[Amended 1-2-1979 by Ord. No. 49-12-78]
A. The Township of Evesham, having adopted a Faulkner
Act form of government in which the Township Manager is the chief
administrative officer of the municipality and the Township Council
is the legislative body and it being provided that every municipality
must establish a local Board of Health or some other board, body or
officer who may exercise the same functions pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:3-1,
there is hereby established a Department of Health, the head of which
shall be the Director of Health, who shall be the Township Manager
serving without additional compensation, unless and until he shall
delegate his authority by regulation duly enacted to another person
or persons who shall be so qualified to act.
B. The Director of Health shall carry out all the administrative
functions of said Department, which shall include but not be limited
to the issuance of food handlers' licenses, conceptual approval of
septic systems' applications and all other duties of a local Board
of Health as are set forth more specifically in N.J.S.A. 26:3-1 et
seq. and in regulations promulgated by the State Commissioner of Health.
C. Nothing hereinbefore or hereinafter stated shall in
any way supersede or revoke the power of the Township Council as the
sole municipal authority to pass, alter or amend ordinances in regard
to the public health of the Township.
D. The Director of Health shall have the power to make
such necessary rules and regulations to implement any ordinances affecting
the public health which the Township Council shall have passed, altered
or amended, provided that, before such regulations shall take effect,
they must first be published once in the official Township newspaper,
posted in a place conspicuous to the residents of the Township and
remain on file at all times in the office of the Township Clerk. Copies
shall be made available to those persons who shall request same from
the Clerk.
E. The Director of Health may recommend and request that
the Township Council pass, alter or amend ordinances in regard to
the public health and enter into agreements with the Burlington County
Board of Chosen Freeholders or any other county or state agency for
the purpose of furnishing health services to the Township as he may
deem necessary and expedient.
[Amended 12-7-1993 by Ord. No. 63-12-93]
There shall be a Township Physician of the Township
of Evesham, to be appointed by the Township Manager, who shall be
a person duly licensed by the State Board of Medical Examiners of
New Jersey to practice medicine and surgery within the state and who
shall perform all medical services required to be performed by or
on behalf of the Township, including the Police Department hereof.
The salary of the Township Physician shall be based upon a retainer
or such reasonable compensation payable on the basis of services actually
performed.
There shall be a Registrar of Vital Statistics
within the Department of Health, who shall be appointed by the Manager.
Said Registrar of Vital Statistics shall have charge of the administrative
duties involved in obtaining reports of and recording births, marriages
and deaths in the municipality, together with such related work as
may be required in accordance with general law and ordinances of the
municipality.
[Added 8-4-1998 by Ord. No. 30-8-98]
There shall be a Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics
and no more than two Alternate Registrars of Vital Statistics who
shall be appointed by the Township Manager. Said Deputy and Alternate(s)
shall have all the powers and shall perform all the duties of the
Registrar of Vital Statistics during such times and for such periods
as the Registrar of Vital Statistics shall be absent or otherwise
unavailable.