A. 
Any thing, condition or act which is or may become a detriment or menace to human health and the following specific things, conditions and acts are, each and all of them, hereby declared to constitute public health nuisances and are prohibited:
(1) 
Any water or liquid in which mosquito larvae exist.
(2) 
Any accumulation of manure, or vegetable or animal matter in which fly larvae exist.
(3) 
Any well or other supply of water used for drinking or household purposes which is polluted or which is so situated or constructed that it may have become polluted.
(4) 
Permitting ragweed in a flowering state or poison ivy to exist or to grow upon any public or private property.
(5) 
Any imperfect, defective, leaking, unclean or filthy sink, water closet, urinal, sump pit, slop basin or other plumbing fixture in any building used or occupied by human beings.
(6) 
Depositing, maintaining or permitting to be maintained or to accumulate upon any public or private property any household wastewater, sewage, garbage, tin cans, offal or excrement, any decaying fruit, vegetable, fish, meat or bones; any oyster or clam shells; any foul or noxious odors, gases or vapors; or any foul, putrid or obnoxious liquid or substance.
(7) 
Permitting any garbage, offal, scraps, waste food or other putrescible material to be held in a container which is nut watertight, or which is uncovered in any store, factory or outside any building or on any public or private property or in any building of multiple occupancy except in the individual apartment.
(8) 
Any person killing or slaughtering in the Borough any cattle, calf, sheep, lamb or swine or maintaining any establishment or place for the purpose of killing or dressing poultry or any establishment where such practices are carried on.
(9) 
Any person spitting upon any public sidewalk or crossing, or upon the floor of any public building, bus or other public conveyance.
(10) 
Any stable that is not provided with watertight floors properly graded, trapped and drained to a sewer, or septic tank if no sewer is available.
(11) 
Emission from any premises of any smoke, gases, soot, stench or other substance sufficient in quantity or strength that may cause injury or damage to health, and shall mean and include small gasborne and airborne particles in sufficient number to be observable, arising front a process of combustion.
(12) 
The keeping of horses, donkeys, cows, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats or other animals under unsanitary conditions. The keeping of swine, except by a permit from this Board.
(13) 
The sale or distribution of medicines, remedies, medical literature, cosmetics, or remedial, curative or prophylactic devices upon the streets or from house to house without permission of the Board.
(14) 
The carrying on of any trade or business in such a manner as to be obnoxious or offensive or which may be attended with noisome or unhealthful odors or which may be attended by such conditions or noises as may be detrimental to health.
(15) 
Maintaining or permitting to be maintained any bus, automobile or other vehicle used for transportation of the public in an unsanitary condition.
(16) 
The keeping of food or drink intended for human consumption, which is sold or dispensed to the public in such manner as to allow flies, dust, dirt or other foreign or injurious contamination to come in contact with it.
(17) 
Every person, whether he be owner, lessor or agent of a building to be used for offices or business purposes, who shall have agreed to supply heat to the tenant shall provide heat from the first day of October in each year to the 15th day of May of the succeeding year so that the temperature of said office or place of business shall always be kept at 68º F. or above between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.; provided, however, that this subsection shall not apply to buildings or portions thereof used and occupied for trades, business or occupations where high or low temperatures are essential or unavoidable.
(18) 
Maintaining or permitting to be maintained any open trench, hole, excavation or diggings in such a manner as to represent a hazard or a potential source of an accident or affect the public health adversely in any manner.
[Added 1-8-1973 by Ord. No. 106 BH]
(19) 
The owners and tenants of lands in the Borough of Middlesex, whether vacant or occupied, are required to remove from such lands brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth, garbage, trash, scraps, rubbish, debris and stagnant waters where it shall be necessary for the public health, safety and general welfare. Any condition which offers potential for rodent feeding, harborage or attraction shall require positive action by the owners or tenants.
[Added 8-1-1977 by Ord. No. 113 BH]
(20) 
For groups of stores and commercial or business establishments, which are commonly owned by one or more owners, the owner shall be responsible for the general maintenance of the exterior areas of all hazards cited in Subsection A(19). In addition, the tenants shall be responsible for cleaning the areas around the front and rear of their establishments. This section is added not to relieve the owner of his responsibility, but in recognition of the fact that trash, rubbish and garbage will attract rodents and cause other safety and health hazards which could subsequently affect said establishments.
[Added 8-1-1977 by Ord. No. 113 BH]
B. 
Additional standards.
[Added 12-4-1995 by Ord. No. 127 BH]
(1) 
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 Board of Health in removing or abating such nuisances and prescribing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant to Chapter 188, Laws of 1950.[1] A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 et seq.
(2) 
Said code established and adopted by this subsection is described and commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953)."
(3) 
Three copies of said Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) have been placed on file in the office of this local Board of Health upon the introduction of this subsection and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public.
A. 
No person shall use or permit the use of hydrocyanic acid gas or any product of cyanogen or any other substance poisonous to animal life or human beings for fumigating or disinfecting any structure or premises in the Borough of Middlesex without first having obtained a permit to do so from the Board of Health, which permit shall be exercised only in the presence of an authorized representative of the Board of Health at the time and place said gas or other product is released.
B. 
In order to protect the public from bodily injury, no license shall be issued until and unless the applicant shall obtain a liability insurance policy in an acceptable company in the sum of $100,000 for each occurrence and furnish a certificate of said insurance policy, which policy shall contain a provision that it shall not be cancelable without 10 days' notice to the Board of Health. Upon the cancellation of said policy, unless it is replaced, the license shall be considered canceled and null and void.
Any person who shall be guilty of creating, permitting or maintaining any nuisance as set forth in §§ 446-14, 446-15 and 446-16 and any person who aids or abets therein shall be punished by a fine of not less than $2 and not more than $100 upon conviction thereof in the Municipal Court of Middlesex. Each day or part thereof during which such violation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.