You can’t set foot on our sand!
A Jersey Shore group that was issued a violation for banning people from the beach at Ocean Grove on Sunday morning is suing to keep the ban in place, according to a report.
The lawsuit was filed Oct. 2 in Monmouth County Superior Court by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist Heritage organization, against two of its police critics and up to 100 others who they allege wrongly entered the beach, according to NJ Advance Media.
The group seeks to preserve the religious history of the town, which was founded in 1869 by a Methodist minister and uses chains and locks to block access to its beach from boardwalks between 9 a.m. and noon on Sundays throughout the summer.
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association asked the judge to rule that the ban is a “lawful and lawful practice that serves the public interest in reasonable access to the ocean” and a “legitimate accommodation” of its interests.
“A slight limitation of physical presence at the beach on Lord’s Day is consistent with the Plaintiff’s Mission to build and maintain a beautiful beach community to serve as a place for meditation, contemplation and renewal during the Summer months,” they said in court papers. , according to NJ.com.
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which banned beach use on Sunday mornings by blocking access to its boardwalk, has filed a lawsuit. Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
The lawsuit was filed in Monmouth County Superior Court by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist Heritage organization, against two of its police critics and up to 100 others who they allege mistakenly entered the beach. Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
“The ability to contemplate an empty and calm beach in this limited time is the core of [the group’s] the creation, existence and uninterrupted private possession of the frontage of Ocean Grove Beach and adjacent lands.”
On September 14, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection sent the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association a notice of violation asking them to provide access to the beach via the boardwalk there.
The DEP cited the state’s Coastal Facilities Review Act and gave the association 10 days to take action, including agreeing to remove chain and lock barriers.
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