As used in this Code and section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ENFORCING OFFICIALS
Includes the health officer or other official authorized by the board of health to enforce this Code and section.
PERSON
Includes an individual, firm, corporation, association, society, partnership, and their agents or employees.
a. 
The following matters, things, conditions or acts and each of them are hereby declared to be a nuisance and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of this municipality:
1. 
Any matter, thing, condition or act which is or may become detrimental or a menace to the health of the inhabitants of this municipality.
2. 
Any matter, thing, condition or act which is or may become an annoyance, or interfere with the comfort or general well-being of the inhabitants of this municipality.
3. 
Pollution, or existence of a condition or conditions which cause or threaten pollution, of any waters in this municipality in such manner as to cause or threaten injury to any of the inhabitants of this municipality either in their health, comfort or property.
4. 
The escape into the open air from any stack, vent, chimney or any entrance to the open air, or from any fire into the open air of such quantities of smoke, flyash, dust, fumes, vapors, mists, or gases as to cause injury, detriment, or annoyance to the inhabitants of this municipality or endanger their comfort, repose, health or safety.
5. 
The growth, existence or presence of ragweed on any plot of land, lot, highway, right-of-way or any other public or private place.
6. 
The growth, existence or presence of poison ivy within 20 feet of any property line.
7. 
The existence or presence of any water or other liquid in which mosquito larvae breed or exist.
8. 
The existence or presence of any accumulation of garbage, refuse, manure, or animal or vegetable matter which may attract flies and to which flies may have access, or in which fly larvae or pupae breed or exist.
9. 
Depositing, accumulating, or maintaining any matter or thing which serves as food for insects or rodents and to which they may have access or which serves or constitutes a breeding place or harborage for insects or rodents in or on any land, premises, building or other place.
b. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to commit, maintain or allow any nuisance, as declared and described in this section.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners who have agreed to supply heat to any building designed to be occupied or occupied as a residence by more than two families to fail to supply heat from the first day of October in each year to the first day of May of the succeeding year in such manner that the temperature of said building where one or more persons reside shall always be kept at 68° F. or above between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, cause or suffer or permit to be made or caused upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by him or it, or upon any public street, alley or thoroughfare in this municipality, any unnecessary noises or sounds by means of the human voice, or by any other means or methods which are physically annoying to persons, or which are so harsh, or so prolonged or unnatural, or unusual in their use, time and place as to occasion physical discomfort, or which are injurious to the lives, health, peace and comfort of the inhabitants of this municipality or any number thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, lease or otherwise permit the occupancy of any building as a residence, or for any person to reside in any building as its owner which:
a. 
Is not adequately and properly ventilated; or
b. 
Fail to provide potable water at sufficient pressure and quantity for each family unit from a public supply approved by the State Department of Health or a private supply approved by the enforcing official; or
c. 
Does not have plumbing fixtures consisting of a kitchen sink, bathtub or shower, lavatory and flush toilet, connected to the potable water supply; or
d. 
Does not have facilities for the discharge of all household liquid wastes into a public sewerage system approved by the State Department of Health, or into a private sewerage system approved by the enforcing official.
It shall be unlawful for any person to spit upon any public sidewalk or upon any part of the interior or exterior of any public building or public conveyance.
a. 
All places and premises in this municipality shall be subject to inspection by the board of health or the enforcing official if the board or that official has reason to believe that ally section of this Code is being violated.
b. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, obstruct, delay, resist or prevent the board of health or the enforcing official from having full access to any place or premises upon which a violation of this Code is believed to exist.
a. 
Whenever a nuisance as declared by Subsection 18-1.2 of this Code is found on any plot of land, lot, right-of-way or any other private premises or place, notice in writing shall be given to the owner thereof to remove or abate the same within such time as shall be specified therein but not less than five days from the date of service thereof. A duplicate of the notice shall be left with one or more of the tenants or occupants of the premises or place.
If the owner resides out of the State or cannot be so notified speedily, such notice shall be left at that place or premises with the tenant or occupant thereof, or posted on the premises and such action shall be considered proper notification to the owner, tenant or occupant thereof.
b. 
Whenever a nuisance as declared by Subsection 18-1.2 of this Code is found on any public property or on any highway or any other public premises or place, notice in writing shall be given to the person in charge thereof to remove or abate the same within such time as shall be specified therein. If such person fails to comply with such notice within the time specified therein, the board of health may remove or abate such nuisance in the manner as hereinafter provided in the case of a like condition existing on a private premise or place.
c. 
If the owner, tenant or occupant upon being notified as provided by this subsection shall not comply with such notice within the time specified therein and fails to remove or abate such nuisance, the board of health shall proceed to abate the nuisance or may cause it to be removed or abated in a summary manner by such means as said board shall deem proper.
