[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of
Edgewater as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 12-11-1961 (Ch. 306 of the 1975 Code)]
Every person or persons, firm or corporation who or which has
agreed or has become bound to furnish hot water to tenants or occupants
of buildings designed to be occupied or occupied by two or more families
as residences in the Borough of Edgewater, in the County of Bergen,
shall furnish to such tenants or occupants, during a twenty-four-hour
period daily, an adequate supply of hot water of a minimum temperature
of 110° F. and a maximum temperature of 160° F.
Whenever a dwelling designated to be occupied or occupied by
two or more families as residences is supplied with hot water from
a plant or system operated under the control of the owner, his lessee
or his agent, as landlord, in the absence of an express agreement
to the contrary, such owner, his lessee or agent shall be deemed to
have agreed or become bound to furnish hot water in accordance with
the provisions of this article. The presence of such hot water plant
or system in any such dwelling designed to be occupied or occupied
by two or more families as residences shall be prima facie evidence
of such agreement or obligation.
