Borough of Berlin, NJ
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2023-06-08
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 211 Loitering
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Celebration Advisory Committee
- Ch 7 Claims Procedure
- Ch 8 Community Center, Use of
- Ch 9 Contracts, Public
- Ch 11 Court, Municipal
- Ch 13 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 16 Business Advisory Committee
- Ch 18 Emergency and Ambulance Services
- Ch 20 Fire Department
- Ch 25 Health, Board of
- Ch 28 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 35 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 42 Nepotism
- Ch 46 Officers and Employees
- Ch 47 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 49 Personnel Policies
- Ch 52 Police Department
- Ch 55 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 59 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 61 Retirement
- Ch 62 Salaries
- Ch 64 (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Water Department
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 76 Airports
- Ch 79 Alarms
- Ch 80 Key Lock Box Emergency Access System
- Ch 82 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 86 (Reserved)
- Ch 89 Animals
- Ch 92 Bamboo and Other Invasive Plant Species
- Ch 98 Boardinghouses, Rooming Houses and Hotels
- Ch 101 Brush, Weeds and Obnoxious Debris
- Ch 105 Buildings and Structures, Dangerous and Unfit
- Ch 111 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 119 Checks, Returned
- Ch 129 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 132 Contractors and Sign Erectors
- Ch 136 Criminal Registration
- Ch 140 Curfew
- Ch 148 Drug- and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 150 Disturbing the Peace
- Ch 162 Fire Prevention
- Ch 167 Flood Management Regulations
- Ch 173 Games of Chance
- Ch 176 Garage Sales
- Ch 179 Gas- and Oil-Burning Equipment
- Ch 182 Gasoline Service Stations
- Ch 188 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 190 Lead-Based Paint
- Ch 193 Housing, Affordable
- Ch 197 Insurance
- Ch 207 Littering
- Ch 211 Loitering
- § 211-1 Definitions.
- § 211-2 Loitering prohibited.
- § 211-3 Prohibited acts.
- § 211-4 Discretion of police officer.
- § 211-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 218 Mercantile Licenses
- Ch 226 Nuisances
- Ch 232 Parking
- Ch 234 Parking Areas, Municipal
- Ch 236 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 237 Nonprofit Organizations
- Ch 238 Precious Metals, Gems and Secondhand Goods, Dealers in
- Ch 241 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 244 Property, Defaulted Mortgage
- Ch 246 Property Maintenance
- Ch 253 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 256 Rental Properties
- Ch 261 Sewers
- Ch 263 Sex Offender Residency Prohibition
- Ch 266 Shows, Circuses, Carnivals and Amusements
- Ch 268 Signs
- Ch 270 Smoking
- Ch 274 Soil Removal
- Ch 278 Solid Waste
- Ch 282 Sound Trucks
- Ch 284 Storm Sewers
- Ch 285 Stormwater Management
- Ch 287 Streets, Sidewalks and Curbs
- Ch 292 Swimming Pools
- Ch 296 Tattooing, Body Piercing and Body Branding
- Ch 299 Taxation
- Ch 301 Taxicabs
- Ch 306 Towing
- Ch 309 Trailers and Camp Cars
- Ch 315 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 320 Vehicles, Unlicensed
- Ch 327 Water
- Ch 332 Youth Programs
- Ch 335 Zoning and Land Use
- Ch 336 Stormwater Control
- Part III, Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 341 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 345 Cannabis and Cannabis Products
- Ch 355 Sanitation
- Ch 358 Sewer Connections
- Appendix
- Ch A365 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Borough Council of the Borough
of Berlin 10-19-1998 by Ord. No. 98-15.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words, as used in this chapter, are defined as follows:
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include the
concepts of spending time idly, loafing and walking about aimlessly without
lawful purpose, and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging
around."
Any place to which the public has access and shall include any street,
road, avenue, highway, alley and sidewalk. Public place shall also include
the front, neighborhood or area around any store, shop, restaurant, tavern
or other place of business and public grounds, areas and parks, as well as
parking lots and other vacant private property not owned by or under the control
of the person charged with violating this chapter or in the case of a minor,
not owned or under the control of his parent or guardian.
No person shall remain idle, lounge, sleep or loiter in or upon any
street or other public place within the Borough of Berlin.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner as to:
A.Â
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of
the peace.
B.Â
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
C.Â
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.Â
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place, as heretofore defined. This subsection shall include
the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting
nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to whom or in
whose hearing they are made.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment,
decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is
likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in this chapter, he/she may,
if he/she deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and
safety, order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse
to leave, after being ordered to do so by a police officer, shall be guilty
of a violation of this chapter.
Any person who shall violate the provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment
not exceeding 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