The board of health may institute an action at law to recover costs incurred by it in the removal or abatement of any nuisance as declared by Subsection 18-1.2 of this Code from any person who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance to exist, or from any owner, tenant, or occupant of premises who, after notice and notification as herein provided, shall fail to remove and abate the same within the time specified in such notice.
The provisions of this Code shall be enforced by the board of health or its enforcing official.
As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
GARBAGE
All waste material from the tables of hotels, restaurants, private homes, and all other waste products from kitchens, stores, bakeshops, or other places where food is prepared, consumed, handled, or sold for human use.
PIGS
Hogs, swine, shoats, and pigs more than 60 days old.
TANKAGE
Sterilized, dehydrated, ground animal protein.
The granting of a permit hereunder shall in no way authorize the creation of a nuisance or the maintenance of an obnoxious condition.
a. 
No person shall have, keep, raise, or maintain more than 10 pigs in this township without first procuring a license as hereinafter required. The number of licenses shall be limited to nine. Whenever a license is revoked or whenever the full number of licenses are not issued or applied for within 30 days after the beginning of the licensing period, the permitted number of licenses shall be decreased accordingly. The license period shall be from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December.
b. 
No license shall be issued to any licensee to keep more pigs than were in the possession of the licensee on January 1, 1981. It shall be presumed that the license fee paid pursuant to this Code is indicative of the accurate count of the number of pigs kept at the piggery.
c. 
Licenses shall be issued by the health officer, or such other person as may be designated by the Township Committee.
The prohibition contained in Subsection 18-2.3, paragraph a, shall not apply to farmers raising less than 100 pigs, as an accessory use to a bona fide farming operation, the principal product of which is not pigs or pig by-products, provided said pigs are fed (a) exclusively on produce raised on the farm whereon they are kept; or (b) on produce raised on the farm whereon they are kept supplemented by commercial grain rations and tankage.
a. 
Applications for a license shall be made upon a form supplied by the issuing authority. A license fee of $10 per 100 pigs shall accompany the application; in case the application is refused, the fee shall be returned to the applicant. The minimum license fee shall be $10.
b. 
The health officer or other designated person shall inspect the premises of the applicant prior to issuing the license.
c. 
The Township Committee may refuse said license, grant it as requested, grant it upon condition, or grant it in modified form as the findings of the Committee may show to be for the best interests of the safety, health, welfare and well-being of the residents of the township.
d. 
Said license shall not be assignable and the license shall be limited to the premises on which the licensee had pigs on October 1, 1955. Each licensee shall accompany his application with a legal description of the property to be licensed.
e. 
All applicants, by accepting a license, must agree to conform to the requirements of this section.
f. 
If there is any disagreement between the health officer or other designated person, and the licensee, as to the number of pigs on the premises, the officer or other designated person may order a count to be made at the expense of the licensee and under the supervision of the health officer or other designated person.
Any person having or keeping pigs under a license issued under this section shall comply with the following provisions:
a. 
All buildings, yards, or enclosures, in which any pigs shall be kept, shall be maintained at all times in a neat, orderly, clean and sanitary condition.
b. 
All buildings used for the keeping of pigs shall be provided with a concrete or other non-absorbent floor built above the surface of the surrounding ground with a concrete or other non-absorbent sidewall on all enclosed portions extending 36 inches above the floor and so joined with the floor as to furnish a cove or curved surface for easy cleaning.
c. 
All feeding shall be done upon a concrete floor or floor of non-absorbent character.
d. 
All liquid waste, including water used to wash down the side walls, liquids from the sheds, the barns, from the manure pit or loading area, and any water from washing trucks or other equipment shall be conducted by a suitable drain to an underground cistern and disposed of in an approved sewage disposal field.
e. 
Manure and feed residue shall be disposed of daily by sanitary land fill.
f. 
There must be an available supply of water kept under at least 20 pounds pressure, equipped with sufficient hose connections to allow all parts of the building wherein pigs are kept to be completely hosed down at least once in each seven days.
g. 
All buildings where pigs are kept shall be whitewashed semiannually.
h. 
Proper equipment and material shall be kept on hand at all times and used as required to control flies and other insects.
i. 
All dead animals shall be buried or removed within 24 hours of death.
j. 
All runs shall be securely fenced or enclosed and no depressions containing liquids shall be allowed.
No person operating under a license issued hereafter shall locate any building, pig run, yard or pasture wherein pigs are kept closer than 100 feet to any other property.
a. 
The area wherein pigs are kept, except where they are housed in closed buildings, shall be completely fenced with a sturdy, well- constructed, closely woven wire fence, or other equally effective fence so as to prevent any pigs from trespassing on adjoining property.
b. 
No pig or pigs shall be allowed at large upon the licensee's property outside of properly fenced pasture. A licensee who permits a diseased pig to escape from his property may have his license revoked.
a. 
