As used in this section:
LOITERING
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."
MINOR PERSON
Shall mean any male or female person under the age of 18 years.
PRIVATE PLACE OR PROPERTY
Shall mean all property other than public and semi-public.
PUBLIC PLACE
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.
SEMI-PUBLIC PLACE OR PROPERTY
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.