[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Palmyra 5-9-1961 (Ch. 92 of the 1971 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Property maintenance — See Ch. 203.
Sidewalk area maintenance — See Ch. 237, Art. II.
Trees — See Ch. 259.
Public health nuisances — See Ch. 288.
A code declaring ragweed and poison ivy to be a nuisance, providing for removal or abatement thereof and recovery of expenses incurred by the Board of Health in removing or abating such nuisance and prescribing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant to Chapter 188, Laws of 1950.[1] A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 et seq.
The code established and adopted by this chapter is described and commonly known as the "Weed Control Code of New Jersey (1953)."
Three copies of said Weed Control Code of New Jersey (1953) have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary of this local Board of Health upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public so long as said chapter is in effect.
Any person who violates or fails or neglects to comply with any provision of this chapter or the code established herein or notice issued pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $2 nor more than $100 for each violation.
In the event that any section, sentence or clause of this chapter or the code shall be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such declaration shall not in any manner prejudice the enforcement of the remaining provisions.