[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-1]
A Code regulating the location, construction, use, maintenance
and method of emptying or cleaning individual sewage disposal systems,
the issuance of permits to locate, construct, empty or clean the systems,
and fixing penalties for the violation thereof is adopted pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 to 69.6. A copy of the Code is on file in the
Office of the Board of Health.
[1967 Code § 64-2; New]
The Code established and adopted by this chapter is described
and commonly known as Chapter 9A of the State Sanitary Code: "Standards
for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems."
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-3]
Three copies of Chapter 9A of the State Sanitary Code: "Standards
for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems" have been placed
on file in the office of the Secretary, Clerk or other similar officer
of this Board of Health upon the introduction of this chapter and
will remain on file in the office for the use and examination of the
public.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-4A]
No person shall locate, construct or alter any individual sewage
disposal system until a permit for the location, construction or alteration
of the sewage disposal system shall have been issued by the Board
of Health.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-4B]
The Board of Health may issue a permit if an application for
the same is accompanied by a certificate issued by an engineer who
is licensed to practice professional engineering in New Jersey stating
that the design of the individual sewage disposal system as proposed
is in compliance with the Code.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-5A]
New individual disposal systems shall not be placed in operation,
nor shall new dwellings or buildings or additions thereto be sold
or occupied which must rely on such a system for sewage disposal until
the Board of Health shall have issued a certificate indicating that
the disposal system has been located and constructed in compliance
with the terms of the permit issued and the requirements of the aforesaid
Code. Issuance of each certificate shall not be required for alterations
to an existing individual sewage disposal system.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-5B]
The Board of Health may issue such a certificate if an engineer
licensed to practice professional engineering in New Jersey submits
a statement in writing signed by him to the Board of Health that the
disposal system has been located and constructed in accordance with
the terms of the permit issued and the requirements of the aforesaid
Code.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-6A]
Persons shall not engage in the business of emptying or cleaning
septic tanks, cesspools, privies or any place used for the reception
or storage of human excrement who do not hold a license to engage
in such business issued by the Board of Health. Such licenses shall
be valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance but may
be renewed by the Board of Health. The license may be revoked for
failure of the licensee to comply with the provisions of the Code
or any rule or ordinance of the Board of Health.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-6B]
The contents of any septic tank, cesspool, privy or other receptacle
containing human excrement shall not be removed until a permit for
such removal has been obtained from the Board of Health.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-7]
In case any license, permit, or certification required by this
chapter is denied by the Board of Health, a hearing shall be held
thereon before the Board within 15 days after request therefor is
made by the applicant and upon such hearing the Board of Health shall
affirm, alter or rescind its previous determination and take action
accordingly within 15 days after the date of such hearing.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-9; Ord. No. 3-16-71; Ord. No. 5-80; New]
The following fees and charges are herewith established:
a.
For the filing of an application and plans for a permit to locate
and construct an individual sewage disposal system, a fee of $40 shall
be charged.
b.
For the filing of an application and plans for a permit to alter
an existing individual sewage disposal system, a fee of $40 shall
be charged.
c.
For the issuance of a permit to locate and construct or alter an
individual sewage disposal system, a fee of $40 shall be charged.
d.
For each reinspection of an individual sewage disposal system or
part thereof caused by the failure of the permittee to locate and
construct or alter the same in accordance with the terms of the permit
issued or the terms of the aforesaid Code, an inspection fee of $40
shall be charged.
e.
For each inspection of an individual sewage disposal system or part
thereof made at the request of the permittee or any other person for
the purpose of obtaining Veterans' Administration, Federal Housing
Administration or conventional mortgage approval or for any other
purpose, an inspection fee of $50. shall be charged.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-8]
The Board of Health may order all further work in and about
any individual sewage disposal system, which is being erected or installed
in violation of the Code, to be stopped forthwith, except such work
as shall be necessary to remedy such violation, and, thereafter, the
work continued without any violation of any of the provisions of the
Code, and after issuance of any such order and the service of a copy
thereof upon any person connected with or working in and about the
erection or installation of any such disposal system, or any part
thereof, no further work shall be done thereon, except as aforesaid.
[New]
a.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of
or any order promulgated under this chapter or the Code made a part
hereof shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalty established
in Section BH: 1-3 of this Code.
b.
Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute a separate
offense.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-11; New]
All fees, penalties and moneys collected under any provision
of this chapter or the Code established herein shall be paid to the
Township Clerk.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; 1967 Code § 64-11.1A]
When a sanitary sewer system becomes available for use to any
property which had theretofore been serviced by an individual disposal
system, the use of the individual disposal system shall be terminated,
the contents of the system shall be removed and the system shall be
filled in to render the area safe and sanitary in a manner approved
by the Board of Health and in compliance with this chapter and the
Code herein adopted. Compliance with this section shall be completed
not later than six months after the connection date provided for the
sanitary sewer system as defined in subsection 14-1.1 of the Revised
General Ordinances of the Township of Deptford (2001); provided, however,
that where a safety or health hazard exists, the Board of Health or
its duly authorized agent may order compliance within a shorter period
of time.
[Ord. No. 11-17-64; Ord. No. 7-5-72; 1967 Code § 64-11.10]
The Board of Health may include in the notice to property owners
regarding connection to a sanitary sewage system as required by Section
14-1 of the Revised General Ordinances of the Township of Deptford
(2001) a statement of the requirements of this section and of the
penalties for violation thereof.
[Ord. No. 12-8-30; 1967 Code § 62-13]
Privies, cesspools or other receptacle 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 or preparation of food for sale. Pipes or drains through
which human excrement or materials containing such excrement matter
is permitted to flow shall be watertight at all places where the pipes
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.
[Ord. No. 12-8-30; 1967 Code § 62-14]
The contents of any privy pit, cesspool or other receptacle
for human excrement shall not be permitted to overflow therefrom,
except 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 other receptacle becomes filled within six inches of the top or,
in the case of a privy pit, the privy building removed to another
pit and the abandoned pit filled with clean earth. The removal, transportation
and final disposal of the contents of the privy pit, cesspool or other
receptacle shall be done in a clean, inoffensive manner and disposed
of by any method not in conflict with the provisions of Section BH:6-1
of this Code. All implements and containers employed in the removal
of excremental matter shall be cleaned and disinfected immediately
after such use.
