[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Maplewood 2-4-1975
by Ord. No. 1439 as Ch. BH-V of the 1974 Revised General
Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Heat required. Every person who shall have contracted
or undertaken or shall be bound to heat or to furnish heat for any building
or portion thereof occupied as a home or a place of residence of one (1) or
more persons or as a business establishment where one (1) or more persons
are employed shall heat, or furnish such heat for every occupied room in such
building or portion thereof so that a minimum temperature of seventy degrees
Fahrenheit (70° F.) shall be maintained therein between the hours of 6:00
a.m. and 11:00 p.m. and sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60° F.) from 11:00 p.m.
to 6:00 a.m. measured at the center of the room three (3) feet above the floor
in any building or portion thereof occupied as a home or place of residence
and during the usual working hours established and maintained in a building
or portion thereof occupied as a business establishment, between the dates
of October 1 and May 1.
[Amended 2-16-1982 by Ord. No. 1595]
B.
Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not
apply to buildings or portions thereof used and occupied for trades, businesses
or occupations where high or low temperatures are essential or unavoidable.
C.
Responsibility. For the purpose of this section, wherever
a building is heated by means of a furnace, boiler or other apparatus under
the control of the owner, agent or lessee of a building, the owner, agent
or lessee, in the absence of a contract or agreement to the contrary, shall
be deemed to have contracted, undertaken or bound himself to furnish heat
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
D.
Maintenance. The owner or person in charge of any rented
or leased dwelling or building where the heating system or systems are a permanent
part of the property shall maintain between October 1 of each year and May
1 of the next succeeding year such heating system or systems therein in a
safe and proper working condition to supply heat to the dwelling or building.
A.
Janitor service required. The owner, agent or other person
in charge of any building, tenement or apartment house occupied by four (4)
or more families shall provide adequate and proper janitor service at all
times for the purpose of keeping the premises in a sanitary condition.
B.
Cleanliness. No owner, tenant, lessee or person in charge
of any building, house, store, room or place shall maintain the same or permit
the same or any portion thereof to be maintained in any state of uncleanliness
or filthiness or in any unsanitary condition.
No tenant or occupant of any flat or apartment in any house occupied
by two (2) or more families and no agent, servant or employee of such tenant
or occupant shall use any window, dumbwaiter shaft, fire escape or porch of
such house for the purpose of discharging dust, by shaking or otherwise, from
clothes, rugs or other floor coverings, brooms, mops, rags or other cleaning
implements or material.
A.
Domestic purposes. No person shall rent, let, lease or
allow to be occupied for domestic purposes any building which shall not have
a plentiful supply of potable running water on each floor and in each apartment.
B.
Business purposes. No person shall rent, let, lease or
allow to be occupied for business purposes any building which shall not have
a plentiful supply of potable running water available on each floor.
A.
The owner, agent or person in charge of every building
used or occupied by human beings, whether for business or dwelling purposes,
shall provide not fewer than one (1) water closet for every fifteen (15) occupants
or employees.
B.
The owner, agent or person in charge of every house or
building containing two (2) or more flats or apartments shall provide at least
one (1) water closet in each flat or apartment.
C.
The owner, agent or person in charge of every building
used or occupied by human beings shall keep each water closet in good working
order at all times.
D.
When by reason of injury or hazard to public health additional
water closets or urinal accommodations are required in any building used or
occupied by human beings, the owner, agent or person in charge of such building
shall make such additional installation upon receipt of a notice to that effect
from the Board of Health.
A.
Cesspools prohibited. No person shall construct, maintain
or permit to be constructed or maintained any privy, privy vault or cesspool
upon any property within the township.
B.
Sewer connection required. The owner or person in charge
of any building used or occupied by human beings and not connected with the
public sanitary sewer shall connect such building with such sewer within thirty
(30) days of receipt of a notice from the Board to make such connection.
C.
Abandoned cesspools. Whenever any privy, privy vault
or cesspool is abandoned or the use thereof discontinued, the owner or person
in charge of the property upon which such privy, privy vault or cesspool is
located shall have the contents of the same immediately removed and the vault
or hole filled up with clean dirt or ashes.
No house, apartment, rooms or building shall be let, leased or occupied
by human beings which is infested with rats, mice or vermin. The owner, lessor,
agent or occupant of any such place upon notice from the Board shall immediately
proceed to rid the place of the rats, mice or vermin by any reasonable and
safe means approved by the Board.
Every owner, tenant or occupant of any dwelling house or place of business
shall cause all garbage, swill and offal to be removed from the premises at
least twice each week, and more often if so ordered by the Board of Health,
except that such garbage may be burned on the premises in an incinerator of
a type approved by the Board and in such manner that no nuisance is created.
