Beat the clock ! page 1 & Animal House

Belmar Summer Rental News
Published by the Borough of Belmar Friday, June 1, 2007
Belmar to Play “Beat-the-Clock”
Belmar is borrowing a promotional idea from a
Lake Como bar to take a new approach to
prosecuting night-time noise violations.
On “Beat-the-Clock” night, Lake Como’s Bar
Anticipation raises its drink prices every hour. Yet
until now, Belmar has been charging the same old
$350 fine for noise violations no matter when they
occur.
Effective this weekend, Belmar is starting its
own “Beat-the-Clock” promotion. Belmar’s
municipal prosecutor will seek larger fines for noise
violations that occur later in the evening. The later
in the evening, the larger the fine. The current
minimum noise fine of $350 will apply only to
violations that occur before 11:00 p.m. The
prosecutor will seek an increase of $100 in the fine
amount for each hour after 10:00 p.m. that a noise
violation occurs. So, the minimum fine sought for
someone being loud just after bars let out at 2:00
a.m. will now be $750. Fines for second offenders
will be double the Beat-the-Clock figure.
Belmar’s “Beat-the-Clock” enforcement
approach to noise violations will start this weekend
and run all summer long.
Belmar Police Announce
Memorial Day Summons Totals
Belmar Police Chief Jack Hill announced
summons totals for the busy Belmar Memorial Day
Weekend. The Police Department issued 134
Borough ordinance violations this weekend.
(Cont’d on back)
We Have a Winner!!!
The results are in! The tenants at 227 Sixteenth
Avenue became the first Category 1 Animal House
rental to receive a noise ordinance summons in the
summer of 2007.
They now qualify to be the first Belmar Animal
House in 2007 to have a Monmouth County
Sheriff’s Officer posted outside their rental on
weekend nights starting this weekend!
The Borough will seek to recover the
approximately $1,000 per weekend cost of this
officer from the $5,000 bond their landlord posted
as a result of summonses issued in prior summers.
To learn more about Belmar’s Animal House law,
visit www.Belmar.com/Animal_House.
What Has 4 Legs and Barks
When You’re Busted?
The answer is, Kai, a German Shepherd that is
the newest addition to Belmar’s police department.
Kai is a trained narcotics-sniffing dog, who will be
graduating from “Scent School” on June 7. He and
his handler, Belmar Patrolman Darren Vitello, are
eager to get to work. Belmar seeks forfeiture of all
vehicles found to contain an unlawful CDS.
Animal House Properties That
Received Summonses Last Weekend
Address
1002 B STREET
112-114 12TH AVE
216 12TH AVE
112 13TH AVE
207 12TH AVE
202 13TH AVE
301 12TH AVE
204 15TH AVE
315 14TH AVE
111 16TH AVE
227 16TH AVE
105 18TH AVE
1807 SURF AVE
Current Animal
House Category
2311131131133
Best Exchange of Last Weekend
Tenant approaching car: “Wait, I’m a police
officer”
Belmar Officer: “That’s ok, you can give me a
ticket if I ever double-park in your town.”
Memorial Day Weekend
Summons Totals (cont’d)
Of these, 20 were for noise violations, 28 for
drinking in public, 32 for housing code violations
(litter on lawns & porches, etc.), 20 for violations of
beach and boardwalk regulations, and 15 for
urinating in public.
In addition, Belmar police arrested 15 adults on
charges ranging from disorderly persons offenses to
resisting arrest to possession of controlled
dangerous substances.
Three 14th Ave Rentals Get 14 Code
Enforcement Summonses
For those of you who keep track of this kind of
thing, the tenants at 105, 107 & 109 Fourteenth Ave
are off to a big early lead in the number of
summonses issued for housing violations.
Between them, these three properties, which
share a back yard deck, managed to rack up 14
early-morning summonses alleging litter violations,
overcrowding and violations of Borough regulations
governing the storage of trash.
Code Enforcement personnel supervised the
bleary-eyed tenants as they picked up the empty
cups, bottles and cigarette butts that littered their
properties.
Why Is That Man Taking Pictures of
Our Rental?
To improve efficiency in issuing summonses,
Code Enforcement inspectors will begin each
weekend morning by taking photos of properties
that have litter in their yards or on their railings and
porches. Summonses will be delivered to the
properties later in the day.
Tenants can avoid receiving summonses by
making sure all litter on their property is properly
disposed of either before going to bed or before
dawn, whichever comes first.
Recipe for a Summons-Free Summer
It’s pretty simple: Be considerate of your
neighbors, keep your voices and music down,
dispose of your litter properly and park legally.