[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Netcong 7-11-1972 as Ch. 70 of the 1972 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alarm systems — See Ch. 95.
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 98.
Amusement devices — See Ch. 101.
Brush and hedges — See Ch. 112.
Fraudulent checks — See Ch. 131.
Circuses and carnivals — See Ch. 135.
Curfew — See Ch. 144.
Littering — See Ch. 200.
Loitering — See Ch. 202.
Parks — See Ch. 217.
Theaters and opera houses — See Ch. 259.
Public health nuisances — See Ch. 288.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 220-1, Definitions
and usage, and 220-2, Public intoxication, were repealed 9-11-2008
by Ord. No. 2008-13.
[Amended 4-8-1998 by Ord. No. 98-3]
A.
Except as authorized in Subsection B, no person shall have in his possession any open bottle or container containing liquor, beer, wine or other alcoholic beverage while such person is on any public highway, any public park, public street, public parking area or in any vehicle or public place within the Borough of Netcong excepting those premises duly licensed for sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises in the Borough. An open bottle or open container in any vehicle shall be presumptive evidence that the same is in possession of all the occupants thereof and in violation of this section.
B.
Notwithstanding any of the provisions set forth above,
the Borough Council shall have the right to authorize the possession
and consumption of alcoholic beverages in and upon any public park,
at a designated time or period of time, in connection with a special
event, series of events or observances, which possession and/or consumption
shall, in addition, comply with any applicable statutes, laws, ordinances
and regulations.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 220-4, Public disturbance
or disorderly assemblage; 220-5, Loitering; offensive remarks; obstructing
passage; 220-6, Objectionable conduct; trespassing; 220-7, Other indecent
conduct; 220-8, Indecent literature, pictures or performances; 220-9,
Soliciting unlawful sexual intercourse; 220-10, Breaches of the peace;
220-11, Indecent exposure or dress; and 220-12, Indecent writings
in public places, were repealed 9-11-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-13.
No person shall, within the limits of the Borough,
disrobe in any automobile, truck or vehicle while the same is upon
any public parking place, street, road, avenue, public park or other
public place.
No person shall, within the limits of the Borough,
bathe in a state of nudity, swim in a state of nudity or be found
in a state of nudity in the waters of any pond, stream or lake, or
in waters adjacent thereto.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 220-15, Peeping Toms;
220-16, Permitting disorderly house; and 220-17, Keeping disorderly
house or house of ill fame, were repealed 9-11-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-13.
No person shall disturb the exercises of any
school or molest or give annoyance to children attending such school
or any teacher therein.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 220-19, Begging without
permit; 220-20, Gambling, cockfighting and prizefighting; 220-21,
Faro, roulette and similar games; and 220-22, Slot machines and similar
devices, were repealed 9-11-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-13.
A.
No person shall, within the limits of the Borough,
maliciously destroy, damage, deface or injure any property, public
or private, other than his own.
B.
No person shall intentionally, willfully or maliciously
destroy or injure any of the wires, posts, machines, bells, sirens,
boxes, locks or other apparatus of any police call system or fire
alarm system.
No person shall conduct himself or herself in
or about the Borough of Netcong having concealed upon him or her any
picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with an intent to
break or enter into any building, or shall have upon him or her any
pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive or dangerous
weapon; nor shall any person be apprehended having upon him or her,
whether concealed or not, any of the foregoing articles or things
with the intent of committing any unlawful act; nor shall any person
be found in or near any dwelling, house, warehouse, stable, barn,
coachhouse, garage, smokehouse or any place of public resort or assemblage
for business, worship or amusement or other lawful purpose, with intent
to steal any goods or chattels; provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to law officers and other persons duly authorized
under certain statutes of this state to carry proper weapons of defense.
Possession of any of the foregoing articles on public thoroughfares
shall be prima facie evidence of such intent.
No person shall:
A.
Mutilate or move any notice, or damage, destroy or
remove any warning sign or signal, or remove any barricade, placed
or posted on any highway in connection with or relating to the closing
of any road.
B.
Drive any vehicle over or upon the closed portion
of any highway.
C.
Violate any rule or regulation for the use of any
highway.
No person shall willfully and maliciously give
or cause to be given a false alarm of fire in any manner, or a false
or fictitious police call in any manner; nor shall any person willfully
and maliciously make a false or fictitious report to any members of
the Police or Fire Department of the Borough of Netcong in any manner;
nor shall any person willfully and maliciously represent himself in
any telephone conversation to be another person or a fictitious person.
No person shall injure or damage any lights,
wires, poles or fixtures lawfully in or upon any street or other public
place.
No person shall, within the limits of the Borough,
throw or discard any tin cans, bottles, garbage or refuse of any kind
whatsoever on any public street or park or into the waters of any
pond, stream or lake, or into waters adjacent thereto, or discharge
any sewage or waste into said waters or any of them or pollute the
waters or any of them in any manner whatsoever.
No person shall throw any stone, stick, glass,
metal or other hard or offensive substance or shoot any revolver,
pistol, gun, air gun, slingshot or other device at, into or upon any
street or other public or quasi-public place or into any cars, vehicles
or private property not his own.
No person shall unnecessarily obstruct any sidewalk,
street, alley or public place in the Borough of Netcong with any kind
of vehicle or vehicles or with box or boxes, lumber, wood or any other
thing; but the provisions of this section shall not prevent persons
who are building from temporarily occupying such portion of the sidewalk,
street, alley or public place where a building permit has been properly
issued for the construction of said building.
No person shall, during an alarm of fire, willfully
hinder, prevent or deter in any manner or by any device whatsoever
any fireman or other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating
or quelling such fire, or willfully hinder or interfere with any fireman
from going to or returning from the place where any building or other
property is on fire or from which an alarm proceeds; nor shall any
person hinder or obstruct the passage of any fire engine, hook and
ladder truck or any fire apparatus in going to or from the place from
which an alarm of fire proceeds or where any building or other property
may be burning.
No person shall interfere with, hinder, disturb
or obstruct the proceedings, functions or deliberation of any public
or official body of the Borough.
No person shall hinder or obstruct any officer
of the law in the performance of his duties; nor shall any person
willfully refuse or neglect to assist any officer of the law when
lawfully called upon by him to do so, in the execution of any process
or in the suppression of any breach of the peace or disorderly conduct
or in case of an escape, or when such officer is resisted in the discharge
of his duty. Nor shall any person knowingly resist or oppose any officer
or person authorized by law in serving or attempting to serve any
writ, bill, order or process or when lawfully making any arrest.
No person shall unnecessarily use the horn or
other warning device of any vehicle so as to cause the horn or other
warning device to emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or whistle.
No person shall unnecessarily engage in the racing of any motor of
any motor vehicle so as to cause said motor to emit any unreasonably
loud sound; nor shall any person intentionally and unnecessarily cause
the motor of any motor vehicle to backfire.
No person shall willfully engage in any fight,
assault, quarrel, brawl, battery or altercation; nor shall any person
participate in or incite by overt act or acts any disturbance or riot
or any unruly, boisterous, noisy, unlawful or disorderly assemblage
constituting a breach or disturbance of the peace.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 220-36, Unlicensed alcoholic
beverage sales; sales to minors, was repealed 9-11-2008 by Ord. No.
2008-13.
All fines imposed and collected under and by
virtue of this chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the Borough
of Netcong.
