The provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be supplemental to the provisions of the statute with respect to health and vital statistics, N.J.S.A. 26:3-1 to 26:10-18, and the State Sanitary Code, as established, enacted and revised by the Public Health Council of the State of New Jersey, including any changes or additions which may have been or which may be enacted hereafter.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section. Other definitions incorporated herein are found in N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.3.
BARBERSHOP
Includes any place wherein the business of shaving, trimming, cutting, shampooing, dressing or the removal of human hair is conducted for fee, charge or hire.
BEAUTY SHOP
Includes any place wherein the business of beautifying the human hair, face, scalp, hands or skin is conducted for fee, charge or hire; and in addition shall mean any place wherein the business of cleansing, stimulating, exercising or similar work upon the scalp, face, arms, hands, neck or body with the hands or by the use of mechanical or electrical appliances, with or without cosmetic preparations, is conducted for fee, charge or hire.
BOARDING HOME FOR CHILDREN
Any dwelling or building where one or more children under the age of 18 years are housed without the presence of their parents or legal guardians.
BOARD OF HEALTH, THE BOARD, THIS BOARD and SUCH BOARD
The Board of Health of the Borough of New Providence.
BODY BRANDING
Placing a mark or design on the skin with a hot iron.
BODY PIERCING
Piercing the skin for the express intention of insertion of any object, including but not limited to jewelry; provided, however, that the piercing of the lobes of the ears shall be specifically excluded from the purview of this chapter.
BOROUGH
The Borough of New Providence.
CARRIER
Any person who is a bearer or transmitter of communicable disease germs without manifest symptoms and is himself or herself immune to the disease.
CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION
Written approval from the County Health Officer or authorized representative that any establishment has been inspected and meets all terms of this chapter.
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
The certificate held by an operator upon registration with the New Providence Board of Health by meeting the required provisions of this chapter.
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION (AS PERTAINS TO CHILD-CARE FACILITIES)
A document issued by a sponsoring organization to a family day-care provider, acknowledging that the provider is in compliance with all applicable provisions of this chapter.
CHILD
Any person under 14 years of age.
CHILD-CARE FACILITIES
Includes, without limitation, family day-care centers, schools, family day-care homes.
CITY
The Borough of New Providence.
COIN-OPERATED DRY CLEANING
The cleaning of textiles, fabrics, garments or other articles by the use of any solvent other than water in a dry-cleaning unit designed to be used or used by the general public. For the purpose of this definition, the term "used by the general public" shall be deemed to refer to the insertion of such textiles, fabrics, garments or other articles into a dry-cleaning unit or the removal of the same from such unit by a person or persons other than an employee of the dry-cleaning establishment or a person owning or operating such establishment or equipment.
COMBUSTIBLE WASTE
Yard trimmings, rags, waste wood or cardboard and other combustible waste solids of a nonvolatile or explosive nature.
COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR
Any individual, company or partnership in the business of providing pesticide application services.
CONSTRUCTION
Any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, alteration or similar action, including demolition of buildings or structures.
COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
An agreement between a provider and a parent to exchange child-care services in lieu of a fee for child-care services.
COSMETIC
The term cosmetic shall have the meaning ascribed to it by N.J.S.A. 24:1-1.
dBA
The measured sound level expressed in dB when using the A-weighted network of a sound level meter.
DECIBEL
A unit for measuring the volume of a sound equal to the logarithum of the ratio of the sound pressure of the sound to the pressure of a standard sound (.0002 microbar), abbreviated "dB."
DEMOLITION
Any dismantling, destruction or removal of buildings, structures or roadways.
DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
A refusal by the sponsoring organization to issue an initial certificate of registration.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
DISCHARGE
Any intentional or unintentional action or omission resulting in the releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of hazardous substances into the ground or surface waters of the Borough of New Providence or onto lands from which it might flow or drain into said waters, excepting discharges pursuant to and in compliance with the conditions of a valid federal or state permit.
DISEASE, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE and COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Those diseases specified in the list enumerated in the Sanitary Code of the state or by declaration of this Board.
EMERGENCY WORK
Any work or action necessary to deliver essential public services, including, but not limited to, repairing water, gas, electricity, telephone, sewer facilities or public transportation facilities, removing fallen trees on public rights-of-way, dredging navigational waterways, or abating life-threatening conditions.
EMPLOYEE
Any person who handles any cosmetics or device or article used for cosmetic purposes.
ENFORCING OFFICIAL
Any member of the Board of Health, the Health Officer, Registered Environmental Specialist, police officer and any other official authorized by the Board of Health to enforce this chapter.
ESTABLISHMENT
A place of business, including its employees and possessions.
