The owner, occupant or person in charge of or managing any building
or premises shall, forthwith after notice from the Board of Health,
its members, agents or employees so to do, correct any condition existing
in such building or premises or business, so that the premises or
building or business shall be in such condition as to comply with
the recognized standards and practices for the performance or commission
of any acts in a manner which shall make them not hazardous or dangerous
to the life or detrimental to the health of any human being or the
public health.
The failure or neglect of any person responsible hereunder to
comply with any order of the Board of Health, its members, agents
or employees, made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall
be deemed to be a violation of this chapter.
No premises or building or business required by this chapter
to be licensed shall hereafter be occupied or conducted until after
there has been issued by the Board of Health a proper license pursuant
to this chapter, certifying that said premises or building or business
is constructed, maintained or being operated in compliance with the
recognized standards and practices as herein defined.
Any owner, occupier or tenant, manager, employee or person,
firm or corporation in any manner directly or indirectly connected
with any land or building or business which is erected, maintained,
operated or conducted, except in accordance with this chapter, shall
be deemed guilty of a violation of this chapter.
[Amended 11-7-1968 by Ord. No. 1-68]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
BARBERSHOP, HAIRDRESSING ESTABLISHMENT, MANICURING PARLOR and
BEAUTY PARLOR
Includes any and all premises which are commonly known by
the foregoing names, and includes, as well, all premises or portions
thereof wherein the shaving, clipping, cutting, trimming, singeing,
shampooing, curling, dressing, dying, bleaching, tinting, waving or
coloring of the human hair or beard, or the beautifying, massaging,
cleaning, stimulating or like operations upon the human scalp, face,
arms, hands or neck, or the manicuring of the fingernails, or any
one or more of the foregoing operations are carried on for compensation.
BUSINESS
The entire premises wherein any business is conducted, including
the buying, selling or keeping for sale of meat, milk, fish or vegetables
for human consumption.
BUTCHER
Whosoever is engaged in the business of cutting or selling
any meat.
CATTLE
All animals, except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part
of the body is used for food.
CELLAR
Every basement or lower story of every building or house
of which 1/2 or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is
below the level of the street adjoining.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Any disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential
nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board
to be dangerous to the public health.
DIRT
Natural soil, earth and stone.
FISH
Every part of any edible animal that lives in water.
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Any hotel, restaurant, buffet, lunchroom, grill room, saloon,
tavern, cafe, beer garden, lunch counter, dining room, refreshment
stand, candy kitchen, candy store, ice cream parlor, tearoom, ice
cream manufactury, bakery shop, delicatessen store, fruit store, vegetable
store, fruit stand, vegetable stand, butter and egg store, grocery
store, dairy store, butcher shop, pushcart, wagon, car, automobile
or other vehicle or carrier, and any store, place or premises within
the Borough where food or drink intended for human consumption is
prepared, produced, manufactured, packed, stored, handled, sold, served
or offered for sale in or from which food or drink intended for human
consumption is transported or delivered.
GARBAGE
Every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both,
liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, storage or vending
of meats, fish, birds, fruits, vegetables or other organic substances,
whether for private or public consumption.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
The Health Department of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge, County of Bergen, New Jersey.
ISOLATION
The placing apart of a person or persons affected with or
exposed to a communicable disease for the purpose of preventing the
spread of a communicable disease to other persons, households or premises.
MEAT
Every part of any land animal or poultry used as food, whether
mixed or not with any other substance.
PERMIT
The permission in writing of this Board, issued according
to its rules and regulations and its sanitary code.
PERSON
Any person, persons, firm, corporation or association.
PUBLIC PLACES
Parks and water and open spaces thereto adjacent, public
yards, grounds and areas and all open spaces between buildings and
streets.
QUARANTINE
The placing of restrictions upon households or premises,
or the persons thereof, for the purpose of preventing the spread of
a communicable disease to other persons, households or premises.
RUBBISH
All the loose inorganic matter, household or commercial waste
and dirt-like substances which accumulate from residences or business
places.
STREET
Avenues, sidewalks, gutters and public alleys.
TENEMENT HOUSE
Every house, building or every portion thereof which is rented,
leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the house,
home or residence of more than two families living independently of
one another and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more
than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having
a common right to the halls, stairways, yards, water closets or privies
or some of them.
The following acts of commission or omission are hereby declared
to be nuisances:
A. All those acts of commission or omission as are indicated in the
"Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953)," approved by the
New Jersey State Department of Health, September 16, 1953, together
with all amendments, additions and revisions thereto, and adopted
herein by reference under and by virtue of the authority of the Public
Health and Sanitation Codes Adoption by Reference Act (N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1
to 26:3-69.6).
