As used in this section:
DISORDERLY ASSEMBLAGE
As used herein shall mean any two or more persons gathered together and acting in a boisterous, noisy, riotous, offensive, disorderly or threatening manner toward each other or others, or committing any act or acts which any way breach or disturb the peace or tend to breach or disturb the peace.
DISORDERLY HOUSE
As used herein shall mean any building or structure or any part thereof which is used for gambling or which is frequented by prostitutes, criminals, gamblers, vagrants or persons violating the law or in which the law is habitually violated.
HOUSE OF ILL FAME
As used herein shall mean any building or structure or any part thereof in which prostitution, lewdness or other unlawful sexual acts are permitted. (Ord. #296)
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Editor's Note: Former Subsection 3-5.2, Intoxication; Disturbing the Peace, adopted by Ord. #296, was repealed 8-12-2008 by Ord. #2030, § 1.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall utter loud and offensive or profane or indecent language in any public street or other public place, public conveyance or place to which the public is invited. No person in any place, public or private shall:
a. 
Address or make any offensive remarks to or concerning any passing person; or
b. 
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully therein.
c. 
Upon telephoning another, address to such person any lewd, lascivious, indecent or disgusting remarks.
d. 
Repeatedly telephone another for the purpose of annoying or molesting that person.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall, by noisy or disorderly conduct, disturb or interfere with the quiet or good order of any place of assembly, public or private, including schools, churches, libraries and reading rooms nor shall any person interfere with the privacy and repose of the persons therein.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall interfere with, hinder, disturb or obstruct the proceedings, functions or deliberations of any official of the Township, nor shall any person molest, obstruct, hinder, or interfere with any Township officer or official engaged in the performance of his duty as set out by statute or ordinance, or knowingly resist or oppose any person authorized by law to make arrests or to serve any writ, bill, order or process when the person so authorized is acting in the performance of his duty.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall write or cause to be written any lewd, indecent or obscene word or words, mark or marks whatsoever, or draw or cause to be drawn any lewd, indecent or obscene figure upon any house, building, wall, fence or other place in the Township.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall practice prostitution, nor shall any person, by word, act, sign or any device, invite or solicit unlawful sexual intercourse or any other unlawful, indecent, lewd or lascivious act.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall maintain or cause or knowingly permit to be maintained a disorderly house or house of ill fame in any building or structure, or on any premises owned, occupied or controlled by him or her; nor shall any person knowingly permit any building or other structure or any premises owned or occupied or controlled by him or her to be frequented or used by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons, or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall sell or offer to sell any lewd or indecent picture, book, device, or thing, or exhibit or perform or cause to be exhibited or performed, any lewd, immoral or indecent dance, show, play or other presentation. The forbidden conditions shall be held to have occurred when the actions or material, when taken as a whole and judged by prevailing community standards, would appeal solely to the prurient interest.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall intentionally appear on any street, avenue, road, highway or other public place in a state of nudity, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or commit or cause to be committed, or participate in the commission or any lewd or indecent act of behavior.
"Lewd and indecent" for the purpose of this section shall mean actions by a person or material which when taken as a whole and judged by the standards of the community at large would appeal solely to the prurient interest.
[Ord. #296]
a. 
No person shall commit an assault or an assault and battery.
b. 
No persons, two or more in number, shall fight together, or commit or attempt to commit assaults and batteries upon each other, in public, nor be present aiding, assisting or abetting the same.
c. 
No person shall 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. Such breach or disturbance shall be held to occur when the substantive conduct endangers the public health, safety, or welfare.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall destroy, deface, damage or injure property not belonging to him or her.
[Ord. #296]
No person who being possessed of a dwelling house or other building, or part thereof, held for any term of years or other less term, or at will, or held over after the termination of any tenancy, shall, without proper licensing as provided by law:
a. 
Pull down or demolish or begin to pull down or demolish the same or any part thereof, or
b. 
