[Added 7-9-1973 by Ord. No. 73-10]
Offenses against the public peace, safety, health and morals include trespassing; defacing the property of another (graffiti); destroying any property of another; mugging, assaults; assaults and battery; destruction or defacing of public property owned by the governments of the Borough, county or state; destruction of playground equipment and public parks; the consumption of alcoholic beverages on a public street; drunkenness; begging; throwing, casting or placing any garbage, waste, papers, ashes, sewage, refuse, junk, rubbish, circulars, glasses, bottles, cans, dead animals or any other type of waste matter on any property, public or private, except in such areas as may be officially designated and licensed for dumping by the Borough of Park Ridge; throwing or depositing litter in or upon any private property or upon any street, sidewalk, park or other public place or property within the Borough, except in public receptacles or any authorized private receptacles for collection or in official Borough dumps, and litter shall include but not be limited to such items as paper, wrapping, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, leaves, wood, glass, crockery, bottles and similar materials; indecent exposure; loitering in a public place as set forth in Article III of this chapter, and lack of supervision by a parent, legal guardian or other person having the care or custody of a minor child under the age of 18 years.
A person is defined to include parents, guardians
or persons having custody or control of minor children.
It shall be unlawful for any person to offend
against the public peace, safety and morals as defined herein, or
fail to supervise any minor under the age of 18 years after said minor
has appeared before a court of competent jurisdiction for any violation
of any statute or municipal ordinance.
It shall be unlawful for any parent, legal guardian
or other person having the care or custody of a minor child under
18 years of age who shall by any act or by any work, or by the failure
to act, or by lack of supervision and control over said minor child,
encourage, contribute toward, cause or tend to cause said minor child
to become neglected or delinquent by reason of the activities of said
minor child within the Borough of Park Ridge so as to come or tend
to come under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Division of the Bergen
County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court knowing that said minor
had offended the public peace, safety and morals, including any criminal
statute of the State of New Jersey or ordinance of the Borough of
Park Ridge.
It shall be unlawful for any parent, legal guardian
or other person having custody and care of any minor child under the
age of 18 years to assist, aid, abet, allow, permit or encourage said
minor to violate the provisions of this chapter or any other ordinance
of the Borough of Park Ridge as defined herein, either by overt act,
by failing to act or by lack of supervision and control over said
minor child.
Any minor who is under the age of 18 years apprehended
for the violation of this chapter, any laws of the State of New Jersey,
ordinance of this municipality or any federal statute, shall be brought
forthwith before a Judge of the Juvenile Division of the Bergen County
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, and the parent, legal guardian
or other person having care and custody of said minor shall be summoned
or arrested and brought before a Judge of the Municipal Court of the
Borough of Park Ridge, when said minor child is apprehended. The said
minor child shall be held in the children's shelter or the county
jail according to the direction and orders of the Judge of the Juvenile
Division of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, and the parent,
legal guardian or person having the custody of said minor child, as
aforesaid, who shall fail to provide supervision of said minor as
aforesaid, after the first offense by said minor, shall be subject
to the penalties herein provided.
Any parent, legal guardian or person having
custody of a minor who violates any provision of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment
for 90 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
