[Adopted 5-21-1984 by Ord. No. 12-1984]
The purpose of this article is to enact and
establish in the City of Pleasantville those regulations of the New
Jersey Administrative Code providing for the installation and maintenance
of smoke detectors and/or smoke alarms in hotels and multiple dwellings.
Such regulations were adopted and promulgated by the Commissioner
of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs in accordance with
the authority and power of law invested in him by N.J.S.A. 55:13A-7.1
which took place on February 8,1980.
The following words and phrases, as used in
the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law, as amended (N.J.S.A. 55:13A-1
et seq.), the New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C. 5:10-2 et seq.)
and this article, shall have the following meanings and be defined
accordingly:
Any building, including but not limited to any related structure,
accessory building and land appurtenances thereto, and any part thereof,
which contains 10 or more units of dwelling space or has sleeping
facilities for 25 or more persons and is kept, used, maintained, advertised
as or held out to be a place where sleeping or dwelling accommodations
are available to transient or permanent guests. This definition shall
also mean and include any motor hotel, motel or established guesthouse
which is commonly regarded as a motor hotel, motel or established
guesthouse, as the case may be, in the community in which it is located.
Any building or structure of one or more stories and any
land appurtenances thereto, and any portion thereof, in which three
or more units of dwelling space are occupied or are intended to be
occupied by three or more persons who live independently of each other,
provided that this definition shall not be construed to include any
building or structure defined as a hotel in this article or registered
as a hotel with the Commissioner of Community Affairs or occupied
or intended to be occupied exclusively as such, nor shall this definition
be construed to include dwelling units of any mutual housing corporation
construed under the Lanaham Act (National Defense Housing) P.L. 849,
42 U.S.C. § 1521 et seq., as amended, on or before June
1, 1941.
A smoke detector which may be either a single-station unit
interconnected with other single-station units for common alarm enunciation
or a smoke detector of the non-self-contained-alarm type connected
to a remote alarm in a system designed to be connected to a alternating
current (AC) power supply source.
The person who owns, purports to own or exercise control
of any hotel or multiple dwelling.
Any individual, corporation, association or other entity,
as defined in N.J.S.A. 1:1-2.
A smoke detector which contains an alarm.
A fire alarm device which consists of an assembly of electrical
components, including a smoke chamber and provision for connection
to a power source and may either be a single-station unit or a multiple-station
unit.
A smoke detector, not containing an alarm, which is interconnected
to a common alarm or series of alarms.
A sticker or a piece of oaktag or cardboard attached or affixed
to a smoke detector, containing space for the entry of initials of
the person inspecting each detector and the date of inspection.
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The provisions of N.J.A.C. 5:10-19.11(c), as amended
by N.J.A.C. 5:10-25.3, shall be binding upon all owners, proprietors,
managers and operators of hotels and multiple dwellings as though
fully set forth in this article.
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Three copies of said regulations have been placed
on file in the office of the Clerk of the City of Pleasantville upon
the introduction of this article for the use and examination of the
public. Another copy of these regulations is annexed hereto and made
a part hereof.
Any person, owner, entity or other individual
that is found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this article
and the New Jersey Administrative Code, as incorporated by reference
herein, shall be subject to a fine not less than $100 nor more than
$1,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days and/or a period
of community service not exceeding 90 days. Each day that such violation
continues after a twenty-day written notice of same shall constitute
a separate and distinct violation of this article.
