[Adopted 8-13-1964 by Ord. No. H19-64 (Ch. 114, Art. I, of
the 1969 Code)]
A code regulating the location, construction, use, maintenance
and method of emptying or cleaning individual sewage disposal systems,
the issuance of licenses or permits to locate, construct, empty or
clean said systems and fixing penalties for the violation thereof
is hereby adopted pursuant to Chapter 188, P.L. 1950 (N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1
to 26:3-69.6). A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part
hereof without inclusion of the text thereof herein.
[Amended 7-21-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
The code established and adopted by this article is described
and commonly known as "N.J.A.C. 7:9A, Standards for Individual Subsurface
Sewage Disposal Systems."
In case any license or permit or certification required by this
article is denied by the Board of Health, a hearing shall be held
thereon before the Board within 15 days after request therefor is
made by the applicant, and, upon such hearing, the Board of Health
shall affirm, alter or rescind its previous determination and take
action accordingly within 15 days after the date of such hearing.
The Board of Health may order all further work in and about
any individual sewage disposal system which is being erected or installed
in violation of the code to be stopped forthwith, except such work
as shall be necessary to remedy such violation, and thereafter the
work continued without any violation of any of the provisions of the
code, and after issuance of any such order and the service of a copy
thereof upon any person connected with or working in and about the
erection or installation of any such disposal system or any part thereof,
no further work shall be done thereon except as aforesaid.
[Amended 4-8-1981 by Ord. No. 9-81; 5-16-2001 by Ord. No. 6-01; 7-21-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
The following fees and charges are hereby established:
A. For the filing of an application and plans for a license or permit
to locate and construct an individual sewage disposal system: $250.
B. For the filing of an application and plans for a license or permit
to alter an existing individual disposal system: $150.
C. For the issuance of a license or permit to locate and construct or
alter an individual disposal system: $50.
D. For each reinspection of an individual sewage disposal system or
part thereof caused by the failure of the licensee or permittee to
locate and construct or alter the same in accordance with the terms
of the license or permit issued or the terms of the aforesaid code:
$50.
E. For the issuance or renewal of a license to a person or corporation
engaged in the business of cleaning or emptying receptacles for the
reception and storage of human excrement or other putrescible matter:
$25 for each vehicle or conveyance.
F. For the witnessing of soil log and/or percolation test, for a new
or altered disposal system: $100.
G. For the filing of an application for a permit to repair an individual
subsurface sewage disposal system: $50.
[Adopted 2-10-1982 by Ord. No. 6-82 (Ch. 114, Art. II, of
the 1969 Code)]
It is hereby declared by the Board of Health of the Township
of Morris that individual sewage disposal systems that are no longer
servicing the structure for which they were designed and individual
sewage disposal systems that have not been properly constructed or
maintained or that do not function properly are public nuisances and
dangerous to the public health and safety and should therefore be
abandoned and filled with inert material.
[Amended 9-11-1985 by Ord. No. 28-85]
Therefore, upon the connection of a structure's plumbing
to a public sanitary sewer, the individual sewage disposal system
serving such structure shall be abandoned, and all septic tanks, seepage
pits, cesspools and other devices used in connection therewith shall
be pumped out and filled with inert material within 90 days after
the connection of such structure's plumbing to a public sanitary
sewer. The Board of Health may, upon written request, extend the ninety-day
period set forth above. On or before the expiration of the above-referenced
90 days, after the connection of the structure's plumbing to
a public sanitary sewer, the owner of the structure shall forthwith
file with the Board of Health of the Township of Morris a certificate,
under oath, stating that the individual sewage disposal system serving
such structure has been pumped out and filled with inert material,
and the Board of Health shall cross-reference said certificate with
the list of sewer connections made and approved by the Engineering
Department of the Township of Morris.
The Board of Health may require that the maintenance, continuation
or use of any existing septic tank, seepage pit or cesspool be discontinued,
the contents be removed and any such septic tank, seepage pit or cesspool
be filled with inert material within the time prescribed by the Board
of Health whenever the maintenance, continuation or use of such septic
tank, seepage pit or cesspool constitutes a nuisance, a safety hazard
or is dangerous to the public health.
Any person, persons or corporations violating any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon a conviction thereof for such violation,
be subject to a penalty or fine of not more than $500 nor less than
$5, in the discretion of the Judge imposing such fine or penalty.