[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Carteret 6-9-1978 as Art. XXV of the 1978 Revised Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Housing standards (Borough Council) — See Ch. 149.
A code affecting the construction, reconstruction or repair of buildings, ordinances for fire prevention and ordinances establishing fire prevention codes and health ordinances establishing, amending or supplementing rules and regulations affecting the installation, maintenance, repair and control of the plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings and the connection thereof with an outside sewer, cesspool or other receptacle, regulating the practice of plumbing or dealing with the issuance of licenses to practice plumbing is hereby established pursuant to the provisions of P.L. 1946, c. 21 (N.J.S.A. 40:49-5.1), the New Jersey State Housing Code, as approved by the Departments of Health and Conservation and Economic Development and filed in the Secretary of State's office. A copy of the New Jersey State Housing Code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text herein.
The code adopted and established by this chapter is commonly known as the "New Jersey State Housing Code."
Three (3) copies of said New Jersey State Housing Code have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary of the Board of Health of the Borough of Carteret, Middlesex County, New Jersey, upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain on file at said place until final action is taken on this chapter for use and examination by the general public during normal business hours.
Any person who violates any provision of or order promulgated under this chapter or the code established herein shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than five dollars ($5.) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.) for each violation. Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.