Borough of Rutherford, NJ
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2023-12-11
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The Code
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Chapter 89 Sanitary Code
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Article III Scavengers
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administrative Offices
- Ch 5 Administrative Code
- Ch 6 Alarm Equipment Installation
- Ch 7 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 8 Amusement Games
- Ch 10 Animals
- Ch 12 Bicycles
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Board of Health
- Ch 17 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 Building Code
- Ch 19 Builders and Contractors Licensing
- Ch 19A Cannabis
- Ch 20 Car Lots: New and Used
- Ch 20A Cat Licensing
- Ch 21 Clean Environment
- Ch 21A Commercial Property Maintenance
- Ch 22 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 22A Convenience Stores
- Ch 22B (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Curfew, Emergency
- Ch 24z (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Disability Act Advisory Committee
- Ch 26 Dogs, Pets, Animals and Kennels
- Ch 27 Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 28 Dry Cleaning and Laundry Machines, Coin-Operated
- Ch 29 (Reserved)
- Ch 30 Elevators
- Ch 31 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 31A Finance Department
- Ch 32 Fingerprint Identification and Criminal History Record Checks
- Ch 33 Fire Department
- Ch 33A Firefighter Auxiliary Program, Junior
- Ch 34 Filming
- Ch 34A Fire Safety
- Ch 35 Fire Lanes or Zones
- Ch 36 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 36A Food Establishments
- Ch 36B Food Handlers Training
- Ch 37 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 39 Games of Chance
- Ch 39A Garage Sales and Lawn Sales
- Ch 40 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 41 Graffiti
- Ch 43 Grease Traps
- Ch 44 (Reserved)
- Ch 45 Heliport
- Ch 46 Housing Authority
- Ch 46A (Reserved)
- Ch 47 Housing Code
- Ch 48 Insurance
- Ch 50 Land Subdivision and Site Plan Regulations
- Ch 51 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 51A Length of Service Award Program
- Ch 52 Library Property and Books
- Ch 53 Littering
- Ch 54 Loitering
- Ch 54A Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 55 Massage and Bodywork Therapies
- Ch 56 Materials, Deposit and Removal of
- Ch 57 Merchants and Rutherford Business District Licenses
- Ch 59 (Reserved)
- Ch 60 Municipal Court
- Ch 61 Municipal Property and Grounds
- Ch 61A Municipal Property, Sale of
- Ch 62 Newsracks
- Ch 63 Noise Control
- Ch 63A Numbering of Buildings and Lots
- Ch 64 Nuisance Code
- Ch 64A Obscene Materials
- Ch 65 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 66 Parking Area Lighting Regulations
- Ch 66A Parking Yards and Places
- Ch 66B (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Payment of Pensions to Dependents of Volunteer Fire Fighters
- Ch 68 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 69 Permanent Cosmetics Establishments
- Ch 70 Personnel Policies and Practices
- Ch 72 (Reserved)
- Ch 73 Playgrounds, Parks, Open Spaces and Recreation Areas
- Ch 74 Plumbing Code
- Ch 76 Police Department
- Ch 77 Poolrooms, Billiard Parlors and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 77A Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 78 Property Maintenance
- Ch 79 Public Amusement Structures
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Purchasing
- Ch 82 Purchasing, Cooperative
- Ch 82A Recycling
- Ch 82B Registration of Landscapers and Landscaping Services
- Ch 83 Recreation Department
- Ch 83A Rent Control
- Ch 84 (Reserved)
- Ch 87 Salary Schedules
- Ch 89 Sanitary Code
- Ch 89 Art III Scavengers
- § 89-12 Services; acts requiring licenses.
- § 89-13 Application procedure; information required.
- § 89-14 Fees.
- § 89-15 Revocations.
- § 89-16 Regulations governing equipment.
- § 89-17 Storage of vehicles required; exception.
- § 89-18 Disposal controlled by Board.
