[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Morris 12-14-1953 by Ord. No. 10-53 (Ch. 62 of the 1969 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall be drunk or intoxicated in, on, near or about
any public or private place within the Township to the annoyance of
or danger to any other person or against the peace of the Township.
No person or persons, whether owner, tenant, occupant or guest,
shall suffer or take part in any drunken, riotous or other disorderly
conduct that shall disturb the peace and quiet of any family or neighbor
or any of the inhabitants of this Township.
No person shall maliciously destroy, damage or injure property
of another.
[Amended 10-12-1983 by Ord. No. 29-83; 3-23-2011 by Ord. No. 9-11]
No person shall place or throw or suffer or permit the depositing
of any stone, sticks, glass, or hard, dangerous or offensive substance
upon any street, avenue, road, highway or other public thoroughfare;
nor shall any person throw any such object or substance at, upon or
against any person, vehicle of transportation, building or other structure;
nor shall any person place, throw, deposit or permit the depositing
of any trash, debris or other material or substance in or upon any
public park, playground, parking area or other public property. No
owner, tenant or occupant of any premises abutting any street, nor
any person working for or on behalf of any owner, tenant or occupant,
shall throw, place or deposit any snow or ice upon the public street.
The intent of this section is to prohibit all persons from throwing,
placing or depositing snow or ice from the private driveway, parking
area, or the sidewalk in front of the property upon the municipal
streets or sidewalks of the Township.
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.
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 of any lewd or indecent act or behavior.
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.
No person shall maintain or cause or 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 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.
No person shall by word, act, sign or other device invite, solicit,
or aid or abet in inviting or soliciting unlawful sexual intercourse
or any other unlawful, lewd, indecent or lascivious act.
No person shall disturb the exercises of any school or interfere
with or give annoyance to children attending such school or any teacher
therein.
No person shall interfere with, hinder, disturb or obstruct
the proceedings, functions or deliberations of the Township Committee,
the Board of Health or any other official body of the Township of
Morris, nor shall any person obstruct, hinder or interfere with any
Township officer or official engaged in the performance of his duty,
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.
No person shall willfully obstruct, hinder, annoy, frighten,
threaten, insult or interfere with any other person or persons lawfully
upon any public thoroughfare or in any public place or in any automobile,
bus or other public or private conveyance lawfully upon any public
thoroughfare; nor shall any person loiter upon any public thoroughfare
or in any public place or in any automobile, bus or other public or
private conveyance upon any public thoroughfare; nor shall any person
trespass upon the property of another without permission of the owner,
occupant or lessee.
No person shall willfully 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.
No person shall conduct himself or herself in or about the Township
of Morris having concealed upon him or her any picklock, key, crow,
jack, bit or other implement with an intent to break or enter 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, smokehouse or
any place of public resort or assemblage for business, worship or
amusement or other lawful purpose, with intent to steal any goods
or chattels; provided, however, that 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 thoroughfare shall be prima facie
evidence of such intent.
No person shall:
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 highway
in connection with or relating to the closing of any road;
B.
Drive any vehicle over or upon the closed portion of any highway;
or
C.
Violate any rule or regulation for the use of any highway.
No person shall willfully and maliciously ring or cause to be
rung any bell or alarm of any fire company or ambulance association,
thereby giving or causing to be given a false alarm of fire or ambulance
call, or shall willfully send any message of false alarm of fire or
ambulance call by telephone or by any other method or means.
No person shall make, continue or cause to be made or continued
any unnecessary or unusual sound or noise which either annoys, injures
or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others, unless
the making and continuing of the same be necessary for the protection
or preservation of property or of the health, safety, life or limb
of some person or persons.
No person shall unnecessarily obstruct any street, avenue, road,
highway, alley or public place with any kind of vehicle or vehicles
or with box or boxes, lumber, wood or any other thing, but the provisions
of this section shall not prevent persons who are building from occupying,
until notified by any Township official to cease such occupancy, 1/2
of the street in front of the place where they are so building, unless
another person is building on the opposite side of the street, in
which case neither shall occupy more than 1/4 of the street; no person
who is building shall continue such occupancy of any street after
notice from any Township official or police officer to discontinue
the same.
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 severally prohibited.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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 in
any way breach or disturb the peace or tend to breach or disturb the
peace.
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.
Any building or structure or any part thereof in which prostitution,
lewdness or other unlawful sexual acts are permitted.
Shall be construed, wherever appropriate to the context,
to include corporations. The singular number as used herein shall
include the plural.
[Amended 4-21-1999 by Ord. No. 11-99[1]]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof before the Judge authorized to hear and determine the matter, be punishable as provided in § 1-3, General penalty, of this Code, in the discretion of the Judge.
All fines imposed and collected under and by virtue of this
chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the Township of Morris.
