Borough of South Plainfield, NJ
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2023-12-18
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 322 Peace and Good Order
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Article II Interference with Fire Department; Burning of Waste
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 11 Aging, Office on
- Ch 17 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 22 Civil Service
- Ch 28 Claims Procedure
- Ch 34 Court
- Ch 41 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 46 Financial Disclosure
- Ch 52 Fire Department
- Ch 54 Fiscal Year
- Ch 71 Officers and Employees
- Ch 73 Payroll
- Ch 78 Personnel Regulations
- Ch 84 Police Department
- Ch 90 Public Works Department
- Ch 96 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 101 Seal
- Ch 107 Sewerage Authority
- Ch 112 Swimming Pool Utility
- Ch 118 Volunteer Municipal Positions
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 125 (Reserved)
- Ch 131 Alarm Systems
- Ch 136 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 141 Amusements
- Ch 146 Animals
- Ch 152 Background Checks
- Ch 160 (Reserved)
- Ch 163 Bicycles
- Ch 168 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 172 Business and Rental Insurance Certificate Registry
- Ch 175 Cannabis Transfer Tax and User Tax
- Ch 181 Charitable Clothing Bins
- Ch 186 Cigarettes and Tobacco Products
- Ch 187 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 196 Curfew
- Ch 204 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 210 Emergency Management
- Ch 216 Fees
- Ch 218 Fiber Optic Cable
- Ch 220 Firearms
- Ch 225 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 230 Fire Prevention
- Ch 241 Fireworks
- Ch 247 Floodplain Management
- Ch 259 (Reserved)
- Ch 265 Hazardous Materials Cleanup
- Ch 272 Junkyards
- Ch 278 Laundromats
- Ch 283 Library
- Ch 288 Littering and Handbills
- Ch 293 Locksmiths
- Ch 296 Motels and Hotels
- Ch 300 Noise
- Ch 305 Obscene Materials
- Ch 311 (Reserved)
- Ch 317 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 322 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 322 Art II Interference with Fire Department; Burning of Waste
- § 322-19 Driving over fire hose.
- § 322-20 Interference with members of Fire Department.
- § 322-21 False alarms.
- § 322-22 Hot ashes.
- § 322-23 Burning waste material.
- § 322-24 Burning brush, leaves or grass.
- § 322-25 Record of permits.
- § 322-26 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 327 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 332 Planting, Growing and Containment of Bamboo
- Ch 333 Property Maintenance
- Ch 334 Property, Residential
- Ch 335 Property, Unsafe
- Ch 342 Sales, Special
- Ch 347 School Enrollment
- Ch 350 Senior Center Rental
- Ch 352 Sewers
- Ch 357 Shopping Carts
- Ch 362 Shopping Mall Security
- Ch 367 Skateboards
- Ch 373 Smoking
- Ch 383 Soil Moving
- Ch 389 Solid Waste
- Ch 394 Spray Paint Sales and Use
- Ch 399 Stormwater Control
- Ch 403 Stormwater Management
- Ch 409 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 415 Swimming Pools
- Ch 421 Taxation
- Ch 426 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 434 Towing
- Ch 439 Trailers and Storage Containers
- Ch 444 Trees
- Ch 449 Utility Poles and Underground Facilities
- Ch 455 (Reserved)
- Ch 457 Vehicles, Sale of
- Ch 462 Vending Machines
- Ch 467 Wetlands
- Appendix
- Ch A470 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Land Use and Development
- Ch 500 General Provisions
- Ch 504 Affordable Housing
- Ch 507 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 510 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 515 Development Review
- Ch 519 Escrow Accounts for Professional Services
- Ch 531 Redevelopment Plans
- Ch 540 Zoning
- Land Use Disposition List
- Ch LDL Disposition List
[Adopted 10-13-1964 as Art. 3 of Ch. 6 of the 1964 Code;
amended in its entirety 9-28-1982 (Ch. 143, Art. II, of the 1982 Code)]
No person shall, during a fire or fire drill,
drive or operate any vehicle over any hose or fire apparatus.
No person shall willfully hinder or molest a
member of the Fire Department or other Borough officer in the performance
of his duty at a fire.
No person shall raise, create or continue a
false alarm of fire or operate a fire alarm box without reasonable
cause.
No person shall deposit hot ashes on any wooden
floor of any building or in any wooden receptacle or against any wooden
fence or building within the limits of the Borough of South Plainfield.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to burn or cause to be burned any wastepaper or other combustible
material at any time within the limits of the Borough of South Plainfield,
Middlesex County, except and unless such wastepaper and combustible
material refuse may be burned in a receptacle so constructed as to
confine and control the fire in such manner as to prevent the spreading
of the fire to lands or buildings of other persons or persons' properties.
It shall be unlawful at any time for any person
or persons to burn brush, weeds, grass or leaves or other light material
in the Borough of South Plainfield without first obtaining a permit
from the Fire Chief of the local Fire Department or other designated
person named by the fire company for the area in which said brush,
weeds, grass, leaves or other light material is to be burned. Said
permit shall state the name and address of the person or persons obtaining
said permit and shall be good only on the date it is issued and between
the hours of sunrise and sunset and only when sufficient assistance
is in attendance. The holder of such permit shall be held liable at
all times for any damage done to any other person or person's property
through the burning of said brush, weeds, grass, leaves or other light
material.
The Fire Chief of the local fire company shall
keep a record of all such permits issued.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000,
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days or a period of community
service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof.
