City of Garfield, NJ
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2024-01-05
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Part II General Legislation
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Chapter 77 Amusements
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Article III Mud Wrestling and Other Contests
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 9 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Court
- Ch 16 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 18 Elections, Municipal
- Ch 19 Employment Separation Program
- Ch 23 Fire Department
- Ch 27 Historic Preservation
- Ch 30 Housing Authority
- Ch 35 Library
- Ch 39 Officers and Employees
- Ch 41 Parking Authority
- Ch 44 Personnel Regulations
- Ch 48 Police Department
- Ch 51 Public Safety Communications
- Ch 53 Purchasing
- Ch 56 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 58 Retirement
- Ch 60 Sick Leave Documentation
- General Legislation
- Ch 64 Adult Bookstores and Massage Parlors
- Ch 69 Alarm Systems
- Ch 73 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 77 Amusements
- Ch 77 Art III Mud Wrestling and Other Contests
- § 77-16 Definitions.
- § 77-17 Prohibitions.
- § 77-18 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 80 Animals
- Ch 94 Builders and Contractors
- Ch 100 Cannabis
- Ch 102 Carnivals and Shows
- Ch 105 Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 109 Christmas Tree Sales
- Ch 111 Clothing Bins
- Ch 114 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 116 Criminal History Background Checks
- Ch 119 Curfew
- Ch 120 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 125 Dumping
- Ch 128 Dwelling Certificates
- Ch 131 Dwelling and Rooming Units
- Ch 134 Dwellings, Unlawful
- Ch 140 Fertilizer Application
- Ch 141 Filming
- Ch 142 Fire Prevention
- Ch 144 Flag Etiquette
- Ch 146 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 150 Food Handlers, Mobile
- Ch 151 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 153 Fortune-Tellers
- Ch 157 Games of Chance on Sunday
- Ch 161 Garage Sales
- Ch 164 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 172 Grading of Land
- Ch 176 Graffiti
- Ch 181 Housing Standards
- Ch 185 Junkyards
- Ch 187 Landscaping
- Ch 188 Land Use
- Ch 191 Laundromats
- Ch 195 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 198 Limousines
- Ch 201 Littering
- Ch 208 Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 210 Mausoleums, Public
- Ch 213 Meat Packaging
- Ch 216 Moving Permits
- Ch 218 Newsracks
- Ch 220 Noise
- Ch 221 Nuisances
- Ch 224 Parades and Special Events
- Ch 226 Parking
- Ch 230 Parking Lots
- Ch 233 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 237 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 239 Plastic Bag and Straw Regulation
- Ch 242 Property Maintenance
- Ch 243 Property, Vacant and Abandoned, Registration
- Ch 244 Public Property, Obstruction of
- Ch 246 Railroad Use
- Ch 249 Recycling
- Ch 252 Relocation Assistance
- Ch 256 Retail Business Hours
- Ch 260 Sanitation
- Ch 263 Secondhand Merchandise Dealers
- Ch 265 Sewers
- Ch 266 Sex Offenders
- Ch 268 Shopping Carts
- Ch 272 Signs
- Ch 275 Site Plan Review
- Ch 278 Smoking
- Ch 280 Snow Removal
- Ch 284 Stormwater Control
- Ch 285 Stormwater Management Regulations
- Ch 287 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 290 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 294 Tattoo Artists and Body Piercing
- Ch 298 Taxation
- Ch 301 Taxicabs
- Ch 305 Telephones, Public
- Ch 308 Tobacco Retail Establishments; Vape Shops; Retail Electronic Smoking Establishments
- Ch 310 Tow Trucks
- Ch 314 Trapping
- Ch 318 Urination in Public
- Ch 322 Vehicles, Abandoned and Unclaimed
- Ch 325 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 328 Vehicle Repair and Auto Body Repair Facilities
- Ch 329 Vehicle Sales Businesses
- Ch 333 Water
- Ch 337 Waterfront Drift and Debris
- Ch 341 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A342 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 5-4-1982 by Ord. No. 1783
(Ch. 85, Art. III, of the 1979 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Refer to an act or acts performed in a public place, as defined herein,
by a person as defined herein, which acts as an amusement wherein the performers
engage in the physical activity of wrestling as it is commonly known, in which
the participants are clad in bathing suits or similar clothing and while engulfed,
immersed or smeared with mud or Jell-O. The results of such activity are that
certain parts of the human body, namely genitalia and mammaries are exposed
and/or emphasized as a result of the physical activity and the combination
of mud and/or Jell-O.
Any individual, partnership, association or corporation, that is
an owner, landlord, occupant, operator or an executor, administrator, trustee
or the legal representative of owner, landlord, lessee, tenant, occupant or
operator of any public place as defined herein.
Any place available to or used by the general public, whether or
not an admission fee is charged, including but not limited to restaurants,
discotheques, cabarets, bars, social clubs, amusement parks, penny arcades,
game rooms and other similar establishments.
Refers to an activity whereby a person or persons are displayed to
the public in T-shirts, athletic supporters or small bathing suits and whereby
the public is encouraged and invited to squirt, splash or douse participants
all to the effect of exposing and emphasizing the human genitalia and mammaries.
No person shall operate, use, perform, install or accommodate in any
public place mud wrestling, Jell-O wrestling, wet T-shirt or wet jock contests
or performances within the City of Garfield, whether or not a fee is charged
for the operation or performance thereof.
[Amended 4-25-2006 by Ord. No. 2457]
Any person, as defined herein, violating any of the provisions of this
article shall be liable to one or more of the following: a fine not exceeding
$2,000; imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days; and/or a period of
community service not exceeding 90 days.
