This chapter and all ordinances supplementary
hereto and amendatory hereof shall or may be known, referred to and
cited as the "Sanitary Code of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Riverdale" or as the "Code" or as the "Health Code" or as the "Sanitary
Code."
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APARTMENT HOUSE
BOARD
BOROUGH
BUTCHER
CAMP
CARRIER
CATTLE
CELLAR
CHILL ROOM
CLEANING
CODE
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
CONTACT or SUSPECT
CONTAINER
CUTTING ROOM
DENSE SMOKE
DISINFECTION
DWELLING
FISH
FOOD
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
FRESH MEAT
FRESH MEAT PRODUCTS
FROZEN FOOD
FROZEN-FOOD LOCKER PLANT
FROZEN-FOOD PROCESSING PLANT
FROZEN-FOOD VEHICLE
GARBAGE
GRADE A FOOD
HEALTH OFFICER
ISOLATION
KENNELS
LABEL
LABELING
MARKET
MATERNITY HOME
MEAT
MEMBER or MEMBERS
MONTH
NUISANCE
NURSE
PACKAGE
PERMIT or LICENSE
PERSON (or the personal pronouns HE, SHE, HIM, HER or HIS)
POULTRY
PROPERTY and OTHER PROPERTY
PUBLIC PLACES
QUARANTINE
REAL ESTATE or REAL PROPERTY
RECORDING THERMOMETER
REGISTRAR
REGULATIONS
RESTAURANT
RUBBISH
SANITARY INSPECTOR
SHARP-FREEZE ROOM OR COMPARTMENT
SMALL ANIMALS
STATE BOARD
STATE DEPARTMENT
STREET
TENANT
YEAR
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
Includes every house, building or portion thereof which is
rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied as a house, home or
residence by two or more families living independently of one another
and doing their cooking and sleeping upon the premises.
The Board of Health of the Borough of Riverdale.
The Borough of Riverdale.
Any person, as the word "person" is herein defined, engaged
in the business of keeping, driving or slaughtering any cattle or
selling any meat.
Includes any house, place or establishment intended to be
used or occupied as the living quarters, temporarily, by five or more
persons for a period of three or more consecutive days.
Any person who harbors an infectious agent of disease but
who, at the same time, may or may not have symptoms of the disease.
Includes cows, bulls, calves, horses, mules, asses, sheep,
goats and swine.
The lowest story of any building, dwelling or tenement house,
of which 1/3 or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is
below ground level.
A room which is cooled sufficiently to prevent spoilage of
food which is intended for sale or frozen-food processing.
The thorough removal of contaminating material or materials.
Includes this chapter and the Sanitary Code of the Borough
of Riverdale unless some other code is expressly indicated or referred
to.
Any infectious or contagious disease so declared or defined
by law or by this code or which has been or may hereafter be declared
as a communicable disease by this Board or by the State Department
of Health.
Any person who has been sufficiently near or exposed to any
infected person or animal to make probable the transmission of an
infectious or causative agent from such person.
Synonymous with "package," as herein defined.
Includes any room or place in which food of a decomposable
nature, such as meat and fish, must be kept sufficiently cooled or
chilled to prevent spoiling, or the equipment in which it is held
prior to freezing.
Smoke which is so heavy and thick as to prevent the seeing
of objects through it at the point of emission into the external air.
The application of any disinfectant materials to infected
materials in sufficient concentration and for a sufficient length
of time to destroy pathogenic organisms.
Any building or portion thereof which is occupied or is intended
to be occupied as a residence or sleeping place of one or more individuals,
families or households.
Includes every part of any marine animal.
Includes any article used for food or beverage for man and
every ingredient therein and all confectionery, condiments and beverages
and articles used for components of any such article.
Includes any bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house,
slaughterhouse, dairy, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel,
grocery, meat market or other place used in the production, preparation,
transportation or handling of food intended for sale or distribution.
Meat from animals recently slaughtered and properly cooled
until delivered to the consumer. The term "animals" as used in this
section shall include not only mammals but fish, fowl, crustaceans,
mollusks and all other animals used as food.
Includes all meat trimmings, meat by-products and meat products
made from fresh meat, except such products as are sold in a smoked,
salted or cured condition.
Food and foodstuffs which have been frozen solid with or
without the addition of uncontaminated water.
Any place artificially cooled to or below a temperature of
32° F in which articles of food are sharp-frozen and stored in
lockers being rented to the public.
Includes any place where food is cleaned, cut, prepared,
chilled, blanched, sharp-frozen and packaged for frozen food.
Includes any type of vehicle in which frozen food is transported
or from with the same is sold or distributed.
The accumulation of animal or vegetable waste, or both, liquid
or otherwise, that tends to decay.
Food which has neither been decomposed nor contaminated and
is of superior quality.
The duly appointed Health Officer.
Separation of a person affected or suspected of being affected
with a communicable disease or a carrier of the infectious or causative
agent of a communicable disease from other persons in such a manner
as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious
or causative agent to other persons.
