereof or hinder
or impede any of the operations intended to be accomplished thereby,
or intentionally cause or assist in causing a false alarm to be given
in any manner.
CC.
Hinder, prevent or deter by any device whatever any
fireman or other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating
or quelling a fire or hinder or interfere with any fireman going to
or returning from any fire, or place from which a fire alarm proceeds,
or hinder or obstruct any fire engine, hook and ladder truck, hose
cart or other fire apparatus going to or from any place from which
a fire alarm proceeds or where any building or property may be burning.
DD.
Distribute, deposit or leave on the public streets
or highways, public places or private property or at any private place
or places, any medicine, medical preparation or preparations represented
to cure ailments or diseases of the body or mind or any sample thereof
or any advertisements or circulars relating thereto.
EE.
Enter upon or trespass upon the land or property of
any other person without lawful permission so to do.
FF.
No person
in a Township park shall:
[Added 8-9-2006]
(1)
Drive
any vehicle on any area except the paved park roads or parking areas
or such other areas as may, on occasion, be specifically designated
by posted signs as temporary parking areas.
(2)
Park
a vehicle in other than a designated parking area in accordance with
the posted directions at the parking area or with the instructions
of any Township employee who may be present.
(3)
Park
or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, on
any park road at any time; nor shall any person stop, however briefly,
on the lefthand side of any park road.
All other riotous, indecent or disorderly conduct,
breach of the peace and vagrancy not hereinabove specifically mentioned
are hereby prohibited.
All fines imposed and collected under and by
virtue of this chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the Township.