EVALUATE
The review of a family day-care provider by a sponsoring organization upon receipt of an application for a certificate of registration to determine the applicant's compliance with the requirements of the child-care facilities article.
EXOTIC ANIMAL
Any nongame species that is not indigenous to New Jersey.
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOME
A private residence where child-care services are provided for a fee of no fewer than three and no more than five children for no fewer than 15 hours per week, except that the Division of Youth and Family Services (N.J.A.C. 10:126) shall not exclude a family day-care home with fewer than three children from voluntary registration.
FAMILY DAY-CARE APPLICANT
A person at least 18 years of age who has applied for a certificate of registration.
FAMILY DAY-CARE PROVIDER
A person who has received an initial, renewal or temporary certificate of registration issued by a sponsoring organization.
FAMILY DAY-CARE SPONSORING ORGANIZATION
An agency or organization that contracts with the Division to assist in the voluntary registration of family day-care providers and that complies with all applicable requirements of the Manual of Requirements for Family Day-Care Registration (N.J.A.C. 10:126).
FDA
Federal Food and Drug Administration.
FISHERY PRODUCTS
Fin fish, bivalve (e.g., scallops), gastropod (e.g., abalone) and cephalopod (e.g. octopus, squid), mollusks and crustaceans (e.g., lobsters, crabs) from both fresh and salt water.
FOOD
Every article used as food or drink for human consumption and every ingredient of such article and shall include milk and ice cream, preparations of milk and cream, confectionery and condiments.
FOOD, BEVERAGE or DRUG DISPENSARY
A place, structure, vehicle or device, including a vending machine, used or intended for use in the packing, preparation, storing, transportation, selling, serving, processing or handling of food, beverages or pharmaceuticals for public sale, distribution or use.
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT and RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Any bakery, bar or cocktail lounge, cannery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, delicatessen, grocery, hotel, lunchroom or luncheonette, meat market, restaurant, soda fountain, vending machine or other place used in the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, transportation, selling, serving, processing or handling of food for human consumption, intended for sale or distribution or use.
FOOD HANDLER
Any person working in a retail food establishment who transports food or food containers, who engages in food preparation or service or who comes in contact with any food, utensils or equipment.
FREQUENCY
The number of oscillations per record of a sound; expressed in hertz (abbreviated "Hz").
FUEL-BURNING EQUIPMENT
Any furnace, incinerator, refuse-burning equipment, boiler, apparatus, device, mechanism, stack or structure used in the process of burning fuel, refuse or any other combustible material.
GARBAGE
Every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation and serving of food and the decay and spoilage that attends the dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
Such elements and compounds, including, but not limited to, petroleum products which are defined as such by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, which shall include the list of hazardous substances adopted by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and the list of toxic pollutants designated by Congress or the EPA pursuant to Section 307 of said Act.
HEALTH OFFICER
A holder of a license as Health Officer issued by the State Department of Health and whom the local Board of Health employs.
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
A person who is directly involved in the provision of health care services, such as the clinical diagnosis and prescribing of medications. This includes, without limitation, medical doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
IMPULSIVE SOUND
Either a single pressure peak or a single burst (multiple pressure peaks) that has a duration of less than one second.
INDIVIDUAL HOME OWNER
The owner of a home or family member. In the case of an apartment or other rental property, the individual residing there is not the homeowner.
INFORMED CONSENT
A written document, signed by the proposed patron that explains in significant detail all the known hazards, diseases and/or medical conditions that may be experienced by using certain equipment.
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
An apparatus in which the combustion of liquid or solid fuel takes place.
ISOLATION
The placing apart of persons or animals affected with or exposed to, or suspected of being affected with or exposed to a communicable disease for the purpose of preventing contact with other persons and animals, and the establishment of restrictions directly surrounding such persons or animals.
LAUNDERETTE
A place of business conducted for the purpose of laundering items brought to said establishment by individuals and wherein there is located one or more washing machines owned by the establishment and which are used by the individuals bringing the laundry to said place of business.
LICENSE AND PERMIT
The permission in writing of this Board issued according to its usual practices with respect to particular activities as required by this Board or by any law.
MANUAL OF REQUIREMENTS
The requirements contained in the child-care facilities chapter as referred to in N.J.A.C. 10:126.
MINOR
Any person under the age of 18 years.
MONITOR
To visit a registered family day-care provider to review the provider's compliance with the applicable requirements of the Manual of Requirements.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any vehicle that is propelled other than by human or animal power on land.
MUFFLER
A properly functioning sound-dissipative device or system for abating the sound of escaping gases on equipment where such a device is part of the normal configuration or the equipment.
MUNICIPALITY
The Borough of New Providence.
