[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township
of East Brunswick 9-27-71 as Ord. No. 71-95-D as Sec. 4-16 of the Revised General Ordinances. Section
93-5 amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provision,
Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
When there exists in the Township of East Brunswick a state
of disaster or emergency brought about by natural causes or by the
action of any person or persons and such state of disaster or emergency
causes or may cause violence and injury to be inflicted upon people
in the Township of East Brunswick and causes or may cause damage and
destruction to property in the Township of East Brunswick, both public
and private, all being against the health, safety and welfare of the
people of the Township of East Brunswick, then and in that event the
Mayor shall have the authority to declare that a state of disaster
or emergency exists, and he shall have the authority and be empowered
to do the following:
A.
Issue orders of proclamations regulating the hours during which persons
shall be prohibited from remaining upon the public streets, ways and
places in the Township of East Brunswick.
B.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which vehicular
traffic shall be prohibited or restricted from traveling over the
streets in the Township of East Brunswick.
C.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which all
businesses licensed by the Township of East Brunswick to dispense
in any way alcoholic beverages shall be closed to business.
D.
Issue orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which all
sales of gasoline by gasoline service stations or firearms or ammunition
by any retail business establishments in the Township of East Brunswick
shall be closed to business.
The Mayor, upon declaring that a state of disaster or emergency
exists in the Township of East Brunswick, shall forthwith advise any
newspaper and radio station located within the County of Middlesex
and request that the announced state of disaster or emergency be publicized
at once.
The judgment of the Mayor that a state of disaster or emergency
exists within the Township of East Brunswick and that it has caused
or is likely to cause injury and damage to person and property within
the Township of East Brunswick shall be final and absolute.
After the Mayor has declared that a state of disaster or emergency
exists in the Township of East Brunswick and has issued an order or
proclamation regulating the movements of persons or vehicles in or
about the Township of East Brunswick, or the dispensing by licensed
persons of alcoholic beverages therein, or the sale of gasoline by
gasoline service stations or firearms or ammunition by any retail
business establishments in the Township of East Brunswick, it shall
be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to be upon
the streets, ways or places in the Township of East Brunswick, to
drive vehicles over the streets in the Township of East Brunswick,
to dispense alcoholic beverages or to sell gasoline at any gasoline
service stations or firearms or ammunition at any retail business
establishments during the hours prohibited by said order or proclamation,
unless otherwise permitted by the Township of East Brunswick.
