[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Maywood 10-18-73.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Unsafe buildings — See Ch. 140.
Heating of dwellings — See Ch. 198.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 247.
Rent control — See Ch. 261.
Tenancy protection — See Ch. 300.
Housing and sanitation standards — See Ch. 369.
Nuisances — See Ch. 386.
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Editor's Note: The provisions of this chapter are derived from Ch. XV of the former Revised Sanitary Code, 1973, adopted 10-18-73.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, lease or otherwise permit the occupancy of any building as a residence or for any person to reside in any building as its owner which:
A. 
Is not adequately and properly ventilated.
B. 
Fails to provide potable water at sufficient pressure and quantity for each family unit from a public supply approved by the State Health Department or a private supply approved by the Health Officer.
C. 
Fails to provide a supply of hot water.
D. 
Does not have plumbing fixtures consisting of a kitchen sink, bathtub or shower, lavatory and flush toilet connected to the potable water supply.
E. 
Does not have facilities for the discharge of all household liquid wastes into a public sewerage system approved by the State Health Department or into a private sewerage system approved by the Health Officer.
No owner, agent, lessor, lessee or other person in charge or control of any building shall permit such building or part thereof to be occupied or inhabited if the same is unfit for human occupation for one of such reasons or by reason of leaky roofs or walls, missing plaster on wall and ceiling coverings or plumbing in an unsafe and dilapidated condition or floors in warped and uneven condition. Notice of such decision shall be affixed conspicuously on the building or any part thereof and served personally or by mail upon the owner, agent, lessor or lessee, if the same can be found in the state, requiring all persons therein to vacate from such building or part thereof for such reason. Such building or part thereof shall, within 10 days thereafter, be vacated or, in case of special emergency, within such shorter order as in said notice may be specified. Every such notice shall be void if, within the time limit set by said notice for the premises to be vacated, the cause for the giving of such notice has been eliminated.
[Amended 3-10-2022 by BOH Ord. No. 2022-1]
The owner of any building or buildings occupied as a residence with three units or more shall provide heat from October 1 to May 1 of the following year necessary to maintain an inside temperature of 68° F., or above, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m., and 65° F., or above, between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
When the owner, agent or lessor of a building, dwelling unit or business establishment shall have agreed to supply refrigerated facilities, he shall and is hereby required to supply and maintain said refrigeration facilities at all times and in such manner as may be necessary for the proper and wholesome preservation of foodstuffs.
When the owner, agent or lessor of any building, dwelling unit or business establishment is required to or shall have agreed to supply hot water, sufficient water heated to at least 145° F. shall at all times be supplied.
No person shall let or occupy or suffer to be occupied separately as a dwelling any vault, cellar or underground room whatsoever unless every part thereof shall be at least seven feet in height, measured from the floor to the ceiling thereof, and unless the same is for at least three feet of its height, above the surface of the street or ground adjoining or nearest to the same and unless there is an open air space of not less than one foot below the level of the floor and unless the same have external window openings of at least nine square feet clear, at all points in elevation, of the sash frame, which shall be so constructed that it or they may be opened for the purpose of ventilation.
The keeping of any dwelling house or building or any part thereof in such state of uncleanliness or the crowding of persons in any building or room in such manner as to endanger the health of persons dwelling therein or so that there shall be less than 1,000 cubic feet of air space for each person occupying such building is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and any person or persons who shall cause such crowding shall be liable to the penalty prescribed for violations of this Part III.