Borough of Chatham, NJ
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2023-12-11
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 244 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article I General Use Regulations
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administrative Code
- Ch 3 Appointed Positions Registry
- Ch 6 Court
- Ch 8 Defined Contribution Retirement Program
- Ch 11 Environmental Commission
- Ch 15 Fire Department
- Ch 19 Funds
- Ch 23 Health, Board of
- Ch 28 Indemnification
- Ch 33 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 35 Mutual Aid
- Ch 39 (Reserved)
- Ch 43 Payroll Account
- Ch 48 Police Department
- Ch 52 Purchasing and Claims Approval
- Ch 56 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 63 Shade Tree Commission
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 69 Affordable Housing
- Ch 71 Alarm Systems
- Ch 75 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 79 Animals and Rabies Control
- Ch 83 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 94 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Business Hours
- Ch 101 Cannabis
- Ch 104 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 111 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 115 Cooperative and Condominium Conversions
- Ch 119 Development Fees
- Ch 122 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 129 Fees
- Ch 130 Fertilizer
- Ch 131 Filming
- Ch 133 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 136 Fire Code, Uniform
- Ch 139 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 144 Fire-Related Offenses
- Ch 148 Fire Zones
- Ch 154 Garage Sales
- Ch 157 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 165 Land Development Regulations
- Ch 169 Library Property and Books
- Ch 173 Littering and Handbills
- Ch 180 Newspaper Vending Machines
- Ch 184 Noise
- Ch 188 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 189 Oil and Hazardous Substance Pipelines
- Ch 195 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 199 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 204 Property Maintenance
- Ch 208 Public Nuisances
- Ch 217 Sewers
- Ch 221 Sidewalks
- Ch 224 Single-Use Bags at Retail Establishments
- Ch 228 Smoking
- Ch 233 Solid Waste
- Ch 237 Storm Sewer System
- Ch 240 (Reserved)
- Ch 244 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 244 Art I General Use Regulations
- § 244-1 Playing of games in public places.
- § 244-2 Removal or damaging of warning lights, signals and signs.
- § 244-3 Opening of manholes and drain inlets.
- § 244-4 (Reserved)
- § 244-5 Temporary closing of streets.
- § 244-6 Parades.
- § 244-7 Fires on roadways.
- § 244-8 (Reserved)
- Ch 250 Taxicabs and Liveries
- Ch 256 Towing
- Ch 257 Tree Protection and Preservation
- Ch 263 Vehicles, Motorized
- Ch 267 Water
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 274 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 276 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 277 Garbage and Refuse Handling Standards
- Ch 278 Sanitary Regulations
- Ch 280 Fees, Board of Health
- Ch 284 (Reserved)
- Ch 286 Fowl and Birds
- Ch 289 (Reserved)
- Ch 291 (Reserved)
- Ch 294 Painting
- Ch 303 Public Recreational Bathing
- Ch 307 Tanning Booth Establishments
- Ch 308 Smoking
- Part IV: Shade Tree Commission Legislation
- Ch 313 General Provisions, Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 314 Trees
- Appendix
- Ch A320 Incorporation of Borough
- Ch A321 Madison-Chatham Joint Meeting
- Ch A322 Joint Sewer System Contract
- Ch A323 Communications Facilities Franchise
- Ch A324 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A325 Telecommunications Rights-Of-Way Use Agreements
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
No person shall engage or participate in any
practice, sport or exercise having a tendency to annoy, disturb or
frighten any person on any sidewalk, street, road, avenue, park or
other public place.
No person shall remove, displace, break or change
any sign or light or signal set up or placed in any street or public
places as a warning of danger, or indicating an excavation or obstruction,
or showing that any street or public places is closed to traffic.
No person shall, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, extinguish
any light used for any purpose set forth in this section.
No person shall open any manhole or drain inlet,
or remove the cover or grate thereof, without authorization from the
Director of Public Works or other administrative authority. Such opening
shall be appropriately barricaded and shall be so marked both day
and night, as to be plainly seen at a distance of 50 feet. The barricade
shall be maintained as long as the manhole shall remain opened or
uncovered. Barricades must conform to the requirements of the Manual
of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, latest edition, and shall be approved
by the Borough Engineer.
The Borough Administrator or his agent or designee
may close any street or public place or section thereof to public
traffic for the purpose of repairing, constructing or reconstructing
the same.
No person shall organize or conduct or assist
in the organization or conduct of any parade upon any of the public
streets or public places without obtaining a permit therefor from
the Borough Clerk.
No person shall make, light, start or maintain
any fire upon any street or roadway.
