[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health
of the Borough of North Arlington 11-13-1975 by Ord. No. 2-75 (Ch.
217 of the 1984 Code), as amended 5-14-1980 by Ord. No. 2-75-80; amended 2-9-2006 by Ord. No.
1953. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall collect, deposit or transport
any type of refuse within the Borough of North Arlington except in
closed receptacles or in closed truck bodies covered with a tarpaulin
properly anchored. All vehicles so used shall at all times be subject
to inspection and approval by the Board of Health and shall be kept
and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition and in good working
order.
All refuse or other materials collected, deposited
or transported within the Borough of North Arlington which shall spill
or fall while being carried or conveyed to or by a collection vehicle
shall be immediately removed, and the premises or street shall be
broom-cleaned so as to leave it in a clean condition.
The owner or owners, or tenant or tenants, of
lands and premises situated in the Borough of North Arlington shall
remove or cause to be removed from their lands and premises brush,
weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth,
garbage, trash, debris or any unsightly accumulation of earth, within
10 days after notice to remove same. Said notice shall be sent by
the Health Department.
In case such owner or owners, or tenant or tenants,
of any such lands shall neglect or refuse to remove from such lands
brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths,
filth, garbage, trash and debris within 10 days after notice to remove
same, it shall be the duty of the North Arlington Health Department
of the Borough to remove or cause to be removed from such lands all
brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths,
filth, garbage, trash and debris.
The cost paid and incurred by such officer of
the Borough for removing from such lands brush, weeds, dead and dying
trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth, garbage, trash and
debris shall be by the officer certified to the governing body, which
shall examine such certificate and, if found correct, shall cause
the cost as shown thereon to be charged against said lands. The amount
so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and shall
be added to and become and form part of the taxes next to be assessed
and levied upon such land, the same to bear interest for which the
same return as taxes, and shall be collected and enforced by the same
officers and in the same manner as taxes.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to throw or dump any garbage, broken glass, earthenware, tin cans,
old iron or any junk of any kind on the open lots or along the streets,
roads or highways of this Borough.
The provisions of this chapter and all the rules
and regulations promulgated pursuant hereto shall be enforced by the
members of the New Jersey State Police Department, Bergen County Police
Department, North Arlington Police Department, Health Officer and
any employee of the North Arlington Board of Health. Said persons
shall have such duties and powers as shall be prescribed by the Board
of Health of the Borough of North Arlington and shall have power to
issue summonses for any violation of any section of this chapter and
other violations of rules and regulations promulgated hereto.
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine
not less than $5 nor more than $500 in the discretion of the Judge,
and each day's failure to comply with any such provisions shall constitute
a separate violation.
