A code defining and prohibiting certain matters,
things, conditions or acts and each of them as a nuisance, prohibiting
certain noises or sounds, requiring the proper heating of apartments,
prohibiting lease or rental of certain buildings, prohibiting spitting
in or upon public buildings, conveyances or sidewalks, authorizing
the inspection of premises by an enforcing official, providing for
the removal or abatement of certain nuisances and recovery of expenses
incurred by the Board of Health in removing or abating such nuisances
and prescribing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant
to Chapter 188, Laws of 1950. A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part
hereof without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
Said code established and adopted by this chapter
is described and commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code
of New Jersey (1953)."
Ten copies of said "Public Health Nuisance Code
of New Jersey (1953)" have been placed on file in the offices of both
the Greenwich Township Clerk and the Secretary of the Greenwich Township
Board of Health upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain
on file there for the use and examination of the public.
Any person who violates 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 $5 nor more than $500 for
each violation.
For the purposes of this chapter, the enforcing
official shall be any one of the following persons: the Health Officer,
the Sanitary Inspector and any other person duly authorized by the
Board of Health to undertake enforcement procedures outlined in the
code adopted herein.