[Adopted 7-15-1987 as BH:1-3 and
BH:1-4 of the 1987 Code]
As used in this Code, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
The Board of Health of the Borough of Fort Lee.
The Borough of Fort Lee.
Any person, as the word "person" is herein defined, engaged
in the business of keeping, driving or slaughtering any cattle or
selling any meat.
Includes any house, place or establishment intended to be
used or occupied as the living quarters, temporarily, for or by five
or more persons for a period of three or more consecutive days.
Any person who harbors an infectious agent of disease, but
who, at the same time, may or may not have symptoms of the disease.
Includes cows, bulls, calves, horses, mules, asses, sheep,
goats and swine.
The lowest story of any building, dwelling or tenement house,
of which one-third or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling
is below ground level.
The thorough removal of contaminating material or materials
by washing with soap and hot water, scouring, airing and exposure
to sunlight.
Includes this Code and the Sanitary Code of the Borough of
Fort Lee, unless some other code is expressly indicated or referred
to.
The method whereby metal plates are cooled to a point which,
due to their peculiar construction, are able to retain this coolness
and to emanate cold air waves for certain periods of time.
Any infectious or contagious disease so declared or defined
by law or by this Code or which has been or may hereafter be declared
as "communicable disease" by this Board or by the State Department
of Health.
Any person who has been sufficiently near or exposed to any
infected person or animal to make probable the transmission of an
infectious or causative agent to such person.
Synonymous with "package" as herein defined.
Includes any room or place in which food of a decomposable
nature, such as meat and seafood, must be kept sufficiently cooled
or chilled to prevent spoiling, either by cooling the cutting and
preparation room and the equipment in which it is held prior to freezing.
Smoke which is so heavy and thick as to prevent the seeing
of objects through it at the point of emission into the external air
or the equivalent of No. 3 grade of the Ringelmann Smoke Scale, the
standard device used by the United States Bureau of Mines.
Natural soil, earth and stone.
The application of any disinfectant materials to infected
materials in sufficient concentration and for a sufficient length
of time to destroy pathogenic organism.
Any building, or portion thereof, which is occupied, or is
intended to be occupied, as a residence or sleeping place of one or
more individuals, families or households.
Includes every part of any marine animal.
Includes any article used for food or beverage for man or
other animals and every ingredient therein, and all confectionery,
condiments and beverages and articles used for components of any such
article.
Includes any bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house,
slaughterhouse, dairy, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel,
grocery, meat market, or other place used in the production, preparation,
transportation or handling of food intended for sale or distribution.
Meat from animals recently slaughtered and properly cooled
until delivered to the consumer. The term "animals" as used in this
section shall include not only mammals but fish, fowl, crustaceans,
mollusks and all other animals used as food.
Includes all meat trimmings, meat by-products and meat products
made from fresh meat, except such products as are sold in a smoked,
salted or cured condition.
Food and foodstuffs which have been frozen solid with or
without the addition of uncontaminated water.
Includes any place where food is cleaned, cut, prepared,
chilled, blanched, sharp-frozen and packaged for "frozen food."
Includes any type vehicle in which frozen food is transported,
or from which the same is sold or distributed.
The clean, sound edible fleshy, fructifications of plants,
distinguished by their sweet, acid or ethereal flavors.
The accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both,
liquid or otherwise, that tends to decay.
The duly appointed executive officer or duly appointed health
officer.
Includes that part of the main horizontal drain and its branches
inside and connecting with the house sewer, unless otherwise herein
limited or qualified.
Includes that part of the main drain or sewer extending from
a point five feet outside of the outer front wall of the building
to its connection with the public sewer or other approved means of
disposal.
Separation of a person affected, or suspected of being affected,
with a communicable disease, or a carrier of the infectious or causative
agent of a communicable disease from other persons, in such a manner
as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious
or causative agent to other persons.
A practicing plumber in the employ of a master plumber licensed
by the Board.
Includes any building, yard, enclosure, premises or lot of
ground used as a commercial establishment for the keeping, raising,
breeding or boarding of dogs or other animals.
A display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the
immediate container of any article and a requirement made by or under
authority of this Code that any word, statement or other information
appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless
such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside
container or wrapper, if any there be, of the package of such article,
or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. The
term "immediate container" does not include package liners.
All labels and other written, printed or graphic matter:
The condition of illumination upon which sight depends.
Includes every store, cellar, stand and place at or in which
the business of buying, selling or keeping for sale any meat, dairy
products, fowl, fish or vegetables, for human food, is conducted or
maintained.
Includes every person who constructs, repairs, alters or
extends any plumbing or drainage system or portion thereof, except
journeymen plumbers.
Includes any home, house or other place conducted or maintained
by any person (as the word "person" is herein defined) advertised
or held out by such person as a maternity or obstetrical home, hospital,
sanitarium or place where one or more women, during pregnancy, labor
or lying-in period, are attended, or intend to be attended, professionally
or otherwise during any pregnancy, labor or lying-in period.
Includes every part of any animal (whether mixed or not with
any other substance).
