[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Springfield 12-14-1994 as §§ 4-1
and 4-13 of the 1994 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any motor vehicle, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck,
truck-tractor and vehicle, which terms are intended to have the meaning
stated and defined in N.J.S.A. 39:1-1 et seq.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
A way or place, of whatsoever nature, open to the use of
the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel or,
in the case of a sidewalk, for pedestrian travel. The term “street”
shall include the legal right-of-way, including, but not limited to,
the cartway or traffic lanes, curb, the sidewalks, whether paved or
unpaved, and any grass lots or other grounds found within the legal
right-of-way of a street. The term “street” shall apply
irrespective of what it is called or formally named, whether alley,
avenue, court, road or otherwise. The term “street” shall
also include, for the purposes of this chapter, shopping centers,
parking lots, parks, playgrounds, public buildings and similar areas
open to the use of the public.
No person shall go about from door to door or
place himself/herself in streets, highways or passages to beg or solicit
alms or charity; nor wander abroad and beg or solicit charity under
pretense of being or having been soldiers, marines or seafarers or
of having suffered loss by fire or other casualty, or by war or other
pretense or thing.
A.
No person shall possess open alcohol containers on
public property or on private property not his/her own without the
owner’s consent.
[Amended 12-10-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-9]
B.
No person, on any street, at any street corner or
in any public place, or any railroad train or other public conveyance
with the Township, shall indulge in and utter loud, offensive or indecent
language, or address or make audible any offensive remarks or comments
upon any persons passing along such streets or public places or in
any such railroad train or other public conveyance.
C.
No person shall obstruct or interfere with any person
lawfully being in and upon any street or public place or any train
or other public conveyance with the Township.
No person shall dump any abandoned automobile,
automobile parts or other junk on or upon any open fields or other
private or public property without first obtaining the permission
of the owner of such property.
No person shall, by noisy or disorderly conduct
in a public library or reading room, disturb or interrupt the quiet
and good order of those who resort to and use such library or reading
room for reading or study.
No person shall enter the building or go upon
the lands belonging to a public school district or used and occupied
for school purposes by a public school, and break, injure or deface
such building, or any part thereof, or the fences belonging to or
connected with such building or lands, or disturb the exercises of
the school, or molest or give annoyance to the children attending
such school or any teacher therein.
No person on any public street, road or avenue
or in any park or other public place shall disrobe or make any indecent
exposure of his/her person, commit or do any lewd or indecent act
or behave in a lewd or indecent manner.
No person shall urinate or defecate on any public
street, road or avenue or in any park or other public place.
No person shall disrobe in any automobile, truck
or other vehicle while the same is on any public street, road or avenue
or in any park or other public place.
No person shall permit any house, shop, store
or other building or structure owned or occupied by him/her to be
frequented or resorted to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons,
or by prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants engaged in such respective
pursuits.
No person who is a passenger in any automobile
or other motor vehicle shall act in a rough, unruly or boisterous
manner, thereby interfering with, or distracting the attention of
the operator of such automobile or other motor vehicle and endangering
the safe and proper operation thereof.
[Amended 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
[Added 9-13-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04]
No person shall wrongfully interfere with legitimate business
activity within the Township by means of activity which causes pecuniary
loss to the business or disrupts the normal business operations.
