CHAPTER X POLICE REGULATIONS
10-1 NOISE CONTROL.*
*Editor's Note: Former Section 10-1, Noise Control, containing portions of 1999 Code §§ 8.12.050 and 9.08.100B, originally codified in the 2007 Code as Section 10-1, has been relocated to Chapter XII, Health Regulations and Licensing as Section 12-27.
10-2 LITTERING. *
*Editor's Note: Former Section 10-2, Littering, containing portions of 1999 Code § 8.24, originally codified in the 2007 Code as Section 10-2, has been relocated to Chapter XII, Health Regulations and Licensing as Section 12-28.
10-3 RESERVED.
10-4 OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT.
10-4.1 Interference with Township Officers or Employees.
No person shall interfere with, hinder, disturb or obstruct the proceedings, functions or deliberations of the Council of the Township or any other official body in the Township, nor shall any person molest, obstruct, hinder or interfere with any Township officer or official engaged in the performance of his or her duty, or knowingly resist or oppose any person authorized by law to make arrests or to serve any writ, bill, order or process when the person so authorized is acting in the performance of his or her duty. (1999 Code § 9.04.010)
10-4.2 Interference with Fire Fighting; False Alarms.
No person shall intentionally, willfully or maliciously interfere with, destroy or injure any of the wires, posts, machines, bells, sirens, boxes, locks or other apparatus of any fire alarm system; nor shall any person intentionally, willfully or maliciously interfere with intent to create a false alarm or obstruct the efficient operation of the same, or hinder or impede any of the operations intended to be accomplished thereby. Nor shall any person intentionally, willfully or maliciously cause a false alarm of fire to be given in any manner within the limits of the Township. Nor shall any person during an alarm of fire hinder, prevent or deter by any device whatsoever any fire fighter or other person from rendering lawful assistance in abating or quelling such fire, or hinder or interfere with any fire fighter from going to or returning from the place where any building or other property is on fire, or from which an alarm proceeds. Nor shall any person hinder or obstruct the passage of any fire engine, hook or ladder truck, hose cart or any fire apparatus in going to or from the place from which an alarm of fire proceeds, or where any building or other property may be burning. Nor shall any person intentionally and maliciously ring or cause to be rung any type of alarm involving ambulance service, thereby giving or causing to be given a false alarm for the ambulance service. Nor shall any person intentionally, willfully or maliciously send any message of false alarm of fire or ambulance call by telephone or by any other method or means. No person shall drive a motor vehicle or other vehicle over fire hose or fire equipment except as authorized by the authority in charge. (1999 Code § 9.04.020)
10-4.3 Violations; Penalties.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalty stated in Chapter I, Section 1-5. (1999 Code § 9.04.030)
10-5 PUBLIC PEACE AND DECENCY.
10-5.1 Prohibited Acts; Disorderly Conduct; Intoxication in Public.
No person or persons shall make, aid, assist in any riot, breach of peace or disturbance or be guilty of any disorderly conduct or open drunkenness or drink intoxicating liquors in the open streets or highways of the Township or other quasi-public open places in the Township. (1999 Code § 9.08.010A)
10-5.2 Indecent Language; Trespassing.
No person or persons shall loiter in the streets or highways or in other public or quasi-public places or utter loud, offensive or indecent language in the streets or highways or in other public or quasi-public places or make improper noise, utter loud, offensive or indecent language or make offensive or improper language or remarks or indecent language on private property so that the same is audible to the public beyond the confines of the private property or make offensive or improper gestures to any person or persons on such streets, highways or public places or conduct himself or herself in any manner contrary to public decency; nor shall any person or persons trespass upon the property of another without permission of the owner, occupant or lessee. (1999 Code § 9.08.020)
10-5.3 Behavior of Persons in Vehicles.
No person or persons in a vehicle shall make offensive remarks or gestures to any person or persons on the public streets or highways, these remarks being uncalled for and unwanted and contrary to proper decorum. No person or persons in a vehicle shall accost male or female persons on foot or in another vehicle in a seductive or enticing manner or in any manner contrary to good taste and decorum, either by words or gestures or mannerisms. (1999 Code § 9.08.030)
10-5.4 Disorderly Houses Prohibited.
No persons shall keep or maintain a disorderly house or a house of ill fame or allow or permit any house, shop, store or other building owned or occupied by him or her to be used as a disorderly house or house of ill fame, to be frequented or resorted to by riotous or disorderly persons, prostitutes, gamblers or vagrants. (1999 Code § 9.08.040)
10-5.5 Indecent Exposure.
No person shall intentionally appear on any street, avenue, road, highway or other public place in a state of nudity, or make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or commit or cause to be committed, or participate in, the commission of any lewd or indecent act or behavior. (1999 Code § 9.08.050)
10-5.6 Prostitution.
No person shall by word, act, sign or other device invite, solicit or aid or abet in inviting or soliciting, unlawful sexual intercourse or any other unlawful, lewd, indecent or lascivious act. (1999 Code § 9.08.060)
10-5.7 Offensive or Dangerous Weapons.
No person shall conduct himself or herself in or about the Township having concealed upon him or her any implements with an intent to break or enter into any building, nor shall have upon him or her any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive or dangerous weapon; nor shall any person have upon him or her, whether concealed or not, any implements or things with the intent of committing any unlawful act, nor shall any person be present in or near any dwelling, house, warehouse, stable, barn, garage or any place of public resort or assemblage for business, worship or amusement or other lawful purpose, with intent to steal any goods or chattels; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to law officers and other persons duly authorized under certain statutes of this State to carry proper weapons of defense. (1999 Code § 9.08.070)
10-5.8 Gambling.
No person shall, within the limits of the Township, deal, play or engage in faro, roulette, illegal lottery, numbers games or other games of chance, either as banker, player or dealer, or otherwise, for the purpose of gaming or gambling for money or other valuable things. Raffles, bingos and lotteries for which permits are obtained are excluded from the prohibition herein set forth. (1999 Code § 9.08.080)
10-5.9 Recruiting, Securing Employment During Strikes or Lockouts Unlawful.
It is unlawful within the Township for any person, firm or corporation not directly involved in a labor strike or lockout to recruit any person or persons for employment or to secure or offer to secure for any person or persons any employment, when the purpose of such recruiting, securing or offering to secure employment is to have such persons take the place in employment of employees in an industry where a labor strike or lockout exists. (1999 Code § 9.08.090)
10-5.10 Spitting in Public.
It is unlawful for any person to spit upon any public sidewalk or upon any part of the interior or exterior of any public building or public conveyance. (1999 Code § 8.112.070)
10-5.11 Violations; Penalties.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalty stated in Chapter I, Section 1-5. (1999 Code § 9.08.100)
