[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Glassboro as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Littering — See Ch. 309.
Peddlers, solicitors and transient merchants — See Ch. 357.
[Adopted 3-28-2006 by Ord. No. 06-17[1]]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch. 139, Advertisements and Handbills, adopted 2-9-1971 by Ord. No. 3-71 as Ch. 35 of the 1971 Code, as amended.
It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, cast or place in or along any of the streets or public places of the Borough of Glassboro or on any of the sidewalks or footpaths thereof or into any vestibule or yard or upon any porch of any store, dwelling house or other building within the limits of said Borough any circulars, handbills, advertisements, or other printed matter, without having notified the Glassboro Police Department of the date, hour, and locations, including the name, address, and contact phone number of the person legally responsible.
A. 
General prohibition. No person shall be permitted to distribute any such circulars, advertisements, handbills or other printed matter in or upon the public highways or upon any property throughout the Borough of Glassboro in such a manner or under such circumstances as might be likely to create a breach of peace or to create an obnoxious or unsightly condition. Such materials shall not be discarded, deposited, thrown or left upon any parking place, street, road, avenue, park or other public place or upon any lot or other premises, except in the manner herein provided.
B. 
Distribution requirements. Distribution of circulars, advertisements, handbills or other printed matter shall be accomplished in the following manner:
(1) 
To individuals: by handing such materials to them personally.
(2) 
To dwelling houses, places of business or any other structures: by leaving such materials on the porch or on the entranceway of such structure in a secure manner so as not to be blown away by the elements and in a manner calculated to be readily observable by the occupant of said structure upon entry to same.
(3) 
If placed on parked motor vehicles, in a secure manner so as not to be blown away by the elements and calculated to be readily observable by the operator of such motor vehicle upon entering same.
No person shall permit the distribution or delivery of any printed matter hereinbefore recited which is vulgar, indecent, obscene or in any sense likely to create a breach of peace.
The provisions of this article shall not be construed to affect or prohibit the distribution of the United States mail within the Borough of Glassboro or the distribution of newspapers entered with the Post Office of the United States Government as second-class mail matter or the delivery of newspapers and publications to subscribers (as opposed to unsolicited deliveries).
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Includes any person, partnerships, corporations, associations and their agents and employees.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a period of community service for not more than 90 days, or any combination thereof.
[Adopted 9-12-2017 by Ord. No. 17-37]
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Editor's Note: Digital advertising rates for the Borough of Glassboro are on file in the Borough offices.
A. 
For purposes of this policy, "advertising" is understood to be content created by individuals, using accessible, expandable, and upgradable publishing technologies, through and on the internet. Examples of social media include Glassboro websites, apps, Facebook, Google+, blogs, MySpace, RSS, YouTube, Second Life, Twitter, Linkedln, Delicious, Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr and/or any media now in existence or hereafter developed.
B. 
This is to include information, articles, pictures, videos or any other form of communicative advertising content posted on all Borough of Glassboro social media sites and all Glassboro Newsletters, Boro Briefs Newsletters, Spotlight on Glassboro cable television, glassboro.org, wayfinding signage, all print advertising and all in-app advertising.
(1) 
Potential advertisers must be a business or nonprofit currently registered, and in good standing, within the Borough of Glassboro and hold an up-to-date mercantile license within the Borough.
(2) 
The Council has sole discretion for determining the types of advertisements which will be accepted and displayed, and under no circumstances shall the Council's acceptance of any advertisement be considered an endorsement of the product(s) and/or service(s) advertised or for the entity that manufactures, distributes or promotes such product(s) or service(s).
(3) 
The Council will not accept advertisement which, in the Council's opinion, is not factually accurate and in good taste. The Council will not permit at any time the placement of any advertisement or illegal objectionable products or services. Advertisements must not contain fraudulent, deceptive or offensive material, including material that misrepresents, ridicules, or attacks an individual or group on the basis of age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or handicap.
(4) 
Advertisements must not be related to any of the following:
(a) 
The use or sale of firearms, weapons, ammunition, or explosives.
(b) 
Defamatory content.
(c) 
Content must not contain profanity or bad grammar and punctuation. Symbols, numbers, and letters must be used properly.
(d) 
Deceptive, false, or misleading content, including deceptive claims, offers, or business practices.
(e) 
Content that is shocking, sensational, disrespectful or excessively violent content.
(f) 
Content that demeans, degrades, or shows hate toward a particular race, gender, culture, country, belief, or toward any member of a protected class.
(g) 
Content must not contain content that exploits controversial political or social issues for commercial purposes.
(h) 
Content depicting excessive violence, including the harming of animals.
(i) 
Any illegal conduct, product, or enterprise.
(j) 
Obscene, adult or pornographic content which includes nudity, depictions of people in explicit or suggestive positions, or activities that are overly suggestive or sexually provocative.
(k) 
Content must not promote the sale or use of adult products or services, except for ads for family planning and contraception. Ads for contraceptives must focus on the contraceptive features of the product, and not on sexual pleasure or sexual enhancement, and must be targeted to people 18 years or older.
