Whatever is dangerous to human health or whatever
renders the ground, the water, the air or food a hazard or an injury
to human health is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to create, maintain or aid in the
creating or maintaining of any such nuisance.
No person shall aid or contribute in doing any
act dangerous to the life or detrimental to the health of any human
being except for justifiable motives and for adequate reasons, nor
shall any person omit any precaution reasonable and proper to prevent
or remove anything that is dangerous or detrimental to the life or
health of any human being.
No person or persons shall cause or aid in causing
the deposit or accumulation of any decaying animal or vegetable matter,
foul liquids or other offensive matter in the form of rubbish, garbage
or offal in or upon any lot, street or highway, or in or upon any
public or private place until the same shall become or be likely to
become hazardous to health, or until the same shall, by reason of
offensive odors, become a source of discomfort to persons living or
passing in the vicinity thereof.
The pollution of any stream, well, spring or
reservoir of water used for drinking purposes is hereby prohibited.
The construction of any drain or sewer or the
pouring out of foul liquids on the surface of the ground or elsewhere
in such a manner as to become the source from which offensive odors
shall emanate or in such a manner as to pollute the ground, air or
water, to the risk or detriment of the health of persons living or
passing in the vicinity is hereby prohibited.
The storage of animal refuse or decayable or
putrescible matter in liquid or solid form in any vault, septic tank
or other receptacle in such a manner that the same shall, by reason
of offensive odors emanating therefrom, become a source of discomfort
to persons living or passing in the vicinity thereof is hereby prohibited.
All sunken lots or marshlands, or lots below
grade where stagnant water gathers or is collected, are hereby declared
nuisances and any owner or owners, or agents of any such lot or lots
or lands shall, on notice from this Board, fill the same or cause
them to be filled with fresh earth, ashes or cinders.
Where such nuisances, obnoxious gases or vapors
or cause of ill health or disease shall be found on private property,
the said Board shall cause notice thereof to be given to the owner
or owners to remove and abate the same at his own expense, within
such time as the said Board may deem proper. A duplicate of the notice
so given shall be left with one or more of the tenants or occupants
of the premises; if the owner resides out of the state or cannot be
reached with notice speedily, notice left at the house or posted on
the premises shall be deemed sufficient. And if the owner or owners
thus notified shall not comply with such notification or order of
the local Board within the time specified, the Board shall proceed
to abate such nuisance and remove the cause of such foul and obnoxious
odors, gases or vapors, or other things detrimental to the public
health, and such Board shall have a right to recover, by action of
debt, the expenses incurred by such Board on the abatement or removal,
from any person or persons who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance,
source of foulness or cause of sickness hazard to the public health,
and from any owner, tenant or occupant of the premises, who, after
notice as aforesaid, shall have failed to remove such nuisance, source
of foulness or cause of sickness hazard to the public health, within
the time specified in such notice. And in case such Board of Health
shall fail to recover by such action an amount sufficient to defray
such expenses, or it shall be deemed inexpedient to bring such suit,
they may present a bill certified by such Board or a majority thereof,
to the local municipal authorities, and such bill shall be audited
and paid by the city, Borough, town, township or other local municipal
government in and for which such Board is organized in the same manner
as the bills for the ordinary current expenses for such municipality
are paid.
If any well or spring or any water used for
drinking purposes is found to be polluted or to be the cause of any
sickness, the Board may order the same to be closed or not to be used,
and every person who shall disregard or shall refuse to obey such
an order shall be deemed to have violated this chapter.
Allowing any dog to run at large or come in
contact with children or any person other than the immediate household
of the owner if, in the opinion of this Department or the Health Officer,
the said dog is vicious and hazardous to the health of the Borough,
or if it molests pedestrians or others without provocation, is hereby
declared to be a public nuisance and a source of danger to the public
health. Such dogs, when taken out, must be muzzled completely or on
a leash, said leash to be not more than six feet in length.[2]
