As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ENFORCING OFFICIALS
The Health Officer or other official authorized by the Board
of Health to enforce this chapter.
PERSON
An individual, firm, corporation, association, society, partnership
and their agents or employees.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners
who have agreed to supply heat to any building designed to be occupied
or occupied as a residence by more than two families to fail to supply
heat from the first day of October in each year to the first day of
May of the succeeding year in such manner that the temperature of
said building where one or more persons reside shall always be kept
at 68° F. or above between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make,
cause or suffer or permit to be made or caused upon any premises owned,
occupied or controlled by him or it, or upon any public street, alley
or thoroughfare in this municipality, any unnecessary noises or sounds
by means of the human voice, or by any other means or methods which
are physically annoying to persons, or which are so harsh, or so prolonged
or unnatural, or unusual in their use, time and place as to occasion
physical discomfort, or which are injurious to the lives, health,
peace and comfort of the inhabitants of this municipality or any member
thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent,
lease or otherwise permit the occupancy of any building as a residence,
or for any person to reside in any building as its owner which:
A. Is not adequately and properly ventilated.
B. Fails to provide potable water at sufficient pressure
and quantity for each family unit from a public supply approved by
the State Department of Health and Senior Services or a private supply
approved by the Enforcing Official.
C. Does not have plumbing fixtures consisting of a kitchen
sink, bathtub or shower, lavatory and flush toilet connected to the
potable water supply.
D. Does not have facilities for the discharge of all
household liquid wastes into a public sewer system approved by the
State Department of Health and Senior Services, or into a private
sewer approved by the Enforcing Official.
It shall be unlawful for any person to spit
upon any public sidewalk or upon any part of the interior or exterior
of any public building or public conveyance.
The Board of Health may institute an action at law to recover costs incurred by it in the removal or abatement of any nuisance as declared by §
235-2 of this chapter from any person who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance to exist, or from any owner, tenant or occupant of premises who, after notice and notification, as herein provided, shall fail to remove and abate the same within the time specified in such notice.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced
by the Borough of Atlantic Highlands Board of Health or its Enforcing
Official.