From and after the date of the passage of this Article, no person
shall cause, throw, drain or discharge or cause to be cast, thrown,
drained or discharged into any public street or highway, gutter or
other public place within the Township of Plumsted any slop, kitchen
water or other liquid of such character as to cause the air in such
public street, highway or other public place to become offensive to
the senses or injurious to the public health, and the doing of any
such act shall be deemed to be a nuisance. This Code incorporates
the State Public Health Nuisance Code.
No person shall keep or maintain any animal or animals in such
close proximity to any dwelling house within the Township of Plumsted
so that offensive odors are thereby created, being offensive to persons
occupying such dwelling houses, and any such account is hereby declared
to be a nuisance. Farming operations conducted in accordance with
accepted farming practices are hereby excluded.
No person shall deposit or accumulate any offal or any decaying
animal or vegetable substance in or upon any lot of land or building
in such close proximity to any private dwelling house within said
Township which shall emit odors offensive to the inhabitants or owners
of such private dwellings and become injurious to public health, the
same being declared to be a nuisance.
No person shall, within the limits of the Township, in connection
with any business or otherwise, store, keep or maintain upon any premises,
other than in an enclosed building, any articles or merchandise, appliances,
automobile parts and tires or any other form or type of apparatus
in or upon which stagnant water may or does collect; or which may
constitute a fire hazard, or which may be dangerous to persons, including
children, being or coming upon the lands; or which emits foul or obnoxious
odors; or which is so unsightly as to adversely affect the values
of surrounding properties.
Any person creating or maintaining any of the foregoing nuisances
shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars ($100) for each
offense and, in the event that the person creating or maintaining
such a nuisance shall have been notified by written notice given by
any members of the Plumsted Township Board of Health, shall be liable
to an additional penalty of five dollars ($5) for each and every day
that such offense or nuisance is continued after the giving of such
notice.
It shall be unlawful to deposit or throw any wastepaper, tin
can, pail, box, basket, old shoes and boots, dead animals, fruit or
pieces of fruit, garbage, cinders, ashes, refuse, rubbish or waste
of any kind into or alongside of any public highway, road or public
place in the Township of Plumsted.
Any person depositing or throwing any wastepaper, tin can, pail,
box, basket, old shoes and boots, dead animals, fruit or pieces of
fruit, garbage, cinders, ashes, refuse, rubbish or waste of any kind
into or alongside of any public highway, road or public place in the
Township of Plumsted shall be guilty of committing a nuisance and
shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay a penalty not to exceed the
sum of five hundred dollars ($500).
