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Title. This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Air
Pollution Control Code of the Township of Washington."
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Findings and declaration of policy. It is hereby declared
that air pollution is a menace to the health, welfare and comfort of the residents
of the Township of Washington and a cause of substantial damage to property.
For the purpose of preventing and reducing atmospheric pollution, it is hereby
declared to be the policy of the Township of Washington to minimize air pollution
as herein defined and to establish standards governing the installation, maintenance
and operation of equipment and appurtenances relating to combustion, which
is a source or potential source of air pollution.
The following terms, wherever used herein or referred to in this code,
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them unless a different meaning
clearly appears from the context:
Solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases which are discharged
into the outdoor atmosphere.
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants
in such quantities and duration as are, or tend to be injurious to human health
or welfare, animal or plant life or property, or would unreasonably interfere
with the enjoyment of life or property.
Actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite and tremolite.
Equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred
to a substance being heated so that the latter is contacted by the products
of combustion and may contribute to the total effluent.
The person or persons who are authorized by this chapter to exercise
the powers prescribed by this code.
Those chemicals used as insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides,
nematocides or defoliants.
Any material which can be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder
by hand pressure.
Solid, liquid or gaseous materials used to produce useful heat by
burning.
Waste animal or vegetable matter from houses, kitchens, restaurants,
hotels, produce markets or any other source or food of any kind to be thrown
away.
Any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying,
reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance, including but not
limited to refuse, rubbish, garbage, trade waste, debris or scrap; or a facility
for cremating human or animal remains.
Equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred
by conduction through a heat-conducting material to a substance being heated,
so that the latter is not contacted by and adds nothing to the products of
combustion.
Any maximum linear perpendicular distance from an inside wall of
a stack or chimney to the inside of an opposite wall, such as the diameter
of a circular cross section or the length or width of a rectangular cross
section.
Particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape and which,
upon collection, tend to coalesce and create uniform homogenous films upon
the surface of the collecting media.
Any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial,
manufacturing or processing factors, methods or forms, including but not limited
to furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns, crucibles, stills,
dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors, regenerators, separators,
filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers, screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters,
towers, washers, scrubbers, mills, condensers or absorbers.
Includes all vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power,
excepting such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks.
The property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
The property of a substance which renders it partially or wholly
obstructive to the transmission of visible light expressed as the percentage
to which the light is obstructed.
Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into the
open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney of an incinerator.
Any person who has care, custody or control of a building or premises
or a portion thereof, whether with or without knowledge of the owner thereof.
Air space outside of buildings, stacks or exterior ducts.
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall
have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without accompanying
actual possession thereof; or shall have charge or control of any dwelling
or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as fiduciary including
but not limited to executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee, receiver
or guardian of the estate; or as a mortgagee in possession regardless of how
such possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee subletting or reassigning
any part or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed to be a co-owner
with the lessor and shall have a joint responsibility over the portion of
the premises sublet or assigned by said lessee.
Any material, except uncombined water, which exists in finely divided
form as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms,
partnerships and joint-stock companies, as well as individuals, and shall
also include all political subdivisions of this state or any agencies or instrumentalities
thereof.
Vegetation, including but not limited to trees, tree branches, leaves,
yard trimmings, shrubbery, grass, weeds and crops.
Rubbish, garbage, trade waste and plant life.
Ringelmann's Scale for Grading the Density of Smoke, as published
by the United States Bureau of Mines, or any chart, recorder, indicator or
device which is approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
as the equivalent of said Ringelmann's Scale for the measurement of smoke
density.
Waste solids not considered to be highly flammable or explosive,
including but not limited to rags, old clothes, leather, rubber, carpets,
wood, excelsior, papers, ashes, furniture, tin cans, glass, crockery, masonry
and other similar materials.
Any operation or activity from which is salvaged or reclaimed any
product or material, including but not limited to metals, chemicals or shipping
containers.
Small gasborne or airborne particles, exclusive of water vapor, arising
from a process of combustion in sufficient number to be observable.
Particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
Any manufacturing process or any identifiable part thereof emitting
an air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere through one or more stacks
or chimneys.
A flue, conduit or opening designed and constructed for the purpose
of emitting air contaminants into the outdoor air.
Shall be 70º F. and one atmosphere of pressure (14.7 pounds
per square inch absolute or 760 millimeters of mercury).
All waste solid or liquid material or rubbish resulting from construction,
building operations or the prosecution of any business, trade or industry,
including but not limited to plastic products, cartons, paint, grease, oil
and other petroleum products, chemicals, cinders and other forms of solid
or liquid waste material.
Smoke which obscures light to a degree readily discernible by visual
observation.
No person or owner of property or person or persons having possession
or control thereof shall cause, suffer, allow or permit to be emitted into
the open air substances in such quantities as shall result in air pollution.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the use of economic poisons.
