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. 
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARD, THIS BOARD, SAID BOARD and BOARD OF HEALTH
The Board of Health of the Borough of Rutherford.
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BUTCHER
Includes whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving or slaughtering any cattle or in selling any meat.
CATTLE
Includes all animals except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part of the body is used for food.
CELLAR
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.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE
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.
DIRT
Natural soil, earth and stone.
FISH
Includes every part of any animal that lives in water or the flesh of which is not meat.
GARBAGE
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.
LIGHT or LIGHTED
Refers to natural external light.
MEAT
Whenever herein used, includes every part of any land animal and eggs (whether mixed or not with any other substance).
PERMIT
The permission in writing of this Board, issued according to its rules and regulations and the Sanitary Code.
PRIVATE MARKET
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.
PUBLIC HOUSE
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.
REGULATIONS
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.
RUBBISH
Includes all the loose and decayed material and dirt-like substance that attends use and decay or which accumulates from buildings, storing or cleaning.
STREET
When used in this Sanitary Code, includes avenues, sidewalks, gutters, places and public alleys.
TENEMENT HOUSE
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.
VEGETABLE
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.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 16, Board of Health.