[1987 Revision]
The following terms wherever used herein or
referred to in this code shall have the respective meanings assigned
to them unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
Solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases which
are discharged into the outdoor atmosphere.
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air
contaminants in such quantities and duration as are, or tend to be,
injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life or property,
or would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
Equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred
to a substance being heated so that the latter is contacted by the
products of combustion and may contribute to the total effluent.
The person or persons who are authorized by this chapter
to exercise the powers prescribed by this code.
Those chemicals used as insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides,
herbicides, nematocides or defoliants.
Solid, liquid or gaseous materials used to produce useful
heat by burning.
Waste animal or vegetable matter from houses, kitchens, restaurants,
hotels, produce markets or any other source or food of any kind to
be thrown away.
Any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying,
reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance, including
but not limited to refuse, rubbish, garbage, trade waste, debris or
scrap; or a facility for cremating human or animal remains.
Equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred
by conduction through a heat-conducting material to a substance being
heated, so that the latter is not contacted by and adds nothing to
the products of combustion.
Any maximum linear perpendicular distance from an inside
wall of a stack or chimney to the inside of an opposite wall, such
as the diameter of a circular cross section or the length or width
of a rectangular cross section.
Particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape and
which, upon collection, tend to coalesce and create uniform homogeneous
films upon the surface of the collecting media.
Any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial,
manufacturing or processing factors, methods or forms, including but
not limited to furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns,
crucibles, stills, dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors,
regenerators, separators, filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers,
screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters, towers, washers, scrubbers,
mills, condensers or absorbers.
Includes all vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular
power, except such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks.
The property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
The property of a substance which renders it partially or
wholly obstructive to the transmission of visible light expressed
as the percentage to which the light is obstructed.
Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into
the open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney
of an incinerator.
Any person who has care, custody or control of a building
or premises, or a portion thereof, whether with or without knowledge
of the owner thereof.
Air space outside of buildings, stacks or exterior ducts.
Any person who alone or jointly, or severally with others,
shall have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without
accompanying actual possession thereof; or shall have charge, care
or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of
the owner, or as fiduciary, including but not limited to executrix,
administrator, administratrix, trustee, receiver or guardian of the
estate; or as a mortgagee in possession regardless of how such possession
was obtained. Any person who is a lessee subletting or reassigning
any part or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed to
be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility
over the portion of the premises sublet or assigned by said lessee.
Any material, except uncombined water, which exists in finely
divided form as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies,
firms, partnerships and joint-stock companies, as well as individuals,
and shall also include all political subdivisions of this state or
any agency or instrumentalities thereof.
Vegetation, including but not limited to trees, tree branches,
leaves, yard trimmings, shrubbery, grass, weeds and crops.
Rubbish, garbage, trade waste and plant life.
Ringlemann's Scale for Grading the Density of Smoke,
as published by the United States Bureau of Mines, or any chart, recorder,
indicator or device which is approved by the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection as the equivalent of said Ringlemann's
Scale for the measurement of smoke density.
Waste solids not considered to be highly inflammable or explosive,
including but not limited to rags, old clothes, leather, rubber, carpets,
wood, excelsior, papers, ashes, furniture, tin cans, glass, crockery,
masonry and other similar materials.
Any operation or activity from which is salvaged or reclaimed
any product or material, including but not limited to metals, chemicals
or shipping containers.
Small gasborne or airborne particles, exclusive of water
vapor, arising from a process of combustion in sufficient number to
be observable.
Particles of rigid shape and definite volume.
Any manufacturing process or any identifiable part thereof
emitting an air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere through one
or more stacks or chimneys.
A flue, conduit or opening designed and constructed for the
purpose of emitting air contaminants into the outdoor air.
Seventy degrees Fahrenheit and one atmosphere pressure (14.7
psia or 760 mm Hg.).
All waste solid or liquid material or rubbish resulting from
construction, building operations or the prosecution of any business,
trade or industry, including but not limited to plastic products,
cartons, paint, grease, oil and other petroleum products, chemicals,
cinders and other forms of solid or liquid waste material.
Smoke which obscures light to a degree readily discernible
by visual observation.
