[Amended 11-23-1992 by Ord. No. 100]
The ordinances and codes embraced in this chapter
shall constitute and be known as the "Sanitary Code of the Board of
Health, Paramus, New Jersey, 1974," and may be so cited or may be
cited as the "Sanitary Code of Paramus, 1974."
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The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this code. The terms, phrases, words and their
abbreviations shall have the meanings given herein, unless the context
specifically indicates otherwise. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural
number include the singular number, words in the singular number include
the plural number, and the masculine shall include the feminine. The
word "shall" as used herein is mandatory and the word "may" is permissive.
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ADULT NURSING HOME
AIR POLLUTION
BEAST
BOARD
BOARDINGHOUSE
BOARDING HOME FOR CHILDREN
BOROUGH
BUILDING
BUILDING DRAIN
CARRIER
CATTLE
CELLAR
CHILD
CLEANING
CODE
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
CONTACT SUSPECT
CONTAINER
CONVALESCENT HOME
DENSE SMOKE
DISINFECTION
DWELLING
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
ECONOMIC POISONS
ENFORCING OFFICIALS
FISH
FLUID MILK PRODUCTS
FLY ASH
FOGGING
FOOD
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
FOWL
FUEL-BURNING EQUIPMENT
GARBAGE
HEALTH OFFICER
HEALTH OFFICIAL
HOME FOR THE AGED
HOTEL
HOUSE CONNECTION
HOUSE DRAIN
HOUSE SEWER LATERAL
INCINERATOR
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INFANT
INSPECTOR
ISOLATION
KENNELS
LABEL
LABELLING
LAUNDROMAT
LAVATORY
LICENSE or PERMIT
LODGING HOUSE
MAIN SEWER
MEAT
MEMBER
MILK PRODUCTS
MOTEL
MOTOR HOTEL
MUNICIPAL SEWERAGE SYSTEM
NEW JERSEY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE or N.J.A.C.
NEW JERSEY STATUTES or N.J.S.A.
NONPUBLIC SCHOOL
NUISANCE
NURSE
NURSING HOME
ODOR
OPEN BURNING
OPERATOR
OUTDOOR BATHING PLACES
OWNER
PACKAGE
PERMIT or LICENSE
PERSON
PET SHOP
PHYSIOTHERAPIST
PLUMBING
PLUMBING SYSTEM
POLLUTED
POLLUTION
POULTRY
PROPERTY and PREMISES
PUBLIC GROUND, PUBLIC SQUARE or PUBLIC PLACE
PUBLIC SEWER
QUARANTINE
REFUSE
REGULATIONS
REPORTABLE DISEASE
RESIDENTIAL UNIT
RESTAURANT
REVISED STATUTES or N.J.S.A.
REVOCATION OF LICENSE OR PERMIT
RINGELMANN SMOKE CHART
RUBBISH
SALVAGE OPERATIONS
SANITARY SEWAGE
SANITARY SEWER
SEWAGE
SEWER
SEWER ENGINEER
SEWER INSPECTOR
SMALL ANIMALS
SMOKE
SMOKE UNIT
SPRAYING
STATE
STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
STREET
SUSPENSION OF LICENSE OR PERMIT
TENANT
TENEMENT HOUSE
TOILET
TOURIST LODGE
TRADE WASTE
Y PLANS
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
An establishment which maintains facilities for the care
of two or more adult individuals not related by blood or marriage
to the person or persons maintaining such establishment, suffering
from illness or any infirmity and where convalescent or nursing care
is rendered to such individuals.
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more added
substances in such quantities and of such duration as to be injurious
to human, animal or plant life or to property or which unreasonably
interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property.
Any large four-footed animal.
The Board of Health of the Borough of Paramus.
A private dwelling in which at least three but not more than
six rooms are offered for rent, whether or not table board is furnished
to lodgers, and in which no transients are accommodated and no public
restaurant is maintained.
Any house or establishment where children under age 16 are
boarded or cared for, whether for 24 hours or longer, by or under
supervision of persons not close relatives of such children, for compensation
or as a business.
The Borough of Paramus.
Any roofed structure built for support, shelter or enclosure
for persons, animals or property of any kind.
The lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system within
a building which receives the discharge from soil and waste pipes
and conveys it to the house connection.
