Civic Affairs

TIMES HAVE CHANGED!

FLORENCE E. RUTAN, TOWN CLERK

AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT PERSONS FROM ALIGHTING OR DROPPING OBJECTS FROM AIRCRAFT INTO THE STREETS, TREES AND PARKS OF THE TOWN OF NUTLEY.

WHEREAS, during several years past various individuals have descended by means of parachutes or similar contrivances into the Town of Nutley from a balloon or balloons floating in the air above the Town of Nutley, and

WHEREAS, a person making such a descent has not complete control of the direction or force of his descent, and for that reason endangers the safety of life and limb and the integrity of property of the citizens of Nutley, and

WHEREAS, the balloonist has at the moment of beginning his descent released the hot air or gas enclosed in the balloon thereby causing the balloon envelope or gas bag to descend rapidly and with great violence to the earth, thus endangering the safety of life and limb and the integrity of property of the citizens of Nutley,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the Commissioners of the Town of Nutley in the County of Essex, State of New Jersey that no person or persons shall descend into Nutley from any balloon, flying machine, or aeroplane by means of a parachute or similar contrivance not under complete control of the person making such descent, and

BE IT ORDAINED, that no person shall throw, cast, let fall or cause to fall any heavy object or matter or any part or parts or the whole of any balloon, flying machine or aeroplane, into or upon the streets, parks, residences, trees, shrubs, gardens or any other property of the Town of Nutley or its citizens, from any balloon, flying machine or aeroplane floating or traveling through the air above the Town of Nutley, and

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that any person or persons violating this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for the first offense, and imprisonment of 30 days for each and every subsequent violation.

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that any ordinances or parts of ordinances contrary to this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.

Adopted: August 22nd, 1916

AN ORDINANCE TO LICENSE GIPSIES

The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Nutley, County of Essex and State of New Jersey, does hereby ordain as follows:

Section 1.     No gipsy or band of gipsies shall make or pitch their tents in or upon any public street, highway, roads, lots, or upon fields within the limits of the Town of Nutley, except when such gipsy or band of gipsies be licensed as hereinafter provided.

Section 2.     Within six days before any camp has been made or tent pitched in the Town of Nutley, the head of the camp of gipsies or head of the family desiring to locate within the Town of Nutley shall apply to the Town Clerk for a license to make such camp or pitch such tent, and shall pay to the said Town Clerk for said license the sum of Twenty-five ($25.) Dollars for each family in said band.

Section 3.     The said license when issued shall be in force for three months from the date of issue and shall state the name of the licensee and the name and age of each member of the band or each member of the family of the person applying therefor. It shall also contain the location of the place where the tent is to be erected or the camp is to be fixed.

Section 4.     Any head of a gipsy family or leader of a gipsy band violating any of the provisions of the said ordinance shall be fined Twenty ($20.) Dollars upon the conviction of a first offense and imprisonment for twenty days upon a conviction of a second offense.

All Ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed.

Adopted-Sept. 25, 1917