Ex-Councilwoman Wants To Enforce 40-Year-Old Law Banning Bathing Suits On Boardwalk, Impose $2,000 Fines, 90 Days In Jail

CBS New York
Jun. 27, 2012

ASBURY PARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A former city councilwoman in Asbury Park is admonishing beachgoers to put on a shirt when they’re on the boardwalk.

Louise Murray says it’s the law.

A Monmouth County ordinance banning people from wearing bathing suits on the boardwalk was passed more than 40 years ago but has largely been forgotten. It says: “No person clad in bathing attire shall be on the boardwalk or the public sidewalks adjacent thereto.”

Murray, 74, told WCBS 880′s Alex Silverman on Tuesday that when she was younger “you could not go on that boardwalk unless you had a cover-up and shoes.”



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