[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Rochelle
Park 8-19-1992 by Ord. No. 633. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Two or more persons gathered together and acting in a boisterous,
offensive or threatening manner toward each other or others or committing
an act or acts which are a breach of the peace or which tend to create a breach
of the peace.
A house, store or building, or any part thereof, which is used for
gambling or is frequented by gamblers, prostitutes, vagrants or disorderly
persons or in which the law is habitually violated.
A house or building, or any part thereof, in which prostitution,
lewdness or other immoral or unlawful sexual acts are permitted.
A person without visible means of support, who is idle and, though
able to work for his maintenance, refuses to do so and lives without labor
or on the charity of others.
No person shall maintain or aid, assist or abet the maintenance of a
disorderly house or of a house of ill fame. No person shall commit any lewd
or immoral act in any house, building, public or private place. No person
shall appear in any street or public place in a state of nudity, or in an
indecent or lewd attire; or shall exhibit, sell or offer to sell or dispose
of any indecent or lewd book, picture or thing.
No person shall utter any loud, profane, indecent, lewd, abusive or
offensive language in a public place or any threatening, offensive, profane,
indecent or obscene language or commit any act which tends to endanger the
public peace.
A.Â
No person shall, by noisy or disorderly conduct, disturb
or interfere with the quiet or good order of any place of assembly, public
or private, including schools, churches, libraries and reading rooms, between
10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
No person shall take any part in or aid, abet or assist a disorderly
assemblage.
No person shall engage in a fight or personal encounter, or use or attempt
to use physical violence toward another.
No person shall solicit from house to house or in any public street,
park or public place a gift of money, clothing or other things for his own
use.
No person shall take part in or aid or abet in a cock fight, dog fight
or any unlawful prize fight or boxing contest.
No person shall interfere with, deface or mutilate any fire alarm box
or fire alarm system, or any part thereof or any apparatus connected therewith;
or shall knowingly give, send or cause to be given or sent a false fire alarm.
No person shall expectorate or in an other manner expel bodily fluids
or other matter in a public street or place or upon any sidewalk or on the
sidewall, floor or platform of any building or of a vehicle used for public
transportation.
No person shall play any hand organ, street organ, hurdy gurdy or other
musical instrument in any street or public place after 6:00 p.m. of any day,
unless a permit therefor is obtained from the township.
A.Â
No person shall loiter in or upon any street or other
public place within the township.
B.Â
For the purposes of this section, a person shall be loitering
if he:
(1)Â
Obstructs the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles
and fails or refuses to move on when ordered by a peace officer;
(2)Â
Obstructs, molests or interferes with any person lawfully
upon any public street or other public place;
(3)Â
Stands idly or walks about aimlessly with intent to provoke
a breach of the public peace;
(4)Â
Stands idly or walks about aimlessly using loud, wanton
or lascivious speech which warrants alarm for the safety of persons or property
in the vicinity; or
(5)Â
Sleeps in or upon any street, park, public place or public
building.
C.Â
For the purposes of this section, the term "other public
place" shall be deemed to include the public or quasi-public area in front
of or adjacent to any store, shop or other place of business and shall also
include any parking lot or other vacant private property not owned or under
the dominion of the person charged with a violation of this section.
D.Â
Any person who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or
by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days, or both.
No person shall interfere with the proceedings of the Municipal Court
of the Township of Rochelle Park or use any offensive or abusive language
to any Judge or Acting Judge holding such Court.
No person shall, in any house, building or grounds belonging thereto
or in or upon any street or public place or public conveyance, disturb or
endanger the public peace or health by any offensive or disorderly act or
language.
No person, other than the person in charge of the operation of an elevator,
shall handle, operate or manipulate any rope, shifting rod lever or other
apparatus or thing attached to or used to start or stop an elevator, unless
requested to do so by the person in charge thereof.
No person shall interfere by force with a member of the Police or Fire
Department or an officer of the Township of Rochelle Park in the performance
of his duties or shall prevent or attempt to prevent such member or officer
from performing his duty.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided in this chapter, any person
who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof,
be subject to penalties not exceeding $500 for the first offense, $750 for
the second offense and $1,000 for a third offense and/or a term of imprisonment
for a period not to exceed 90 days.
