[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Byram 8-17-1971 as Ch. BH-V of the Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Noise — See Ch. 171.
Housing — See Ch. 148.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 186.
General penalty — see Ch. 245, § 245-14.
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 the 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 the 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 N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 et seq. A copy of the code is annexed to this chapter and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text.
The 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 Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) have been placed on file in the offices of the Secretary of the Board of Health and the Township Clerk for the use and examination of the public.
[Amended 12-30-1976]
The code is amended in Section 1.1 to read as follows:
1.1. "Enforcing officials" shall mean and include regular and special patrolmen and superior officers of the Police Department, the Construction Official, the Plumbing Inspector, the Health Officer or any other official authorized by the Board of Health to enforce this code and chapter.