MULTIDWELLING UNIT BUILDING
Any building comprising two or more dwelling units, including but not limited to, apartments, condominiums, co-ops, multiple-family houses, townhouses and attached residences.
MULTI-USE PROPERTY
Any distinct parcel of land that is used for more than one category of activity. Examples include, but are not limited to:
A. 
A commercial, residential, industrial or public service property having boilers, incinerators, elevators, automatic garage doors, air conditioners, laundry rooms, utility provisions or health and recreational facilities, or other similar devices or areas, either in the interior or on the exterior of the building, which may be a source of elevated sound levels at another category on the same distinct parcel of land; or
B. 
A building which both commercial (usually on the ground floor) and residential property located above, behind, below or adjacent.
N.J.A.C.
New Jersey Administrative Code.
N.J.S.A.
New Jersey Statutes Annotated.
NOISE CONTROL OFFICER
An employee of a local, county or regional health agency who is certified pursuant to the County Environmental Health Act (N.J.S.A. 26:32-21 et seq.) to perform noise enforcement activities, or a municipality with a Department-approved noise control ordinance and the employee has received noise enforcement training and is currently certified in noise enforcement. The employee must be acting within his or her designated jurisdiction and must be authorized to issue a summons in order to be considered a noise control officer.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE WASTE
All solid waste material that does not burn.
NOXIOUS WEEDS
Any type of growth, such as poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, stinging nettles and rag weed, that are injurious to the health of the inhabitants of this municipality.
NURSERY SCHOOL and DAY SCHOOL
Any house or other place where one or more children under the age of six years are received, cared for or kept, unattended by either of their parents or legal guardians, for the purpose of providing such child or children with food or lodging or instruction or supervision for periods less than one day. This shall not include care by any person of a child related by blood or marriage or care of a child by any institution maintained by the state or by any municipality or by any incorporated charitable society or a nursery school maintained by a religious organization and carried on in its buildings used for religious and related purposes.
OPEN FIRE
Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into the open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney.
OPERATOR
Any individual, firm, company, corporation or association that owns or operates an establishment where hair styling, manicuring, tattooing, body piercing and/or body branding and body tanning is performed and any individual who performs or practices the above on the person of another.
OUTPATIENT-BASED SETTING
A setting in which preventive, diagnostic and treatment services are provided to people who come to the facility and depart the same day. The term includes but is not limited to physician's offices, health maintenance organizations, clinics, public health centers, diagnostic centers and treatment centers.
PARENT
A natural, foster or adoptive parent, guardian or any person with responsibility for, or custody of, a child.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, corporation, companies, association or other legal entity and his agent, societies, firms, joint-stock companies and political subdivisions, servant or employee.
PESTICIDE
Any and all of the chemical substances licensed by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. The term includes but is not limited to all insecticides, rodenticides and herbicides.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE
Any sound that can be detected by a person using his or her unaided hearing faculties. As an example, if the sound source under investigation is a portable or personal vehicular sound amplification or reproduction device, the detection of the rhythmic bass component of the music is sufficient to verify plainly audible sound. The noise control officer need not determine the title, specific words or the artist performing the song.
PRIVATE RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley or easement that is owned, leased or controlled by a nongovernment entity.
PROVIDER ASSISTANT
A person at least 14 years of age who has been designated by the provider and approved by the sponsoring organization to assist the provider in caring for children in the home.
PUBLIC NUISANCE
A. 
Any matter, thing, condition or act which is or may become detrimental to or a menace to the health of the inhabitants of the borough.
B. 
Any matter, thing, condition or act which is or may become an annoyance to or may interfere with the comfort or general well-being of any of the inhabitants of the borough.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley or easement that is owned, leased or controlled by a governmental entity.
PUBLIC SPACE
Any real property or structures thereon that are owned, leased or controlled by a governmental entity.
QUARANTINE
The confining of persons, animals or materials within a designated area and the exclusion of other persons, animals, insects or materials from such area.
REAL PROPERTY LINE
Either the imaginary line including its vertical extension that separates one parcel of real property from another; the vertical and horizontal boundaries of a dwelling unit that is part of a multidwelling unit building; or on a multi-use property, the interface between the two portions of the property on which different categories of activity are being performed (e.g., if the multi-use property is a building which is residential upstairs and commercial downstairs, then the real property line would be the interface between the residential area and the commercial area).
REFUSE
Garbage, combustible and/or noncombustible waste solids.
REFUSAL TO RENEW A CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
The nonissuance of a certificate of registration by the sponsoring organization after the expiration of the existing certificate of registration.
REGIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH
The Regional Health Department.
REGISTERED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST
Local, technical public health worker in the enforcement of sanitation laws and regulations related to the production, handling and serving of food products and to environmental sanitation.
