This chapter and all ordinances supplementary hereto and amendatory
hereof may be cited as the "Sanitary Code."
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
The Advisory Health Board of the Township of Washington.
[Amended 9-17-2018 by Ord. No. 18-13]
Any house or establishment where children are boarded or
cared for, whether for one day or part thereof or a longer period,
by or under the supervision of persons not close relatives of such
children, for compensation or as a business.
Private housing or dwelling unit where the owner, tenant
or occupant thereof is engaged in keeping four or more boarders, not
related to him by blood or marriage, and in serving food to some or
all of such lodgers, for a part of a day or longer period under expressed
contract or rate of payment.
Any house, place or establishment intended to be used or
occupied temporarily as living quarters for or by five or more persons
for a period of three or more consecutive days.
Any person who harbors an infectious agent of disease, but
who may or may not have symptoms of the disease.
Includes the following animals and their respective young:
cows, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, reindeer, swine and other
hoofed animals.
The lowest story of any building, dwelling or tenement house,
of which 1/4 or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is
below ground level.
The thorough removal of contaminating material or materials.
This chapter as herein designated, unless some other code
is expressly indicated.
Any infectious, contagious or communicable disease so declared
or defined by law or by this chapter or which has been or may be hereafter
declared a communicable disease by the Board or by the State Department
of Health.
Any person who has been sufficiently near or exposed to any
infected person to make probable the transmission of an infectious
or causative agent to such person.
Synonymous with "package" as herein defined.
Smoke which is so heavy and thick as to prevent the seeing
of objects through it at the point of emission into the external air,
or the equivalent of No. 3 grade on the Ringelmann Smoke Scale, the
standard device used by the United States Bureau of Mines.
The application of any disinfectant materials to infected
materials in sufficient concentration and for a sufficient length
of time to destroy pathogenic organism.
Any building or portion thereof which is occupied or is intended
to be occupied as a residence or sleeping place of one or more individuals,
families or households.
Includes every part of any marine or water-dwelling animal.
Includes any article used for food or beverage for man or
other animals, and every ingredient therein, including (without limitation)
all confectionary, condiments, flavorings and other components of
any such article.
Includes any bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house,
slaughterhouse, dairy, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel,
grocery, supermarket, meat market, fish market, delicatessen or other
place or vehicle used in the production, preparation, transportation
or handling of food intended for sale or distribution.
[Amended 10-17-1983 by Ord. No. 83-13]
Includes any individual who employs, directs or supervises persons working in a food establishment and who is certified as provided in Article IV of this code.
[Added 10-17-1983 by Ord.
No. 83-13]
The accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both,
liquid or otherwise, that tends to decay.
Food which has neither been decomposed nor contaminated and
which is of superior quality.
The Office of Health of the Township of Washington.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. II)]
The Health Officer, executive officer or other officer duly
appointed or designated by the Board to enforce this code or supervise
work on behalf of the Board.
A private housing or dwelling unit open to the public where
the owner, tenant or occupant is engaged in keeping four or more guests
for a part of a day or longer under expressed contract or agreed rate
of payment.
Separation of a person affected or suspected of being affected
with a communicable disease, or a carrier of the infectious or causative
agent of a communicable disease, from other persons, in such a manner
as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious
or causative agent to other persons.
Includes any building, yard, enclosure, premises or lot of
ground used as a commercial establishment for the keeping, raising,
breeding or boarding of dogs or other animals.
A display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or affixed
to the immediate container, not including the liners, of any article.
All labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon
an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying such
article.
A private dwelling unit where the owner, tenant or occupant
is engaged in keeping four or more lodgers, not related to him by
blood or marriage, for a part of a day or longer period under expressed
contract or agreed rate of payment.
Includes every store, cellar, stand or place at or in which
the business of buying, selling or keeping for sale any meat, dairy
products, poultry, fish, vegetables or fruit for human food is conducted
or maintained.
