The following provisions shall constitute the
Sanitary Code of the Town of Middletown and may be cited as such.
The Sanitary Code contemplates the general supervision of all matters
not otherwise provided for by law pertaining to the health protection
and promotion and sanitary conditions of the town and the abatement
of all nuisances prejudicial or suspected of being prejudicial to
the health of the citizens or any of them, and for the prevention
of the development and spread of communicable disease and the prevention
or amelioration of other diseases or conditions inimical or suspected
of being inimical to the public health.
The Board shall receive reports of such diseases
as are declared reportable by the State Board of Health, and the Board
through its rules and regulations shall maintain inspection and control,
quarantine and isolation, control of and right to remove from schools,
offer vaccination and immunization, cause the removal of persons with
communicable diseases or carriers of the causative agents of communicable
disease, provide for control of outbreaks of food poisoning and provide
for the control of the care and transportation of the dead following
certain communicable diseases.
[Amended 9-8-1998; 12-5-2016 by Ord. No. 16-11-01]
With the exception of water supply wells constructed as part
of the Town of Middletown's water utility or other municipal
activity, construction of potable and nonpotable water supply wells
in the Town of Middletown is strictly prohibited.
No person shall maintain any rendering or reduction
plant or any plant engaged in the manufacture of materials, or any
condition which creates obnoxious or offensive odors, fumes, gases
or smoke except in accordance with rules and regulations of the Board.
Motor vehicles no longer capable of self-mobility
which are stored, maintained or allowed to be maintained in the open
and outside of garages or other properly maintained storage spaces
for a period in excess of 30 days are a nuisance and detrimental to
public health and subject to all provisions of all ordinances relating
to nuisances.