[Adopted 11-5-1979 as §§ 18-1
and 18-51 to 18-55 of the 1979 Revised General Ordinances]
The necessity in the public interest for the
provisions hereof is hereby declared to be a matter of legislative
determination and public policy, and this article is enacted in pursuance
and for the purpose of securing and promoting the public health, comfort,
convenience, safety, welfare and prosperity, and the peace and quiet,
of the Township.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A park, playground, recreation center or other area in the
Township which is owned, used or maintained by the Township and is
devoted to active or passive recreation.
An off-street area located within a park, or adjacent thereto,
set aside for the parking of vehicles.
Any vehicle propelled otherwise than by human muscular power.
Whenever the Manager shall find that the making,
creation or maintenance of loud, boisterous, unnecessary or unusual
noises within a parking area, or the damage to, or mutilation, defacement
or destruction of, public property at or adjacent to any such parking
area, is such as to constitute a detriment to the health, comfort,
convenience, peace, safety, welfare and prosperity of the residents
of the Township, the Manager may, by his written administrative order
filed in his office, notice of which shall be published in the official
newspaper of the Township, prevailing time, of the following day,
and to take such steps as he may deem necessary or required to close
the entrance or entrances to such parking area during such hours.
Whenever a parking area has been closed pursuant
to the provisions hereof, no person shall:
A.
Occupy or be present in any such closed parking area;
B.
Park, or cause, suffer or permit to be parked, therein
any vehicle; or
C.
Remove, damage, mutilate, deface or destroy any barricade,
chain, notice, sign or other object blocking the entrance to such
parking area or indicating the same to be closed.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or
construed to apply to:
A.
Township personnel engaged in or conducting Township
business in any such closed parking area.
B.
Any group or organization holding a permit to conduct
an activity in such parking area, or in a parking of which such parking
area is a part, for a period extending beyond the hour of 10:00 p.m.
C.
Any person found in any such parking area by reason
of an unusual or unforeseen emergency.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided
herein, any person who violates any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500,
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both. A separate
offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a
violation occurs or continues.
