Source: https://www.ecode360.com/10259064
Timestamp: 2018-11-17 15:05:53
Document Index: 436512214

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 200', '§ 200', '§ 200', '§ 200', '§ 200', '§ 200', '§ 200']

Township of Hillsborough, NJ Loitering
§ 200-3 Discretion of police officer.
§ 200-4 Parental responsibility.
§ 200-5 Notice of violation to parent.
§ 200-6 Presumption of knowledge of parent.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Hillsborough 2-22-1972 by Ord. No. 72-1 (Ch. 108 of the 1977 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Curfew — See Ch. 149.
Markets — See Ch. 203.
Noise — See Ch. 211.
Peddlers, solicitors and itinerant vendors — See Ch. 227.
Includes any adult persons having care or custody of a minor, whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or otherwise.
Any place to which the public has access, and includes any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business, and public grounds, areas and parks, as well as parking lots or other vacant private property or not owned by or under the control of the person charged with violating this chapter, or, in the case of a minor, not owned by or under the control of his parent or guardian.
[Amended 11-25-1997 by Ord. No. 97-34]
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place as defined in § 200-1. 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 whom or in whose hearing they are made.
Loiter or assemble on the streets, at the corner of streets or in any public place or public conveyance within the Township while being under the influence of intoxicating liquors or indulge in or utter loud and offensive or indecent language at any of the aforesaid places, corner or corners, street or streets, public places or public conveyances within the Township.
Loiter or disturb the peace in any public place, in any quasi-public place or in or upon any private property not his or her own within said Township while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or not being under such influence, indulging in and uttering loud and offensive or indecent language at any of said place or places; or being noisy or disorderly; disturbing or interrupting the quiet and good order in any public library, school, reading room or any other public or private place in said Township.
A person who is intoxicated may be assisted to his or her residence or to an intoxication treatment or other facility by a Township police officer consistent with the requirements contained in N.J.S.A. 26:2B-16, a portion of the New Jersey Alcoholism Treatment and Rehabilitation Act, and shall not be charged with a violation of the Code of the Township of Hillsborough.
[Added 12-22-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-45]
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 § 200-2, 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 chapter.
If at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice as provided in § 200-5 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.
[Amended 12-27-1977 by Ord. No. 77-21; 9-12-1995 by Ord. No. 95-37]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a Class C violation, punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II.