A.
All words and phrases herein defined shall also include
their usual and natural meanings as well as those herein especially
given.
B.
All fish and meat and vegetables found in any place
shall be deemed to be therein, and held for sale or consumption as
such food, unless the contrary be distinctly proved.
C.
BOARD, THIS BOARD, SAID BOARD and BOARD OF HEALTH
BUTCHER
CATTLE
CELLAR
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE
DIRT
FISH
GARBAGE
LIGHT or LIGHTED
MEAT
PERMIT
PRIVATE MARKET
PUBLIC HOUSE
REGULATIONS
RUBBISH
STREET
TENEMENT HOUSE
VEGETABLE
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
The Board of Health of the Borough of Rutherford.
[1]Includes whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving
or slaughtering any cattle or in selling any meat.
Includes all animals except birds, fowl and fish, of which
any part of the body is used for food.
Includes every basement or lower story of any building or
house of which 1/2 or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling
is below the level of the street adjoining.
Includes any disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential
nature, with which any person may be sick, affected or attached (more
especially however referring to cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria,
ship or typhus, typhoid and scarlet fevers), and also including any
new disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, and
also any other disease publicly declared by this Board to be dangerous
to the public health.
Natural soil, earth and stone.
Includes every part of any animal that lives in water or
the flesh of which is not meat.
Includes every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter
or both, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, decay,
dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowls, birds, fruits or vegetables.
Refers to natural external light.
Whenever herein used, includes every part of any land animal
and eggs (whether mixed or not with any other substance).
The permission in writing of this Board, issued according
to its rules and regulations and the Sanitary Code.
Includes every store, cellar, stand and place at which the
business is the buying, selling or keeping for sale of meat, fish,
milk or vegetables for human food.
Includes parks, piers, docks and wharves, and water and open
spaces thereto adjacent, and also public yards, grounds and areas
and all open spaces between buildings and streets.
Includes special regulations, which latter will be from time
to time issued, and will contain more detailed provisions than can
be herein conveniently set forth.
Includes all the loose and decayed material and dirt-like
substance that attends use and decay or which accumulates from buildings,
storing or cleaning.
When used in this Sanitary Code, includes avenues, sidewalks,
gutters, places and public alleys.
Includes every house, building or every portion thereof which
is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied
as the house, home or residence of more than two families living independently
of one another and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more
than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having
a common right to the halls, stairways, yards, water closets or privies
or some of them.
Includes every article of human consumption as food which
(not being meat, fish or milk) is held or offered or intended for
sale for consumption.
