This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Air Pollution Control Code of the City of Paterson."
It is hereby declared that pollution of the atmosphere by smoke, cinders, soot, fly ash, gases, fumes, vapors, odors, dust and other contaminants is a menace to the health, welfare and comfort of the residents of the city and a cause of substantial damage to property. For the purpose of controlling and reducing atmospheric pollution, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the city to minimize air pollution, as herein defined, and prohibit excessive emission of the same, to establish standards governing the installation, maintenance and operation of equipment and appurtenances relating to combustion which are a source or potential source of air pollution and, in furtherance of this purpose, to cooperate and coordinate these efforts with the State Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Bureau of Air Pollution Control.
The following terms, whenever used herein or referred to in this chapter, shall have the respective meanings assigned to them unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
AIR POLLUTION
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one (1) or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration as are or tend to be injurious to human health or welfare, to animal or plant life or to property or would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property throughout the city as shall be affected thereby, and excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationship as to health and safety hazards.
DIRECTOR
The Health Officer, who shall also be known as the "Director of Air Pollution Control."
ECONOMIC POISONS
Those chemicals used as insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, nematocides or defoliants.
FUEL-BURNING EQUIPMENT
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 used 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.
INCINERATOR
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.
ODOR
Property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
OPEN BURNING
Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into the open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney.
OPERATOR
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.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or 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, 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 so leased or subleased.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint-stock companies, as well as individuals.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible wastes (except body wastes), and shall include but not be limited to garbage, rubbish, yard trimmings, leaves, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
RINGELMANN SMOKE CHART
Ringelmann's scale for grading the density of smoke, published by the United States Bureau of Mines, or any chart, recorder, indicator or device for the measurement of smoke density which is approved by the Department of Environmental Protection and Energy of the State of New Jersey, as the equivalent of said Ringelmann's scale.
RUBBISH
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.
SALVAGE OPERATIONS
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.
SMOKE
Small gasborne and airborne particles arising from a process of combustion in sufficient number to be observable.
TRADE WASTE
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, cartons, paint, grease, oil and other petroleum products, chemicals, cinders and other forms of solid or liquid waste materials.