[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Carteret
6-9-1978 as Art. XXV of the 1978 Revised Ordinances. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Housing standards (Borough Council) — See Ch. 149.
A code affecting the construction, reconstruction or repair of buildings,
ordinances for fire prevention and ordinances establishing fire prevention
codes and health ordinances establishing, amending or supplementing rules
and regulations affecting the installation, maintenance, repair and control
of the plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings and the connection
thereof with an outside sewer, cesspool or other receptacle, regulating the
practice of plumbing or dealing with the issuance of licenses to practice
plumbing is hereby established pursuant to the provisions of P.L. 1946, c.
21 (N.J.S.A. 40:49-5.1), the New Jersey State Housing Code, as approved by
the Departments of Health and Conservation and Economic Development and filed
in the Secretary of State's office. A copy of the New Jersey State Housing
Code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the
text herein.
The code adopted and established by this chapter is commonly known as
the "New Jersey State Housing Code."
Three (3) copies of said New Jersey State Housing Code have been placed
on file in the office of the Secretary of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Carteret, Middlesex County, New Jersey, upon the introduction of this chapter
and will remain on file at said place until final action is taken on this
chapter for use and examination by the general public during normal business
hours.
Any person who violates any provision of or order promulgated under
this chapter or the code established herein shall, upon conviction thereof,
be liable to a penalty of not less than five dollars ($5.) nor more than five
hundred dollars ($500.) for each violation. Each day a particular violation
continues shall constitute a separate offense.