Pull down or sever from the freehold any fixture attached in or to such dwelling house or building, or part thereof.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall willfully cast, shoot or throw anything at, against, or into any vehicle, railroad car, airplane or other facility of transportation nor shall any person willfully place any stick, stone or other substance upon any railroad track with intent to injure any car passing thereon, or the passengers therein.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall willfully place or throw or suffer or permit the depositing of any stone, sticks, glass, snow or ice or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance upon any street or other public thoroughfare; nor shall any person willfully throw any such object or substance at, upon or against any person, vehicle of transportation, building or other structure.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall negligently or willfully obstruct any street or public place with any kind of vehicle or vehicles or with box or boxes, lumber, wood or any other thing without a permit issued as provided by law.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall willfully:
a. 
Mutilate or remove any notice; or damage, destroy or remove any warning sign or signal; or remove any barricade placed or posted on any street in connection with or relating to the closing of such street;
b. 
Drive any vehicle over or upon the closed portion of any street; or
c. 
Violate any rule or regulation for the use of any street.
No person shall throw, drop, dump on or tow to, or otherwise place on open fields or other private property without first obtaining the written permission of the owner or person in possession of such property, any junk, paper, bottles, trash, garbage, refuse or debris of any nature.
Any person violating any provision of this subsection 3-5.18 shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not less than $100 and not exceeding $1,000.
[Ord. #296; Ord. #837; Ord. #863]
[Ord. #863]
No person shall throw, drop, discard, dump or otherwise place any junk, paper, bottles, trash, garbage, refuse or debris of any nature upon a street or other public lands.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall operate or cause to be operated, or shall attempt to operate or cause to be operated, any automatic vending machine, slot machine, coin box, telephone, or other receptacle designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America, by means of a slug or any false, counterfeited, mutilated, sweated or foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device not lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee, or licensee of such machine, coin box, telephone or receptacle, and no person shall take, obtain or receive from or in connection with any such automatic vending machine, coin box telephone or other such receptacle, any goods, wares, merchandise, gas electric current, article of value, or the use of enjoyment thereof, without depositing in and surrendering to such machine, coin box, telephone or receptacle lawful coin of the United States of America to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee, or licensee of such machine, coin box, telephone or receptacle.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall conduct himself or herself in or about the Township having concealed upon him or her any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with an intent to break and enter or unlawfully enter without breaking 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, smoke house or any place of public resort or assemblage with intent to steal any goods or chattels. 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 intent.
[Ord. #296]
No person owning, keeping or having the management or control of any public dance hall where alcoholic beverages are sold, or any tavern, whether licensed as such or not, or any agent or servant of a person, shall admit thereto or permit or suffer to be or remain therein any child under the age of 16 years unaccompanied by a parent, guardian or adult friend.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall, by word, act or other means, knowingly give or cause to be given a false fire alarm or false police alarm.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall fail to relinquish a telephone party line, consisting of a subscriber line telephone circuit with two or more main telephone stations connected therewith, each having a distinctive ring or telephone number, after he has been requested to do so to permit another to place a call, in an emergency in which property or human life are in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential, to a Fire or Police Department or for medical aid or ambulance service, unless the party line at the time of the request is being used for any other emergency call, and no person shall request the use of a party line by falsely stating that it is needed for any of these purposes knowing that statement to be false.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall have in his possession or custody any illegal lottery slips, books or records pertaining to an illegal lottery, nor shall any person have in his possession or have in his automobile in his custody any ticket or tickets, slip or slips, paper, document or memoranda in any way pertaining to the business of a number game. "Number game" as used in this section means any betting on any number or numbers on or according to any plan or method whatsoever. Persons employed by or agents of the New Jersey State lottery are exempted from the prohibitions of this section.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall knowingly remove, deface or alter any notice posted pursuant to law and forbidding trespassing. Any person violating this subsection shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or both.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall discard or abandon in any public or private place accessible to children, whether or not children are trespassers, any refrigerator or icebox with an attached lid or door which may be opened and fastened shut by means of an attached latch, or being the owner, lessee or manager of such place, shall knowingly permit abandoned or discarded refrigerator, icebox or chest to remain there in such condition. Any person violating this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than five days, or both.
