A. 
For the purpose of correct interpretation in the enforcement of this Code and the rules and regulations of the Board of Health of Ridgefield, New Jersey, the terms, words and names used herein are hereby defined to mean:
ANIMAL
For the purpose of this chapter, a cat or dog.
[Added 4-10-2013 by BOH Ord. No. 2-2013]
BIRDS
Waterfowl, songbirds, pigeons but not limited to blue jays and other birds.
[Added 11-9-2011 by BOH Ord. No. 3-2011]
BOARD, THIS BOARD or BOARD OF HEALTH
The Board of Health of the Borough of Ridgefield, New Jersey.
CARRIER
A person who, without symptoms of a communicable disease, harbors the specific germs.
CERTIFIED ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER
A person who has satisfactorily completed a course of study on the control of animals approved by the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services.
[Added 4-10-2013 by BOH Ord. No. 2-2013]
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Those set forth in § 440-29, Article VI of this Code[1] and any other disease declared by this Board to be communicable and specially dangerous to public health.
CONTACT
Any person or animal known to have been near enough to an infected person or animal to have been exposed to the transfer of infectious material directly or by articles freshly soiled with such material.
DISINFECTION
The destroying of the vitality of pathogenic microorganisms by chemical or physical means.
FEED
To give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter any edible material with the intention of feeding, attracting or enticing wildlife and/or birds; feeding does not include baiting in the legal taking of fish, pest control and/or game.
[Added 11-9-2011 by BOH Ord. No. 3-2011]
FOOD
As used in this Code, shall include every article used by man for food or drink and every ingredient in such article and all confectionery.
FREE-ROAMING CATS
Cats that roam outdoors and interact with feral cats and wildlife; cats with a specific owner, stray pets, or cats that may have originated in one household and are fed or cared for by other households in the neighborhood.
[Added 4-10-2013 by BOH Ord. No. 2-2013]
FUMIGATION
A process by which the destruction of insects such as mosquitos and body lice and animals such as rats is accomplished by the employment of gaseous agents.
HEALTH OFFICER or EXECUTIVE OFFICER
As used in this Code, refers to and includes the person so designated by the Board of Health, who shall exercise the power and perform the duties of said Board as the executive officer of said Board.
ISOLATION
Refers to the placing apart of infected persons for the purpose of preventing contact with other persons and to the establishment of restrictions directly surrounding such persons.
NUISANCE
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.
[Added 4-10-2013 by BOH Ord. No. 2-2013]
PERMIT
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction. Shall be construed to mean the permission, in writing, of this Board issued according to its rules and regulations and the provisions of the Sanitary Code.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
[Amended 11-9-2011 by BOH Ord. No. 3-2011]
QUARANTINE
Refers to the condition resulting from restrictive measures which are applied to households, premises or areas of greater magnitude for the prevention of the spread of communicable diseases to other areas and also to restrictions applied at ports of entry to prevent the introduction of diseases from other ports, states or countries.
STREET
When used in the Sanitary Code, shall be held to include avenues, sidewalks, gutters, places and public alleys.
WILDLIFE
All animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
[Added 11-9-2011 by BOH Ord. No. 3-2011]
[1]
Editor's Note: Section 440-29 of Article VI of the former Chapter 440, Sanitary Code, adopted 12-26-1944, which was superseded by this chapter, listed the following communicable diseases: "Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, leprosy, plague, trichinosis, smallpox, varioloid, typhoid fever and paratyphoid diphtheria in any form, membranous croup, scarlet fever, measles, malaria, tuberculosis in any of its manifestations, trachoma, hydrophobia, glanders, anthrax, chicken pox, infantile paralysis or poliomyelitis, German measles, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, mumps, pneumonia, opthalmia, neonatorum, rabies, amebic and bacillary dysentery, erysipelas, spinal meningitis, syphilis, whooping cough, lethargic encephalitis, filariasis, infectious diarrhea of the newborn, influenza, paratyphoid fever, Rocky Mountain fever, tetanus, streptococcic sore throat, tularemia, undulent fever or any other disease which may hereafter be declared by this Board or the State Department of Health to be communicable and specially dangerous to the public health."
B. 
Words in the present tense include the future, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular, and the word "shall" is always mandatory.