A person who harbors the pathogenic organisms of a communicable
disease but who does not show clinical evidence of the disease.
The following animals and their respective young: cows, bulls,
steers and other hoofed animals.
The lowest story of any building, dwelling or tenement house,
of which 1/3 or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling
is below ground level.
Any person under the age of 18.
The thorough removal of contaminating material or materials.
This chapter or Sanitary Code as herein designated, unless
some other code is expressly indicated.
Any infectious or contagious disease in which the causative
agent may be transmitted from person to person or from animal to person
by direct or indirect means.
Any person who has been sufficiently near or exposed to any
infected person to make probable the transmission of an infectious
or causative agent to such person.
Synonymous with "package," as herein defined.
An institution similar to an adult nursing home but where
complete or partial recovery of the patient is expected.
Smoke that is equivalent to or denser than No. 2 on the Ringelmann
smoke scale.
The application of any disinfectant materials to infected
materials in sufficient concentration and for a sufficient length
of time to destroy pathogenic organisms.
Any building or portion thereof which is occupied as a residence
or sleeping place of one or more individuals, families or households.
A building used solely for dwelling purposes by three or
more families.
A dwelling having two distinct sets of kitchen and living
facilities designed and/or used to house not more than two families.
Those chemicals used as insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides,
herbicides, nematocides or defoliants.
Includes the Health Officer or other official authorized
by the Board to enforce this code and its ordinances.
Includes every part of any marine or water-dwelling animal.
Includes milk, cream, certified milk, skim milk, skimmed
milk, nonfat milk, nonfat fortified milk, fortified skim milk, fortified
skimmed milk, flavored milk, dairy drink, buttermilk, cultured buttermilk,
cultured skim milk, cultured milk, cultured sour cream, cultured salad
cream, yogurt, cultured half-and-half, Vitamin D milk, Vitamin D fluid
milk products, homogenized milk, modified milk, ice cream mix, ice
milk mix and half-and-half.
Particles of gasborne solid matter arising from the combustion
of solid fuel, and does not include process materials.
Spraying in the form of a cloud for the control of insects
within a prescribed area.
Includes any article used for food or beverage for man or
other animals and every ingredient therein, including (without limitation)
all confectionery, condiments, flavorings and other components of
such articles.
Includes any bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house,
slaughterhouse, dairy, creamery, meat market, fish market, delicatessen,
restaurant or other place or vehicle used in the production, preparation,
transportation or handling of food intended for sale or distribution.
Any feathered animal.
Any furnace, boiler, water heater, device, mechanism, stoker,
burner, stack, oven, stove, kiln, still or other apparatus or a group
or collection of such units in the process of fuel-burning for the
generation of heat or power. Refuse-burning equipment shall be considered
incinerators, as herein defined, and not as "fuel-burning equipment"
under this definition. Ovens, stoves or ranges used exclusively for
domestic cooking purposes are not included herein.
The accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both,
liquid or otherwise, that tends to decay.
The individual duly appointed or designated by the Board
to enforce this code and its ordinances and to supervise the work
on behalf of the Board. The Health Officer shall possess a license
issued by the New Jersey State Department of Health.
The same as enforcing officer.
An institution similar to an adult nursing home but only
for persons 65 years of age or over.
An establishment operated for profit open to the traveling
public for the keeping of guests. Food and beverages may or may not
be part of the services rendered.
That part of the sewerage system beginning five feet outside
the inner face of the building wall, which receives the discharge
from the building drain and conveys it to the house sewer lateral.
The same as "building drain."
That part of the sewerage system that runs from the sewer
main to the curbline and includes all necessary fittings as shown
on connection or Y plans.
Any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying,
reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance, including
but not limited to refuse, rubbish, garbage, debris or scrap or facilities
for cremating human or animal remains.
Contaminated liquid waste from industrial processes, as distinct
from sanitary sewage.
A child under six months of age.
Those persons appointed by the Board to aid in the enforcement
of the public health laws of this state or to aid in the enforcement
of the rules, regulations and ordinances of the Board. Such "inspectors"
shall possess the appropriate license from the New Jersey State Department
of Health in the grade and classification required for their Board
duties.
