[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Quinton 11-5-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-16 Amendments noted where applicable.]
There shall be and is hereby created a Board of Health to be known as "The Township of Quinton Board of Health."
The Board of Health shall reorganize annually, which reorganization meeting shall take place between January 1 and January 15 of every year.
The Board of Health shall consist of three members, all of whom shall be members of the Township Committee. The members shall select a President, Vice President and Secretary.
The term of the members of the Board of Health shall be for a period of one year commencing on January 1 and ending December 31.
All members of the Board of Health shall serve without compensation for their services.
The purpose of the Board of Health shall be to monitor and regulate the public health within the Township of Quinton.
The Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953), approved by the New Jersey State Department of Health on September 16, 1953, is hereby adopted as the Health Nuisance Code of the Township of Quinton, a copy of which code is on file in the office of the Municipal Clerk and is available for public inspection.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Township Health Officer, which individual shall be appointed annually by the Township Committee of the Township of Quinton for a term of one year, and who shall be paid in accordance with the Township's Salary Ordinance.
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 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.[1] A copy of said code is on file with the Secretary of this Local Board of Health and in the Township Clerk's Office.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 et seq.
The 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 the said Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary of this local Board of Health and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public.
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of this chapter, including the Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) incorporated herein by reference, or notice issued pursuant thereto, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
All ordinances, codes or parts of same inconsistent with any of the provisions of this chapter and the code established hereunder are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
In the event that any section, article or clause of this code shall be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction such declaration shall not in any manner prejudice the enforcement of the remaining provisions.