Whatever is dangerous to human health or whatever
renders the ground, the water, the air or food a hazard to human health
is hereby declared a nuisance.
The storage of animal refuse or decaying matter
in liquid or solid form in any place in such a manner as to have offensive
odors emanating therefrom to the discomfort of persons living near
or passing by on the public highways is hereby declared a nuisance.
The overcrowding of persons in any building
or other dwelling in such a manner as in the judgment of the members
of the Board of Health is dangerous to the health of the persons residing
therein or the keeping of any dwelling house or part thereof in a
state of unclean manner is hereby declared a nuisance.
The keeping of any barnyard or enclosure for
fowl, swine or other animals or of any slaughterhouse or factory,
barn or building of any kind in such a manner that offensive odors
shall emanate therefrom to the discomfort of persons living nearby
or passing on the public highway or in such a manner as to endanger
the health of persons working in or near such yards or buildings is
hereby declared a nuisance.
The sale of any meat, vegetable food or drink
that is unwholesome or unfit for food is hereby prohibited.
It is the duty of all persons owning or keeping
animals or fowl that have died of a disease contagious or communicable
to human beings, other animals or fowl to either bury or burn such
at once. It is also the duty of all persons owning or keeping a dog
or dogs or other animals which they know or have reason to believe
have been bitten by a dog or other animal suffering with rabies, otherwise
known as hydrophobia, to either kill such dog or animal at once or
securely confine it so that it may be killed at the first symptom
of the disease. As rabies is one of the most horrible fates which
may come to mankind, it is earnestly desired that all persons will
fully comply with the words and intent of this section and, upon failure
to do so, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, as hereinafter
set forth.
In cases of infection or contagious diseases
in this Township, the persons affected thereby shall, at the discretion
of the Board, be isolated, or they may be removed to such locality
as this Board may order. And all buildings, clothing or property infected
or having cause to be infected by contagious or communicable disease
shall be disinfected in such a manner as this Board may direct. And
this Board may establish such separation of the sick within such buildings
from other persons, not needed as assistants, as may be necessary
to prevent them from the disease. And all premises isolated or quarantined
as above stated, shall be designated by a card containing the name
of the disease. And it shall be the power and duty of this Board to
take or order all such precautions as the case shall need to prevent
a spread of the disease.
[Amended 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 223; 8-10-2004 by Ord. No.
04-08; 4-10-2007 by Ord. No. 07-04]
A. It shall be the duty of all physicians, midwives,
clergymen, magistrates and undertakers, professionally officiating
at marriages, births and deaths in this Township, to give a return
of the same to the Secretary of the Board as set forth in the provisions
of the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
B. Fees to be charged by the Registrar of Vital Statistics,
other than those fixed by state law or state agency, shall be:
(1) Certified copy of birth certificate: $10 each.
(2) Certified copy of marriage certificate: $10 each.
(3) Certified copy of domestic partnership: $10 each.
(4) Certified
copy of civil union: $10 each.
(5) Certified copy of death certificate: $5 each.
(6) Additional copies of death certificate: $2 each.
(7) Correction-parental items on birth record: $10 each.
(8) Search of records for one name for one calendar year:
$4 each.
(9) For each additional year searched at the same time:
$1 each.
Any owner or owners, agent, tenant, lessee or
occupant or person in charge of any building in the Township of Pilesgrove,
whether individual or corporation, and all persons or bodies or bodies
corporate who violate, omit or refuse to comply with, resist or offend
against any of the provisions or duties set forth in the different
sections of this code shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay
a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than $100 at the discretion
of the Court or Justice of the Peace before whom such conviction is
had.