[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Freehold by Ord.
No. O-92-21 (§ 6-20 of the Revised General
Ordinances), as amended through Ord. No. O-00-43. Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alarm systems — See Ch. 67.
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 71.
Animals — See Ch. 79.
Curfew — See Ch. 127.
Drug-free zones — See Ch. 134.
Firearms — See Ch. 154.
Loitering — See Ch. 207.
Noise — See Ch. 217.
Parental responsibility — See Ch. 224.
Sex offender registration — See Ch. 273.
Sports Code of Conduct — See Ch. 295.
[Amended 1-28-2004 by Ord. No. O-04-2]
All the following named acts shall be deemed
disorderly and against the public peace and order and are hereby prohibited
within the Township:
A.
Soliciting. Any person who shall, by word, act, sign
or any device, invite or solicit unlawful sexual intercourse or any
other unlawful, indecent, lewd or lascivious act shall be adjudged
in violation of this chapter.
B.
Common thieves, burglars and pickpockets. Any person
who shall be arrested at any house of worship, banking institution,
broker's office, place of public amusement, auction room, store or
crowded thoroughfare or other place of public resort or assemblage
for business, worship, amusement or other lawful purpose in this Township,
and who shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the judge before whom
he shall be brought, to be a common thief, burglar or pickpocket and
to have been frequenting or attending such place for an unlawful purpose,
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
C.
Carrying weapons. Any person who shall be apprehended
having upon him any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement
with intent to break and enter in any building, or who shall have
upon him any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive
or dangerous weapon with intent to assault any person, or who shall
be found in or near any dwelling house, warehouse, stable, barn or
in any place of public resort or assemblage for business, worship,
amusement or other lawful purpose with intent to steal any goods or
chattels, shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
D.
Malicious injury to property. Any person who shall
maliciously destroy, damage or injure property may, where the damage
does not exceed the sum of $200, be adjudged in violation of this
chapter.
[Amended 5-24-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-8]
E.
Unlawful dumping. Any person, firm or corporation
that shall dump on or tow to open fields or other private property
any abandoned automobile, automobile parts or other junk shall be
adjudged in violation of this chapter.
F.
Injuring school property. A person who shall enter
the building or go upon the lands belonging to a public school district
or used and occupied for school purposes by a public school and shall
break, injure or deface such building or any part thereof or the fences
or outhouses belonging to or connected with such building or lands
or shall disturb the exercises of the school or molest or give annoyance
to the children attending such school or any teacher therein shall
be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
G.
Damaging or disturbing private property. Any person
who shall willfully cut any tree, shrub or vine upon, or remove any
earth, gravel or sand from, any property belonging to another person
in this Township without his consent, or who shall willfully cause
injury or damage to or destroy any livestock, poultry, cultivated
crop, orchard, fence, sign, signboard, notice or building belonging
to any other person while on such person's land without such person's
consent, shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
H.
Erecting sign or encroachment. Any person who erects
within the limits of this Township any sign or encroachment of any
nature without first having obtained permission to do so from the
Township shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
[Amended 5-24-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-8]
I.
Damaging property. Any person who shall maliciously
destroy, damage or injure property of another shall be adjudged in
violation of this chapter.
J.
Misrepresentation of age. Any person who shall misrepresent
or mistake his or her age or the age of any other person for the purpose
of inducing any licensee or any employee of any licensee to sell,
serve or deliver any alcoholic beverage, tobacco product or any other
age-restricted product or service to a person under the legal age
prescribed by law shall be deemed and adjudged in violation of this
chapter.
[Amended 5-24-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-8]
K.
Interference with law enforcement officer. Any person
who shall knowingly misstate a fact, incident or event to a law enforcement
officer in the performance of such officer's duty, or who shall otherwise
engage in conduct, unreasonable under the circumstances, which conduct
shall be intended to interfere with or which shall result in the actual
interference with the official duties of a law enforcement officer
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
L.
Fighting and other brawling. Any person or persons
fighting or brawling in the Township of Freehold shall be deemed in
violation of this chapter.
[Added 10-24-2006 by Ord. No. O-06-39]
M.
Manufacturing, selling, transporting or using fireworks.
Any person who shall manufacture, sell, transport or use fireworks
of the types that are prohibited by state law, or permit the use of
said fireworks on premises under one's ownership or control,
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter. Persons having ownership
or control of premises at which fireworks have been used in violation
of this subsection shall give rise to a rebuttable presumption to
having permitted the use of fireworks on such premises. Such presumption
may be rebutted by submitting evidence that such person took affirmative
action to stop or prevent such use, or was not physically at or in
close proximity to the premises at any time during such use.
[Added 12-19-2006 by Ord. No. O-06-47; amended 5-24-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-8]
N.
Urinating
or defecating in public. Any person who shall urinate or defecate
in a public place or in or on any private place while in public view
shall be adjudged in violation of this chapter.
[Added 10-27-2009 by Ord. No. O-09-30]
O.
Restrictions on artificial lighting.
[Added 4-23-2013 by Ord. No. O-13-14]
(1)
No artificial lighting shall:
(a)
Shine directly upon any neighboring, adjoining or adjacent property
or be established so that it shines directly upon any neighboring,
adjoining or adjacent property;
(b)
Shine directly on or into any room or rooms, porches or patios
of any neighboring, adjoining or adjacent structure or property so
as to be a nuisance;
(c)
Be maintained or operated from any structure or land in such
a way as to be a nuisance to any neighboring, adjacent or adjoining
property;
(d)
Impair vision through inordinate glare or create a hazard to
any neighboring, adjoining or adjacent property;
(e)
Interrupt the reasonable quiet enjoyment, use or comfort of
the occupants of any neighboring, adjoining or adjacent property.
(2)
Exterior lighting facing any neighboring, adjoining or adjacent property
shall be shielded so that it does not produce an objectionable or
inordinate glare on any neighboring, adjoining or adjacent property.
P.
Violations of conditions of development approvals. No person who is in possession of and/or the operator of property within the Township which has been the subject of a development application approval as evidenced by a written resolution of the Planning Board or of the former Zoning Board of Adjustment, which resolution contains or references other documents or maps establishing conditions applicable to the continuing use of the property, shall violate any such conditions. In the event such conditions are violated, the person in possession or control of the subject property shall be issued a written notice of such violation. If such violation is not permanently discontinued or permanently remedied within 10 days of issuance of the notice of violation, a municipal summons may issue subjecting any party found guilty to the penalties set forth in Chapter 1, §§ 1-3, 1-4, and 1-6 hereof.
[Added 8-4-2015 by Ord.
No. O-15-14; amended 12-22-2015 by Ord. No. O-15-26]
