We have compiled excerpts from important laws that police officers deal with on a frequent basis. These excerpts have been taken from the Code of the Borough of Park Ridge and from the NJ Motor Vehicle & Traffic Laws - Title 39. It is important to remember that these are only excerpts from the Park Ridge Borough Ordinances and the NJ Motor Vehicle & Traffic Laws, and that citizens should read the complete statutes to understand how these laws affect them and their neighbors.
CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF PARK RIDGE,
NEW JERSEYClick the below topics that interest you
3. VISIBILITY AT INTERSECTIONS
8. NOISE
9. HELMET LAWS
10. SEAT BELTS
PARKING OFFENSES
If you need to leave your vehicle out on the street overnight for a legitimate reason (i.e.: driveway getting paved) call 391-5400 for permission. Vehicles without permission will be issued warnings/summonses. Overnight permission will be denied if there is a threat of a snowstorm or icing condition.
§ 97-7. Parking prohibited during certain hours.
A. No person shall park a vehicle on any street within the Borough of Park Ridge between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
No person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified in Schedule II of any day upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in said Schedule II attached to and made a part of this chapter
Vehicles without valid identification stickers will be ticketed if parked in the borough lot during the below times. Permission to park may be granted to a party that purchased a current identification sticker but has a temporary vehicle (i.e.: car repair on vehicle with valid identification sticker). Identification stickers may be obtained on a first come-first serve basis at the Park Ridge Borough Hall.
§ 76-1. Location; hours of use. [Amended 9-13-1982 by Ord. No. 82-19; 12-23-1986 by Ord. No. 86-36; 3-10-1987 by Ord. No. 87-3]
A. The parking of vehicles in the municipal parking lot located on Hawthorne Avenue between Madison Avenue and Market Street is hereby regulated and limited as follows:
(1) Between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight on all days except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, no person shall cause a vehicle to occupy any of the parking spaces, unless said vehicle shall bear a current identification sticker, as herein defined, affixed in accordance with such regulation as the Chief of Police may hereafter promulgate.
(2) Each person using the municipal parking lot shall cause the vehicle to be parked entirely within the designated parking area.
In conjunction with an agreement between the Borough of Park Ridge and New Jersey Transit, a ten-foot wide by approximately five-hundred-sixty-foot parcel owned by New Jersey Transit running along the easterly side of the railroad and along Broadway beginning approximately one hundred (100) feet south of Park Avenue and continuing south to approximately opposite the intersection of Roland Street with Broadway shall be designated a daily park-and-ride area for commuters. Said area shall function between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight on weekdays, except legal holidays. No overnight parking within the designated park-and-ride area shall be permitted. The daily fee to park in a designated space shall be one dollar ($1.). [Amended 10-10-1989 by Ord. No. 89-10]
TENANT / HOMEOWNER RESPONSIBLILITES
Please monitor all brush and hedges that can affect visibility at intersections. When visibility is hindered it can become a serious hazard to motor vehicles and pedestrians.
§ 82-1. Maximum height of brush and hedges.
The owner or tenant of land forming a corner lot or property shall keep all brush, hedges and other plant life growing within ten (10) feet of any roadway and within twenty-five (25) feet of the intersection of two (2) roadways cut to a height of not more than two and one-half (2 1/2) feet above the adjacent sidewalk elevation.
Please remove any snow or ice that accumulates on sidewalks promptly. This is a serious hazard to pedestrians.
§ 86-1. Duty of owner or tenant to remove.
The owner or tenant in possession of any lands abutting or bordering upon sidewalks of any public streets of the borough shall remove or cause to be removed from the abutting sidewalks the following:
A. All snow or ice therefrom within eighteen (18) hours after the snow or ice shall have been formed on the sidewalk or gutter.
All grass, weeds, brush and other impediments thereon within three (3) days of notice to remove the same, given or caused to be given by the Director of Operations, or his designee; and the notice shall be served upon the owner or tenant by personal service or registered or certified mail addressed to the last known addressee of the premises.
Please do not throw ice or snow into the street. Quick temperature changes can cause treacherous road conditions.
§ 86-3. Deposit of snow or ice on streets.
