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Editor's Note: A copy of the "Public Health Nuisance
Code of New Jersey (1953)" is located in the office of the Board of
Health.
[Ord. No. 9-9-63; 1967 Code § 42-1]
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, Laws of 1950.
[Ord. No. 9-9-63; 1967 Code § 42-2]
The Code established and adopted by this chapter is described
and commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey
(1953)."
[Ord. No. 9-9-63; 1967 Code § 42-3]
Three copies of the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey
(1953)" are on file in the office of the Health Officer, Secretary,
Clerk or other similar officer of this Board of Health and will remain
on file there for the use and examination of the public.
[New]
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision
of this chapter or Code established herein or notice issued pursuant
thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable for the penalty
established in Section BH:1-3 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 9-9-63; 1967 Code § 42-8B; Ord. No. 10-5-71; Ord. No. 3-78]
a.
Amendments. Section 311 of the Code herein established and adopted
shall be designated as follows: "Proper Heating of Apartments; Notice
Required Before Termination of Vital Services."
b.
Additions. The code herein established and adopted is hereby supplemented
by adding the following sections:
1.
Section 3.2. It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners who have
agreed to supply heat, electricity, gas, hot water or any other vital
service to any building designed to be occupied, or occupied, as a
residence for more than two families, to terminate any such vital
service without first having given the residents of such building
not less than five days' written notice of such termination.
2.
Section 2.1 paragraph j. The existence or presence of water in a
swimming pool which has been abandoned or otherwise neglected, which
water may breed mosquito larvae and be unhealthy, detrimental or a
menace to the health of the inhabitants of this municipality.
As used in this section:
Anything which is detrimental or damaging to health or which
is potentially detrimental or damaging to health, as determined by
this Board.
[Ord. No. 12-8-30; Ord. No. 9-27-82; 1967 Code § 62-1; New]
The following specific acts, conditions, and things are each
and all of them declared to constitute public health nuisances and
are prohibited:
a.
Garbage.
1.
Depositing, maintaining, or permitting to be deposited or maintained,
or to accumulate in or upon any public or private street or thoroughfare
or place, or in or upon any property or building, any wastewater,
sewage, garbage, offal, excrement. This does not include properly
constructed and maintained backyard composing areas, as described
by N.J.-D.E.P.
2.
Allowing any garbage or excrement or any other offensive or decomposed
solid or fluid matter or substance to leak or escape from any cart,
wagon, vehicle, or other container in which the same may be conveyed
or contained.
b.
Excremental material. Permitting any human excrement or material
containing human excrement to remain or flow upon the surface of the
ground or to remain or flow in any open ditch or stream; burying,
plowing under or otherwise disposing of such excrement or permitting
the same to be done within 100 feet of any stream, well, lake, spring,
or other source of water used for drinking or other domestic purposes;
or depositing or permitting to be deposited any such material in any
place where it is likely to gain access to such water or to appear
again above the surface of the ground.
c.
Privy vaults and cesspools. Permitting any privy vault or cesspool
to become or remain filled to within one foot of the surface of the
surrounding ground.
d.
Toilet accommodations. Any premises that are not provided with suitable
water closets in good working order or privy vaults for all persons
working thereon or living therein.
e.
Buildings.
1.
Permitting any building or portion thereof occupied by human beings
to be or remain in a state of uncleanliness detrimental to the health
of the occupants or of the public.
2.
Permitting any building which is inhabited by human beings or which
is occupied by human beings for any purpose to be without an adequate
supply of running water at any time while being occupied.
3.
Permitting any filthy or unhealthful plumbing fixtures of or in a
building used or occupied by human beings for any purpose regardless
of whether such condition shall be the result of leakage, stoppage,
or any other cause.
f.
Stables or kennels. Any stable or kennel that is not provided with
watertight floors properly graded, trapped and drained to a sewer
or septic system if no sewer is available.
g.
Insects, larvae and pupae.
1.
Maintaining or permitting to be maintained any pool, pond, ditch,
stream, or other body of water or any other cistern, privy vault,
cesspool, rain barrel or any other receptacle containing liquid in
which mosquito larvae or pupae may or do exist.
2.
Maintaining or allowing to be maintained any condition which causes
or engenders the breeding of flies, mosquitoes, or other vermin.
h.
