Borough of Ridgefield, NJ
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2023-12-11
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Part III: Board of Health Legislation
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Chapter 440 Sanitary Code
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Article IV Nuisances
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 13 Claims
- Ch 16 Commissioners of Assessment, Board of
- Ch 19 Construction Board of Appeals
- Ch 20 Contracts
- Ch 21 Court, Municipal
- Ch 23 Defense and Indemnification of Officials and Employees
- Ch 27 East Bergen Mutual Aid Association
- Ch 27A Emergency Services
- Ch 28 Eminent Domain
- Ch 29 Environmental Commission
- Ch 30 Ethics
- Ch 31 Expenses, Reimbursement of
- Ch 35 Fire Department
- Ch 38 Firemen, Deceased Volunteer
- Ch 39 First-Aid and Ambulance Corps
- Ch 41 Flag Display
- Ch 42 Free Public Library
- Ch 44 Health, Board of
- Ch 47 Housing Authority of Bergen County
- Ch 49 Inspections
- Ch 50 Insurance, Disability
- Ch 54 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 58 Meadowland Regional Development Agency
- Ch 66 Officers and Employees
- Ch 70 Personnel Policies
- Ch 75 Police Department
- Ch 79 Public Buildings, Use of
- Ch 82 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 85 Purchasing
- Ch 88 Recreation and Parks Department
- Ch 92 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 96 Sanitation Department
- Ch 99 Senior Citizens Advisory Committee
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 112 Adult Bookstores
- Ch 115 Affordable Housing
- Ch 118 Alarm Systems
- Ch 121 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 127 Amusement Games
- Ch 131 Animals
- Ch 133 Anti-Bullying Policy, Procedures and Programs
- Ch 140 Building Construction
- Ch 143 Buildings, Demolition of
- Ch 146 Carbon Monoxide Detectors
- Ch 149 Checks, Returned
- Ch 158 Coin-Operated Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 160 Communications Facilities Right-Of-Way Permits
- Ch 162 Condominium Conversions
- Ch 165 Curfew
- Ch 172 Dumping
- Ch 175 Entertainment
- Ch 179 Explosives and Fireworks
- Ch 183 Fees
- Ch 185 Films and Movies
- Ch 187 Firearms
- Ch 190 Fire Prevention Code
- Ch 197 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 200 Fuel Oil Delivery
- Ch 203 Games of Chance
- Ch 206 Garage Sales
- Ch 208 Garbage, Trash and Storage
- Ch 211 Gasoline Service Stations
- Ch 217 Handbills and Posters
- Ch 222 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 227 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 232 Houses, Numbering of
- Ch 235 Housing Code
- Ch 239 Hunting
- Ch 243 (Reserved)
- Ch 247 Jitneys
- Ch 255 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 257 Limousines
- Ch 259 Littering
- Ch 262 Massage Practitioners and Health Clubs
- Ch 266 Miniature Golf Courses
- Ch 271 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 275 Noise
- Ch 278 Nuisances
- Ch 283 Oil-Burning Equipment
- Ch 289 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 293 Parks
- Ch 296 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 300 Personal Property, Removal and Transportation of
- Ch 306 Poolrooms
- Ch 310 (Reserved)
- Ch 314 Railroad Cars: Loading and Unloading
- Ch 317 Recycling
- Ch 319 Rental Units
- Ch 322 Rent Control
- Ch 328 Retail Business Hours
- Ch 333 Sewers
- Ch 334 Sex Offender Residency
- Ch 336 Shopping Carts
- Ch 341 Smoking
- Ch 345 Storm Sewer System
- Ch 348 Streetlighting
- Ch 350 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Swimming Pools
- Ch 358 Taxation
- Ch 361 Taxicabs
- Ch 365 Tobacco
- Ch 366 Towing and Storage of Vehicles
- Ch 370 Trailers
- Ch 375 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 390 Zoning, Development and Construction
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 400 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 402 Administration
- Ch 412 Coin-Operated Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 418 Fees
- Ch 420 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 422 Food Handler's Certification
- Ch 423 Food Service Manager's Certification
- Ch 425 License Fees
- Ch 428 Penalty Enforcement
- Ch 429 Personnel Practices of the Board of Health
- Ch 431 Ragweed and Poison Ivy
- Ch 435 Retail Food Establishments
- Ch 438 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 440 Sanitary Code
- Ch 440 Art IV Nuisances
- § 440-4 Offensive matter.
- § 440-5 Garbage.
- § 440-6 Dead animal or fowl; disposal of carcass.
- § 440-7 Spitting.
- § 440-8 Dangers to human health.
- § 440-9 Water supply required.
- § 440-10 Wells.
- Ch 444 Smoke Emission
- Ch 447 Tattooing and Body Piercing
- Ch 448 Boarding and Rooming Houses
- Appendix
- Ch A451 Street Acceptances, Improvements and Vacations
- Ch A452 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A453 Salaries and Compensation: Library
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
No person shall be allowed to place anywhere
within the borough limits anything of whatever nature that shall produce
offensive odors or that may be annoying or dangerous to the public
health, and no person shall be permitted to empty any house drainage
or offensive matter in the street or gutters.
No animal or vegetable substance or swill or
garbage, nor any offensive material, shall be deposited on or used
to fill in or raise the surface level of any ground, lot or street.
The owner of any animal or fowl which may have
died or have been killed upon a public street, avenue or other public
place shall, within twenty-four (24) hours after said death or killing,
remove the carcass of such animal or fowl from such public street,
avenue or other public place and dispose of said carcass in a sanitary
manner. In the event that the owner is unknown, the removal shall
be done by the Department of Public Works.
Spitting upon the floor, steps or other portions
of any public building or public conveyance or sidewalk or cars is
hereby forbidden and declared to be a nuisance, and any person or
persons creating or maintaining such nuisance shall be deemed to have
violated this code.
No person shall create, maintain or permit to
be created or maintained anything that is dangerous to human health
or that renders the ground, water, air or food a hazard or a danger
to human health.
No premises shall be rented, let, leased or
occupied by tenants unless said premises shall have a plentiful supply
of pure water, suitable for domestic purposes, and be equipped with
a sink, toilet and bathtub.
Whenever this Board shall have satisfactory
evidence that any well, the water of which is used for domestic purposes,
has become polluted and rendered unsafe for potable use, notice to
discontinue the use of said polluted water shall be sent to the owner
or party in charge of said well, and, at the discretion of this Board,
the owner or party in charge of said well may be ordered, in writing,
to close, fill up or withdraw from the ground said well. Every well
which shall be excavated subsequent to the adoption of this code and
which shall be intended for domestic purposes shall be at least twenty
(20) feet from any property line.
