[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Oxford 11-4-1968 (Ch. 73 of the 1974 Township Code). Amendments noted where
applicable.]
A.
No person shall, within the limits of the Township
of Oxford:
(1)
[1]Loiter on any sidewalk, street, road, avenue or other public
place or in or about any public building, schoolhouse, store or place
of amusement or in or upon any private property not his own.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(1), regarding
intoxication and drunkenness, was repealed 1-7-2009 by Ord. No. 2008-19.
Said ordinances also redesignated former Subsection A(2) through (28)
as Subsection A(1) through (27), respectively.
(2)
Utter loud and offensive, profane or indecent language
in any public street, other public place, public conveyance or place
to which the public is invited.
(3)
Address or make audible and offensive remarks to or
concerning any person in any place, public or private.
(4)
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in or upon any place, public or private.
(5)
Repeatedly telephone another for the purpose of annoying
or molesting such person or telephone another and address any lewd,
lascivious, indecent or disgusting remarks to such person. Any offense
committed under this subsection may be deemed to have taken place
at either the place at which the telephone call was made or at the
place at which the telephone call was received.
(6)
Collect in crowds for idle or unlawful purposes in
any of the streets, alleys or highways or other public places in the
Township to the annoyance or disturbance of citizens or travelers.
(7)
Operate any television, radio, phonograph, jukebox
or other sound-producing instrument, device or apparatus at such loud
volume or at such unreasonable hours as to annoy or disturb the comfort,
rest or repose of any person or persons.
(8)
Commit or attempt to commit an assault or an assault
and battery or be engaged in a fight or aid, assist or abet any person
about to commit or attempt to commit an assault or an assault and
battery or a fight.
(9)
Sound his automobile horn other than as a warning
signal necessary and essential in driving said vehicle or operate
any motor vehicle so as to cause unnecessary noise with the tires,
specifically including the practice of what is known as "laying a
patch."
(10)
Permit, make or continue or cause to be permitted,
made or continued any unnecessary noise which shall disturb the comfort,
rest and repose of any person or persons being in his, her or their
place of abode.
(11)
Throw, discard or deposit any tin cans, bottles, garbage
or refuse of any kind whatsoever into the waters of any pool, stream
or river or upon the public street or public place or discharge any
sewage or waste into said waters or places or pollute said waters
in any manner.
(12)
Throw, discard, deposit or sweep any paper or posters,
stones, sticks, glass, metal or any hard, dangerous or offensive substance
upon any sidewalk, street, highway or public place or at any car,
vehicle, house, building, fence or person or dump any trash or garbage
upon private property not his own.
(13)
Sell, offer to sell, exhibit or have in his possession
any indecent picture, book or thing or exhibit or perform any indecent,
immoral or lewd play or other representation.
(14)
Keep, maintain or be present in a disorderly house
or a house of ill fame or allow or permit any house, shop, store or
other building or structure owned or occupied by him or her to be
used as a disorderly house or house of ill fame.
(15)
Solicit, invite or in any manner suggest by word of
mouth or any written or other communication or by any device whatsoever
any lewd, lascivious or other immoral act.
(16)
Permit any house, shop, store or other building or
structure owned or occupied by him or her to be frequented or resorted
to by noisy, riotous or disorderly persons or by prostitutes, gamblers
or vagrants.
(17)
Maliciously destroy, damage or injure any property,
public or private.
(18)
Carry without lawful authority any instrument of the
kind known as blackjack, sling shot, blow gun or similar device, billy,
sand club, sand bag, bludgeon, metal knuckles, dagger, dirk, dangerous
knife, stiletto, bomb or other high explosive concealed in or about
his or her clothes or person or in any portable vehicle, automobile,
motorcycle or other vehicle.
(19)
Possess, keep, sell, distribute or discharge any firecrackers,
Roman candles, skyrockets or any matter of an explosive nature commonly
used in a fireworks display, unless permitted by law.
(20)
Have upon his or her person or in his or her possession
any pick lock, key, crowbar, jack, bit or other implement with any
intent to break and enter into any building.
(21)
Enter any building or any public or private lands
and break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the
fences, outhouses or other property belonging to or connected with
such building.
(22)
Hinder or obstruct any Township officer in the performance
of his duties or threaten to do bodily harm or injury to such officer
or willfully refuse or neglect to assist any Township officer when
lawfully called upon by him to do so in the execution of any process
or in the suppression of any breach of the peace or disorderly conduct
or in case of escape or when such officer is resisted in the discharge
of his duty or resist or oppose any officer in serving or attempting
to serve any writ, bill, order or process or when making any arrest.
(23)
Intentionally, willfully or maliciously destroy or
injure any of the wires, posts, machines, bells, sirens, boxes or
other apparatus of any fire alarm system or intentionally, willfully
or maliciously interfere with the same or any part thereof or hinder
or impede any of the operations intended to be accomplished thereby
or intentionally cause or assist in causing a false alarm of fire
or emergency to be given in any manner.
(24)
Interfere with or hinder any member of any fire company
or first-aid squad while engaged in the performance of his duties
or on practice duty; nor shall any person disobey any order of any
fireman while on active duty at any fire within the limits of the
Township nor of any member of the first-aid squad while on active
duty; nor shall any person ride over or otherwise damage any fire
hose, open any fire hydrant without written permission of the Chief
of the Fire Company (except qualified firemen and except Township
employees in the performance of their duties) or otherwise interfere
with, damage or destroy any property or equipment of any fire company
within the limits of the Township.
(25)
Enter any building or go upon the lands of any public
school and break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof,
including the fences, outbuildings or other property belonging to
or connected with such building or lands; and no person shall disturb
the exercises of any public or private school or give annoyance to
the children attending such school or annoy any teacher therein.
(26)
Use a loudspeaker or sound wagon or amplifier on the
public streets or public places within the corporate limits of the
Township without first making written application to the Township
Clerk for a permit and securing such permit.
[Amended 12-11-1974]
(27)
Discharge a firearm, except for duly licensed hunting,
target practice on an approved range and by police in the performance
on their duties.
[Added 10-21-1993 by Ord. No. 93-11]
B.
All other riotous conduct, indecent conduct, breach
of the peace and any vagrancy, not hereinabove specifically mentioned,
are hereby prohibited.
All fines imposed and collected under and by
virtue of this chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the Township.
[Amended 12-11-1974]
Any person who shall violate any of the terms
or provisions of this chapter or who shall do or commit any act or
thing prohibited in this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof before
the Judge, be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding
90 days or shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding $500, or both.
Any members of the Police Department and all
special police officers shall have authority to arrest any person
who violates any of the provisions of this chapter within his presence
or sight without first obtaining a warrant for said arrest and to
bring said violator forthwith before the Judge. In all cases where
said violations are not committed in the presence or sight of said
police officer or officers, the person witnessing said violation shall
first make a sworn complaint before the judicial officer aforementioned,
who shall thereupon issue a warrant for the arrest and apprehension
of the person charged with offense. Police officers may sign complaints
on information and belief, provided they set forth the source of their
information and the basis of their belief, when, for any reason, the
person witnessing the violation refuses to or does not sign a complaint.
