[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
(now Mayor and Council) of the Township of North Brunswick as indicated
in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-3-1961]
The following rules and regulations are hereby
made and adopted as the rules and regulations governing and applicable
to all public parks and playgrounds situated and located in the Township
of North Brunswick, New Jersey.
[Amended 11-6-1978; 5-5-1986]
The parks and playgrounds are formally open
to the public daily from sunrise to one hour after sunset, except
that use of illuminated tennis courts, illuminated ice skating facilities
and illuminated ballfields may extend beyond sunset to an hour to
which illumination is determined, provided and authorized by the Department
of Parks, Recreation and Community Services.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Department of Human
Services became the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community
Services 2-2-2004 by Ord. No. 04-1.
No person shall use threatening, abusive or
insulting language; do any obscene or indecent act; throw stones or
other missiles; annoy persons; interfere with, encumber, obstruct
or render dangerous any drive, path, walk or public place; do any
act tending or amounting to a breach of the peace; climb or stand
upon any wall, fence, shelter, seat, statue or other erection; enter
or leave except at established entranceways or exits; introduce, carry
or fire any firecrackers, torpedoes or fireworks; engage in, instigate,
aid or encourage a contention or fight, whether or not a ring or prize
fight; assault any person, play games of chance, participate in the
conduct of a lottery or use or operate any slot machine, gaming table
or instrument; sell fortunes; drink, take use of or have in his possession,
or be under the influence of, any intoxicating liquors, opiates or
other habit-forming drugs; spit upon any sidewalk, crossing, safety
zone or the floors of any structure, bridge, platform or stairway;
cast, throw or deposit on any walk, crossing, path, safety zone, floor
or parkway surface any portion of any fruit, vegetable, foodstuff,
paper, pasteboard, litter or other substances; cast, throw or deposit
on the grass, road or in the pools any sticks, stones or other matter
that would tend to pollute the pools; or interfere with or fail to
obey any officer in the proper performance of his duties.
No parent, guardian or custodian of any minor
shall permit or allow him to do any act prohibited by law in any park
or playground in the Township of North Brunswick.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 234-5, Solicitation of alms
and contributions, was repealed 11-28-2022 by Ord. No. 22-27.
No person shall post, paint, affix, distribute,
hand out, deliver, place, cast or leave about any bill, billboard,
placard, ticket, handbill, circular or advertisement, nor display
any flag, banner, transparency, target, sign, placard or any other
matter for advertising purpose or attracting attention to any exhibition,
show, performance or other display.
No person shall cause or permit any animal owned
by him, in his custody or under his control, except a dog when restrained
by a leash not exceeding six feet in length, to go or be at large,
and each such animal so found at large may be seized and disposed
of as provided by the law or ordinance covering disposal of stray
animals on highways or public property then in effect,[1] at the place where such stray animal may be seen.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 154, Dogs, § 154-5.
No person shall bring into or have in said parks
any explosive, including any substance, compound, mixture or article
having properties of such a character that, alone or in combination
or contiguity with other substances or compounds, may decompose suddenly
and generate sufficient heat, gas or pressure, or any or all of them,
to produce rapid-flaming combustion or administer a destructive blow
to surrounding objects.
No person shall have or carry, whether or not
concealed upon his person, any pistol, revolver or other deadly weapon
or any instrument or weapon commonly known as a "toy pistol" or in
which or upon which loaded or blank cartridges may be used, or any
loaded or blank cartridges or ammunition thereof, or any tools or
instruments, skeleton keys, picklocks, jimmies or other things known
or used as burglar tools, except when authorized by law. No person
shall bring into the parks or have in his possession therein any rifle,
shotgun or fowling piece or any air gun, spring gun, slingshot or
other similar instrument or weapon.