Includes any building, yard, enclosure, premises or lot of
ground used as a commercial establishment for the keeping, raising,
breeding or boarding of dogs or other small animals.
A display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the
immediate container of any article and a requirement made by or under
authority of this code that any word, statement or other information
appearing on the label shall not be considered to be complied with
unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the
outside container or wrapper, if any there be, of the package or such
article or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.
The term "immediate container" does not include package liners.
All labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon
an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying such
article.
Includes every store, cellar, stand and place at or in which
the business of buying, selling or keeping for sale any meat, dairy
products, fowl, fish, vegetables or other foods for human consumption
is conducted or maintained.
Includes any home, house or other place conducted or maintained
by any person (as the word "person" is herein defined) advertised
or held out by such person as a maternity or obstetrical home, hospital,
sanitarium or place where one or more women, during pregnancy, labor
or lying-in period, are attended or intend to be attended, professionally
or otherwise, during any pregnancy, labor or lying-in period.
Includes every part of any animal whether mixed or not with
any other substance.
Those persons duly appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by
the Council of the Borough of Riverdale to constitute the Board of
Health.
A calendar month.
Any condition which is dangerous to human life or health
or that which renders air, water, soil or any type of food hazardous
or injurious to human life or health and as otherwise herein defined.[1]
A person licensed as such under the laws of the State of
New Jersey.
Includes any wrapper, case, basket, hamper, can, bottle,
jar, tube, cask, vessel, tub, firkin, keg, jug, barrel or other receptacles,
but the word "package" shall not include open containers which permit
a visual and physical inspection by a purchaser at retail nor bags
and other receptacles which are filled in the presence of a purchaser
at retail.
A duly authorized permit or license of the Board, issued
in accordance with this chapter or the regulations of the Board.
Any person, persons, associations or partnerships or corporations
or any one or more of them or combinations of either of them.
Includes chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigeons
and all other fowl commonly kept, raised and sold for human consumption.
Unless restricted or limited by the context to either real
or personal property, includes both real and personal property.
Includes any public place as well as any restaurant, lunchroom,
cabin, tavern, barroom, hotel and any and every establishment or place
where food or beverage is sold or offered for sale to the public for
consumption on the premises and any camp, trailer camp, tourist home
or public recreation place or any other place of business where toilet
facilities or water for drinking or culinary purposes are available
for the use of the public.
The restriction of movement of any person who has been exposed
to a communicable disease by confining such person to a restricted
area and the exclusion of other persons from that area.
Includes lands, buildings and hereditaments or all rights
thereto or any interest therein.
A thermometer sufficiently operating and equipped with a
recording device and a chart on which the degrees Fahrenheit are recorded
continuously.
The person duly appointed as Registrar of Vital Statistics
by the Board.
Includes any regulations, whether general or special, which
the Board may from time to time lawfully adopt and issue.
Includes any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order
cafe, luncheonette, tavern, sandwich stand and every other place in
which food is sold for consumption on the premises.
Includes all coal or wood ashes, all loose material and dirt-like
substances that tend to decay and all waste material accumulated from
buildings or the cleaning of buildings.
Includes every officer appointed by the Board to aid in the
enforcement of the sanitary laws of this state or to aid in the enforcement
of the rules, regulations and ordinances of the local Board of Health,
except Health Officers or other persons performing principally clerical
duties in the office of the Board.
Includes any room or compartment equipped with mechanical
refrigeration in which food is quickly frozen to make a frozen-food
article.
Includes rabbits, minks, dogs, guinea pigs and any other
small animals kept or raised for commercial purposes or kept and raised
for sale or for the production of meat, fur or wool or kept and raised
for exhibition or other purposes or as a source of supply for laboratories;
provided, however, that the term "small animals" shall not apply if
they total in the aggregate less than five in number.
The New Jersey State Board of Health or any successor agency
thereto.
The Department of Health of the State of New Jersey.
Includes every street, avenue, sidewalk, gutter, highway,
park or place in the Borough of Riverdale.
Any person occupying any lands, premises, house, building
or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be
occupied for any purpose whatsoever.
A calendar year.
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Number; gender. Whenever, in describing or referring
to any person, party, matter or thing, any word importing the singular
number is used, the same shall be understood to include and to apply
to several persons or parties, as well as to one person or party,
or, where a word of masculine gender is used, it shall apply to females
as well as males and to bodies corporate as well as individuals.
In the construction of this chapter, or any
amendments hereof or any supplements hereto, words and phrases shall
be read and construed with their context and, unless inconsistent
with the intent of the Board, as expressed herein, or unless another
or different meaning is expressly indicated, such words or phrases
shall be given the meanings expressed herein, or, if no such meanings
be given, their generally accepted meaning, according to the approved
usage of the language, shall be applied. Technical, trade or commercial
words and phrases and words and phrases having a special or accepted
meaning in the law shall be construed in accordance with such technical,
trade commercial or special and accepted meaning.
