[1976 Code § 8-1]
The City under authority of NJ.S.A. Sections 40:74-1 and 40:67-1
et seq., and other laws applicable thereto, hereby declares that because
of the flatness of the terrain within the City and because of the
low elevation above sea level, it is necessary to make provision for
adequate and proper drainage throughout the City. To provide such
adequate and proper drainage it is required to establish elevations
for each lot or parcel of land and each street to create the necessary
grades to accomplish drainage.
[1976 Code § 8-2; Ord. No. 1431 § XCVIII]
The Municipal Engineer, under the direction and authority of
the Mayor, shall determine and establish elevations and grades as
are deemed necessary to protect the welfare and health of the public
by providing gradients to allow the satisfactory flow of flood or
storm waters away from such parcels of land, lots or streets to an
outflow to be determined for each location.
[1976 Code § 8-3]
It is required that all parcels of land or lots which are of
an elevation making proper drainage impossible or impractical shall
be filled to the proper grade to make such drainage possible. No house,
building or other structure shall be constructed on any lot until
the required grade has been established and approved by the Municipal
Engineer.
All owners of lots that are required to be filled according
to this chapter shall fill such lots to grades established by the
Municipal Engineer when requested by the City within 45 days after
such notice has been mailed or delivered, whichever is later.
If the lot owner shall fail to fill the lots as required within
the forty-five-day period referred to in the preceding paragraph,
the City shall then have the right to fill the lots. If the City exercises
this right to fill the lots, then the actual work shall be certified
by the Municipal Engineer and on receipt by the Tax Collector shall
be assessed against the property and become a lien on the property
and enforced and collected as in the case of other taxes.