Garbage may be transported on the public highways only in watertight, steel bodied trucks, covered with a steel cover or adequate tarpaulin, and no garbage or liquid may be spilled upon the public highways.
b. 
Garbage trucks shall be washed daily when in use and shall be disinfected at least once each week.
c. 
Garbage fed to pigs must first be heated throughout to a minimum of 180° for a period of 30 minutes.
This section shall be enforced by the health officer, or other designated person.
The provisions of N.J.A.C. 7:9A-1 et seq. entitled Chapter 9A, Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems are hereby adopted by reference pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:3-69 to 69.6. A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without inclusion of the text thereof herein.
The said code established and adopted by this section is described and commonly known as Chapter 9A, Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems.
Three copies of Chapter 9A, Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems have been placed on file in the office of the secretary of the board of health upon the introduction of this section and will remain on file there until final action is taken on this section, for the use and examination of the public, and if finally adopted they will remain on file in said office so long as this section is in effect and three copies shall also be placed on file, and so shall remain on file in the office of any board, body or officer in charge of the enforcement of said section, for the use and examination of the public so long as said section is in effect. Copies of said Chapter 9A shall be made available to citizens on request upon the payment of a nominal fee as shall be set by the board from time to time by resolution.
No person or entity shall install, construct, alter or operate an individual subsurface sewage disposal system without first obtaining the necessary permits, approvals, certifications or licenses as required by Chapter 9A.
The Construction Code Official for Southampton Township is hereby authorized to issue a license to operate and a copy of the Department of Environmental Protection's operation and maintenance manual to the permittee at the time that a certificate of compliance is issued. Further said construction code official shall maintain the required records concerning said licenses and shall on behalf of the board notify the licensee prior to the date of the license expiration to apply for a renewal of the license.
An applicant for a license to operate shall pay a fee of $15 at the time of submitting the application and a fee of $15 at the time of submitting the application for renewal.
In case any permit or certification required by this section is denied by the board of health or its agents, a hearing shall be held thereon before the board within 15 days after request therefor is made by the applicant and upon such hearing the board of health shall affirm, alter or rescind its previous determination and take action accordingly within 15 days after the date of such hearing.
The board of health or its agents may order all further work in and about any individual sewage disposal system, which is being erected or installed in violation of the code, to be stopped forthwith, except such work as shall be necessary to remedy such violation and thereafter, the work continued without any violation of any of the provisions of the code, and after issuance of any such order and the service of a copy thereof upon any person connected with or working in and about the erection or installation of any such disposal system, or any part thereof, no further work shall be done thereon except as aforesaid.
a. 
Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of or any order promulgated under this section shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a penalty of not less than $2 nor more than $500 for each violation and shall also be subject to those penalties prescribed in N.J.A.C. 7:9A-1.7 for violators of Chapter 9A, Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems.
b. 
Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
The owner of any lot or parcel of land on which a house or other building is located, and which is situate in a sewer service area and in the vicinity of a sanitary sewerage collection line, shall cause such house or other building, if located within 200 feet of such sanitary sewerage collection line, to be connected therewith within 180 days after due service of notice, as authorized by the township board of health.
The notice provided for in Subsection 18-4.1 of this section may be served personally upon the owner of such lot or parcel of land or by leaving said notice at the usual place of abode of such owner with a member of his or her family above the age of 18 years.
At no time shall the following be connected either directly or indirectly to the township's sanitary sewerage collection line:
1. 
Floor drains, area drains or yard drains;
2. 
Rain conductors or downspouts;
3. 
Grease pits;
4. 
Air conditioning or refrigeration equipment condensation lines;
5. 
Sump pumps.
a. 
The owner of any lot or parcel of land described in Subsection 18-4.1 of this subsection and upon whom notice has been served pursuant to Subsection 18-4.2 above, who shall not comply with such notice within said period of 30 days after due notice shall, upon conviction thereof pursuant to a complaint filed in municipal court, be subject to a fine of not more than $200 per day for each day after the expiration of said period of 30 days.
b. 
All interpretation and enforcement of this section shall be made by the Township of Southampton local board of health or its agents, in conjunction with the staff of the Burlington County Health Department.
a. 
The Township of Southampton hereby waives all township permit fees related to the draining and filling of septic tanks and cesspools for residents of the Village of Vincentown who will be connecting to the new sewer lines in the village.
b. 
This waiver of all permit fees as set forth above shall be conditioned upon submission of proper documentation to the township that any closed septic tank or cesspool was properly emptied and filled with sand in accordance with local and State regulations, and that sufficient proof is submitted thereof from the septic waste hauler and/or other contractor performing such work that the septic tank and/or cesspool was properly emptied and filled with sand or other permitted material.