[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Lumberton 5-30-1991
as Ord. No. BH:1991-1. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Public Health Nuisance Code (1953) established and adopted. A code defining and prohibiting certain matters, things, conditions or acts and each of them as a nuisance, prohibiting certain noises or sounds, requiring the proper heating of apartments, prohibiting lease or rental of certain buildings, prohibiting spitting in or upon public buildings, conveyances or sidewalks, authorizing the inspection of premises by an enforcing official, providing for the removal or abatement of certain nuisances and recovery of expenses incurred by the Board of Health in removing or abating such nuisances and prescribing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant to Chapter 188 of the Laws of 1950.[1] A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without
including herein the entire text thereof.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 et seq.
Said code established and adopted by this chapter is described and commonly
known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953)."
Three copies of said Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953)
have been placed on file in the office of the Health Officer and Secretary
of this Local Board of Health upon the introduction of this chapter and will
remain in file there for the use and examination of the public.
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of
this chapter or the notice issued pursuant hereto shall, upon conviction thereof,
be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment in the county
jail for a term not exceeding 90 days or to a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days, or to such combination of punishments as the Municipal
Judge may, in his or her discretion, deem appropriate and just; and each violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter and each day the same is violated
shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.
