Borough of Middlesex, NJ
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2023-10-10
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 305 Peace and Good Order
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Background Checks, Criminal History Record
- Ch 6 Bylaws of Council
- Ch 10 Claims, Payment of
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Cooperative Pricing
- Ch 18 Court, Municipal
- Ch 19 Culture and Heritage Committee
- Ch 23 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 26 Board, Committee, and Commission Meeting Attendance
- Ch 28 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Environmental Commission
- Ch 36 Emergency Management
- Ch 40 Fire Department
- Ch 44 Flood Control Commission
- Ch 48 Health, Board of
- Ch 52 Housing and Community Development Advisory Committee
- Ch 56 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 60 Map, Official
- Ch 62 Municipal Alliance Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
- Ch 64 Mutual Assistance
- Ch 68 Officers and Employees
- Ch 72 Payroll Procedures
- Ch 76 Pensions
- Ch 80 Police Department
- Ch 84 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 86 Filming
- Ch 88 Purchasing Department
- Ch 92 Department of Public Recreation and Senior and Disabled Services
- Ch 93 Recreation and Parks Improvement Committees
- Ch 94 Redevelopment Committee
- Ch 96 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 100 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 103 Traffic Safety Committee
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 108 Adult Uses and Entertainment
- Ch 112 Advertising Materials
- Ch 117 Alarm Devices and False Alarms
- Ch 121 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 125 Amusement Games
- Ch 129 Animals
- Ch 150 Carnivals
- Ch 154 Certificates, Birth, Death and Marriage
- Ch 158 Certificates, Sale/Lease
- Ch 168 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 172 (Reserved)
- Ch 176 Conversions, Condominium and Cooperative
- Ch 182 Donation Bins
- Ch 186 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 195 Fees
- Ch 200 Festivals
- Ch 204 Fiber Optic Cables, Installation of
- Ch 208 Firearms and Ammunition, Sale of
- Ch 212 Fire Detection Systems
- Ch 216 Fire Lanes
- Ch 220 Fire Prevention
- Ch 224 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 240 Housing Standards
- Ch 244 Junkyards and Junk Dealers
- Ch 248 Land Development
- Ch 252 Landfills
- Ch 254 Landscaping Services
- Ch 256 Laundries
- Ch 260 Library
- Ch 264 Littering
- Ch 265 Limousines
- Ch 268 Loitering
- Ch 272 Massage and Bodywork Therapy Establishments
- Ch 276 Meat, Retail Sale of
- Ch 280 Minibikes
- Ch 284 Newspaper Vending Machines
- Ch 288 Numbering of Buildings and Lots
- Ch 292 Parades and Other Assemblies
- Ch 296 Parking, Handicapped
- Ch 301 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 305 Peace and Good Order
- § 305-1 Unlawful acts.
- § 305-2 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 309 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 313 Poolrooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 315 Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 316 Prohibited Use of Borough Land
- Ch 317 Property Maintenance
- Ch 318 Property, Abandoned
- Ch 319 Rapid-Entry Key System
- Ch 320 Registration, Landlord
- Ch 321 Recreational Cannabis Retailing
- Ch 323 (Reserved)
- Ch 325 Riparian Zones
- Ch 327 Sales, Seasonal
- Ch 329 Schools
- Ch 332 Sewers
- Ch 334 (Reserved)
- Ch 336 Shopping Centers
- Ch 343 Smoking
- Ch 344 Smoking: Cannabis Limitations
- Ch 347 Soil Removal, Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 351 Solid Waste
- Ch 352 Steep Slopes
- Ch 354 Storm Drains
- Ch 355 Stormwater Control
- Ch 359 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 363 Structures, Dangerous
- Ch 367 Swimming Pool, Municipal
- Ch 371 Tattooing
- Ch 375 Taxation
- Ch 379 Taxicabs
- Ch 383 Tobacco, Sale of
- Ch 387 Towing
- Ch 391 Trailers and Campgrounds
- Ch 395 Trees
- Ch 399 Used Cars, Sale of
- Ch 403 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 407 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 414 Water
- Ch 420 Zoning
- Part III, Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 425 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 427 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 429 Bylaws of Board of Health
- Ch 434 Gas and Oil Exploration
- Ch 436 Housing Standards
- Ch 438 Officers and Employees
- Ch 440 Rabies Control
- Ch 442 Radioactive Materials
- Ch 443 Retail Food Establishments
- Ch 446 Sanitary Regulations
- Ch 450 Swimming Pools, Public
- Ch 456 Water Supplies, Individual and Semipublic
- Appendix
- Ch A457 Franchises
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Middlesex 5-6-1931. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Disturbing the quiet of the Borough or of any lawful
assembly of persons, or of any neighborhood, family or person within
the Borough by any loud or unnecessary noise, or by using any profane,
indecent or obscene language, or any indecent conduct whatever or
by quarreling, assaulting, fighting or otherwise disturbing the public
peace, is hereby prohibited.
B.
Keeping or causing or permitting to be kept a house,
shop, room or place of any description in which any kind of disorder
or noise is made or permitted, to the alarm, annoyance or disturbance
of the neighborhood, or in which persons assemble, or which place
is injurious to the public health, public quiet or public morals,
or which is used for the purpose of prostitution, or in which is kept
any table or device of any kind upon or by which any game of chance
or hazard shall be played, is hereby prohibited.
[Amended 8-8-1967 by Ord. No. 464]
C.
All riotous conduct, indecent conduct, breaches of
the peace, begging, prostitution are hereby prohibited.
[Amended 4-14-2009 by Ord. No. 1748; 9-8-2009 by Ord. No. 1751]
D.
Knowingly causing a false alarm of fire or intentionally
breaking or injuring or causing to be broken or injured any fire alarm
box owned by the Borough or any streetlamp used or lighted by or rented
to the Borough is hereby prohibited.
F.
The discharge of firearms of any type, except in the
course of police action, is hereby prohibited within the limits of
the Borough of Middlesex unless specifically authorized by resolution
of the Mayor and Council. Firearms may be discharged, provided that
blank cartridges are utilized, at track meets and swimming meets when
a starting gun is used at such athletic events.
[Added 12-17-1958 by Ord. No. 296; amended 3-11-1980 by Ord. No. 861]
G.
Any person who flees or attempts to elude, on foot
or by any other means, any police or law enforcement officer after
having received any signal from such officer to halt or bring his
or her vehicle to a full stop is in violation of this chapter.
[Added 4-8-1980 by Ord. No. 864]
H.
Any person who trespasses on private property and
surreptitiously or sneakingly invades the privacy of another by peering
into windows or other openings of dwelling places located thereon
for no lawful purpose shall be in violation of this chapter.
[Added 2-24-1981 by Ord. No. 888]
I.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or
maliciously torture, torment, beat, kick, strike, mutilate, injure,
disable or kill any dog used by the Police Department of the Borough
of Middlesex in the performance or duties of such Department or to
interfere with or meddle with any such dog while being used by said
Department, or any member thereof, in the performance of any of the
functions or duties of said Department or of any officer or member
of said Department.
[Added 9-14-1982 by Ord. No. 944]
[Amended 8-8-1967 by Ord. No. 449; 7-23-1968 by Ord. No. 498]
Every person found guilty of any of the acts
prohibited under this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished
by imprisonment for any term not exceeding 90 days or by a fine not
exceeding $500, or both.