A. No person, including the owner or occupant of any lands or premises abutting or bordering upon any street, shall place, deposit, throw or shovel any snow or ice into or upon that portion of any such street which has been cleaned, plowed or shoveled of snow or ice by the borough or by any governmental agency or authority or by any public utility having and exercising a franchise or permit to operate autobuses along any streets in the borough, at any time after said street has been cleaned or plowed as aforesaid.
No owner or occupant of any lands or premises abutting or bordering upon any street shall cause, allow or permit any person to do or perform any of said conduct prohibited by Subsection A of this section.
There have been countless times when an officer has responded to a medical emergency and has been delayed due a home not properly marked with a visible house number. Please check your house number and make sure it can be seen easily from the street. In life or death situations, every second counts, so please allow us to get to your location without delay.
§ 69-3. Owner to obtain and affix proper number. [Amended 7-8-1974 by Ord. No. 74-16; 3-12-1991 by Ord. No. 91-3]
Once a street number has been assigned, the owner or owners shall place the house number at or near the entrance of the house. Such number shall be at least three (3) inches in height. The lettering of numbers, as well as the use of Arabic numerals, is permitted.
DOGS / BARKING
Please get a license for Fido. A dog license can help police identify a loose dog quickly and return him promptly to the owner. If you don’t license your dog you may have to pick him up at the Teterboro Animal Shelter with a summons issued for failure to obtain a dog license.
§ 52-2. License required.
No person shall keep or harbor any dog within the borough without first obtaining a license therefor, to be issued by the Borough Clerk upon application by the owner and payment of the prescribed fee, and no person shall keep or harbor any dog except in compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
§ 52-3. Annual license and registration tag.
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing age shall, in the month of January of each year and annually thereafter, apply for and procure from the Borough Clerk a license and official metal registration tag for each such dog so owned, kept or harbored, and shall place upon each such dog a collar or harness with the registration tag securely fastened thereto.
Please make sure your dog does not cause your neighbors a headache with constant barking or crying. If a warning does not correct the problem then a summons will be issued for the violation. Let’s respect our neighborhood and curb this nuisance.
§ 52-22. Habitual barking or crying. [Amended 9-14-1964 by Ord. No. 64-8]
No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any dog which habitually barks or cries or which, by frequent barking, disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood and creates a nuisance thereby.
§ 52-23. Running at large prohibited. [Amended 8-14-1972 by Ord. No. 72-12.]
It shall be unlawful for any dog, whether licensed or not, to run at large within the borough. A dog shall be deemed to be running at large when off the premises of its owner or of the person keeping or harboring such dog and not on a leash, tether, chain, rope or the like, the overall length of which, including the handgrip, shall not exceed six (6) feet, held by its owner or other person able to control such dog.
Let’s keep things quiet and respect the peace.
§ 75A-2. Prohibited noise.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue or cause to be made or continued any loud, unnecessary or unusual noise or any noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others or to create any unreasonably loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise of such character, intensity or duration as is detrimental to the life or health of any individual or persons within the limits of the Borough of Park Ridge.
§ 75A-3. Specific prohibitions.
The following acts are declared to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises in violation of this chapter, but such enumeration shall not be construed to be a limitation or be deemed to be exclusive:
A. The use of a sound truck with sound amplification in operation.
B. The sounding of any horn or signaling device on any vehicle, except as a danger warning, or the sounding of any horn or signaling device for any unnecessary and unreasonable period of time in times of traffic holdups or the use of any horn, whistle or other device operated by engine exhaust.
C. The playing or operating of any radio, phonograph, television, musical instrument or other machine or device for the production or reproduction of sound in such a manner or volume as to cause a noise disturbance to others in the vicinity.
D. Playing or operating any of the aforementioned devices between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following day in such a manner as to be plainly audible across real property boundaries or through partitions common to two (2) parties within a building or plainly audible at fifty (50) feet from such device when operated within a motor vehicle parked on a public right-of-way or on a public space.