Any home, house or other place conducted or maintained by
any person, advertised or held out by such person as a maternity or
obstetrical home, hospital, sanatorium or place where one or more
women, during pregnancy, labor or lying-in period, are attended or
intend to be attended, professionally or otherwise, during any pregnancy,
labor or lying-in period.
Includes every part of any animal, whether mixed or not with
any other substance.
One of the persons who shall constitute the Board of Health.
Any condition which is dangerous to human life or health
or that which renders air, water, soil or any type of food hazardous
or injurious to human life or health, and as otherwise herein defined.
A person licensed as such under the laws of the State of
New Jersey.
Includes any wrapper, case, basket, hamper, can, bottle,
jar, tube, cask, vessel, tub, firkin, keg, jug, barrel or other receptacle,
but shall not include open containers which permit a visual and physical
inspection by a purchaser at retail, nor bags and other receptacles
which are filled in the presence of a purchaser at retail.
A duly authorized permit or license of the Health Office,
issued in accordance with this code or the regulations of the Health
Office or the Township.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person, association, partnership, trust or corporation,
or any one or more of them, or combinations of any of them.
Includes chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigeons,
pheasants and all other fowl or winged animal kept, raised or sold
for human consumption or for production of eggs.
Unless restricted or limited by the context to either real
or personal property, includes both.
Any public place, as well as any restaurant and every other
establishment or place where food or beverages are sold or offered
for sale to the public for consumption on the premises, and any camp,
tourist home or public recreation place or any other place of business
where toilet facilities or water for drinking or culinary purposes
are available for the use of the public.
The restriction of movement of any person who has been exposed
to a communicable disease, by confining such person to a restricted
area and the exclusion of other persons from that area.
The person duly appointed as Registrar of Vital Statistics
by the Township.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Includes any regulations, whether general or special, which
the Health Office or the Township may from time to time lawfully adopt
and issue.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Includes any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order
cafe, lunchroom, lunch wagon, diner, soda fountain, snack bar, luncheonette,
tavern, bar, grill, cocktail lounge, hotel, club, boardinghouse, sandwich
stand, refreshment stand and every other place or establishment in
which food or beverage is sold for consumption on or near the premises
or at the time.
Includes all coal or wood, ashes, all loose material and
dirtlike substance and all waste material accumulated from buildings
or the cleaning of buildings.
Includes every officer appointed by the Township to aid in
the enforcement of the sanitary laws of this state or to aid in the
enforcement of the rules, regulations and ordinances of the Township,
excepting Health Officer, Secretary, Registrar or other persons performing
principally clerical duties in the office of the Health Office.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Includes rabbits, mink, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rodents
and any other small animal kept or raised for commercial purposes
or kept and raised for sale or for the production of meat, fur or
wool, or kept and raised for exhibition or other purposes or as a
source of supply for laboratories; provided, however, that the term
"small animals" shall not apply if they total in the aggregate less
than five in number.
The New Jersey Public Health Council or Department of Health
or any successor agency thereto.
Includes every public street, avenue, sidewalk, gutter, highway,
park or public place in the Township.
Any person occupying any house, building or portion thereof
which is rented or leased, let or hired out to be occupied as a house,
residence or a business establishment.
Includes every house, building or portion thereof which is
rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as
a house, home or residence by three or more families living independently
of one another and having facilities for doing their cooking and sleeping
upon the premises.
In the construction of this code or any amendments hereof or
any supplements hereto:
A.
Words and phrases shall be read and construed within their context
and, unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board, as
expressed herein.
B.
Unless another or different meaning is expressly indicated, such
words or phrases shall be given the meaning expressed herein, or if
no such meaning be given, their generally accepted meaning, according
to the approved usage of the language, shall be applied.
C.
Technical, trade or commercial words and phrases and words and phrases
having a special or accepted meaning in the law shall be construed
in accordance with such technical, trade, commercial or special and
accepted meaning.
D.
Unless otherwise indicated by the context, the definitions herein
contained shall apply to the terms used in the other definitions.