(l) 
Advocacy of imminent lawlessness or violent action.
(m) 
Content may not promote the sale of spy cams, mobile phone trackers or other hidden surveillance equipment.
(n) 
Content must not contain "before-and-after" images or images that contain unexpected or unlikely results. Ad content must not imply or attempt to generate negative self-perception in order to promote diet, weight loss, or other health-related products. Ads for health, fitness or weight loss products must be targeted to people 18 years or older. Ads must not promote the sale or use of unsafe supplements, as determined by the Council in its sole discretion. Ads that promote acceptable dietary and herbal supplements may only target people who are at least 18 years of age.
(o) 
The improper use or sale of alcoholic beverages. Ads that promote or reference alcohol must comply with all applicable local laws, required or established industry codes, guidelines, licenses and approvals, and include age and audience targeting.
(p) 
Content depicting drug use. Ads must not promote the sale or use of illegal, prescription, or recreational drugs.
(q) 
The use or sale of tobacco products and related paraphernalia.
(r) 
Any copyrighted material for which the advertiser is not the holder of the copyright or licensed to use content.
(s) 
Illegal and/or illicit materials.
(t) 
Content that directs users to phishing links, malware, or similarly harmful codes or sites.
(u) 
Content that deceives users into providing personal information without their knowledge, under false pretenses, or to companies that resell, trade, or otherwise misuse that personal information.
(v) 
Get-rich-quick or pyramid schemes or offers or any other deceptive or fraudulent offers.
(w) 
Content must not contain spyware, malware, or any software that results in an unexpected or deceptive experience. This includes links to sites containing these products. Ads must not direct people to nonfunctional landing pages. This includes landing page content that interferes with a person's ability to navigate away from the page.
(x) 
Content may not promote penny auctions, bidding fee auctions or other similar business models.
(y) 
Content must not promote misleading or deceptive services related to student loan consolidation, forgiveness, or refinancing.
(z) 
Content must not promote or facilitate online real money gambling, real money games of skill or real money lotteries, including online real money casino, sports books, bingo, or poker, are only allowed with prior written permission. Authorized gambling, games of skill or lottery ads must target people 18 years or older who are in municipalities for which permission has been granted.
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Lotteries run by government entities may advertise with Glassboro, provided the ads are targeted in accordance with applicable law in the jurisdiction in which the ads will be served and only target people in the jurisdiction in which the lottery is available.
(5) 
Each advertisement must clearly identify the advertiser. Any advertisement that could be misconstrued as editorial content will be clearly labeled as an advertisement.
(6) 
Any testimonials and endorsements contained in ads or in an advertiser account must comply with all applicable laws, industry codes, rules, and regulations. For example, a clear and conspicuous disclaimer is required if an endorser's results were atypical or if the endorser was paid.
(7) 
Ads must not contain content leading to external landing pages that provide an unexpected or disruptive experience. This includes misleading ad positioning, such as overly sensationalized headlines, and leading people to landing pages that contain minimal original content and a majority of unrelated or low-quality ad content.
(8) 
The Council recognizes and maintains a distinct separation between advertising content and editorial and decisionmaking content. All advertising content shall be clearly and unambiguously identified as such, and the Council will not run any advertisement which is not so identified. Additionally, the Council retains the right to proscribe the form and substance of all editorial content.
(9) 
The Council reserves the right to reject, cancel or remove at any time any advertisement for any reason and will provide prompt notice to the advertiser upon rejection, cancellation, or removal of any advertisement, together with an explanation following the rejection, cancellation, or removal. The Council also reserves the right to determine the appropriate placement of any advertisement.
(10) 
It is the responsibility of the advertiser to comply with all applicable national and international laws, including applicable laws and regulations of regulatory bodies. The Council will not monitor compliance with applicable laws and regulations. However, the Council reserves the right to review all advertisements for compliance with applicable laws and regulations and, if the Council becomes aware of any violation or potential violation of any applicable law or regulation or of these guidelines, the Council may remove the advertisement.
(11) 
No advertisement shall be permitted which may injure the good name or reputation of the Council.
(12) 
The Council reserves the right to revise advertisement rates[1] at any time upon 30 days' written notice.
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Editor's Note: Digital advertising rates for the Borough of Glassboro are on file in the Borough offices.
(13) 
Payment for advertising shall be made 30 days before the date in which advertising is published.
(14) 
Advertiser and its agency shall be jointly and severally liable for the payments of all bills and charges incurred. The advertiser authorizes the Council, at its election, to tender any bill to its agency, and such tender shall constitute notice to the advertiser of the bill and such manner of billing shall in no way impair the joint and several liability of the advertiser and its agency. Payment by the advertiser to this agency shall not discharge the advertiser's liability to the Council. The rights of the Council shall in no way be affected by any dispute or claims as between the advertiser and its agency.
