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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 20, CHAPTER 2, DISORDERLY CONDUCT, OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (2000) AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED, TO ADD A NEW PARAGRAPH, PARAGRAPH 5, TO IMPROVE AND INCREASE THE PUBLIC SAFETY OF THE CITY OF NEWARK
On the instruction of the sponsor this legislation is being submitted to Council without Legistar review
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WHEREAS, loitering is recognized as a public nuisance; and
WHEREAS, action must be taken to combat the very real threat posed by gang intimidation and violence; and
WHEREAS, there is an immediate need to maintain and preserve the peace and tranquility to the common good of the neighborhoods of the city of Newark; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
Section 3. Title 20, Offenses, Miscellaneous, Chapter 2, Disorderly Conduct, Section 3, Annoying or Obstructing Persons; Penalty of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Newark, New Jersey (2000), as amended and supplemented be further amended to read as follows:
20:2-3. ANNOYING OR OBSTRUCTING PERSONS; PENALTY.
a. No person or persons shall:
1. Engage in any practice, sport or exercise having a tendency to annoy persons passing on the streets or sidewalks;
2. Molest or give annoyance to children attending any school or public building, or annoy any person or any teacher therein;
3. Willfully obstruct, molest, hinder, annoy, frighten, threaten, insult or interfere with any other person or persons lawfully upon any public thoroughfare or in any public place or in any automobile, bus or other public or private conveyance lawfully upon any public thoroughfare;
4. Collect in bodies or crowds for idle or unlawful purposes, to the annoyance or disturbance of other persons or travelers;
5. In areas known to be high crime areas or designated as heavy drug trafficking areas, no pe...
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