Definitions. The following terms, wherever used herein
or referred to in this chapter, shall have the respective meanings
assigned to them unless a different meaning clearly appears from the
context:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A structure, the use of which is incidental to that of the
main building and which is attached thereto or located on the same
premises.
BASEMENT or CELLAR
Any floor, any portion of which is more than 24 inches below
the adjacent grade level.
BUILDING
A combination of materials to form a construction adapted
to permanent or continuous occupancy or use for public, institutional,
residence, business or storage purposes.
DETERIORATION
The condition or appearance of a building or part thereof,
characterized by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, cracking, peeling,
rusting or other evidence of physical decay or neglect, lack of maintenance
or excessive use.
DWELLING
Any structure designed for use by human occupants for sleeping
and living purposes, whether occupied or vacant, except that the foregoing
shall not apply to hotels.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
All officials, officers or employees entrusted with the enforcement
of the provisions of this chapter.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW
Any premises or any part thereof, or any building or any
part thereof, which may be lawfully viewed by the public or any member
thereof from a sidewalk, street, alleyway, licensed open-air parking
lot or from any adjoining or neighboring premises.
EXTERIOR OF THE PREMISES
Those portions of a building which are exposed to public
view and the open space of any premises outside of any building erected
thereon.
FIRE HAZARD (see also "nuisance")
Any thing or any act which increases or may cause an increase
of the hazard or menace of fire to a greater degree than that customarily
recognized as normal by persons in the public service of preventing,
suppressing or extinguishing fire, or which may obstruct, delay or
hinder or may become the cause of an obstruction, a delay, a hazard
or a hindrance to the prevention, suppression or extinguishment of
fire.
INFESTATION
The presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests on
the premises which constitute a health hazard.
NUISANCE
(1)
Any public nuisance known at common law or in
equity jurisprudence or as provided by the statutes of the State of
New Jersey or the ordinances of the Borough of Pemberton.
(2)
Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental
to the health or safety of children, whether in a building, on the
premises of a building or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes but
is not limited to abandoned wells, shafts, basements, excavations,
abandoned iceboxes, refrigerators, motor vehicles, any structurally
unsound fences or structures, lumber, trash, fences, debris or vegetation
such as poison ivy, oak or sumac, which may prove a hazard for inquisitive
minors.
(3)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life
or detrimental to health of persons on or near the premises where
the conditions exist.
(4)
Insufficient ventilation or illumination in
violation of this chapter.
(5)
Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing
facilities in violation of Borough ordinances.
(6)
Unsanitary conditions or anything offensive
to the senses or dangerous to health in violation of this chapter.
(7)
Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome
or detrimental to health of human beings.
OCCUPANT
Any person living or sleeping in, occupying or having actual
possession of a premises or a part thereof.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a premises
or part thereof, whether with or without the knowledge and consent
of the owner.
OWNER
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 executor, 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/or assigned by said lessee.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or
structures thereon.
REFUSE (see also "garbage" and "rubbish")
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body
wastes), including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, street
cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and
industrial wastes.
RUBBISH (see also "garbage" and "refuse")
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, tin
cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, grass, bedding, crockery and similar
materials.
STRUCTURE
A combination of any materials, whether fixed or portable,
forming a construction, including buildings.
WEATHERING
Deterioration, decay or damage caused by exposure to the
elements.