[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Chester 3-20-1980
as Ch. BH:VI of the 1980 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The sanitary code adopted by the Board of Health of the borough, conforming
to Section 16 of Chapter 68 of the Laws of the State of New Jersey of 1887
and the supplements and amendments thereto.
Any member of the Board of Health or the officers or agents thereof
may make the inspections and examinations required by any code ordinance,
regulation or order of the Board upon exhibiting his badge and all persons
are forbidden to interfere with or obstruct such inspection, examination or
execution.
Every notice or order required to be served by any of these ordinances
may be served personally or by mail.
No person shall hereafter erect or cause to be erected or converted
to a new purpose by alteration, any building any part of which shall be defective
in respect to ventilation, light, drainage, or any other proper or necessary
precaution or provision, nor shall the builder, lessee, tenant or occupant
of any such or any other building or structure, cause or allow any matter
or thing to be done in or about any such building or structure, dangerous
to life or health.
No owner, agent or lessee of any building, or any part thereof shall
lease or let or hire out the same or any portion thereof to be occupied by
any person or allow the same to be occupied as a place in which any one may
dwell or lodge, except when said buildings or any such parts thereof are sufficiently
lighted and ventilated and are in all respects in that condition of cleanliness
and wholesomeness for which this code or any law of this state provides, or
in which they or either of them require any such premises to be kept.
Whenever it shall be decided by this Board that any building or part
thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of its being so infected with
disease or by reason of its being in a condition dangerous to health or life,
or to be likely to cause sickness among the occupants, and notice of such
decision shall have been affixed conspicuously on the building, or any part
thereof, so decided to be unfit for human habitation, and personally served
upon the owner or agent or lessee if the same can be found in the state or
if such owner or agent or lessee cannot be found with reasonable search, by
mailing such notice addressed to the last known place of residence of such
owner, agent or lessee, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building
or part thereof, for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid. Such building
or part thereof shall within 10 days thereafter be vacated, or in case of
special emergency within such shorter time as in the notice may be specified.
A.
All work upon any privy vault or cesspool hereafter to
be constructed in the borough shall be strictly in accordance with the approval
and consent of the Board of Health.
B.
No privy vault, cesspool or underground receptacle for
filth shall be hereafter built on any property within 50 feet of any well
or source of any water supply.
C.
Any privy vault, cesspool or underground receptacle of
filth located within 50 feet of any well or source of water supply, shall
be removed to the proper distance on orders of the Board of Health.
D.
All privy vaults while being cleaned must be disinfected
so as to cause no odor, and all vaults must be cleaned on orders of the Board
of Health.
E.
No privy vault or cesspool shall hereafter be constructed
within the borough without a permit for that purpose being first had and obtained
from the Board of Health. Such permit shall be revocable by this Board for
cause such as a violation of any ordinance, regulation or order for the control
of such cesspool or privy vault.
Any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain
or ash pit on any lot of land within the borough so foul or in such a state
as to breed mosquitoes, flies or other insects, or to cause the air in the
borough by reason of offensive or noxious odors emitted therefrom, to be polluted,
offensive to the senses or injurious to the public health shall be deemed
and is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
Any accumulation or deposit of offal or any decaying animal or vegetable
matter, in such a state as to breed mosquitoes, flies or otherwise to become
injurious to the public health shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be
a nuisance.
No dead horse or cow or large animal shall be buried within the limits
of the borough without a permit from the Board of Health.
No person shall cast, throw, dump, or deposit or cause to be cast, thrown,
dumped or deposited any offensive matter in or upon any public highway within
the borough.
Any place or condition where flies or other insects may breed is hereby
adjudged and declared a nuisance injurious to public health.
In order to better carry out the provisions of this code, the Board
of Health may serve notice in writing upon the owner, occupant or agent of
any lot, building or premises, upon which any nuisance may be found, or upon
him who may be the cause of such nuisance, requiring him to abate the same
in such manner as the Board of Health may direct and within a reasonable time
to be fixed in the notice. In case of neglect or refusal of any person to
abate any nuisance defined by this code, after notice in writing has been
served upon him, it is hereby made the duty of the Board of Health to abate
or procure the abatement thereof and the expense of such abatement shall be
collected from the person or persons so offending.
No garbage, rubbish or refuse of any kind whatsoever, shall be dumped
or deposited upon any land or any place within the limits of the borough,
except at such places as may be first designated and approved in writing by
the Board of Health.
Any person or persons or the owner, agent, occupant or lessee of any
building, who shall violate or fail to comply with the requirements of the
provisions of the foregoing sections of this code or with the ordinances of
the Board of Health, or who shall offend against or violate the provisions
of said sections, or any part of them, shall upon conviction thereof, pay
the following penalty: A penalty of not less than $10 nor more than $50. In
case of failure to pay any fines imposed under this section, the person or
persons so convicted shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not
exceeding 90 days to be imposed by the recorded or other magistrate before
whom such conviction may be had.
