[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.
[1]
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.
