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Editor's Note: For power of a municipality to enact ordinances
for the removal or destruction of brush, weeds, debris and the like,
see R.S. 40:48-2.13 et seq.
As used in this article:
And refers to and includes brush, weeds, including ragweed,
dead and dying trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth, garbage,
trash and other debris.
[Ord. No. 14-68, § 2]
The building inspector of the Borough is hereby constituted
and appointed as the enforcement officer under this article.
[Ord. No. 14-68, § 1; Ord.
No. 24-79, § 1; Ord. No. 24-92, § 1]
Whenever the Building Inspector shall deem it to be necessary
and expedient for the preservation of the public health and general
welfare, or to eliminate a fire hazard, the owner or tenant of lands
lying within the Borough shall remove from such lands or destroy brush,
weeds and debris within ten (10) days after notice to remove or destroy
the same.
Any owner or tenant who fails or neglects to comply with the
notice served as provided in Section 12-7 hereof and within the time
prescribed therein shall be subject to the penalty prescribed in Section
12-10 hereof.
[Ord. No. 14-68, § 3]
(a)
If, after giving of the said ten-day notice by the Building Inspector
or other person designated by the Council, the owner or tenant shall
have refused or neglected to remove or destroy such brush, weeds and
debris, then the Building Inspector or Council shall cause such brush,
weeds and debris set forth in said notice to be removed or destroyed,
and the cost thereof shall be certified to the Council.
(b)
If the Council, after examining the certificate, finds the cost to
be correct, it shall cause the cost to be charged against said lands
as set forth in N.J.R.S. 40:48-2.14. Such charge shall become a lien
upon such lands and shall be added to and become and form part of
the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands, the same
to bear interest at the same rate as taxes, and shall be collected
and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes.
[Ord. No. 14-68, § 4; Ord.
No. 19-69, § 1]
(a)
Any person who violates the provisions of Section 12-8 of this Article
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished in accordance with Section
1-9 of these Revised Ordinances.
(b)
The imposition of the penalty provided for in Paragraph (a) of this
section shall not constitute a bar to, or be deemed in substitution
of, the exercise of the right and power of the Borough provided for
in Section 12-9 hereof.
