As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ENFORCING OFFICIAL
Includes the Health Officer or other official authorized by the Board
of Health to enforce this chapter.
PERSON
Includes an individual, firm, corporation, association, society or
partnership, and their agents or employees.
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 building:
A. Is not adequately and properly ventilated; or
B. Fails 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.
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 §
166-2 of this chapter from any person who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance to exist or from any owner, tenant or occupant of a premises who, after notice and notification as herein provided, shall fail to remove and abate the same within the time specified in such notice.
[Amended 6-1-1989 by Ord. No. 1-89]
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Board of Health
or its enforcing official between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, and by the West Amwell Township Police Department and/or Animal
Control Officer between the hours of 4:31 p.m. and 8:29 a.m., Monday through
Friday and on Saturdays and Sundays.
[Amended 5-3-1984 by Ord. No. 1-84]
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of
this chapter or code established herein or notice issued pursuant thereto
shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $2
nor more than $500 for each violation.