Those persons duly appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by
the Council of the Borough of Fort Lee to constitute the Board of
Health.
A calendar month; and "year" means a calendar year.
Any condition which is dangerous to human life or health
or that which renders air, water, soil or any type of food hazardous
or injurious to human life or health and as otherwise herein defined.
Whenever, in describing or referring to any person, party,
matter or thing, any word importing the singular number is used, the
same shall be understood to include and to apply to several persons
or parties, as well as to one person or party, or where a word of
masculine gender is used, it shall apply to females as well as males
and to bodies corporate as well as individuals.
A person licensed as such under the laws of the State of
New Jersey.
Includes any wrapper, case, basket, hamper, can, bottle,
jar, tube, cask, vessel, tub, firkin, keg, jug, barrel or other receptacles,
but the word "package" shall not include open containers which permit
a visual and physical inspection by a purchaser at retail, nor bags
and other receptacles which are filled in the presence of a purchaser
at retail.
A duly authorized permit or license of the Board, issued
in accordance with this Code or the regulations of the Board.
Any person, persons, associations, or partnerships, or any
one or more of them, or combinations of either of them.
Includes any person engaged in the business of plumbing.
The practice, business or art of installing in buildings
or other places the pipes, fixtures and other apparatus for bringing
in or using gas or water supply or removing liquid and water carried
waste.
The person duly appointed as plumbing inspector by the Board.
Includes gas or water supply distributing pipes, the fixture
traps, the soil, waste and vent pipes, the house drain and house sewer,
the stormwater drainage with their fixtures, devices, appurtenances
and connections all within or adjacent to such buildings.
Includes chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigeons,
and all other fowl commonly kept or raised and sold for human consumption.
[Amended 3-8-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-2]
Unless restricted or limited by the context to either real
or personal property, shall include both real and personal property.
Includes any public place, as well as any restaurant, lunch
room, cabin, tavern, bar room, hotel and any and every establishment
or place where food or beverage is sold or offered for sale to the
public for consumption on the premises and any camp, trailer camp,
tourist home or public recreation place or any other place of business
where toilet facilities or water for drinking or culinary purposes
are available for the use of the public.
The restriction of movement of any person who has been exposed
to a communicable disease, by confining such person to a restricted
area and the exclusion of other persons from that area.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments or all rights
thereto or any interest therein.
A thermometer sufficiently operating and equipped with a
recording device and a chart on which the degrees Fahrenheit are recorded
continuously.
A room which is cooled sufficiently to prevent spoilage of
food which is intended for sale or frozen food processing.
Includes every officer appointed by the Board to aid in the
enforcement of the sanitary laws of this state or to aid in the enforcement
of the rules, regulations and ordinances of the local Board of Health,
excepting health officers or other persons performing principally
clerical duties in the office of the Board.
The person duly appointed as Registrar of Vital Statistics
by the Board.
Includes any regulations, whether general or special, which
the Board may from time to time lawfully adopt and issue.
Includes any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order
cafe, luncheonette, tavern, sandwich stand, and every other place
in which food is sold for consumption on the premises.
Includes all coal or wood ashes, all loose material and dirt-like
substance that tend to decay and all waste material accumulated from
buildings or the cleaning of buildings.
Includes any room or compartment equipped with mechanical
refrigeration in which food is quickly frozen to make a frozen food
article.
Includes rabbits, minks, dogs, guinea pigs and any other
small animals kept or raised for commercial purposes or kept and raised
for sale or for the production of meat, fur or wool, or kept and raised
for exhibition or other purposes or as a source of supply for laboratories.
[Amended 3-8-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-2]
Includes any line of pipe designed to convey the discharge
from one or more water closets, with or without the wastes from other
plumbing fixtures to the house drain.
The New Jersey State Board of Health or any successor agency
thereto.
The Department of Health of the State of New Jersey.
Includes every public street, avenue, sidewalk, gutter, highway,
park or public place in the Borough of Fort Lee.
Any person, occupying any house, building or portion thereof,
which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied as a house,
residence or a business establishment.
Includes every house, building or portion thereof, which
is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied
as a house, home or residence by three or more families living independently
of one another and doing their cooking and sleeping upon the premises.
Includes every article of food, not meat, fish, milk or eggs,
that is held, offered or intended to be offered for sale for human
consumption.
Any special pipe provided to ventilate the system of piping
and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure when used in connection
with any plumbing system.
More than 45º from the nearest horizontal plane.
Any line of pipe designed to convey the discharge from plumbing
fixtures of any kind, except water closets.
In the construction of this Code or any amendments
hereof or any supplements hereto, words and phrases shall be read
and construed with their context and, unless inconsistent with the
manifest intent of the Board, as expressed herein, or unless another
or different meaning is expressly indicated, such words or phrases
shall be given the meaning expressed herein, or if no such meaning
be given, their generally accepted meaning, according to the approved
usage of the language, shall be applied. Technical, trade or commercial
words and phrases, and words and phrases having a special or accepted
meaning in the law, shall be construed in accordance with such technical,
trade, commercial or special and accepted meaning.