Separation of a person affected or suspected of being affected
with a communicable disease or a carrier of the infectious or causative
agent of a communicable disease from other persons in such a manner
as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious
or causative agent to other persons.
Includes any building, yard, enclosure, premises or lot of
ground used as a commercial establishment for the keeping, raising,
breeding, selling or boarding of dogs or other animals.
A display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or affixed
to the immediate container, not including the liners, of any article.
All labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon
an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying such
article.
An establishment where washing and/or drying of wearing apparel
and other washable fabrics are done by the customers or an employee
of the establishment.
A room with conveniences for washing.
A duly authorized license or permit from the Board, issued
in accordance with this code or the regulations of the Board.
A private dwelling unit where the owner, tenant or occupant
is engaged in keeping two or more lodgers, not related to him by blood
or marriage, for a part of a day or longer period, under expressed
contact or agreed rate or payment, and no food is served to such persons
on the premises.
See "public sewer."
Includes every part of any animal, whether mixed or not with
any other substance.
One of the appointees who constitute the Board.
Includes ice cream, ice milk, sherbets, butter, butter oil,
the various types of cheeses, dried milk, dried skim milk and any
other food for human consumption made from milk and designated as
a "milk product" by the State Health Department.
See "hotel."
See "hotel."
The Paramus sewer system and all appurtenances thereto.
The official instrument of the state for codification of
its rules.
That body of statutory law containing revisions of the Revised
Statutes of New Jersey and known as the "New Jersey Statutes," as
amended and supplemented.
A private or institution-related school which may be attended
in place of a public school.
Any condition which is dangerous to human life or health
or that which renders air, water soil or any type of food hazardous
or injurious to human life or health, and as otherwise herein defined.
A person registered as such under the laws of the state.
A home where nursing care is given.
A property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into
the open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney.
Any person who has care, custody or control of a building
or premises or a portion thereof, whether with or without knowledge
of the owner thereof.
Small streams, rivers, lakes, tidal waters and artificial
lakes or bodies of water formed from a land depression used to provide
recreational facilities for bathing or swimming purposes for other
than an individual or his family or guests of his household.
Any person who alone, jointly or severally with others shall
have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without accompanying
actual possession thereof; or who shall have charge, care or control
of any premises or part thereof, including but not limited to a dwelling
or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner or as a fiduciary,
including but not limited to executor, administrator, trustee, receiver
or guardian or as a mortgagee in possession, regardless of how such
possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee or sublessee of
all or any part of any premises, including but not limited to a dwelling
or dwelling unit, shall be deemed to be a "co-owner" with the lessor
and shall have joint responsibility with the owner over the premises
or portion thereof leased or subleased.
Includes any wrapper, case, basket, hamper, can, bottle,
jar, tube, cask, vessel, tub, firkin, keg, jug, barrel or other receptacle,
but shall not include open containers which permit a visual and physical
inspection by a purchaser at retail nor bags and other receptacles
which are filled in the presence of a purchaser at retail.
A duly authorized permit or license from the Board, issued
in accordance with this code or the regulations of the Board.
Any person, association, partnership, trust or corporation,
or any one or more of them or combination of any of them.
A place of business housing domesticated animals for the
purpose of raising and selling.
A person qualified and licensed to practice physiotherapy.
The practice of installing, maintaining, extending, repairing
and altering plumbing systems. It is also the installed plumbing system
piping, materials, plumbing fixtures and appurtenances of such systems
in connection with the following: sanitary drainage or storm drainage
facilities, together with their venting systems, a public or private
water supply system and fire-protection systems within or adjacent
to any building, structure or conveyance.
The sanitary and storm drainage facilities, together with
their venting systems and plumbing fixtures, a pubic or private water
supply system and the fire-protection systems within or adjacent to
any building, structure or conveyance to a point of connection to
a public or private sewage system, public or private water supply
or other acceptable terminal.
Dirty or defiled, unfit for human consumption or detrimental
to health.
The presence of one or more substances in such quantities
as to be injurious to human, animal or plant life or to property or
which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life
and property.
Includes chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigeons,
pheasants and all other fowl or winged animals kept, raised or sold
for human consumption or for production of eggs.
Unless restricted or limited by the context to either real
or personal property, includes both.
