[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Sandyston 3-5-1996 by Ord. No. 3-96. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There shall be a Board of Health in and for
the Township of Sandyston, consisting of five members.
Only citizens of the Township of Sandyston shall
be eligible to appoint members on the local Board; nothing contained
herein shall prohibit one or more members of the Township Committee
from being appointed to and serving on the local Board.
Members of the local Board shall be appointed
by the Township Committee.
The members of the local Board shall serve for
a term of three years. The term shall be so arranged that the terms
of not more than three members shall expire in any one year.
If any vacancy shall occur on the local Board,
it shall be filled by appointment of the Township Committee for the
unexpired portion of the term only.
The jurisdiction of the local Board shall be
coextensive with the limits of the Township.
The local Board shall appoint on its day of
reorganization a place, day and hour for the regular meeting of the
Board for the hearing of complaints, reports and general business
and shall cause to be published in a newspaper circulating in the
Township notice of the same. At least one regular meeting shall be
held in each year. Special meetings may be called at any time by the
President of the Board.
The local Board of Health shall have all the
powers conferred upon local Boards of Health by the statutes of the
State of New Jersey and by local ordinance and shall have the power
to employ and appoint to office such inspectors, sanitarians and other
personnel as may be required in the administration of its duties and
in the enforcement of state and local health ordinances and to pay
for their services and such other expenses which may be necessary
and proper, not to exceed, in all, the amount appropriated by the Township
for the use of the Board of Health.
Local Boards shall not appoint any person as
health officer, public health laboratory technician, sanitarian inspector,
food and drug inspector, milk inspector, meat inspector or plumbing
inspector nor employ any person to do work ordinarily performed by
a health officer, public health laboratory technician or inspector
who is not the holder of a proper license as such.
