Source: https://www.ecode360.com/11331490
Timestamp: 2019-11-12 23:34:04
Document Index: 525559034

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 115', '§ 115']

Borough of Riverdale, NJ Loitering
§ 115-2 Certain types of loitering unlawful.
§ 115-3 Discretion of police officer.
§ 115-4 Loitering by minors.
§ 115-5 Notice of violation.
§ 115-6 Presumption of guilt.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Riverdale 11-4-1976 by Ord. No. 12-76 . Amendments noted where applicable.]
Remaining idle in essentially one location including the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Any place to which the public has access. including any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or any other place of business, and public grounds, areas, parks, as well as parking lots or 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.
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 115-1. 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, 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 § 115-2, he may, if he 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.
If at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice as provided in § 115-5, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment not exceeding 90 days, or both, for the first offense, in the discretion of the court, and not more than $200, or by imprisonment not exceeding 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each and every other subsequent offense.