This chapter is enacted to reestablish and reconstitute a local Board
of Health, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:3-1 et seq., to provide for the organization,
rules, regulations and passage of health ordinances as a limited police power,
together with the implementation of the Local Health Services Act, P.L. 1975,
c. 329 (N.J.S.A. 26:3A2-1 et seq.).
Said local Board of Health may adopt rules, regulations and ordinances
for its procedures and the power to enforce the same as well as the state
and County regulations and statutes through the enforcing arm of the local
Board of Health as hereinafter established.
The local Board of Health shall be composed of not less than five members,
which said membership shall consist of, for convenience in designating the
manner of appointment, the two following classes:
A. Class I: the three members of the Township Committee.
B. Class II: two members made up of citizens and residents
of the municipality to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Township
Committee. Said Class II members can be officers, whether elected or appointed,
and employees of the Township.
If any vacancy shall occur on the local Board prior to completion of
any member's term and for any reason whatsoever, said vacancy shall be
filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made for the
unexpired portion of that term only. If a vacancy occurs in a Class I membership,
the same shall be filled in accordance with laws pertaining to a vacancy on
the governing body.
The members of the local Board of Health shall receive no compensation
for their services as members of said Board.
Special meetings may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board
or any other two members or by the County and State Department of Health on
due notice pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Board of Health and
after proper notice in compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act.
All rules, regulations and ordinances heretofore adopted or to be adopted
and all County and state health regulations and statutes, and the providing
of a program of public health services meeting the Standards of Performance
pursuant to Section 13 of the Local Health Services Act, P.L. 1975, c. 329
(N.J.S.A. 26:3A2-1 et seq.), shall be implemented and enforced through the
Warren County Health Department, as agent of the local Board of Health, in
compliance with the Local Health Services Act, P.L. 1975, c. 329 (N.J.S.A.
26:3A2-1 et seq.), as provided by an ordinance heretofore adopted, pursuant to the Interlocal Services Act (N.J.S.A. 40:8A-1 et seq.).
The Warren County Board of Health shall continue in said capacity until the
within section is amended, in accordance with law pursuant to lawful withdrawal,
in accordance with law pursuant to P.L. 1975, c. 329, Section 12 (N.J.S.A.
26:3A2-12), provided that local officials are to provide health services and
to enforce said rules, regulations, ordinances and state statutes, pursuant
to lawful withdrawal.