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Peace and Good Order
Chapter
171
Article I
Changing Clothes and
Sleeping in Vehicles
171-1. Prohibitions;
violations deemed disorderly acts.
A. It shall be unlawful
for any person to change from street clothes to bathing suits and from
bathing suits to street clothes while in any automobile and/or motor
vehicle on the public streets or other public place within the City of
Ventnor City.
B. Sleeping in or on any
automobile and/or motor vehicle on the public streets or in other public
places within the City of Ventnor City is prohibited.
C. Such dressing and
undressing in the places aforesaid shall be deemed a disorderly act, and
this Article is hereby declared to be necessary as a police measure.
Article II
Nudity in Public Places
171-4. Prohibitions.
No person shall be permitted
to be nude or partially nude and travel upon or be or appear on any
street, the Boardwalk or any other public place in Ventnor City, New
Jersey.
Article III
Acts Constituting
Disorderly Conduct
171-6. Prohibitions
A. No person shall
vagrantly loiter, lounge or sleep in or on the streets, sidewalks.
Boardwalk. public pavilions, public parks, beaches or other public
places in the City of Ventnor City or obstruct the passage or persons on
the boardwalk or any sidewalks, streets or other public places with
boxes, crates, baskets, stands, wares, merchandise or with a rolling
chair or chairs or any vehicle after being ordered by a police officer
or special officer to move on or disperse or leave any such public
places or remove such obstruction.
B. No person while in an
intoxicated condition shall be upon the streets, sidewalks, Boardwalk,
public pavilions, public parks, beaches or other public places in
Ventnor City, New Jersey. Further, no person shall consume any kind of
alcoholic beverage in any public place or quasi-public area of said
city, nor in any motor vehicle, whether parked or moving; nor shall any
person have in his or her possession an open container of any kind in
any public place or quasi-public area of said city, nor in any motor
vehicle, whether parked or moving, in which alcoholic beverages of any
kind are contained.
C. No person shall utter
loud, offensive, indecent or profane language nor address nor make
audible and offensive remarks or comments on or to any person passing
along or being on or in any of such streets, sidewalks, the Boardwalk,
public pavilions, public parks, beaches or other public places or on or
in any property, public or private, nor obstruct or interfere with any
person or persons lawfully being on or in any streets, sidewalks, the
boardwalk, public pavilions, public parks, beaches or other public
places nor while on or in any highways, sidewalks, the Boardwalk, public
parks, beaches or other public places, accost or annoy any person or
persons upon such places, by begging or soliciting alms or by soliciting
him or them to hire vehicles, engage boarding or hotel accommodations or
purchase tickets of admission to visit or view amusements, shows or
exhibitions.
D. No person shall revel,
quarrel, brawl or otherwise misbehave in a disorderly manner to the
disturbance or annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants of the city nor be
guilty of any other disorderly conduct in or on the streets, sidewalks,
Boardwalk, public pavilions, public parks, beaches or other public
places.
E. No person shall keep,
manage, maintain, reside in, frequent, resort to or be an inmate of a
gambling house, disorderly house or houses of ill fame or permit his or
her house, hotel, shop or other building, or place to be used,
frequented or occupied by or resorted to by riotous or disorderly
persons, gamblers, thieves, vagrants, common mendicants, palmists,
fortune-tellers, persons who, for gain, assume to foretell destinies,
persons of ill fame or prostitutes.
F. No person shall make
or assist in making or take active part in any riot, noise, quarrel,
brawl or disturbance at any house, hotel, shop, store or other building
or place, either public or private.
G. No person shall,
within the boundaries of Ventnor City, carelessly or recklessly drop,
throw, cast or strike with any stick, stone, brick, ball or snowball or
other missile or projectile of any king whatsoever, in any manner doing
injury to or likely or calculated or intended to do injury to another's
person or property.
H. No person shall, while
on the public lands, parks or beaches adjacent to the Boardwalk or on
the public highways in said city, pitch, throw, toss or project any
ball, projectile or missile whatsoever, provided that this section shall
not be construed to prohibit the playing of games on such portions of
said public lands, parks or beaches as shall from time to time be
designated by the Chief of Police, the Chairman of the Parks and
Playgrounds Committee of the Board of Commissioners or the Captain of
the Beach Patrol as play areas.
I. No person shall take
plants or flowers or other things from or mutilate in any manner any
property, real or personal, public or private, or write, paste, post or
place in any manner any obscene or vulgar words, phrases, language,
pictures, drawings, prints, lithographs or characters on any wall,
house, fence, signboard, billboard or other structure.
J. No person shall make
any indecent or lewd exposure of themselves or peep or look upward
through apertures or openings in the Boardwalk or other elevated walks
in said city while persons are walking or standing thereon.
K. Laser beam devices.
It shall be unlawful for any person to focus, point or shine a laser
beam directly or indirectly upon another person or animal in such a
manner as to unreasonably cause harassment or annoyance to said person
or animal.
171-7. Hours of
construction.
No construction of any kind
shall commence in the City of Ventnor City before the hour of 7:30 am
and shall cease by 7:00 pm, Monday through Saturday, and before the hour
of 8:30 am, and shall cease by 6:00 pm on Sunday.
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