[Ord. #296]
All acts constituting lewd, immoral or indecent conduct, unlawful destruction of property, willful injuries to or unlawful interference with persons, hazards to the public health and breaches or disturbances of the peace not expressly hereinbefore mentioned are prohibited.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall trespass on any land, after being forbidden to so trespass by the owner, occupant, lessee or licensee thereof, or after public notice on the part of the owner, occupant, lessee or licensee forbidding such trespassing, which notice has been conspicuously posted adjacent to the highway bounding on such lands or adjacent to a usual entryway thereof. Neither shall any trespasser on private property surreptitiously or sneakingly invade the privacy of another by peering through the windows or other openings of dwelling places thereon.
[Ord. #296]
No person shall, in or about the Township, play for money or other valuable thing at cards, dice or other game, with one or more dice or with any other instrument, engine or device in the nature of dice, having one or more figures or numbers, or at billiards, pool, tennis, bowls or shuffleboard, on A.B.C. or E.O. table, or other tables, or at faro bank, or other bank of a like nature by whatever name known, or with any slot machine or device in the nature of a slot machine or with any other instrument, engine, apparatus or device having one or more figures or numbers thereon.
[Ord. #296; Ord. #1582, 9-24-2002, amended; Ord. #2394, 7-10-2018, amended]
No person shall have set off any bomb, firecracker, torpedo, aerial-type firework device or other fireworks, or discharge any gun, pistol, cannon or other firearm or explosive in and about any public or private place within the Township without the written permit of the Township Committee, provided that this section shall not apply to any peace officer while in the performance of his duty or to any person lawfully engaged in hunting game, or except as authorized by resolution of the Township Committee for purposes of wildlife management with properly licensed firearms, within the Township limits. The use of sparkling devices and novelty fireworks as defined in N.J.S.A. 21:2-2, exploding or nonexploding incendiary firework devices, toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices in which paper or plastic caps of explosive compound are used shall not be used on public lands within the Township without the written permit of the Township Committee and under such conditions as deemed appropriate by the Township Committee.
[Ord. #1154]
a. 
Operation on certain sidewalks/business districts prohibited. No person shall operate or cause to be operated skateboards or in-line skates on the sidewalks or parking areas within the following streets and business areas of the Township of Bernards:
Name of Street/Business Area
Location
Downtown Basking Ridge Business District
South Finley Avenue (both sides), from Lewis Street to Oak Street
Henry Street (both sides), from Rankin Avenue to South Maple Avenue
Brownlee Place (both sides), from Henry Street to West Oak Street
Ridge Pharmacy
Between South Finley Avenue, Henry Street, South Maple Avenue and Lewis Street
Bernards Township Library
Between South Maple Avenue, East Oak Street and Lindbergh Lane
Lyons Mall
South Finley Avenue and Lyons Road
b. 
Operation on recreational courts. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any skateboards or in-line skates on any platform tennis court, basketball court or tennis court which is the property of Bernards Township.
c. 
Violations and penalties. Any police officer who shall observe any person using, operating or riding a skateboard or in-line skates in violation of this subsection shall seize such skateboard or in-line skates and shall proceed as follows:
1. 
First and second offense. Such skateboard/in-line skates shall be released to such person, or to the parent or guardian in a case where such person is a minor, only after a fourteen-day waiting period and upon issuance of a warning as to the effect of this subsection.
2. 
Third offense. Such skateboard/in-line skates shall be released to such person, or the parent or guardian in a case where such person is a minor, only after a fourteen-day waiting period and, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed $50.
[Ordinance #1361, 6-15-1999, added]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged an apparatus commonly known as a "paintball gun or device" in and about any public property. Any discharge of a paintball gun or device in or about a private property within the Township shall be performed only with the consent of the property owner and in a manner as to ensure that the paintball is confined to the limits of the private property where discharged.