[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township
of Morris as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 2-8-1898 by Ord. No. H1-1898 (Ch. 106, Art. II,
of the 1969 Code)]
Whatever is dangerous to human health, or whatever renders the
ground, the water, the air or food a hazard or an injury to human
health, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and any person or persons
creating or maintaining, or aiding in the creation or maintenance
of, any such nuisance shall be punished by a fine of not less than
$5 nor more than $500.
Any person who shall carelessly, negligently or willfully aid
in or contribute to the doing of any act dangerous to life or detrimental
to the health of any human being, except from justifiable motives
and for adequate reasons, or who shall omit any precaution, reasonable
and proper to be made, to remove danger or detriment to life or the
health of any human being, shall be liable to a penalty of $10.
The accumulation of any decaying animal or vegetable substance
or substances or of other offensive matter in the form of rubbish,
garbage or offal, in or upon any lot, street or highway or in or upon
any public or private place, and allowing the same to remain in or
upon any such lot, street, highway, public or private place until
the same shall become hazardous to health, is hereby declared to be
a nuisance, and any person or persons who shall cause any such accumulation
or who shall aid therein shall be liable to a penalty of $10.
The pollution of any stream, well, spring or reservoir of water
used for drinking purposes is hereby prohibited, and any person or
persons who shall cause such pollution or who shall aid therein shall
be liable to a penalty of $25.
The construction of any drain or sewer or the pouring out of
foul liquids on the surface of the ground in such manner as to pollute
the ground, air or water to the risk or detriment of the health of
persons living or passing in the vicinity thereof is hereby declared
to be a nuisance, and any person or persons causing or maintaining
any such nuisance, or aiding therein, shall be liable to a penalty
of $10.
The storage of animal refuse or decayable or putrescible matter,
in liquid or solid form, in any vault, cesspool or other receptacle,
in such manner as to endanger health, is hereby declared to be a nuisance,
and any person or persons causing or maintaining any such nuisance
or aiding therein shall be liable to a penalty of $10.
The overflow of any foul liquids or gases into any place where
they may become injurious to health, or the keeping or forming of
such open sunken places or excavations upon any lot or land as to
accumulate foul water or offensive animal or vegetable matter, is
hereby declared to be a nuisance, and any person or persons who shall
cause or maintain any such nuisance or who shall aid in causing or
maintaining the same shall be liable to a penalty of $10.
The keeping of any tenement house or other house or building
or any part thereof in such a state of uncleanliness or the crowding
of persons in any tenement house in such manner as to endanger the
health of the persons dwelling therein is hereby declared to be a
nuisance, and any person or persons through whose act or neglect such
state of uncleanliness shall be caused, and any persons by whom such
crowding shall be caused, shall be liable to a penalty of $20.
The keeping of any schoolhouse or other public building or any
part thereof in such a state of uncleanliness or the unnecessary crowding
of persons or inmates therein in such a manner as to endanger the
health of such person or inmate is hereby declared to be a public
nuisance, and any person or persons, officer or officers through whose
act or neglect such a state of uncleanliness shall be caused or permitted,
and any person or persons, officer or officers by whom such crowding
shall be caused, shall be liable to a penalty of $25.
The keeping of any dwelling house in which there has been any
contagious or communicable disease without prompt and thorough fumigation,
disinfection and airing of such rooms, furniture and clothing as have
been used or worn by the sick person or persons and their attendant
or attendants is hereby prohibited, and any person or persons offending
against this section shall be liable to a penalty of $25.
The sale of any meat or vegetable food or drink that is unwholesome
or unfit for food is hereby prohibited, and any person or persons
making any such sale as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty of
$30.
Any physician, midwife, nurse, clergyman, judge or other person
who shall officiate at any birth, death or marriage and who shall
neglect to make return thereof to the Secretary of the Board of Health
according to law, and any physician who shall neglect or refuse to
report in writing to the Board of Health of Morris Township any case
of contagious or infectious disease, within 24 hours of the time of
his or their first visit, shall, for each and every failure to make
such return or report, be liable to a penalty of $50.
The carrying or carting through the streets or roads of Morris
Township of swill or garbage in open vessels or vehicles is hereby
prohibited, and any person or persons offending against this section
shall be liable to a penalty of $10.
The construction of any privy, vault or any privy receptacle
upon any lot or premises in the Township of Morris within 20 feet
of the sideline of any street or road therein is hereby declared to
be a nuisance, and any person or persons who shall construct or aid
in constructing any privy, privy vault or receptacle within the prescribed
distance of the sideline of any street or road in the Township of
Morris, or who shall construct or maintain such a defective privy,
privy vault or receptacle upon any lot or premises in the Township
of Morris as will allow any offensive matter to pollute the surrounding
soil, shall be liable to a penalty of $10.
The admixture of rubbish, garbage or any kind of decaying animal
or vegetable matter with clean ashes or earth for the filling of any
sunken, low or marshy private or public place, lot or premises is
hereby declared to be a nuisance, and any person or persons who shall
cause or allow such filling to be done upon any sunken, low or marshy
place, lot or premises, or who shall aid therein, shall be liable
to a penalty of $10.
No garbage or sewage matter nor excavations from cesspools shall
be deposited upon the earth or discharged into any stream, pond or
basin within the limits of the Township of Morris without the authority
or permission of the Board of Health of said Township, under a penalty
of $25 for each violation of this article.
Any penalty incurred under the provisions of this article shall
be collected in the manner described by the Act cited in the preamble
hereof,[1] or, in lieu thereof, the Board of Health of Morris Township
may file a bill in the Court of Chancery for an injunction pursuant
to the provisions of said Act.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Act referred to is entitled "An Act
to Establish in This State Boards of Health, and a Bureau of Vital
Statistics; and to Define Their Respective Powers and Duties," approved
March 31, 1887.
[Adopted 5-11-1967 by Ord. No. H12-67 (Ch. 106, Art. I, of
the 1969 Code)]
[Amended 12-11-1968 by Ord. No. 22-68[1]]
A code defining and prohibiting certain matters, things, conditions
or acts, and each of them, as a nuisance; prohibiting certain noises
or sounds; requiring the proper heating of apartments; prohibiting
lease or rental of certain buildings; prohibiting spitting in or upon
public buildings, conveyances or sidewalks; authorizing the inspection
of premises by an enforcing official; providing for the removal or
abatement of certain nuisances and recovery of expenses incurred by
the Board of Health in removing or abating such nuisances; and prescribing
penalties for violations, is hereby established pursuant to Chapter
188, Laws of 1950[2]; excepting, however, from said state code Section 2.1a
and b and Paragraph 3.1 of Section 3, titled "Proper Heating of Apartments."
A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without
the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
The said code established and adopted by this article is described
and commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey
(1953)."
Three copies of the said "Public Health Nuisance Code of New
Jersey (1953)" have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary
of this local Board of Health upon the introduction of this article
and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public.
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision
of this article or the code established herein or notice issued pursuant
thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of
not less than $2 nor more than $500 for each violation.