- Ch 91 Sanitary Sewers
- Ch 91A Service Stations and Motor Vehicle Repair Facilities
- Ch 92 Sewage Disposal Code
- Ch 93 Sewers: Disposal of Industrial Waste
- Ch 94 Sewers and Wastewater Disposal
- Ch 95 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 96 Shopping Carts
- Ch 96A Short-Term Rental Property
- Ch 97 Signs
- Ch 98 Skateboards, Bicycles, Roller Skates and Scooters
- Ch 99 Smoke Control
- Ch 100 Snow Removal
- Ch 102 Soil Removal
- Ch 104 Solicitations for Charitable Purposes
- Ch 105 Solicitors, Peddlers and Canvassers
- Ch 105A (Reserved)
- Ch 106 Special Sale Regulations
- Ch 106A Sports Equipment Prohibition in Roadways
- Ch 107A Stormwater Management Control, State
- Ch 107B Stormwater Management, Borough
- Ch 107C Stormwater Management Control: Feeding of Wildlife
- Ch 107D Stormwater Management, Miscellaneous
- Ch 108 Streets and School Safety
- Ch 109 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 110 Street Closings
- Ch 111 Swimming Pools
- Ch 112 Taxes
- Ch 113 Taxicabs
- Ch 114 Telephone Booths
- Ch 116 Tent Caterpillar Control
- Ch 116A Tobacco Products
- Ch 117 Towing
- Ch 119 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 123 Unfit Dwellings
- Ch 124 Vacant and Abandoned Properties
- Ch 125 Vehicles, Abandoned or Junked
- Ch 126 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 127 Volunteer Organizations
- Ch 129 Water Pollution
- Ch 131 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
No privy vault, cesspool or septic tank in the
Borough of Rutherford shall hereafter be cleaned nor shall any material
from the same or any garbage, ashes, swill, refuse, dead animals or
other matter which is or may become offensive or dangerous to health
be conveyed through the streets of Rutherford by any person who has
not first obtained a license from this Board permitting him to perform
such services or acts in accordance with the provisions of this article
and such other ordinances, rules and regulations as the Board may
from time to time adopt.
All persons required by the preceding section
to obtain a license shall make application for the same to the Board
of Health, in writing, addressed to the Inspector, stating the nature
of the business they intend to conduct or the acts to be performed,
the number and kind of wagons or other vehicles to be used in such
business, and the disposition to be made of the material they may
remove, collect or convey, and such other information as the Board
of Health may from time to time require. In case an application is
granted, the Inspector of the Board shall issue a license to the applicant
upon receipt of the proper license fee or fees established by this
article.
The license fees to be paid under this article
shall be as follows:
A.
For each license to empty cesspools, septic tanks
or privy vaults, the sum of $5 per annum for each vehicle.
Such licenses may be revoked at any time by
the Board whenever, in its judgment, the licensee has violated any
provisions of this article or any rule, regulation or order made by
this Board.
A.
All vehicles or receptacles used under any permit
for removing the contents of cesspools, septic tanks or privy vaults,
or for conveying swill, garbage or other liquids or partially liquid
material, shall be only such as may be approved by the Board of Health,
shall be watertight, shall be kept clean and inoffensive, and shall
be covered with tightly fitting wooden, metal or canvas covers, securely
fastened, which covers shall be kept closed at all times except when
opened for the admission or discharge of proper matter.
B.
All manure, ashes or other refuse referred to in this
article shall be conveyed in vehicles or receptacles tightly and completely
covered and so constructed as to prevent leaking, spilling or offensive
odors.
[Amended 11-28-1964 by Ord. No. 2-64]
Motortrucks or other vehicles used for disposal
of garbage or other refuse matter mentioned in this article shall
be stored, after being cleaned, in an enclosed building or garage,
and such trucks or vehicles shall not be stored, parked or left standing
on any open lot or plot of land or any yard area or on a driveway
when not in use for disposal purposes; provided, however, that this
section shall not apply to motortrucks or other vehicles owned by
the Borough of Rutherford.
None of the material collected, conveyed or
handled under this article shall be disposed of within the Borough
of Rutherford in any manner not approved by the Board of Health.
