[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Ocean by Ord. No. 1992-7 (§ 5-22
of the 1972 Ocean Codified Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following term shall have the meaning
indicated:
Any individual, partnership or corporation.
It is unlawful for any person to have upon him/her any picklock,
key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with intent to break and enter
into any building or to have upon him/her any pistol, hanger, cutlass,
bludgeon or other offensive or dangerous weapon with intent to assault
any person or to be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse,
stable, barn, coach house or in any place of public resort or assemblage
for business, worship, amusement or other lawful purposes, with intent
to steal any goods or chattels.
It is unlawful for any person to maliciously destroy, damage
or injure property of any kind.
It is unlawful for any unauthorized person to have in his/her
possession or make or cause to be made, use or cause to be used any
key or keys of any fire engine, ambulance, truck or ambulance house,
alarm box or other fire or first aid equipment.
It is unlawful for any person not a member of a fire company
or first aid squad to use or wear the uniform, or any part thereof,
regularly used by the members of said company or squad.
It is unlawful for any person to write or mark or cause to be
written or marked any word or figure on any wall, fence, porch, post,
building, enclosure, pavement or public street on any public or private
property without the owner's permission.
It is unlawful for any person to knowingly or designedly, by
means of any false statement, made orally or in writing, obtain from
the Township or from an officer, committee, commission or body thereof
or from any private or charitable organization or association of any
kind, under pretense that he/she is poor and needy or out of employment,
any money, personal property or other valuable thing.
It is unlawful for any person, by false representations as to
his/her financial situation to obtain from any department or public
welfare financial or other assistance in any form.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
No person shall urinate or defecate on any public street, public
sidewalk or in any public place or in any place open to and used by
the public or outdoors upon any private property, within the public
view.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
It is unlawful and shall be public nuisance for any person,
if with the purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm,
or recklessly creating risk thereof, he or she engages in fighting
or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior, or creates hazardous
or physically dangerous condition by any act which services no legitimate
purpose of the actor.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
A.
No person shall possess, have, hold, control, maintain, own or otherwise
consume an alcoholic beverage or entice or encourage person to drink
an alcoholic beverage on any public street, public sidewalk, school,
public conveyance, or in any other public place or in any place open
to and used by the public or outdoors.
B.
This section shall not apply to residential property or real property
which is licensed by the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in
accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 33:1-1 et seq.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
No person under the age of 18 years shall smoke or carry lighted
tobacco in any public place, school, or outdoors, including, but not
limited to places of public accommodation or places of public assembly.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment for term not to exceed
90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the judge. The continuation of such violation for each successive
day shall constitute separate offense, and the person or persons allowing
or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as
provided above for a separate offense.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
All fines imposed and collected under and by virtue of this
chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the Township.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1998-8]
Any person or persons violating any provisions of this chapter
shall be fined minimum of $100 for first conviction and the minimum
penalty for second conviction within one year shall be a fine of $200
and for third or more convictions within one year the minimum penalty
shall be a fine of $300.
[Added 3-10-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-2]
A.
Prohibition on casting of snow or ice. No owner, tenant or occupant
of any premises, whether residential, commercial, or nonprofit, abutting
any street or public roadway in the Township of Ocean shall throw,
place or deposit snow or ice into or on any such street or public
roadway, it being the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit
all persons from throwing, casting, placing or depositing snow and
ice which accumulates within the private property belonging to that
person on streets located within the Township of Ocean.
B.
Penalties. Any person, including the owner, tenant or occupant of
any premises actually casting the snow or ice onto a public roadway
within the Township of Ocean in violation of the terms of this chapter
shall, upon condition be subject to a fine of not more than $500.
Each instance in performing such action shall constitute a separate
and distinct offense subject to any and all penalties described herein.