Vermin or insect exterminators. Regulations covering this term are
covered under N.J.A.C. 7:30-1 et seq.
i.
Smoke. Emission from any premises; smoke, gases, soot, stench, or
other substance in quantity or strength sufficient to cause injury
or damage to health.
j.
Slaughtering. Killing, skinning, or dressing of any animal intended
for food, to be sold for human consumption without permission from
this Board.
k.
Animals. The keeping of horses, cows, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs,
dogs, cats or other animals under unsanitary conditions.
l.
Cats and dogs. The keeping, maintenance, and/or feeding of stray
cats. The maintenance and/or feeding of privately owned cats and/or
dogs in such a manner as to create unsanitary conditions, attract
vermin, or be potentially detrimental to health or create a public
nuisance is hereby prohibited.
m.
Curbing of dogs. No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall
permit feces from such dog to be deposited upon public streets, in
any public park, or other public place within the Township, or upon
any private property without the permission of the owner of the property.
1.
In the event that any dog shall defecate on any property, public
or private (without permission of owner), contrary to the foregoing
restrictions, the person in custody of the dog shall immediately remove
all feces deposited by such dog. Such excreta shall be disposed of
by placing same in a closed container and depositing such in a covered
trash receptacle or in any other sanitary manner approved by the local
Board of Health.
2.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to blind persons who
may use dogs as guides.
n.
Spitting. Spitting upon the floor, steps, platform or upon the interior
of any street or railway car, bus, or other public conveyance or upon
the floors, staircases or any part of any building or upon the sidewalks
or crosswalks or any street, alley, lane or public place.
o.
Obnoxious trades. The carrying on of any trade or business in such
a manner as to be obnoxious or offensive or which may be attended
with unhealthful odors or which may be attended by such conditions
or noises as may be detrimental to health.
p.
Common towels. The supplying or furnishing of any roller towel (except
such roller towel which can be mechanically adjusted for individual
use or except individual paper towels), or of any towel for use by
more than one person without intermediate laundering, in any hotel,
school, retail food establishment, boarding house, bakery, clubhouse,
washroom, public lavatory, health club, or in any place where a number
of people congregate.
r.
Plants. Permitting poison ivy, ragweed, or any other poisonous plant
to exist or to grow upon any public or private property within 25
feet of any public sidewalk, public street or property line.
s.
The depositing or maintaining, or permitting to be deposited or maintained,
in or to any place, public or private, of any animal or vegetable
substance of a decomposable nature, excepting that it be buried in
the ground and immediately covered with clean earth at a depth of
at least equal to the mass covered, and in no instance shall this
depth be less than 12 inches provided that this shall not apply to
manure being used for fertilizing purposes; and the maintaining or
permitting to be maintained, upon any street, lot or other place,
public or private, of any accumulation of animal or vegetable substance
in which fly larvae or pupae exist, or any water in which mosquito
larvae or pupae exist.
t.
The discharging or permitting to be discharged, upon any street or
public place, of any household drainage, decomposable or putrescible
waste liquids or filth of any kind, unless previously filtered.
u.
The depositing or discharging, or permitting to be deposited or discharged,
into any stream, lake, spring or other body of water, of any sewage,
excremental matter, domestic refuse or other polluting water.
[Ord. No. 8-21-62; Ord. No. 7-7-70; 1967 Code §§ 21-5, 21-6; New]
a.
Declaration of nuisance. Dumps are hereby declared to be nuisances
hazardous to public health and are prohibited in the Township.
b.
Dumping prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation, whether a principal or an agent, servant, employee or
otherwise to dump or dispose of any trash, refuse, garbage or organic
or combustible matter of any nature except as provided in Chapter
18, Solid Waste Management of the "Revised General Ordinances of the
Township of Deptford."
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In addition to the preceding section, whatever is detrimental
to health or whatever is potentially injurious or dangerous to health
is hereby declared to be a health nuisance.
[Ord. No. 12-8-30; 1967 Code § 62-2]
Any person causing, maintaining or permitting any nuisance as
defined and declared by this Board of Health Code shall, upon notice
from the Board of Health, cause the same to be abated within such
time as specified in the notice, and the expense of abating such nuisance
shall be defrayed by the owner or other person in charge of the premises
upon which the nuisance occurs or exists.
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Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision
of this section shall, upon conviction, be liable for the penalty
established in Section BH:1-3 of this Code.
