The
following terms, wherever used herein or referred to in this code,
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A building which is customarily used as an incidental building
to a principal building, and located on the same lot with such principal
building, excluding, however, any structure which is attached to a
principal building.
BASEMENT
A portion of a building partly but not more than 1/2 below
the level of the grade. It shall be counted as a story in determining
the height of a building.
BATHROOM
Enclosed space containing one or more bathtubs, showers,
or both, and which shall also include toilets, lavatories or fixtures
serving similar purposes.
CELLAR
A portion of a building more than 1/2 below the level of
the grade. It shall not be counted as a story in determining the height
of a building.
DETERIORATION
The condition of a building or part thereof, characterized
by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, cracking, peeling, rusting or other
evidence of physical decay or neglect, lack of maintenance or excessive
use.
DWELLING
Any building which was or is wholly or partly used or intended
to be used for living or sleeping quarters by human occupants.
(1)
DWELLING UNITAny room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or are intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
EMANCIPATED MINOR
Any person under the age of 21 who is gainfully employed
and self-supporting or who is married to a spouse who is gainfully
employed and who supports the minor or who is a student living away
from home and in regular attendance at an institution of higher learning.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents and vermin
by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible
material that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating,
or trapping; or by any other approved means of pest elimination.
FAMILY
One or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit
and maintain a common household, and who are related by blood, marriage
or adoption. For the purpose of this chapter, a family includes only
a husband and wife, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, father,
father-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, brothers and sisters, grandparents,
grandchildren, stepchildren and adopted children, and bona fide family
servants living in and working full time on the premises.
FIRE CHIEF
The Fire Chief of the Township of Teaneck.
FIRE HAZARD
(Also see "nuisance.") Anything or any act which increases
or may cause an increase of the hazard or menace of fire to a greater
degree than that customarily recognized as normal by persons in the
public service of preventing, suppressing or extinguishing fire; or
which may obstruct, delay or hinder, or may become the cause of an
obstruction, a delay, a hazard or a hindrance, to the prevention,
suppression or extinguishment of fire.
GARBAGE
(See also "refuse" and "rubbish.") Putrescible animal and
vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking
and consumption of food.
HABITABLE ROOMS
Rooms used or designed for use by one or more persons for
living or sleeping or cooking and eating, but not including bathrooms,
water closet compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries,
corridors, foyers, vestibules, cellars, heater rooms, boiler rooms
and utility rooms. Other rooms or spaces that are not used frequently
or for an extended period or that have less than 70 square feet of
floor area shall not be considered as habitable rooms.
HOUSING INSPECTORS
All officials, officers or employees of the Township of Teaneck
entrusted with the enforcement of this code.
INFESTATION
The presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests on
the premises which constitute a health hazard.
KITCHEN
A portion of a dwelling unit designed or used for cooking
and eating. Stove, refrigerator, sink or cabinets must occupy at least
16 square feet of such kitchen area.
NUISANCE
(1)
Any public nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence,
or as provided by the statutes of the state, or the ordinances of
the Township.
(2)
Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to the health
or safety of persons, whether in a building, on the premises of a
building, or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes, but is not limited
to, abandoned wells, shafts, basements, excavations, abandoned iceboxes,
refrigerators, motor vehicles, any structurally unsound structures,
lumber, trash, fences, debris or vegetation such as poison ivy, oak
or sumac, which may prove a hazard for inquisitive persons.
(3)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life or detrimental to
health of persons on or near the premises where the conditions exists.
(4)
Overcrowding of a room with occupants in violation of this code.
(5)
Insufficient ventilation, or illumination in violation of this
code.
(6)
Inadequate or insanitary sewage or plumbing facilities in violation
of this code.
(7)
Insanitary conditions or anything dangerous to health, in violation
of this code.
(8)
Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome or detrimental
to the health of human beings.
OCCUPANT
Any person living, sleeping or having actual possession of
a business, dwelling unit or rooming unit.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a dwelling,
whether with or without the knowledge and consent of the owner.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others,
shall have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without
accompanying actual possession thereof; or shall have charge, care
or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of
the owner, or as executor, executrix, administratrix, trustee, receiver,
or guardian of the estate, or as a mortgagee in possession regardless
of how such possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee subletting
or reassigning any part or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall
be deemed to be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility
over the portion of the premises sublet or assigned by such lessee.
PLUMBING
All of the following supplies, facilities and equipment:
gas pipes, gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units,
waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories,
bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes-washing machines, catch
basins, vents and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with
all connections to water, sewer or gas lines, and water pipes and
lines utilized in conjunction with air-conditioning equipment.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or
structures thereon.
PUBLIC OFFICERS
The Health Officer, the Assistant Health Officer, the Chief
of the Fire Department and the Construction Official of the Township
of Teaneck and such officials as they may designate to act on their
behalf.
REFUSE
(Also see "garbage" and "rubbish.") All putrescible and nonputrescible
solid wastes (except body wastes), including but not limited to garbage,
rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles
and solid market and industrial wastes.
ROOM
Space in an enclosed building, or space set apart by a partition
or partitions, and any space in a building used or intended to be
used as a bedroom, dining room, living room, kitchen, sewing room,
library, den, music room, dressing room, enclosed sleeping porch,
sunroom, party room, recreation room, breakfast room, study, storage
room and similar uses.
ROOMING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
other than a dwelling unit, which is rented or available for rent
for sleeping purposes, without cooking facilities.
RUBBISH
(Also see "garbage" and "refuse.") Nonputrescible solid wastes
consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as
paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings,
leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials.
SANITARY SEWER
Any sanitary sewer owned, operated and maintained by the
Township of Teaneck and available for public use for the disposal
of sewage.
SEWAGE
Waste from a flush toilet, bathtub, sink, lavatory, dishwashing
or laundry machine, or the water-carried waste from any other fixture
or equipment or machine.
STORY
That area of a structure comprised between a floor and a
floor or roof next above. No such area shall be considered a story
if of less than seven feet average height. Any such area of less than
seven feet average height shall be considered a 1/2 story.
STRUCTURE
That which is built or constructed, or any piece of work
artificially built or composed of parts joined together in some definite
manner, the use of which requires more or less permanent location
on or in the ground. The word "structure" shall be construed as if
followed by the words "or part thereof" and shall be construed to
include a building or buildings.
VENTILATION
Supply and removal of air to and from any space by natural
or mechanical means.
VENTILATION, NATURAL
Ventilation by opening to outer air through windows, skylights,
doors, or louvers.
WATER CLOSET COMPARTMENT
Enclosed space containing one or more toilets which may also
contain one or more lavatories, urinals and other plumbing fixtures.
WEATHERING
Deterioration, decay or damage, caused by exposure to the
elements.