No person shall kindle, build, maintain or use
a fire except in places provided for such purposes. Any fire for which
a permit shall have been issued or in such places as have been designated
shall be continuously under the care and direction of a competent
person from the time it is kindled until it is extinguished, and no
fire shall be built within 10 feet of any tree or building or beneath
the branches of any tree or in any underbrush. No person shall throw
away or discard any lighted match, cigar or cigarette within or against
any building, structure, car, vehicle or enclosure or under any tree
or in underbrush, unless it be to deposit the same in a suitable container
provided for the reception thereof.
No person shall bathe, wade or swim in any park
pools except at such times and in such places as the Director of Recreation
may designate and unless so covered with a bathing suit as to prevent
any indecent exposure of the person.
No person shall throw, cast, catch, kick or
strike any baseball, golf ball, football, basketball, beanbag or any
other object except in places designated therefor.
No person, without permission of the Director
of Recreation, shall erect any structure, stand or platform; hold
any meeting; perform any ceremony; make a speech; address or harangue;
exhibit to the public any dramatic performance or the performance
in whole or in part of any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet,
play, farce, minstrel, dancing entertainment, motion pictures, circus,
juggling, ropewalking or any other acrobatics; engage in any parade,
drill maneuvers or civic or other procession; or, being in a vehicle,
race with another vehicle, whether such race be founded on any stakes,
dare, bet or otherwise.
No person shall coast with hand sleds, wagons
or other vehicles on wheels or runners except at such places as may
be designated therefor.
No person shall ride, drive or bring any horse
within the limits of any park in the Township of North Brunswick.
No person shall use roller skates except at
such times and upon such places as may be designated therefor, or
skate, sled, walk or go upon any ice except at such times and upon
such places as may be designated therefor and until such ice is declared
by or under the authority of said Director of Recreation to be in
a safe condition therefor.
No person shall use the park drives or parkways
for the purpose of demonstrating any vehicle nor for the purpose of
instructing another to drive or operate any vehicle nor for learning
to drive or operate any vehicle.
No person shall cause or permit a vehicle in
tow of another vehicle to enter the parks or proceed therein, except
that in case of a breakdown a disabled vehicle may be towed to the
nearest exit; and no person shall operate or drive a vehicle containing
any article or object projecting or hanging outside of or beyond the
side or the rear thereof.
All the provisions of the New Jersey state motor
vehicle laws with regard to equipment, lights, licenses, brakes, etc.,
will apply in the parks and will be strictly enforced.
No person shall drive or operate within the
parks any omnibus or vehicle adapted for more than 12 passengers,
any hearse or any vehicle constructed or adapted for or engaged in
the carrying of any merchandise, or consisting wholly or in part of
machinery adapted for or put to any use other than that of propulsion
thereof or uses incidental thereto, or upon which is displayed for
advertising purposes any writing, symbol, flag, banner, target, sign,
placard, transparency or other matter.
Whenever any police officer, park patrolman
or other authorized park personnel shall indicate or direct, by gesture
or otherwise, that the speed of a vehicle shall be checked or stopped
or its course altered, the driver thereof shall immediately obey such
directions.
All provisions of the New Jersey state motor
vehicle and traffic laws will apply in the parks and playgrounds and
will be strictly enforced, along with such restrictions as may be
hereinafter stated.
No person shall drive a motor vehicle within
or upon a safety zone, walk or any part of the parkway not designated
or customarily used for such purpose. No person shall ride a motorcycle
upon any walk or footpath.
No owner or driver shall cause or permit his
vehicle to stand anywhere outside of designated parking spaces, except
for a reasonable time during a drive to take up or discharge passengers.
Motor vehicles, wherever parked at night, shall have lights as prescribed
by the New Jersey motor vehicle laws. No motor vehicle shall be parked
in said park from one hour after sunset until sunrise.
No person shall operate, drive or propel, and
no owner thereof, thereon or therein shall cause or permit to be operated,
driven or propelled, any vehicle recklessly or negligently or at a
speed or in such a manner as to endanger or injure or be likely to
endanger or injure other persons or property.