B. The presence upon lands lying within the boundary limits of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge, County of Bergen and State of New Jersey, of ragweed,
poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumach, or other noxious or poisonous
weeds or vegetation, tent caterpillars and loathsome and obnoxious
insects, vermin, rodents, brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps,
roots, obnoxious growth, filth, garbage, trash and debris.
C. The placing or causing to be placed, earlier than 8:00 p.m. of the
day preceding that upon which the appropriate municipal department
or collecting contractor shall collect from said premises, on the
sidewalk area near the curbline of the street upon which said premises
abut, of any ashes, garbage, rubbish and other refuse matter required
to be collected and removed by said department or collecting contractor.
D. The placing or causing to be placed of automobile or machine parts,
heavy metal or building materials on any street, sidewalk or public
place.
E. The placing or causing to be placed of any garbage for removal in
other than metal or modern plastic containers provided with handles
and tightly fitting covers.
F. The placing or causing to be placed of garbage and wet refuse matter
in the same containers.
G. The placing or causing to be placed of any ashes for removal in other
than metal containers provided with handles and tightly fitting covers.
H. Permitting any container used for the collection of ashes, garbage
or refuse matter to remain on a public street beyond the same day
of and after the collection and removal of its contents by the Public
Works Department or collecting contractor.
[Amended 11-7-1968 by Ord. No. 1-68]
A. Every physician shall report in writing to the Board of Health, within
12 hours after such disease has been diagnosed, any person within
the Borough of Wood-Ridge who is afflicted with any of the following
communicable diseases:
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Amebiasis
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Anthrax
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Botulism
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Brucellosis
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Cholera
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Dengue
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Diarrhea of newborn
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Diptheria
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Food poisoning (specify)
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Glanders
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Hepatitis:
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Infectious
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Serum
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Leprosy
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Malaria
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Measles
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Meningococcal meningitis
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Plague
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Psittacosis
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Q fever
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Rabies
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Relapsing fever, louseborne
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Salmonellosis (specify)
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Shignellosis
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Smallpox
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Tetanus
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Trachoma
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Trichinosis
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Tuberculosis
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Tularemia
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Typhoid fever
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Typhus fever
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Virus infection of the central nervous system
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Encephalitis (specify)
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Poliomyelitis
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Yellow fever
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B. Every physician shall report in writing directly to the State Department
of Health, within 12 hours after his first attendance, any person
within the Borough of Wood-Ridge who is afflicted with any of the
following venereal diseases:
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Chancroid
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Gonorrhea
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Granuloma inguinale
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Lymphogranuloma venereum
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Syphilis
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Every physician shall report in writing to the Board of Health,
within 12 hours after his first attendance, any person within the
Borough of Wood-Ridge, who has been bitten by dogs or other animals
and also persons suffering from epilepsy and mental deficiency and
also shall make reports of births, stillbirths and deaths occurring
within the confines of the Borough of Wood-Ridge.
Any physician, midwife or other persons in attendance on a confinement
case shall, within two hours after the birth of a child, use prophylactic
treatment for the prevention of infantile blindness. Three drops of
a one-percent fresh solution of nitrate of silver or twenty-five-percent
solution of Argyrol shall be dropped in each eye after the eyelids
have been opened.
It shall be the duty of all persons owning or having in their
possession any dog or cat or other animal affected with rabies or
suspected of being affected with rabies forthwith to report the same
to the Board of Health.
No person shall interfere with or obstruct the posting of any
placard by any health official in or on any place or premises, nor
shall any person conceal or mutilate any such placard or remove it,
except by permission of the Board of Health or its authorized representative.
[Amended 11-7-1968 by Ord. No. 1-68]
The Board of Health is hereby empowered, whenever necessary
to establish the true character of any disease which is suspected
to be communicable, to require a medical examination of the person
supposed to be affected by such disease, including the taking of necessary
specimens from such person, and any such person is hereby required
to submit to such examination and to furnish such specimen as may
be required.
Rules and regulations governing barbershops and beauty parlors
in the Borough of Wood-Ridge are as follows:
A. The walls, ceilings, furniture and other fixtures and all other exposed
surfaces in every barbershop, hairdressing establishment, manicuring
parlor and beauty parlor shall be clean and free from dirt and dust.
B. The floors of every such establishment shall be thoroughly swept
and mopped each day. All hair falling to the floor shall be removed
therefrom as soon thereafter as is practicable.