Any and every public ground, public square, public park or
other public place within the Borough which is within the jurisdiction
and control of the Borough and which is or may be general use by all
citizens and in which all have an equal right of passage and repassage
at will.
The sewers laid longitudinally along the center line or other
part of the street or other right-of-way to which all owners of abutting
properties have equal rights and which is controlled by the Borough.
The restriction of movement of any person and animal who
has been exposed to a communicable disease by confining such person
to a restricted area and by the exclusion of other persons from that
area.
All putrescible and nonputrescible wastes (except body wastes),
and shall include but not be limited to garbage, rubbish, street cleaning,
dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial
wastes. (See also "garbage.")
Includes any laws, statutes, ordinances, codes, acts, instructions
or regulations, whether general or special, adopted by a specified
body such as the State Health Department or the Board.
Those disease to be reported by the Board to the State Health
Department.
See "dwelling."
Includes any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order
cafe, lunchroom, lunch wagon, diner, soda fountain, snack bar, luncheonette,
tavern, bar, grill, cocktail lounge, hotel, club, boardinghouse, sandwich
stand, refreshment stand and every other place or establishment in
which food or beverage is sold for consumption on or near the premises
or at the time.[1]
That body of statutory law known as the "Revised Statutes
of New Jersey (1937)," containing the general and permanent laws of
the state adopted on December 20, 1937, as amended and supplemented.
The cancellation of a license or permit issued by the Board
for the remainder of the license period, except for licenses issued
by the Registrar of Vital Statistics pertaining to vital statistics.
Ringelmann's scale for grading the density of smoke, Bureau
of Mines Circular No. 7718 of the United States Department of Interior.
Solids not considered to be highly flammable or explosive,
and shall include but not be limited to rags, old clothes, leather,
rubber, carpets, wood, excelsior, paper, ashes, tree branches, yard
trimmings, furniture, tin cans, glass, crockery, masonry and other
similar materials.
Any business, trade or industry engaged in whole or in part
in salvaging or reclaiming any product or material, including but
not limited to metals, chemicals, shipping containers or drums.
That domestic sewage with storm- and surface water excluded,
such as sewage discharging form the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including motels, office and commercial buildings, factories and
institutions).
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm- and surface
and ground water are not admitted.
Domestic liquid waste containing animal, chemical or vegetable
matter in suspension or solution.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
The person or firm of duly licensed engineers retained or
appointed by the Borough in connection with the construction, installation
and maintenance of the municipal sewerage system, and if no one has
been appointed or such services have been completed, the term shall
mean the Borough Engineer.
The Sewer Inspector of the Department of Public Works of
the Borough or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
Includes rabbits, mink, guinea pigs, rodents, raccoons, squirrels,
hamsters, skunks and monkeys but no dogs and cats.
Gas- or airborne small particles by combustion or other heat
release or heat application processes in concentration sufficient
to be observable.
A unit of measure of smoke emission. This is smoke of Ringelmann
No. 1 shade emitted for one minute or its equivalent or such as smoke
of Ringelmann No. 2 shade emitted for 1/2 minute.
A mechanical application of insecticides to bushes, trees
or plants.
The State of New Jersey.
The New Jersey State Department of Health or any successor
agency thereto.
A sewer which carries storm- or surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial waste.
Includes every public street, avenue, sidewalk, gutter, highway,
park or public place in the Borough.
The suspension of permitted activity under the license or
permit granted by the Board for a specific period of time except for
licenses issued by the Registrar of Vital Statistics pertaining to
vital statistics.
Any person occupying any house, building or portion thereof
which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied as a house,
residence or a business establishment.
Includes every house, building or portion thereof which is
rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as
a house, home or residence by three or more families living independently
of one another and having facilities for doing their cooking and sleeping
upon the premises.
A water closet.
See "hotel."
All solid or liquid material or rubbish resulting from construction,
building operations or the prosecution of any business, trade or industry,
and shall include but not be limited to plastic products, carton,
paint, grease, oil and other petroleum products, chemicals, cinders
and other forms of solid or liquid waste materials.
A plan prepared by a professional engineer showing house
sewer laterals.
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Editor's Note: The definition of "Revised
Ordinances," which immediately followed this definition, was deleted
11-23-1992 by Ord. No. 100.