E. The use, or permission to use, on the public streets of the borough any loudspeaker, amplifier, radio, phonograph or other machine or device for the purpose of commercial advertising or attracting the attention of the public, nor shall a loudspeaker or mechanical device in a fixed or movable position, exterior to any building, or mounted upon any motor vehicle such that the sound therefrom is plainly audible at or beyond the property boundary of the source be permitted or used.
F. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing in the public streets, particularly between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following day, so as to annoy and disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any office, dwelling, hotel or other type of residence or of any persons in the vicinity.
G. The blowing of any locomotive whistle or whistle attached to any stationary boiler, except to give notice of the time to begin or to stop work or as a warning of distress, fire or danger or upon request of proper borough authorities.
H. The discharge into open air of the exhaust of any steam engine, stationary internal combustion engine, motor vehicle engine, except through a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises therefrom.
I. The use of any automobile, motorcycle or vehicle so out of repair, so loaded or in such a manner as to create loud and unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or other noise.
J. The creation of a noise disturbance in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle or the opening and destruction of bales, boxes, crates and containers.
K. The erection (including excavation), demolition, alteration or repair of any building, other than between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays, except in the case of urgent necessity in the interest of public health and safety; provided, however, that a permit therefor has been obtained from the Construction Code Official. Such permit may be granted while the emergency continues for a period not to exceed three (3) days and may be renewed for periods of three (3) days or less.
L. The creation of any excessive or disturbing noise on any street adjacent to any school, institution of learning, church or court, provided that conspicuous signs are displayed in such streets indicating the proximity of such institutions.
M. The shouting or crying of peddlers, hawkers and vendors which disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood.
N. The operation between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following day of any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer, derrick, steam or electric hoist or other appliances, the use of which is attended by loud or unusual noise.
O. The operation of any blower, fan or internal combustion engine resulting in noise from the exploding of operating gases or fluids, unless such blower, fan or engine is equipped with a sound-deadening muffler.
P. Operating or causing to be operated any equipment used in commercial construction, repair, alteration or demolition work on buildings, structures, streets, alleys or appurtenances thereto, in residential or commercial land use categories, between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following day on weekdays, and between 6:00 p.m. Saturday night and 8:00 a.m. Monday morning and on legal holidays.
Q. Repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing any motor vehicle or off-road vehicle in or near a residential district in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance.
R. Owning, keeping, possessing or harboring any animal or animals or bird or birds which, by frequent or habitual howling, barking, meowing, squawking or other noise-making, cause a noise disturbance.
S. Operating or permitting the operation of powered model vehicles between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following morning.
T. Operating or permitting the operation of the motor of any motor vehicle whose manufacturer's gross weight is in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or any attached auxiliary equipment for a period longer than three (3) minutes in any hour while such vehicle is stationary on a public right-of-way in a residential district or in any designated quiet zone, or is on private property in a residential or commercial zone and is not within a completely enclosed structure.
U. The sounding or permitting the sounding of any exterior burglar alarm on any building or motor vehicle unless such burglar alarm shall terminate its operation within fifteen (15) minutes of its being activated.
Operating, or permitting to be operated, any powered saw, sander, drill, grinder, garden equipment or tools of like nature, used primarily for domestic purposes, outdoors in residential districts between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following day.
NJ Motor Vehicle & Traffic Laws
- TITLE 39
Is your child wearing his/her helmet? CAUTION FOR PARENTS: A BICYCLE HELMET THAT HAS HAD AN IMPACT IS NO LONGER EFFECTIVE TO ANOTHER IMPACT. PLEASE REPLACE THAT HELMENT IMMEDIATELY DUE TO THE WEAKENING OF THE PROTECTIVE INSULATION UNDER THE HELMET SHELL.
39:4-10.1. Helmets Required for Bicycle Operators and Passengers Under 14 Years
a. A person under 14 years of age shall not operate, or ride upon a bicycle as a
passenger, unless that person is wearing a properly fitted and fastened bicycle helmet
which meets the standards of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI Z90.4
bicycle helmet standard) or the Snell Memorial Foundation's 1990 Standard for
Protective Headgear for Use in Bicycling. This requirement shall apply to a person who
rides upon a bicycle while in a restraining seat which is attached to the bicycle or in a
trailer towed by the bicycle.