A.
No person shall drive a vehicle in any part of the
parks or playgrounds proper at a rate of speed exceeding that indicated
by signs which may be placed from time to time in the park or playground
system, and where such signs are not placed, no person shall drive
a vehicle at a rate of speed exceeding 20 miles per hour.
B.
Nothing contained in this article shall apply to the
wagons, trucks and apparatus of a fire department, police department
or ambulance, nor to emergency repair vehicles of the Township when
responding for emergency work in case of fire, accident, public disaster,
impending danger or emergency.
No person shall injure, deface, displace, remove,
fill in, raise, destroy or tamper with any drive, path, walk, bridge
or approach thereto; take up or remove or carry away any asphalt,
concrete, flagstone, rock, stone, gravel, sand, clay or earth; or
make any excavation of any kind or nature; or harvest, injure or remove
any ice; or injure, deface, displace, remove or destroy any structure,
building, post, railing, bench, seat, platform, stand, tree guard,
telephone, telegraph pipe or main for conducting of water or wires,
or any hydrant, sewer drain, pipe, main, receiving basin, covering,
manhole or vent forming a part thereof or any appurtenance or appendage
connected therewith, or any other property or equipment under the
jurisdiction or control of said Director of Recreation or appertaining
to the creation, government, use or maintenance of said park or playground;
or injure or in any way interfere with the operation of any machine,
instrument or contrivance used in said park or playground; or injure,
deface, displace, remove or destroy any sign, inscription, post or
monument erected or marked for any purpose, or any mileboard, milestone,
danger sign or signal, guide, sign or post or any signaling device
sanctioned, installed or placed at the direction of said Director
of Recreation.
No person shall destroy, cut, break, deface,
mutilate, injure, disturb, sever from the ground or remove any plant,
flower, flower bed, shrub, tree, growing things, plant growth or any
branch, stem or leaf thereof; or pile or maintain any material or
debris of any kind against or upon same; or attach any rope, cable
or other contrivance thereto; or set fire or assist another to set
fire to any timber, trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, grass or plant
growth; or hitch any animal thereto or leave same standing near enough
to injure any lawn or grass plot or go upon the same.
No person shall molest, kill, trap, hunt, take,
chase, shoot or throw missiles at, remove or have in his possession
any animal, reptile, bird, bird's nest or squirrel's nest, or remove
the young of any such animal or the eggs or young of any such reptile
or bird; or knowingly buy, receive or have in his possession, sell
or give away any such animal, reptile, birds or eggs so taken, except
at such times when permission to do or give away any such animal reptile,
birds or egg, has been given by the said Director of Recreation.
No person shall, within or without said parks
or playgrounds, throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or leave
in the waters of the parks or playgrounds, or any tributary, brook,
stream, storm sewer, pool or drain, any substance, matter or thing,
liquid or solid, which may or shall result in the pollution of said
waters.
No person shall take into, carry through, leave
in or throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or on, or suffer or
permit any servant, agent, employee or person in his or her charge
to take into, carry through, leave in or throw, cast, lay, drop or
discharge into or on, said parks or playgrounds, any ashes, dross,
cinder, shale, paper, dirt, sand, oil, grease, clay, loam, stone or
building rubbish, brush, stumps, hay, straw, sawdust, shavings, manufacturing
or trade or household waste, old iron or other metal or objects made
therefrom, or rubbish of any sort, or sick, diseased or dead animals,
organic refuse or other offensive matter, including swill, brine,
urine, offal, fecal matter, garbage or rubbish.
The aforementioned rules and regulations shall
be conspicuously posted in all such public parks and playgrounds where
the same are effective.
[Amended 9-6-1977; 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 06-06]
Any person violating or failing to comply with
any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punishable by a fine of not more than $2,000 or by imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,
in the discretion of the Judge. The continuation on each successive
day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons
allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished
as provided above for each separate offense.
