Township of Colts Neck, NJ
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2020-05-13
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 151 Low-Phosphorus Fertilizer
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Architectural Review Committee
- Ch 3 (Reserved)
- Ch 12 Claims Approval
- Ch 17 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 20 (Reserved)
- Ch 24 Environmental Commission
- Ch 26 Farmland and Open Space Committee
- Ch 28 Fire Department
- Ch 29 Fire Prevention Bureau
- Ch 31 Health, Board of
- Ch 32 Historic Preservation Committee
- Ch 36 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 38 Local Emergency Planning Committee
- Ch 41 Miscellaneous Fees
- Ch 42 Municipal Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
- Ch 43 Municipal Court
- Ch 46 Officers and Employees
- Ch 48 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 51 Police Department
- Ch 57 Recreation Committee
- Ch 62 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 66 Township Committee
- Ch 68 Volunteer Incentives
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 70 Alarms
- Ch 73 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 76 Amusement Devices
- Ch 79 Animals
- Ch 87 Brush, Weeds, Plant Life, Trees, Fences and Walls at Intersections
- Ch 89 Business Hours of Operation
- Ch 91 Street Addresses, Numbering of
- Ch 93 Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 98 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 102 Development Regulations
- Ch 106 Donation Bins
- Ch 109 Drug-Free School Zones
- Ch 113 Dwellings, Unfit
- Ch 115 Energy Conservation
- Ch 120 Firearms
- Ch 124 Food Establishments
- Ch 127 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 132 Games of Chance
- Ch 137 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 139 (Reserved)
- Ch 142 Insurance
- Ch 145 Licenses, Mercantile
- Ch 148 Literature, Unsolicited
- Ch 149 Litter Control and Improper Disposal of Waste
- Ch 151 Low-Phosphorus Fertilizer
- § 151-1 Purpose.
- § 151-2 Definitions.
- § 151-3 Prohibited conduct.
- § 151-4 Exceptions to prohibition.
- § 151-5 Enforcement.
- § 151-6 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 153 Mechanical Gates; Gates Generally
- Ch 164 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 168 Peddlers, Canvassers and Solicitors
- Ch 171 Political Fund-Raising, Use of Public Property for
- Ch 172 Property Abandonment
- Ch 173 Property Maintenance
- Ch 177 Recreation Areas, Parks and Nature Preserves
- Ch 178 Residential Rental Property Regulations
- Ch 180 Right to Farm
- Ch 184 Sales, Special
- Ch 188 Sanitary Code
- Ch 190 Sex Offender Residency Restriction
- Ch 191 Smoking
- Ch 193 Soil Removal/Fill
- Ch 195 Solid Waste
- Ch 198 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 205 Taxation
- Ch 213 Towing
- Ch 217 Trapping
- Ch 222 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 225 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 230 Vending Machines
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 238 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 243 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 247 Garbage, Refuse and Waste Matter
- Ch 251 Migrant Labor Camps
- Ch 254 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 256 Public Recreational Bathing Facilities
- Ch 258 Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 263 Water Supplies, Individual and Semipublic
- Appendix
- Ch A270 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Colts
Neck 12-21-2005. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A chapter to prohibit the outdoor application of fertilizer other than
low-phosphorus fertilizer in the Township of Colts Neck, so as to protect
public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure
to comply.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words,
and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use
in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates a different meaning. When
not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include
the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number and
words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory.
Any substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients which
is used for its plant nutrient content, and which is designed for use or claimed
to have value in promoting plant growth; except that it shall not be considered
to include animal or vegetable manure or compost.
A fertilizer for which the guaranteed analysis, stated in whole numbers,
of available phosphoric acid is zero.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association
or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
It shall be unlawful to apply outdoors any fertilizer other than low-phosphorus
fertilizer.
A.
Any application of fertilizer at a commercial farm that
is exempted by the Right to Farm Act, N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1 et seq.
B.
Any application of fertilizer needed for establishing
new vegetation after land disturbance in accordance with the requirements
established under the Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act, N.J.S.A. 4:24-39
et seq., and implementing rules.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Police Department and/or Code
Enforcement Officer of The Township of Colts Neck.
[Amended 3-8-2006]
A violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in § 1-9 of this Code.
