[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Newfield 8-13-1991 by Ord. No. 91-4 (Ch. 183 of the 1991
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following are hereby defined and declared
to constitute nuisances and are prohibited:
A.
The permitting to remain upon the surface of the ground
of any human excrement or material containing human excrement.
B.
The depositing or maintaining, or permitting to be
deposited or maintained, in or on any place, public or private, of
any animal or vegetable substance of a decomposable nature, excepting
that it be buried in the ground and immediately covered with clean
earth to a depth equal to the mass covered, and in no instance shall
this be less than 12 inches, provided that this shall not apply to
manure being used for fertilizing purposes.
C.
The maintaining, or permitting to be maintained, upon
any street, lot or other place, public or private, of any accumulation
of animal or vegetable substance in which fly larvae exist or of any
water in which mosquitoes may breed.
D.
The discharging, or permitting to be discharged, upon
any street or public place, of any household drainage, dirty water,
slop or filth of any kind.
E.
The depositing or discharging, or permitting to be
deposited or discharged, into any stream, lake, spring or other body
of water, of any sewage, excremental matter, domestic refuse or other
polluting matter; provided that this shall not apply to the effluent
from any sewage treatment plant approved by the Department of Health
and Senior Services of the State of New Jersey, so long as said sewage
treatment plant is operated in accordance with the requirements of
law and the orders and regulations of the said Department of Health
and Senior Services, but if said Department of Health and Senior Services
shall determine that such treatment plant is not operated in accordance
with the requirements of law, or if the effluent from such plant is
determined by said Department of Health and Senior Services to be
insufficiently purified, then this section shall apply to such effluent.
Any person causing, maintaining or permitting
any nuisance as defined and declared by this chapter shall, upon notice
from the Borough Council, cause the same to be abated within such
time as specified in said notice, and the expense of abating such
nuisance shall be defrayed by the owner of the premises upon which
said nuisance occurs or exists.
The following diseases are hereby declared to
be communicable: anthrax, chicken pox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria,
dysentery, glanders, influenza, leprosy, malaria, measles, German
measles, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, mumps, ophthalmia, neonatorum,
paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumonia, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis),
rabies, scarlet fever, smallpox (varioloid), trachoma, trichinosis,
tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, yellow
fever.
Every physician shall, within 12 hours after his first professional attendance upon any person who is affected with any of the diseases enumerated in § 217-3, report such disease to the Borough Council. Such reports shall be in writing, signed by such physician, and shall set forth the name of the disease and the name, age, sex, color and precise location of the person affected with such disease.
Every house owner or householder who has reason
to believe that any person living, dwelling or being in any building
or apartment under his control is affected by any of the diseases
enumerated in § 183-3 shall, when no physician has attended
such affected person, within 12 hours after discovering the same,
report the fact in writing to the Borough Council, setting forth in
such report the supposed nature of the disease and the name, age,
sex, color and precise location of the person affected with such disease.
The principal or other person in charge of any
school who has reason to believe that any person attending such school
is affected with any of the diseases enumerated in § 183-3
shall report forthwith, in writing, to the Borough Council, the supposed
nature of the disease and the name, age, sex, color and address of
the person attending the school who appears to be affected with the
disease. Such person shall be at once sent home or isolated.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Council,
upon receiving a report of a communicable disease, to forthwith establish
such isolation or quarantine or other restrictive measures as may
be required by the State Sanitary Code (N.J.S.A. 26:1A-1 et seq.,
particularly N.J.S.A. 26:1 A-7), or the ordinances, rules or regulations
of the Borough Council. Whenever isolation or quarantine is to be
established on any premises, the Borough Council shall cause a written
order establishing such isolation or quarantine to be served upon
the person in charge of such premises. Service upon any responsible
member of a household shall be deemed sufficient service upon all
the members of the household of the person so served. In lieu of such
service, such notice may be posted upon the building or premises occupied
by the affected person or persons. When so served or posted, all persons
on such premises shall be bound by such notice. When such isolation
or quarantine has been established, it shall remain in force until
the Borough Council has caused to be served on the affected person
or persons, or posted on the premises, a notice in writing terminating
such isolation or quarantine.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Council
to give all necessary directions in writing, or printed instructions,
to the person in charge of a person reported as being affected with
a communicable disease, regarding the disinfection and disposal of
excretions, discharges and other materials which may be or may have
become infected, and it shall be the duty of the nurse or other person
in attendance to carry out such disinfection and disposal as directed.
