As used in this section:
Shall mean remaining idle in essentially one location and
shall include the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking
about aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression
"hanging around."
Shall mean any male or female person under the age of 18
years.
Shall mean all property other than public and semi-public.
Shall mean any place to which the public has access and shall
include any street, highway, road, alley, or sidewalk. It shall also
include the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant,
tavern or other place of business, any public grounds, areas, parks,
as well as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned
by or under the control of the person charged with violating this
ordinance, or in the case of a minor, not owned or under the control
of his parent or guardian.
Shall mean any and all property and the buildings thereon
to, on or into which the public is invited, regardless of ownership,
and shall include any and all churches, private schools, stores, places
of entertainment or amusement, office buildings, restaurants, hotels,
diners, motels, trailer camps, banks, parking lots or areas, railroad
stations, autobus stations or salesrooms, but such enumeration shall
not limit the meaning of semipublic property.
[Ord. #211; Ord. #303, § 1; New]
No person shall loiter in a public place in
such manner as to:
a.
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach
of the peace.
b.
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
c.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
d.
Obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place as defined in Subsection 3-8.1b. This paragraph
shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting
or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the
person to, or in whose hearing, they are made.
[Ord. #303, § 2]
[Ord. #211]
It shall be unlawful for any person to assemble
or congregate with another person in an unlawful manner or for any
unlawful purpose or to loiter in concert with any other person. For
this purpose, any gathering together of two or more persons, acting
in an offensive, noisy, riotous, boisterous, disorderly or threatening
manner to or against each other or to or against other persons or
otherwise committing acts breaching or disturbing the peace or tending
to breach or disturb the peace, shall be deemed unlawful assembly.
[Ord. #211]
All additions to any property or place, including
steps, approaches, sidewalks, walkways, curbs, porches, stoops, porticos,
shelters, driveways, entrances, approaches and the like shall be deemed
part of the place or property, public or semipublic, on or in which
loitering or unlawful assembly is prohibited.
[Ord. #211]
Juveniles accused of violating this section
shall be charged with juvenile delinquency and all others shall be
brought before the Bernards Township Municipal Court or other court
of competent jurisdiction.
[Ord. #303, § 3]
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in Subsection 3-8.2, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
