City of Garfield, NJ
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2024-01-05
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Part II General Legislation
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Chapter 244 Public Property, Obstruction of
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 9 Civil Service
- Ch 12 Court
- Ch 16 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 18 Elections, Municipal
- Ch 19 Employment Separation Program
- Ch 23 Fire Department
- Ch 27 Historic Preservation
- Ch 30 Housing Authority
- Ch 35 Library
- Ch 39 Officers and Employees
- Ch 41 Parking Authority
- Ch 44 Personnel Regulations
- Ch 48 Police Department
- Ch 51 Public Safety Communications
- Ch 53 Purchasing
- Ch 56 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 58 Retirement
- Ch 60 Sick Leave Documentation
- General Legislation
- Ch 64 Adult Bookstores and Massage Parlors
- Ch 69 Alarm Systems
- Ch 73 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 77 Amusements
- Ch 80 Animals
- Ch 94 Builders and Contractors
- Ch 100 Cannabis
- Ch 102 Carnivals and Shows
- Ch 105 Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 109 Christmas Tree Sales
- Ch 111 Clothing Bins
- Ch 114 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 116 Criminal History Background Checks
- Ch 119 Curfew
- Ch 120 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 125 Dumping
- Ch 128 Dwelling Certificates
- Ch 131 Dwelling and Rooming Units
- Ch 134 Dwellings, Unlawful
- Ch 140 Fertilizer Application
- Ch 141 Filming
- Ch 142 Fire Prevention
- Ch 144 Flag Etiquette
- Ch 146 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 150 Food Handlers, Mobile
- Ch 151 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 153 Fortune-Tellers
- Ch 157 Games of Chance on Sunday
- Ch 161 Garage Sales
- Ch 164 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 172 Grading of Land
- Ch 176 Graffiti
- Ch 181 Housing Standards
- Ch 185 Junkyards
- Ch 187 Landscaping
- Ch 188 Land Use
- Ch 191 Laundromats
- Ch 195 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 198 Limousines
- Ch 201 Littering
- Ch 208 Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 210 Mausoleums, Public
- Ch 213 Meat Packaging
- Ch 216 Moving Permits
- Ch 218 Newsracks
- Ch 220 Noise
- Ch 221 Nuisances
- Ch 224 Parades and Special Events
- Ch 226 Parking
- Ch 230 Parking Lots
- Ch 233 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 237 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 239 Plastic Bag and Straw Regulation
- Ch 242 Property Maintenance
- Ch 243 Property, Vacant and Abandoned, Registration
- Ch 244 Public Property, Obstruction of
- § 244-1 Obstacles blocking streets prohibited.
- § 244-2 Obstruction of drainage ditches prohibited.
- Ch 246 Railroad Use
- Ch 249 Recycling
- Ch 252 Relocation Assistance
- Ch 256 Retail Business Hours
- Ch 260 Sanitation
- Ch 263 Secondhand Merchandise Dealers
- Ch 265 Sewers
- Ch 266 Sex Offenders
- Ch 268 Shopping Carts
- Ch 272 Signs
- Ch 275 Site Plan Review
- Ch 278 Smoking
- Ch 280 Snow Removal
- Ch 284 Stormwater Control
- Ch 285 Stormwater Management Regulations
- Ch 287 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 290 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 294 Tattoo Artists and Body Piercing
- Ch 298 Taxation
- Ch 301 Taxicabs
- Ch 305 Telephones, Public
- Ch 308 Tobacco Retail Establishments; Vape Shops; Retail Electronic Smoking Establishments
- Ch 310 Tow Trucks
- Ch 314 Trapping
- Ch 318 Urination in Public
- Ch 322 Vehicles, Abandoned and Unclaimed
- Ch 325 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 328 Vehicle Repair and Auto Body Repair Facilities
- Ch 329 Vehicle Sales Businesses
- Ch 333 Water
- Ch 337 Waterfront Drift and Debris
- Ch 341 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A342 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Garfield 7-14-2015 by Ord. No. 2714.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Garbage, rubbish and refuse — See Ch. 164.
Sewers — See Ch. 265.
Snow removal — See Ch. 280.
Stormwater control — See Ch. 284.
Stormwater management regulations — See Ch. 285.
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 287.
Vehicles, abandoned and unclaimed — See Ch. 322.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 325.
Waterfront drift and debris — See Ch. 337.
No person shall obstruct or block any City alley, sidewalk,
walkway, street, parkway or other public property, or permit same
to be obstructed, by placing thereon any merchandise, refuse, fixtures,
obstructions, crates, packing or any other object or substance. However,
persons engaged in unloading trucks or vans may obstruct such premises
for the purpose of unloading, but only for such time as absolutely
necessary and reasonable for such unloading and all such obstructions
shall be forthwith removed from such public property.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or cause the obstruction
of any drainage ditch or gutter in any public right-of-way.
A.
It shall be unlawful to drop, dump, throw, deposit, or otherwise
place in natural surface water drainage ditches within the City of
Garfield any residue, trash, junk equipment, industrial residue or
other substance.
B.
No person, firm or corporation owning property adjacent to a natural
drainage ditch carrying surface water within the City of Garfield
shall suffer, condone or permit others to use their property for the
purpose of dropping, dumping, depositing, throwing, or otherwise placing
any residue, trash, junk equipment, industrial residue or other substance
in such drainage ditches.
C.
Dropping, dumping, depositing, throwing or otherwise placing any
residue, trash, junk equipment, industrial residue or other substance
in natural drainage ditches carrying surface water within the City
of Garfield is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, dangerous
to the health and welfare of the citizens of the City of Garfield.
D.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, any owner of a property
which is located adjacent to any such drainage ditch within the City
of Garfield, whose property is being eroded, caved, or washed by the
waters flowing within such drainage ditch, may take protective measures
to prevent such eroding, caving, or washing; provided, however, that
such property owner shall first submit, in writing, to the City Engineer
of the City of Garfield a detailed plan and drawing showing the protective
measures desired to be taken and shall have obtained the approval
of the City Engineer, in writing, before any such protective measures
be undertaken.
