A.
Heating of residences. Every owner of a building or buildings occupied
as residences by two or more families, and where such owner has agreed
to supply heat, shall provide heat from the first day of October in
each year to the first day of May of the succeeding year so that the
temperature of the apartment where one or more persons reside shall
always be kept at 70° F. or above between the hours of 6:00 a.m.
in the morning and 10:00 p.m. in the evening.
B.
Heating of business buildings. Every person, whether he be the owner,
lessor or agent of a building to be used for offices or business purposes,
who shall have agreed to supply heat to the tenant, shall provide
heat from the first day of October in each year to the first day of
May of the succeeding year so that the temperature of said office
or place of business shall always be kept at 70° F. or above between
the hours of 7:00 a.m. in the morning and 6:00 p.m. in the evening;
provided, however, that this section shall not apply to buildings
or portions thereof used and occupied for trades, businesses or occupations
where high or low temperatures are essential or unavoidable.
The owner, agent or other person in charge of any building,
tenement or apartment house occupied by four or more families shall
provide janitor service at all times for the purpose of keeping the
premises in a sanitary condition.
All buildings shall conform to the following requirements:
B.
Toilet facilities. Every building used in any way for occupation
by human beings, whether for business or dwelling purposes, shall
be provided with a sufficient number of water closets, washbasins
and urinal accommodations in good working order. When the interest
of the public health requires additional water closets, washbasins
or urinal accommodations in any house, store, apartment, flat or any
other building, it shall be lawful for the governing body of the Borough
of Lindenwold, by notice to the owner, to direct the installation
of such additional toilets as it shall deem necessary. There shall
be one water closet for each separate family.
C.
The basement or cellar of any building shall be so constructed as
to be reasonably dry and adequately ventilated, and the foundation
walls and floor shall be rodentproof.
D.
If a room in a residence building is overcrowded, the Camden County
Board of Health shall order the number of persons sleeping or living
in said room to be so reduced that there shall be not less than 480
cubic feet of air to each person over the age of 12 years and 300
cubic feet of air to each child under 12 years of age occupying such
room.
E.
All business establishment operators and all apartment house owners
shall keep all garbage and trash in well-covered containers made of
metal, plastic or waterproofed material.
F.
All rooms used for living or working therein shall be properly lighted,
adequately ventilated and in good repair.
No person or persons shall live or sleep in any mobile home
or in any part of a commercial building without first obtaining a
permit from the governing body of the Borough of Lindenwold.
Stormwater shall not be permitted to empty into any sanitary
sewers.
A.
All owners of property along the line of any sewer constructed for
the purpose of carrying off sewage in the streets of this municipality
shall connect their houses and other buildings with the sanitary sewer
in the street adjoining said property upon notice from the governing
body of the Borough of Lindenwold to make such connection.
B.
The Borough of Lindenwold shall be empowered to give notice to any
property owner by sending said notice by certified mail, return receipt
requested, and regular mail or by delivery of said notice personally
at the property owner's usual place of abode and leaving it with a
member of his or her family 18 years of age or older.
C.
Said notice shall specifically advise the property owner of his or her obligations to connect to the sanitary sewer and that, if said connection is not made within 30 days from receipt of said notice, a complaint will be filed with the Municipal Court of the Borough of Lindenwold. After the expiration of the thirty-day notice, violations shall be subject to the penalties as set forth in Chapter 1, § 1-1, of this Code.
The governing body of the Borough of Lindenwold shall have the
right to condemn any building or part thereof as unfit for human habitation
whenever conditions detrimental to health exist therein, whether such
condemnation be for insanitation, dilapidation, overcrowding of persons
or for other reasons detrimental to health.
