[1997 Code § 373-2]
A.
Whatever is dangerous to human health and renders the ground, water
or food dangerous or injurious to human conditions and things are,
each and all of them, hereby declared to constitute nuisances.
B.
Nuisances enumerated. The following shall constitute nuisances:
(1)
The deposited accumulation of any foul, decaying or putrescent substance
or other offensive matter in or upon any lot, street or highway or
on or upon any public or private place; the storage of such foul,
decaying or putrescent matter, in solid or liquid form, in any vault,
cesspool or other receptacle; and the overflow of any foul liquid
or the escape of gases to such an extent that the same or any one
of them shall become or be likely to become hazardous to health or
shall by reason of offensive odors become a source of discomfort to
persons living in or passing the vicinity thereof.
(2)
A polluted well, spring or stream or the pollution of any body of
water used for drinking purposes or from which ice is gathered.
(3)
The maintenance of any water or privy, unless provision is made for
flushing the same with water after use, as hereinafter provided.
(4)
A building or portion of a building occupied as a dwelling which
is not lighted and ventilated by means of at least one window in each
room, said window opening to the outer air.
(5)
A building or portion of a building that is not provided with a plentiful
supply of pure water.
(6)
A building, jail, almshouse or portion of a building occupied as
a dwelling which is not provided with a sanitary water closet that
shall not serve more than two families.
(7)
A building or portion of a building which is not provided with one
sink for each family, said sink to be connected to a properly constructed
cesspool if no sewer connection is available.
(8)
A building or portion of a building which is not provided with plumbing
that is kept at all times in a sanitary condition.
(9)
Renting or occupying any building or portion of a dwelling for any
purpose whatsoever, except such building or a portion of a building
shall be provided with at least one sanitary water closet or toilet
for every 15 persons or fraction thereof employed therein.
(10)
The accumulation of manure of any kind, unless it shall be in
a pit or box built and maintained as hereinafter specified.
(11)
The accumulation of water on any lot, street or alley in which
mosquito larvae breed or may breed and allowing water to stand in
any can, pail, barrel or tub.
(12)
Any laundry that is used as a sleeping room or that is directly
connected with a sleeping room that has no adequate external light
and ventilation or that is not separated from the living or sleeping
room by plaster partitions equally impervious to gases.
(13)
Any building in which horses, mules or cows are kept or any
stable built or maintained on any lot which is not filled to the established
grade of the street adjoining.
(14)
Any full, foul or leaking cesspool or catch basin which is beneath
any dwelling or other building or which is attached to the foundation
wall of any dwelling or other building.
(15)
Allowing or permitting any night soil, garbage or any offensive
or decomposing fluid or solid matter or substance to leak or ooze
from any wagon, cart or other conveyance in which the same may be
conveyed or carried.
(16)
The carrying or conveying through any street of any substance
which has been removed from any cesspool, unless such substance shall
be enclosed in an airtight receptacle.
(17)
Any unprotected drip sink or water closet within any building,
or any other drainage appliance or fixture within any building, from
which there shall arise any foul or obnoxious gas or odor.
(18)
All sunken lands, marsh and lots where water stands and becomes
stagnant.
C.
No animal or vegetable substance, garbage, contents of cesspool,
wastepaper, shavings or excelsior shall be deposited on any street,
lot or ground in the limits of Absecon City, excepting that manure
may be spread on the ground for fertilizer.
D.
All such material above mentioned, excepting animal or vegetable
matter, garbage, manure, contents of cesspools and dead animals, shall
be deposited on the public dump or dumps. Owners of vacant lots may
use waste from building operations, ashes, shells and cinders for
filling up such lots, provided that any loose matter, such as shavings,
excelsior, wastepaper, etc., must be covered with sand at once to
prevent it blowing away.
[1997 Code § 373-3; N.J.S.A. 26:3-70]
Any person or persons creating or maintaining or aiding in the
maintenance of any of the above-defined nuisances shall, upon conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay for each offense a penalty of not less than
$10 nor more than $500.
[1997 Code § 373-5]
No chickens or ducks or dogs shall be kept in such a manner
that they become an annoyance or nuisance to the surrounding neighborhood
by reason of foul-smelling houses or pens or by running at large or
by the crowing of adult roosters or barking of dogs. The representative
of the Board of Health shall investigate any complaints of the above
and take such measures as are necessary to abate the nuisance.
[1997 Code § 373-5; N.J.S.A. 26:3-70]
A.
Spitting upon the floor, platform or any other part, steps or stairs
of any public buildings, school hall, shop or railway station, upon
any boardwalk, upon the sidewalk of any public or private street or
upon the pathway of any park or any other public places is hereby
prohibited.
[1997 Code § 373-6; N.J.S.A. 26:3-70]
A.
The blowing of whistles or automobile horns and unnecessary ringing
of bells, in short, all forms of waste or friction which produce racket
or clang or nerve-distracting sounds, shall hereafter be prohibited.
B.
Violations and penalties. Any person or persons violating any of
the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be
liable to a penalty of not less than $2 and more than $500 for each
and every offense.
