[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Glassboro 2-9-1971 by Ord. No. 3-71 as Ch. 12 of the 1971 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Board of Health regulations — See
Part III.
There shall be established in and for the Borough
of Glassboro a Board of Health in accordance with the provisions of
an act of the Legislature of New Jersey 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, and the several supplements thereto.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 26:3-1 et seq.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A.
Said Board
of Health shall consist of five members and two alternate members
who shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council.
One member shall hold office for one year; two members shall hold
office for two years; and two members shall hold office for three
years. All members of said Board hereafter appointed shall hold office
for the term of three years, except in the case of vacancies. Vacancies
shall be filled for the unexpired term.
B.
Alternate
members shall be designated at the time of appointment by the authority
appointing them as "Alternate No. 1" and "Alternate No. 2." The terms
of the alternate members shall be for two years, except that the terms
of the alternate members first appointed shall be two years for Alternate
No. 1 and one year for Alternate No. 2, so that the term of not more
than one alternate member shall expire in any one year.
Said Board of Health shall adopt rules and regulations
for its own government and shall elect a President from among its
own members.
Said Board of Health shall appoint a Registrar
of Vital Statistics, Clerk, Sanitary Inspector and Medical Inspector
and may also appoint such other officers or assistants as said Board
of Health may deem necessary. All appointees of said Board of Health
shall be governed by the rules of said Board and they may be removed
through cause by said Board. The policemen of said Borough, when on
duty, shall be special sanitary inspectors and they shall promptly
report to the Board of Health every violation of the health ordinances
of the Borough which may come within their observation or knowledge.
The said Board of Health shall not contract
any debt or debts of any kind beyond the amount of the appropriations
made for its use by this Council.
