Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE
A motor vehicle exposed to public view which does not have
a valid registration and license plate and has no inspection sticker
or an inspection sticker which has elapsed for more than 30 days or
has been inoperative for more than 30 days because of the lack of
essential components such as engine parts or wheels.
BATHROOM
Any enclosed space which contains one or more of the following,
i.e., a bathtub, shower, water closet, lavatory, water-closet compartment,
washbowl, sink or fixtures serving similar purposes.
BOARDINGHOUSE
Any building in which there are one or more independent rooms
for sleeping, whether furnished or unfurnished, available for occupancy
by five or more persons for compensation and where there are not individual
eating facilities. Such buildings shall be governed by the provisions
applicable to multiple-family dwellings.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Wallington, County of Bergen, State of New
Jersey.
BUILDING
A combination of materials intended to form a safe and stable
structure, used for multiple-dwelling residential purposes and including
any accessory buildings and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually
enjoyed therewith.
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 lacking structural maintenance, whether
interior or exterior.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
which includes or is intended to include living, sleeping, bathing,
toilet and cooking facilities.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW
Any building or premises or part thereof which may be lawfully
viewed by the public or any member thereof from a sidewalk, street,
alleyway, parking lot or from any adjoining or neighboring premises.
EXTERIOR OF PREMISES
Those portions of a building which are exposed to public
view or the elements and the open space of any premises not occupied
by any building.
GARBAGE
Animal, vegetable and other organic waste resulting from
the handling, preparing, cooking and consumption of food or other
products. (See also the definitions of "refuse" and "rubbish.")
HABITABLE ROOM
A room occupied by one or more persons for living, eating
or sleeping but not including bathrooms, laundries, serving and storage
pantries, corridors, foyers, vestibules, cellars, boiler and utility
rooms or spaces that are not used frequently or for an extended period
of time or areas that have less than 50 square feet of floor area.
INFESTATION
The presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests on
or within the premises.
JUNK VEHICLE
Any vehicle which is without a currently valid license plate
or plates and is in a rusted, wrecked, discarded, dismantled, inoperative
or abandoned condition. A junked vehicle shall be classified as to
its condition in one of the two following categories:
[Added 9-8-1994 by Ord. No. 94-26]
(1)
RESTORABLEA junked vehicle that is in a condition whereby repairs to the same could be made to place it in operating condition without exceeding the estimated value when repaired.
(2)
WRECKA junked vehicle in such condition that it is economically unsound to restore the same to operating condition, considering the repairs to be made, age of the vehicle, market value of the vehicle if it were restored or in such condition that the Construction Code Official, exercising reasonable discretion, determines that it warrants "wreck" classification.
MIXED OCCUPANCY
Any building containing two or more dwelling units and also
having a portion thereof devoted to nonresidential uses. The applicable
provisions for residential and nonresidential buildings shall control.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING
A building designed for, arranged for or actually containing
two or more dwelling units for residential purposes. An owner-occupied
two-family house is not a "multiple-family dwelling" for the purposes
of this article.
NONRESIDENTIAL
Refers only to the nondwelling use of a mixed-occupancy building.
NUISANCE
(1)
Any public nuisance known at common law or in law or equity
jurisprudence or as provided by the Statutes of the State of New Jersey
or the ordinances of the Borough.
(2)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life or detrimental to
the health of persons, including but not limited to any inadequately
protected well, shaft, basement or excavation, abandoned motor vehicle,
structurally unsound fence, wall or building, lumber, trash, debris
or vegetation such as poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac or ragweed
or other condition which is or may be detrimental to the safety or
health of persons, as well as anything which might constitute an attractive
nuisance to children.
(3)
Inadequate or unsanitary sewerage or plumbing or heating facilities
in violation of this article.
OCCUPANT
Any person or persons, including the owner, having actual
possession of and using a building or any part thereof.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a building
or premises or any part thereof, whether acting 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 unit as owner or agent of the owner or
as executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or guardian of an estate
or as a mortgagee in possession regardless of how such possession
was obtained. Any person who is a lessee, a sublessee or assignee
of all or any part of the building 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.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land and any buildings located thereon,
including but not limited to sidewalks, yards and parking areas.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body
wastes), including but not limited to brush, weeds, broken glass,
debris of any description, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings,
dead animals, abandoned motor vehicles and solid market and industrial
wastes.
RUBBISH
Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, excluding
garbage but including liquid commercial and industrial wastes.
WEATHERING
The deterioration, decay or damage caused by exposure to
the elements.