City of Passaic, NJ
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2024-01-11
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 161 Graffiti
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Contracts
- Ch 8 Credit Card Payments
- Ch 9 Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Team
- Ch 11 Elections
- Ch 15 Emergency, State of
- Ch 17 Enterprise Zone Development Corporation
- Ch 18 Ethics
- Ch 18A Financial Disclosure Statements
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Officer
- Ch 25 Insurance
- Ch 29 Land Development Procedures
- Ch 30 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 33 Parking Authority
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 39 Police Department
- Ch 40 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 44 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 46 Retirement
- Ch 49 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 59 Videotaping City Council Meetings
- Ch 61 Volunteer First Aid, Rescue and Ambulance Squads
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 70 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 71 Alarm Devices
- Ch 75 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 79 Amusement Devices
- Ch 83 Apartment Rental Businesses
- Ch 87 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 89 Auto Body Repair Facilities
- Ch 90 Automotive Repair Facilities
- Ch 90A Barbershops, Cosmetology and Hairstyling
- Ch 91 Body Piercing
- Ch 93 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 95 Buildings, Vacant
- Ch 99 Carnivals, Bazaars and Fairs
- Ch 100 Certificates of Occupancy and Tenancy
- Ch 101 Child-Care Services
- Ch 102 Clothing Bins
- Ch 103 Clubs
- Ch 107 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 109 (Reserved)
- Ch 110 Corporations, Representation of
- Ch 113 Curfew
- Ch 115 Dance Halls
- Ch 116 Demolition of Structures
- Ch 117 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 121 Dry-Cleaning Machines
- Ch 122 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Dwelling Units
- Ch 128 Employer Regulations
- Ch 129 Entertainment
- Ch 133 Fees
- Ch 135 Filming
- Ch 137 Fire Hydrants
- Ch 139 Fire Prevention
- Ch 143 Floodplain Management Regulations
- Ch 145 Florists
- Ch 149 Food Establishments
- Ch 151 Foreclosing Mortgages and Vacant Property, Registration of
- Ch 153 Games of Chance
- Ch 157 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 161 Graffiti
- § 161-1 Willful or malicious damage to property prohibited.
- § 161-2 Jurisdiction over juveniles.
- § 161-3 Liability for pecuniary damages.
- § 161-4 Responsibility for restoration of property.
- § 161-5 Reward for information.
- Ch 162 Grocery Stores
- Ch 165 Heating of Residential Property
- Ch 169 Insurance
- Ch 173 Junkyards and Junk Shops
- Ch 175 Landscaping
- Ch 176 Library
- Ch 177 Licenses
- Ch 179 Littering
- Ch 181 Loading Zones
- Ch 185 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Noise
- Ch 194 Public Seating
- Ch 195 Paint, Spray
- Ch 197 Parades and Flag-Raising Ceremonies
- Ch 199 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 201 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 203 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 207 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 211 Peddling, Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 215 Police and Fire Equipment
- Ch 217 Poultry Markets
- Ch 219 Property Maintenance
- Ch 223 Public Health Nuisance Code
- Ch 227 Rat Control
- Ch 229 Real Estate Practitioners
- Ch 230 Recycling
- Ch 231 Rent Control
- Ch 231A Rental Property
- Ch 232 Recreational Cannabis Establishments
- Ch 234 Sales, Garage, Yard, Porch and House
- Ch 235 Sales, Special
- Ch 239 Sewers
- Ch 240 Sexual Offenders, Registry of
- Ch 243 Shopping Carts
- Ch 245 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 247 Signs
- Ch 251 Smoking
- Ch 255 Snow and Ice and Other Impediments, Removal of
- Ch 256 (Reserved)
- Ch 257 Storage Tanks, Underground
- Ch 258 Storm Sewers
- Ch 258A Stormwater Control
- Ch 259 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 263 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 267 Swimming Pools
- Ch 271 (Reserved)
- Ch 275 Taxation
- Ch 277 Taxicabs
- Ch 278 Limousines
- Ch 280 Telephones, Outdoor
- Ch 281 Tenancies, Protected
- Ch 283 Tobacco
- Ch 284 Tractor-Trailers
- Ch 285 Transient Merchants
- Ch 289 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 293 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 295 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 297 Vehicles, Towing of
- Ch 298 Vehicles, Vending
- Ch 299 Vending Machines
- Ch 301 Waterfront
- Ch 303 Wells
- Ch 317 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A321 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A323 Telephone Facilities
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Passaic 5-6-1982
as Ord. No. 686-82. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall willfully or maliciously damage, deface or vandalize
the property of another by painting, scribbling or inscribing what is commonly
referred to as "graffiti" on a public street or otherwise or commit graffiti
thereon, whether the same embraces any obscenity, vulgarity or any other inscriptions
or markings.
If at the time of the offense charged any persons shall be under the
age of 18 years, the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court shall have exclusive
jurisdiction of the trial of such infant or infants, and such infant or infants
shall be surrendered to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, and the
case, including all papers and process thereto, shall be transferred to said
Court as provided in N.J.S.A. 2C:4-11.[1]
In the event that the present complaint shall result in a second determination
of a violation of this chapter of any person under the age of 18 years, the
parents or guardian of such infant shall be liable in an action brought by
the injured property owner before the Municipal Court for a penalty of the
amount of the pecuniary damage sustained by the injured property owner.
Any person who violates this chapter shall also be responsible for cleaning,
repairing, painting or otherwise restoring the property which he has damaged,
defaced or vandalized so as to bring the property to the condition it was
in prior to its vandalizing.
[Added 4-3-1985 by Ord. No. 849-85]
Any person who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction
of a violator of this chapter shall receive a reward of $500 from the City
of Passaic, which award shall be paid upon conviction of the violator of this
chapter.
