Source: https://ecode360.com/10139314
Timestamp: 2019-07-18 09:24:26
Document Index: 215285977

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 141', '§ 141', '§ 141', '§ 48', '§ 58', '§ 163', '§ 141']

Township of Manalapan, NJ Loitering
§ 141-2 Certain types of loitering prohibited.
§ 141-3 Discretion of police officer.
§ 141-4 Loitering by minors.
Chapter 141 Loitering
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan 10-27-1993 by Ord. No. 93-30 as Ch. 140 of the 1993 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Loitering by certain persons in adult bookstores — See Ch. 48, § 48-5.
Minors in possession of alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 55.
Loitering by certain persons in places of amusement — See Ch. 58, § 58-7.
Loitering in parks — See Ch. 163, Art. I, § 163-5.
Tobacco sales to minors — See Ch. 274.
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include 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 and shall include any street, highway, road, alley, boardwalk or sidewalk. It shall also include the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and public grounds, areas, parks and marinas, 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. 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 § 141-2, 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.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 years shall knowingly permit that minor to loiter in violation of this chapter. Whenever any minor under the age of 18 years is charged with a violation of this chapter, his parent or guardian shall be notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other person designated by him to give such notice. If at any time within 30 days following the giving of notice, 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.