Morristown Municipal Court Judge Gary Troxel made headlines in April when he castigated more than 20 people charged with urinating in public.

The problem is so pervasive, Troxel said, it's making parts of the Morris County municipality reek.

"On some streets, when it rains in Morristown, they smell like urine," he said.

This is not a problem just in Morristown.

In Hoboken, where thousands of revelers descend each weekend on the bars and restaurants that crowd downtown, dozens of people each year are cited for violating city ordinance 145-22: public urination.

In spring and summer of 2012, city court records show that at least 64 individuals were caught voiding their bladders on the streets and sidewalks, with most of the citations issued south of Third Street. Thirteen were given at the Hoboken Terminal, six at the corner of First and Court streets, and four outside City Hall.

About three-quarters of the citations resulted in guilty pleas. All but 11 were handed out between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. About eight were given to women.

Fines ranged from $250 to $1,000.

The Jersey Journal received the information via multiple public records requests made to the Hoboken Municipal Court.

The stats don't seem to surprise anyone.

Paul Dawson, owner of Mulligans bar on First Street, said his own patrons are well behaved but as for those who crowd the surrounding streets, not so much.

"I see this place on a Friday and Saturday night," Dawson said, shaking his head.

A city resident smoking outside Biggie's on Newark Street said she's often caught people peeing in the stairwell leading to her basement.

"It's the bars "" people, when they get drunk, they don't know how to act," said the woman, who asked not to be identified. "The worst is St. Paddy's Day."

Last year, the committee that organized the city's St. Patrick's Day parade canceled the festivities after Mayor Dawn Zimmer said she wanted it held on a weekday instead of a Saturday. The weekend parade had led to too much disorderly conduct, violations of ordinance 145-22 included, Zimmer argued.

Though thousands still headed to Mile Square City on the day the parade would normally have been held, city officials said there was far less public urination that day than in years past (59 in St. Patrick's Day in 2011, versus 17 this year).

City spokesman Juan Melli said Hoboken has increased the number of officers patrolling the streets on nights and weekends to address these problems. Kyle West, who bartends at Teak on the Hudson, said the number of cops in the area make most people think twice about taking care of business outside.

"I mean, I work in the bar industry, that's what people do after last call," West said.

Melli noted that the problem has improved. In 1994, the New York Times reported that 30 to 40 people were cited each week for public urination in Hoboken.

Court Street resident Darren Bornemann, 32, who moved to Mile Square City eight years ago, said drunken partiers loiter in front of his house.

"I've almost gotten into a couple of fights," he said.

Cops gave out eight tickets there between May and September of last year. Two of them were given within 30 minutes of each other on Sept. 23 "" one at 4:36 a.m., the other at 5 a.m.

Krsysten Gavigan, 28, a bartender at 1 Republik, 221 Washington St., said with so many college students populating Hoboken streets on nights and weekends, it's no surprise that many of them get caught peeing in public, although Gavigan was shocked to hear so many women were cited.

"I have to pee in a bathroom," she said. "Unless I'm, like, camping."