[BH Ord. #28 § 1]
A Code regulating the location, design, construction, installation,
alteration, operation and maintenance of individual sewage disposal
systems; requiring certain licenses to operate systems and permits
to install, alter or repair systems; providing for inspection of such
systems, the fixing of fees and prescribing penalties for violations
is hereby adopted pursuant to the Public Health and Sanitation Codes
Adoption by Reference Act, N.J.S.A. 26:3-69-69.6.
[BH Ord. #28 § 2]
The Code established and adopted by this chapter is described
and commonly known as the "Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage
Disposal Systems (1989)" as amended by the Board of Health of the
Borough of Ramsey, as hereinafter provided, and as may hereinafter
be further amended. The Code is incorporated herein by reference and
made a part hereof. The Code hereby adopted is set forth in the New
Jersey Administrative Code and is cited as follows: N.J.A.C. 7:9A-1.1
et seq.; however, the amendments made by the Borough of Ramsey Board
of Health to such Code, as hereinafter provided, are not set forth
in the New Jersey Administrative Code.
[BH Ord. #28 § 3]
Three copies of the "Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage
Disposal Systems (1989)", as herein amended, have been placed on file
in the office of the Secretary of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Ramsey and will remain on file there for the use of and examination
by the public.
[BH Ord. #28 § 4]
a.
No person shall locate, construct, alter or repair a subsurface sewage
disposal system until a permit for the location, construction or alteration
of such system shall have been issued by the Board of Health of the
Borough of Ramsey, or its duly authorized agent, hereinafter referred
to as the administrative authority. All permits issued shall be valid
for a period not exceeding one year.
b.
In case any license, permit, or certification required by this chapter
is denied by the administrative authority, a hearing shall be held
concerning such denial before the Board of Health within 30 days after
request therefor is made by the applicant and upon such hearing the
Board of Health shall affirm, alter or rescind the determination from
which the appeal is taken at such hearing. In the event that the Board
of Health determines to alter or rescind the previous determination,
action pursuant to such Board determination shall be taken within
30 days after the date of such hearing.
[BH Ord. #28 § 5]
The administrative authority may order all work in progress in and about any individual subsurface sewage disposal system, which is being erected or installed in violation of this chapter 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 provisions of this chapter. After issuance of any such stop order, and the service of a copy thereof upon any person, contractor or owner connected with the work or the premises in and about the erection or installation of such individual subsurface sewage disposal system, or any part thereof, no further work shall be done thereon except as aforesaid.
[BH Ord. #28 § 6]
The following fees and charges for licenses as required hereunder
for the purpose of raising revenue, for regulation, and control are
hereby fixed as follows:
a.
For the observation and witnessing of all soil logs, pit bailing
tests, basin flooding tests, and/or any other soil/site studies as
may be required by the administrative authority: $200 per proposed
realty improvement;
b.
For the filing of an application and plans for a permit to locate
and install individual sewage disposal system: $100;
c.
For the filing of an application and plans for a permit to alter
an individual sewage disposal system: $50;
d.
For the filing of an application to repair an individual sewage disposal
system: $50;
e.
License to operate individual subsurface sewage disposal system (three-year
license): $15.
[BH Ord. #28 § 7]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the
provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction, be punished by
a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in the County jail for
a period to exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment,
and each violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and
each day the same is violated shall be deemed and taken to be a separate
and distinct offense. The application of the above penalty shall not
be held to prevent any proceeding for suspension or revocation of
licenses or permits.
[1972 Code § 261.002]
The minimum distances for location of the various component
parts of the disposal system shall comply with the following table:[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Minimum Distances Table is included as an attachment to this chapter.
[1972 Code § 261.003]
When serving single family dwelling units they shall have the
capacities shown below. Expansion attics shall be considered as additional
bedrooms:
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Number of Bedrooms1
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Liquid Capacity of Tank
(gallons)
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|---|---|
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1, 2 or 3
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1,000
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4
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1,250
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NOTES:
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1
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Each additional bedroom, add 300 gallons.
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[1972 Code § 261.004]
New individual disposal systems shall not be placed in operation,
nor shall new dwellings or buildings or additions thereto be sold
or occupied, which must rely on such a system for sewage disposal,
until the administrative authority or its authorized agent shall have
issued a certificate indicating that the disposal system has been
located and constructed in compliance with the terms of the permit
issued and the requirements of this chapter. Issuance of such certificate
shall not be required for alteration to an individual sewage disposal
system existing on August 8, 1957.
[1972 Code § 261.009; BH Ord. #28; BH Ord. #31;
BH Ord. #35; amended 4-15-2011 by BH Ord. No. 01-2011]
The following fees and charges are established:
a.
For the issuance of a septic construction license to a person engaged
in the business of locating, constructing or altering any individual
sewage disposal system, an initial registration fee of $200 and the
posting of a thirty-thousand-dollar bond with the Board of Health.
b.
For the renewal of a septic construction license: $75 and the posting
of a thirty-thousand-dollar bond with the Board of Health.
[1972 Code § 261.010]
Requirements for vehicles used in the transportation of the
contents of septic tanks, cesspools and privy vaults are so specified
in the Plumbing Code of New Jersey.
a.
Each vehicle shall bear a tank permanently mounted to the chassis
thereof.
b.
The tank shall be watertight, tightly covered, and provided with
a vent, constructed in such a way as to permit the escape of gas,
but not the liquid or solid substances which may be removed during
the course of cleaning septic tanks, cesspools and privy vaults.
c.
There shall be painted on the vehicle the capacity of the tank stated
in gallons and, if the vehicle complies in all other respects, the
number of the permit issued for its operation.
d.
The pumps and suction or pressure hoses affixed to the vehicle shall
be maintained in such a condition as to prevent leakage of sewage
or waste material.
[1972 Code § 261.011]
No person shall begin to clean any septic tank, cesspool or
privy vault until he has placed in the tank of the vehicle used in
the operation one pound of H.T.H. or other chlorinated lime of equal
concentration for each 1,000 gallons of effluent, waste matter or
sewage removed therefrom.
[1972 Code § 261.012]
Each such vehicle used in the operation of cleaning septic tanks,
cesspools and privy vaults shall at all times be kept clean, and shall
at all times be tightly covered except at such times as the effluent,
sewage or waste matter is being removed from the septic tanks, cesspools
or privy vaults or is being deposited in a dump or place specially
set apart for such purposes. No solid or liquid substance shall at
any time be permitted to fall upon the ground or streets of the Borough.
[1972 Code § 261.013]
A percolation test shall be made under the supervision of a
professional licensed engineer, witnessed by an authorized representative
of the Ramsey Board of Health and a report submitted to the Board
of Health before any building permit is issued on any lot. The cost
shall be borne by the contractor, builder or owner.
