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City of Hackensack, NJ
Bergen County
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[Adopted 6-20-1983 by Ord. No. 15-83[1] ]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Article V, Loitering, adopted 4-20-1964 by Ord. No. 819, as amended 4-15-1974 by Ord. No. 1-74.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
IMPROPER BEHAVIOR
A person who, with the purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof:
A. 
Engages in fighting or threatening or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or
B. 
Creates a hazardous environmentally destructive or physically dangerous condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
NONPUBLIC AREA
Areas including vacant lots, public areas in apartment buildings, parking lots or other vacant property not owned or under the control of the person charged with violating this section or, in the case of a minor, not owned by or under the control of his parent or guardian.
PARENT OR GUARDIAN
Any adult person having care or custody of a minor, whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or otherwise.
No person shall commit acts of improper behavior as defined in § 119-11.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the behavior of any person in any nonpublic area, as defined in § 119-11, is causing or is likely to cause disorderly, antisocial or environmentally destructive acts, he may, if he determines it necessary to prevent such behavior, order that person to leave that area. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this article.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 years shall knowingly permit that minor to act in a disorderly, antisocial or environmentally destructive manner in violation of this article.
Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years is charged with a violation of this article, his parent or guardian shall be notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other person designated by him to give such notice.
If, at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice as provided in § 119-15, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this article, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.