The owners, lessees, tenants, occupants and managers of every shop,
manufactory, house or premises where any burning is done or wherein or upon
any engine or locomotive is used shall not cause, suffer or allow any cinders,
dust, gas or smoke to escape or to be discharged from such building or premises
to the detriment or annoyance of any person not being therein or thereon engaged.
No person or persons shall carry on any trade, manufacture or business
within the borough which may be obnoxious or offensive to the inhabitants
of said borough or parts thereof and which may be attended by noisome or offensive
odors.
Any person or persons who shall carelessly or willfully aid in or contribute
to the doing of any act dangerous to life or detrimental to the health of
any human being or who shall omit any precaution reasonable and proper to
prevent or remove danger or detriment to the life or health of any human being
shall be deemed to have violated the provisions hereof.
Besides the special evils and nuisances hereinbefore mentioned, the
Board of Health of the Borough of Maywood shall, under the general laws, as
to the care of all nuisances or matters prejudicial to health, have the power
to take such measures as, in its judgment, the interests of the public health
may require.
It shall be unlawful for any person to burn or cause to be burned any
thing, matter or substance which shall emit into the air or cause, produce
or cast off any impure, obnoxious, offensive, foul, hurtful or repulsive gas,
smoke or odor of any kind which may be hazardous to human health, and such
act or causing to act as herein described is hereby declared a nuisance.
A code regulating the emission of smoke from fuel-burning equipment,
internal combustion engines, open fires, stacks or chimneys and providing
for the inspection of fuel-burning equipment is hereby established pursuant
to the Public Health and Sanitation Codes Adoption by Reference Act (P.L.
1950, c. 188). A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without
the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
Said code established and adopted by this chapter is described and commonly
known as the "Smoke Control Code of New Jersey (1953)."
three copies of said Smoke Control Code of New Jersey (1953) have been
placed on file in the office of the Secretary of this Local Board of Health
upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain there for the use and
examination by the public so long as this chapter is in effect.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or code established
herein or any order made pursuant thereto or who shall refuse to comply with
any such order shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty as provided
herein.