As used in this act [R.S. 39:4-10.1 to 39:4-10.4], "bicycle" means a vehicle
with two wheels propelled solely by human power and having pedals, handle bars and a
saddle-like seat. The term shall include a bicycle for two or more persons having seats
and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem.
b. The director shall publish a list of bicycle helmets which meet the standards
described in subsection a. of this section and shall provide for their distribution in as
many locations frequented by the public as the director deems appropriate and
practicable.
c. The requirement in subsection a. of this section shall apply at all times
while a bicycle is being operated on any property open to the public or used by the
public for pedestrian and vehicular purposes; however, a municipality may by ordinance
exempt from this requirement a person operating or riding on a bicycle as a passenger
when the bicycle is operated:
(1) on a road or highway closed to motor vehicle traffic and limited to
pedestrian or bicycle use at all times or only during specified periods of time during
which bicycles may be operated; or
(2) exclusively on a trail, route, course, boardwalk, path or other area which
is set aside for the use of bicycles or for the use of pedestrians and bicycle operation
is not otherwise prohibited. However, an exemption may not be granted under this
paragraph for any portion of a trail, route, course, boardwalk, path or other area which
is immediately adjacent to a road or highway used by motor vehicle traffic and which does
not contain a barrier of sufficient height and rigidity to prevent the inadvertent or
deliberate entry of a bicycle operator onto the road or highway.
d. An ordinance enacted pursuant to subsection c. of this section shall specify
those roads, highways, trails, routes, courses, boardwalks, paths or areas within the
municipality where helmets are not required during the operation of a bicycle.
e. When a bicycle is being operated in an area where bicycle helmets are not
required, the operator or a passenger, except a passenger in a restraining seat or
trailer, shall dismount from the bicycle and walk whenever it is necessary to enter a
crosswalk or to cross a road or highway upon which motor vehicle traffic is permitted.
(Added by L.1991, c.465(1); chgd. by L.1997, c.411(10), eff. 8/1/98.)
39:4-10.5. Helmet Required for Children Under 14 While Roller Skating or
Skateboarding
a. As used in this act:
"Director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and
Public Safety.
"Roller skates" means a pair of devices worn on the feet with a set of wheels
attached, regardless of the number or placement of those wheels, and used to glide or
propel the user over the ground.
b. A person under 14 years of age shall not operate any roller skates or
skateboard unless that person is wearing a properly fitted and fastened helmet which
meets the standards of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI Z90.4 bicycle
helmet standard), the Snell Memorial Foundation's 1990 Standard for Protective
Headgear for Use in Bicycling, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
standard or other such standard, as appropriate.
c. The requirement in subsection b. of this section shall apply at all times
while a person subject to the provisions of this act is operating roller skates or
skateboarding on any property open to the public or used by the public for roller skating
or skateboarding.
(Added by L.1997, c.411(1), eff. 8/1/98.)
A FEW SECONDS OF YOUR TIME CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. BUCKLE UP – IT’S THE LAW.
39:3-76.2f. Required Wearing of Seat Belts
a. Except as provided in P.L.1983, c.128 (C.39:3-76.2a et al.) for children
under five years of age and except as provided in subsection b. of this section for
passengers who are at least five years of age but less than 18 years of age, each driver
and front seat passenger of a passenger automobile operated on a street or highway in
this State shall wear a properly adjusted and fastened safety seat belt system as defined
by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 209.
b. The driver of passenger automobile shall secure or cause to be secured in a
properly adjusted and fastened safety seat belt system, as defined by Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard Number 209, any passenger in the front seat who is at least five
years of age but less than 18 years of age.
This law was enacted for your safety. Inclement weather can prevent other motorists from seeing your vehicle.
39:3-46. Terms Defined
"When lighted lamps are required" means at any time from a half-hour after sunset
to a half-hour before sunrise; whenever rain, mist, snow or other precipitation or
atmospheric moisture requires the use of windshield wipers by motorists; and during any
time when, due to smoke, fog, unfavorable atmospheric conditions or for any other cause
there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the
highway at a distance of 500 feet ahead.