Adequate cleansing of rooms, furniture and belongings,
when deemed necessary by the Borough Council or required by law or
the State Sanitary Code (N.J.S.A. 26:1A-1 et seq., particularly N.J.S.A.
26:1 A-7), or the ordinances, rules or regulations of the Borough
Council, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal of
a person affected with a communicable disease. Such cleansing shall
be performed by and at the expense of the occupant of the premises,
upon the order and under the direction of the Borough Council.
When a case of chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria,
measles, German measles, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, mumps,
paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumonia, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis),
scarlet fever, smallpox (varioloid), typhoid fever, typhus fever or
whooping cough exists in any house or apartment, it shall be the duty
of the Borough Council to post upon such house in plain view, near
each entrance thereof, or upon the doors of the apartment in which
the case exists, a placard stating the existence therein of a communicable
disease and the name of such disease. No person shall interfere with
or obstruct the posting of any placard by any health official in or
on any place or premises, nor shall any person conceal or mutilate
any such placard or remove it except by permission of the proper health
official. It shall be the duty of the occupant of the premises where
a placard has been posted to immediately notify the Borough Council
of any interference with or removal of such placard.
The minimum period of isolation of persons affected
with the diseases hereinafter named shall be as follows:
A.
Chicken pox: until 12 days after the appearance of
the eruption and until all crusts have separated and the lesions completely
healed.
B.
Diphtheria: until two successive negative cultures
have been obtained from both the nose and throat at intervals of not
less than 24 hours or until the bacilli present have been shown to
be nonvirulent.
C.
Measles: until seven days after the appearance of
the rash and until all abnormal discharges from the nose, ears and
throat have disappeared and until the cough has ceased.
D.
Mumps: until two weeks after the onset of the disease
and until all swelling of glands has disappeared.
E.
Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis): until three weeks
after the onset of the disease and until the temperature has returned
to normal.
F.
Scarlet fever: until 30 days after the onset of the
disease and until all abnormal discharges from the nose, throat or
suppurating glands have ceased.
G.
Smallpox: until 14 days after the onset of the disease
and until all scabs have separated and the lesions completely healed.
H.
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers: until two successive
attempts to isolate the causative organism from both the feces and
urine, at intervals of not less than one week, have been unsuccessful.
I.
Whooping cough: until at least three weeks after the
onset of the disease and until paroxysmal coughing has ceased.
No public funeral of any person dead of diphtheria,
measles, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, plague, poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus fever or whooping
cough shall be held without a permit having been first obtained from
the Borough Council.
No person or persons shall construct, install,
erect or move any privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement
unless a permit therefor shall have been previously secured from the
Borough Clerk.
Applications for a permit to construct, install,
erect or move any privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement
shall be made to the Borough Clerk and shall be accompanied by a written
description or drawing setting forth an outline of the details of
construction and location of the privy, cesspool or receptacle for
which the permit is sought.
All privies shall have a watertight receptacle
or a pit to hold the excretions. Privies, cesspools and other receptacles
for human excretions shall be so constructed and maintained as to
prevent flies from gaining access to the excremental matter contained
therein. Where privies, cesspools or other receptacles for human excretions
are located within 50 feet of any stream, lake, spring, well or other
body of water or within 20 feet of the cellar or underground portion
of any building, the privy pit, cesspool or receptacle shall be so
constructed as to be impervious to water. Proper provisions shall
be made to guard against stormwater washing the excremental matter
out of any privy, cesspool or receptacle.
Privies, cesspools or other receptacles for
human excrement or household drainage shall not be located within
four feet of any party line nor within 20 feet of any building used
as a dwelling or for the storage, preparation or distribution of food
for sale. Pipes or drains through which human excrement or material
containing such excremental matter is permitted to flow shall be watertight
at all places where the pipe or drain is within 50 feet of any stream,
lake, spring, well or other body of water or within 20 feet of the
cellar or underground portion of any building.
The contents of any privy pit, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement shall not be permitted to overflow therefrom, excepting into buried drains provided for the purpose of disposal by percolation. The contents of any privy pit, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement shall be removed therefrom when the pit, cesspool or receptacle becomes filled to within six inches of its top or, in the case of a privy pit, the privy building is removed to another pit and the abandoned pit filled with clean earth. The removal, transportation and final disposal of the contents of a privy pit, cesspool or receptacle shall be done in a cleanly, inoffensive manner and the contents disposed of by a method not in conflict with the provisions of § 217-1 of this chapter. All implements and containers employed in the removal of excremental matter shall be cleaned and disinfected immediately after such use.
