City of Hackensack, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 170 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article XIIIA Engine Braking
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administrative Offices
- Ch 3A Hackensack Municipal Alliance
- Ch 3B Stigma Free Advisory Board
- Ch 4 Board of Education
- Ch 5 Chief Financial Officer
- Ch 6 Building, Housing and Land Use Department
- Ch 7 Access to All Advisory Board
- Ch 9 Charges Against City Employees
- Ch 11 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Communications Department
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 13A Condominium, Cooperative and Multi-Unit Rental Buildings Advisory Board
- Ch 14 Court
- Ch 14A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 15 Economic Development Commission
- Ch 17 Employment
- Ch 17A Environmental Commission and Green Team
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Department
- Ch 24 Housing Authority
- Ch 24A Information Technology Department
- Ch 25 Insurance Fund
- Ch 26 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 27 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 28 Parking System, Public
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 Police Department
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 35 Records, Public
- Ch 36 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 36A Cultural Arts, Department of
- Ch 37 Rules of Order
- Ch 38 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 40 Seal
- Ch 41 Senior Citizen Advisory Board
- Ch 42 Shade Tree Advisory Committee
- Ch 43 Veterans' Advisory Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 44 Abandoned and Nuisance Properties
- Ch 45 Advertising Materials
- Ch 45A Affordable Housing
- Ch 46 Air Pollution Control
- Ch 47 Alarm Devices
- Ch 49 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Amusement Machines, Automatic
- Ch 52 Animals
- Ch 54 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 56 Automobile Driving Schools
- Ch 58 Automobile Sales, Used
- Ch 60 Barbershops, Beauty Parlors and Nail Salons
- Ch 63 Bicycles, Roller Skates, Skateboards and Sleds
- Ch 64 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 66 Boarding and Rooming Houses; Nursing Homes
- Ch 67 Body Piercing, Ear Piercing, Permanent Cosmetics and Tattooing
- Ch 68 Brush, Weeds and Debris
- Ch 69 Cannabis Businesses
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 72 Checks, Fraudulent and Returned
- Ch 74 Child-Care Facilities
- Ch 75 Community Garden
- Ch 76 Drug and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 78 Dry-Cleaning Establishments and Laundries
- Ch 81 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Exterminators; Fumigation; Vermin Control
- Ch 86 Firearms, Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 88 Fire Prevention
- Ch 89 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 90 Food and Drink
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 94 Gardeners, Landscapers, Horticulturists, and Snow Removal Business
- Ch 95 Graffiti
- Ch 96 Guarantees and Bonds
- Ch 97 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 98 Heating and Hot Water
- Ch 99 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 100 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 101 Insurance
- Ch 102 Jewelry, Secondhand
- Ch 104 Junkyards and Storage Yards
- Ch 106 Library
- Ch 107 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 108 Limousine Services
- Ch 109 Littering
- Ch 110 Mechanical Code
- Ch 111 Massage Establishments
- Ch 112 Noise
- Ch 114 Nuisances
- Ch 115 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 116 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 117 Parks
- Ch 119 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 121 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Poolrooms
- Ch 127 Private Property, Parking on
- Ch 129 Public Bathing Places
- Ch 132 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Ch 133 Relocation of Displaced Tenants
- Ch 134 Rent Stabilization
- Ch 138 Sales, Special
- Ch 140 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 141 Sewers
- Ch 143 Shopping Carts
- Ch 145 Smoke Emission
- Ch 146 Soil Removal
- Ch 147 Special Improvement District
- Ch 148 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 150 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 152 (Reserved)
- Ch 153 Taxation
- Ch 155 Taxicabs
- Ch 158 Tourist Lodges and Camps
- Ch 159 Towers and Wreckers
- Ch 159A Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 160 Trailers and Trailer Camps
- Ch 162 Trees
- Ch 165 Truck and Bus Terminals
- Ch 166 Uniform Construction Code Enforcement
- Ch 168 Vehicles and Property, Abandoned
- Ch 170 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 170 Art XIIIA Engine Braking
- § 170-49.3 Engine braking prohibited.
- Ch 173 Waterfront Cleanup Program
- Ch 175 Zoning
- Ch 176 Newsracks
- Appendix
- Ch A180 Building Lines
- Ch A181 Franchises
- Ch A182 9-1-1 Telephone System
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Added 12-19-2011 by Ord.
No. 22-2011]
A.Â
ENGINE BRAKING
Definition. As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The use or operation of any mechanical exhaust device designed
to aid in the braking, decompression or deceleration of any motor
vehicle which results in excessive, loud, unusual or explosive noise
from such vehicle.
B.Â
Engine braking prohibited. It shall be unlawful for the driver of
any motor vehicle to use or operate or cause to be used or operated,
at any time and on any roadway within the City of Hackensack, any
mechanical exhaust or decompression device which results in a practice
known as "engine braking."
C.Â
Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to engine
braking where necessary for the protection of persons and/or property
which cannot be avoided by application of an alternative braking system.
Noise caused by the application of engine compression brakes, otherwise
known as "engine braking," which is effectively muffled or if the
application is necessary for the health, safety and welfare of the
community, is exempt from the provisions of this section. Sounds created
by emergency equipment for emergency purposes are also exempt.
D.Â
Posting of signs. The City is hereby authorized to post signs at
reasonable locations within the City indicating the prohibition of
the practice of engine braking.
E.Â
Violations and penalties. Unless another penalty is expressly provided
by New Jersey Statute, any person convicted of a violation of this
section shall be punished for a first conviction thereof by a fine
of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed
10 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a second conviction,
such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $200 or by
imprisonment for a period not to exceed 20 days, or by both such fine
and imprisonment; and upon the third or any subsequent conviction,
such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by
imprisonment for a period not to exceed six months, or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