(15) 
Each advertiser and its agency represent and warrant that they are authorized to publish the entire contents and subject matter of the advertisement and that publication by the Council will not violate the personal or proprietary rights of any third party or any law or governmental regulation. Advertiser and its agency will indemnify and hold the Council, its employees and representatives harmless from and against any loss, expense, or liability (including attorneys' fees) arising out of the publication or distribution of such advertising, without limitation.
(16) 
The Council reserves the right, at its absolute discretion and at any time, to reject any advertisement copy, whether or not the same has already been acknowledged and/or previously published. Advertisements that simulate editorial content must be clearly labeled "advertisement," and the Council may, in its sole discretion, so label such copy.
(17) 
In the event the advertiser uses or pays for less advertising then agreed upon or the advertiser or its agency otherwise reaches the terms of its agreement; or if at any time the Council and its reasonable judgment determines that the advertiser is not likely to have published the total amount of advertising specified during the term of the agreement, any rate discount will be retroactively nullified and advertiser and its agency will be charged the difference between the rates charged and the rates applicable for the volume of space actually used and paid for, in accordance with applicable rate schedules ("short-rate"). In such event, the advertiser and its agency must reimburse the Council for the short-rate within 10 days of the Council's invoice and therefore and advertiser will thereafter pay for advertising at the open rate or at the newly determine rate(s), as applicable.
(18) 
The Council, at its option, may terminate its relationship with an advertiser and/or its agency for the breach of any of the terms of this advertising policy, it being specifically understood without limitation that failure on the part of either an advertiser or its agency to pay each bill on or before its due date shall constitute a breach. Should the Council terminate its relationship with an advertiser and/or agency, all charges incurred together with short-rate charges shall be immediately due and payable.
(19) 
Orders containing terms, rates or conditions or specifying position may be accepted but such terms or rates, conditions or specifications are not binding unless the Council or its designee has specifically agreed to them, in writing.
(20) 
The Council does not guarantee any given level of circulation or readership.
(21) 
The Council's liability for failure to publish an advertisement shall not exceed a refund of or credit for the Council's charge for such advertisement. The Council's liability for errors and published advertisements shall be to provide advertiser a credit for the actual space of the error if the error is brought to the Council's attention no later than five working days after the advertisement first appears, unless a proof of the advertisement was provided to or reviewed by the advertiser or agency, in which event the Council shall have no liability.
(22) 
In no event shall the Council be liable to advertiser, agency or any other parties for any further damages of any kind arising from advertiser's placement of advertising, including but not limited to direct, indirect, special or consequential damages or lost profits.
(23) 
Advertisements placed by an advertiser may include online advertising to appear on the Council's affiliated website, apps, social media and/or any media now in existence or hereafter developed. The terms and conditions of the websites, apps, or social media rate cards apply to such online advertising.
(24) 
The advertiser and its agency recognize that the copyright in any advertisements created by the Council is owned by the Council. As to all other advertisements, the advertiser and its agency agree that the Council has the nonexclusive right, for the full term of copyright, by itself or through third parties, to republish and reuse any advertisements submitted in any form in which the advertisements may be published or used (in any media now in existence or hereafter developed) in whole or in any part, whether or not combined with materials of others.
(25) 
The Council is not responsible for any inadvertent or legally compelled disclosure of advertising information.
(26) 
The foregoing terms (and the terms of the advertising agreement between the Council and the advertiser and/or agency, if any) shall govern the relationship between the Council and advertiser and its agency. Unless expressly agreed to, in writing signed by the Borough Administrator or his/her designee, no other terms and conditions in insertion orders, copy instruction, letters or otherwise will be binding on the Council.
(27) 
All advertising positions are at the option of the Council and subject to prior requests, guarantees, color and mechanical capacities. The Council will consider all position requests. However, no adjustments, refunds or reinsertions will be made because of the position in which an advertisement has been published unless a guaranteed position premium has been paid.
(28) 
No space may be used or resold by the advertiser for the promotion, either directly or indirectly, of any business organization or enterprise other than one conducted by the advertiser.
(29) 
The Council reserves the right to place a one-point rule around advertisements that are received without a border unless prior arrangements have been made with the Borough Administrator or designee.
(30) 
The Council reserves the right to amend this advertising policy at any time with a written notice to any affected advertising contractor.
(31) 
The Council's contract (on file) granting advertising rights shall include this advertising policy as an attachment.
(32) 
The advertiser must comply with the advertising standards set forth in this advertising policy, as they may be amended from time to time.
(33) 
Materials will not be returned to an advertiser unless specifically requested in advance of a publication by advertising. Materials will be discarded after six months.
(34) 
Cancellations in writing must be received no later than three working days after the closing date. Advertisers canceling after the closing date will be billed for space ordered.
(35) 
All advertisements are subject to the Open Public Records Act (OPRA).[2] Any content maintained in an advertising format that is related to Glassboro business, including a list of subscribers, posted communication, and communication submitted for posting, may be a public record subject to public disclosure.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq.