[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of North
Brunswick 4-17-1950. Section 411-7 amended at time of adoption
of Code; see Ch. 366, General Provisions, Board of Health. Other amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined
as follows:
Includes natural person or persons, partnerships, firms and corporations.
No animal or vegetable substance or garbage or refuse or dirt gathered
in cleaning sewers, or waste from mills or factories or any materials which
are offensive to health or tend to decay, to become putrid or to render the
atmosphere impure or unwholesome, or which shall be liable to become a nuisance
or a breeding place for mosquitoes, insects or vermin of any kind or which
shall create a fire hazard, shall be deposited upon or used to fill up or
raise the surface or level of any lot, grounds, street, road or alley in this
township unless pursuant to a special permit from the Board of Health.
No owner, agent, lessor, lessee, tenant or occupant of any lot, grounds,
street, road or alley in this township shall permit the depositing thereon
of any animal or vegetable substance or garbage or refuse or dirt gathered
in cleaning sewers, or waste from mills or factories or any materials which
are offensive to health or tend to decay, to become putrid or to render the
atmosphere impure or unwholesome, or which shall be liable to become a nuisance
or a breeding place for mosquitoes, insects or vermin of any kind, or which
shall create a fire hazard, unless pursuant to a special permit of the Board
of Health.
No permit shall be granted to any person or persons unless it shall
appear to the satisfaction of the majority of the members of said Board, after
an inspection of the premises to be used by the applicant and a consideration
of the application and the facts therein presented, that the depositing of
garbage or refuse or any of the above-named substances, or the permitting
of the deposit of garbage or refuse or any of the above-named substances,
will not constitute a nuisance or in any way endanger the health of the residents
of this township. If it shall appear to the majority of the members of said
Board at any time during the depositing of garbage or refuse or any of the
above-named substances, or the permitting of the deposit of garbage or refuse
or any of the above-named substances, under a permit issued under the provisions
of this chapter, that the same then constitutes a nuisance or in any way endangers
the health of the residents of this township, or if the said licensee in any
way violates the provisions of this chapter, the said Board may revoke the
said permit.
The presence of garbage or refuse or any of the above-named substances
upon the lands of any person, which garbage, refuse or any of the above-named
substances did not result from the use and occupation of said resident's
premises, in the absence of a special permit by such person, shall be a prima
facie evidence of permission to deposit said substances.
No person shall deposit refuse or waste material of any kind upon the
municipal dump without obtaining a permit from the Board of Health. Said permit
may limit the type of refuse or waste material and may regulate the method
of dumping upon the municipal dumping grounds.
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of
not less than $5 nor more than $500 in the discretion of the Judge. The continuation
of such violation on each successive day shall constitute a separate offense,
and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuance of the violation
may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
The said permit referred to in this chapter shall be valid for one year
from the date of its issuance, and a renewal thereof must be applied for and
secured before the expiration date of such permit. Temporary permits, however,
may be issued by the Board for a lesser period of time.
