[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Jefferson
(Ch. 79 of the 1967 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
A code defining and prohibiting certain matters, things, conditions
or acts and each of them as a nuisance, prohibiting certain noises or sounds,
requiring the proper heating of apartments, prohibiting lease or rental of
certain buildings, prohibiting spitting in or upon public buildings, conveyances
or sidewalks, authorizing the inspection of premises by an enforcing official,
providing for the removal or abatement of certain nuisances and recovery of
expenses incurred by the Division of Health in removing or abating such nuisances
and prescribing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant to
Chapter 188 of the Laws of 1950. A copy of said code is annexed hereto and
made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
The said code established and adopted by this chapter is described and
commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953)."
Three copies of the said Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953)
have been placed on file in the office of the Jefferson Township Department
of Health and Welfare upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain
on file there for the use and examination of the public.
[Amended 8-4-1982 by Ord. No. 13-82[1]]
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of
this chapter or code established herein or notice issued pursuant thereto
shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $100
nor more than $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or
both, for each violation. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on
each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