REGULATION
A declaration or statement issued by the Board to interpret, modify or amplify the provisions of this chapter and all amendments thereto for more effective administration incident to the work of the Board or for proper coordination with the State Sanitary Code and its regulations.
RESTAURANT
An eating and/or drinking establishment catering primarily to customers seated indoors at tables.
RETAIL COSMETIC ESTABLISHMENT
Any place, premises, building, part of building, cellar, basement, apartment, room occupied or used therein for providing services to the public for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering appearance. These shall include, but not be limited to barbershops, hair salons, nail salons, electrolysis, beauty parlors and beauty salons.
REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
A permanent removal of a provider's current certificate of registration for failure to comply with the applicable requirements of the Manual of Requirements.
RUBBISH AND REFUSE MATTER
The residue of any material used as fuel for heating or cooking purposes after combustion has taken place, broken or discarded crockery, glassware, rags, household utensils, house sweepings, bottles, tin cans, lawn and garden clippings, weeds and discarded shrubbery, but not building material or fixtures, earth or stones.
SALE
Every delivery, whether the same is by direct sale or the solicitation or acceptance of an order, and including exchange, barter, traffic in, keeping and exposing for sale, serving with meals, delivering for value, peddling, possessing with intent to sell and gratuitous delivery or gift by any person.
SMOKE
Small gasborne and airborne particles in sufficient number to be observable arising from a process of combustion.
SOLVENT
A cleaning fluid classified as nonflammable or as nonflammable at ordinary temperatures which shall not be more toxic than perchloroethylene, as determined from the threshold limit values adopted by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists at its conference meeting held April 9, 1961, and as revised annually thereafter.
STACK or CHIMNEY
A flue, conduit or opening permitting particulate or gaseous emissions into the open air or constructed or arranged for such purpose.
STATE SANITARY CODE
New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C. Title 8).
STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead human fetus which has passed the twentieth week of gestation.
SUSPENSION OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
A temporary removal of a provider's current certificate of registration that can be reinstated by the sponsoring organization upon the provider's compliance with the applicable requirements of the Manual of Requirements.
TANNING EQUIPMENT
Any electrical or mechanical device used to artificially induce tanning of human skin.
TOBACCO or TOBACCO PRODUCTS
Includes cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff or any other form of tobacco product.
TATTOO, TATTOOED or TATTOOING
Any method of placing designs, letters, scrolls, figures, symbols or any marks under the skin with ink dye or any other substance resulting in the coloration of the skin by the aid of needles or any other instruments designed to puncture the skin.
WATER POLLUTION
The presence in or upon the surface of groundwaters of the Borough of New Providence of one or more contaminants, including any solid or liquid waste of any composition whatsoever, in such quantities and duration as are, or tend to be, injurious to the human health or welfare, animal or plant life or property, or would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property within any portion of the Borough of New Providence.
WEEKDAY
Any day that is not a federal holiday, and beginning on Monday at 7:00 a.m. and ending on the following Friday at 6:00 p.m.
WEEKEND
Begins Friday at 6:00 p.m. and ends on the following Monday at 7:00 a.m.
WHOLESOMENESS
In sound condition, clean, free from adulteration and otherwise suitable for use as human food.
YOUTH CAMP
See Article XV of this chapter.
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Editor's Note: See also §§ 333-29 and 333-90.
A. 
All places, premises, public or private buildings or vehicles shall be subject to inspection by the Inspector for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter or of the State Sanitary Code, to determine or has reason to believe these codes may be violated or not complied.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder, obstruct, delay, resist or prevent the Board of Health or any enforcing official or member of the Board from having full access to any place or premises in which an inspection is being made.
The Health Officer and authorized agents shall be empowered to seek remedies to violations of this chapter by utilization of the following methods:
A. 
Issuance of violation order.
B. 
Issuance of orders to abate.
C. 
Issuance of orders to cease and desist.
D. 
Seek injunctive relief in courts of competent jurisdiction.
E. 
Under appropriate methods and conditions, implement a lien on real property.
F. 
Utilize various civil sanctions as authorized.
G. 
Pursuit of various warrants from courts of competent jurisdiction.
H. 
Under conditions where an immediate threat to the public health and the imminent danger to the public is greater than waiting for more normal procedures summary abatement is authorized.
I. 
Conduct administrative hearings.
A. 
All permits required by this chapter shall expire on December 31 of each year.
B. 
Renewal permits will be issued upon application and compliance with requirements of this chapter and regulations of the Board. No permit may be transferred.
C. 
All permits granted under this article shall automatically expire upon removal of the business to a different address than that specified in the permit, or upon a change of ownership or upon cessation of active operations.