C. All attendants shall thoroughly wash their hands with soap and hot
water before commencing work on each client and likewise immediately
after urinating or defecating and before resuming work.
D. No person affected with any infectious disease in a communicable
form shall be attended in any such establishment.
E. No towel shall be used for more than one person without being laundered.
Towels shall be laundered in clean water at a temperature of at least
200° F.; provided, however, that this latter requirement shall
not apply to towels which are subjected, on the premises where washed,
to a temperature of at least 200° F. in the process of drying
or ironing.
F. No astringent in stick form shall be used in any such establishment.
G. The use of soap in common or for more than one person is prohibited
in any such establishment.
H. Every owner of a barbershop shall cause all combs, hairbrushes, hair
dusters and like articles to be washed thoroughly at frequent intervals
(at least once a day) and to be kept clean at all times and shall
cause all mugs, shaving brushes, razors, scissors, clippers, pincers,
needles and other instruments to be sterilized either by immersion
in boiling water or in alcohol of at least sixty-percent strength
after each separate use.
Rules and regulations of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge governing the production and distribution of milk in
the Borough of Wood-Ridge are as follows:
A. No person, firm, partnership or corporation shall, either as principal
or agent, engage in the production, bottling, packaging or wholesale
of milk, cream, cheese or other milk and/or dairy products within
the Borough of Wood-Ridge without first obtaining a license from the
Board for that purpose. The fee for each such license shall be the
sum of $25 for each location at which such hereinbefore-described
business or operation shall be conducted. No person, firm, partnership
or corporation shall, either as principal or agent, sell, deliver,
dispense or vend any of the items aforementioned without first obtaining
a license from the Board for that purpose. The license fee for each
wagon, motor truck, place, store, station, premises, automatic milk
or ice cream vendor or other vending and/or mechanical device from
which milk, cream, cheese or other milk and/or dairy products are
sold, delivered, dispensed or vended shall be $5.
[Amended 1-6-1977 by Ord. No. 1-76]
B. Each license issued hereunder shall be valid from January 1 through
December 31 in each year unless sooner suspended or revoked, and application
for renewal thereof shall be submitted together with the required
fee prior to December 1 of each year. No license issued hereunder
shall be assignable or transferable by the licensee without the consent
of the Board.
C. Upon the granting of each such license, the Board shall provide the
licensee with an identification card, which card shall bear the words
"MILK LICENSE, Board of Health, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey" and the number
of the license, together with such additional material, if any, as
the Board shall prescribe. Each such identification card shall be
posted by the licensee in a conspicuous place in the licensed premises,
and in all cases where a license applies to a wagon, motor truck or
other vehicle or an automatic milk vendor of a type approved by the
Board, such identification card shall be attached to such wagon, motor
truck or other vehicle or automatic milk vendor in some conspicuous
place thereon or therein and in such a manner and position as to protect
said identification card from injury by the elements. No milk or cream
shall be sold or distributed unless such identification card is exhibited.
D. Any person applying for a license to sell milk or cream shall set
forth in his application therefor the locality from which all milk
or cream to be distributed by him is to be procured and the names
and addresses of each person from whom such milk or cream is to be
obtained. All applications shall be signed by the prospective licensee.
E. Every licensee shall immediately notify the Board in writing of any
change in the source of his supply of milk or cream. Each such notice
shall state the name and address of each and every person supplying
milk or cream at the time the notice is given and the locality from
which such milk or cream is procured.
F. No milk or cream shall be delivered, stored before delivery or transported
at a temperature higher than 50° F.
G. No milk or cream shall be delivered in the Borough of Wood-Ridge
unless the container is provided with a cap or enclosure that protects
the pouring lip.
H. All milk or cream shall be delivered or dispensed to the consumer
only from sealed bottles or sealed sanitary containers not exceeding
two quarts in volume. The sale of loose milk and the use of milk scoops,
milk dippers, milk pumps and all types of suction devices are hereby
prohibited, except that the dispensing of individual portions of milk
from Norris or Norris-type refrigerated milk dispensers, in quantities
not exceeding one pint, shall be allowed, provided that such dispensers
are clean, in proper working order and at all times open to inspection
by the health agent.
I. All bottles used for the distribution of milk or cream shall be used
for that purpose only and for no other. All bottles shall be thoroughly
cleansed by the consumer before the same are returned. No bottles
used for the distribution of milk or cream shall be taken from any
premises where any person shall be, or shall have been, infected with
any communicable disease, until said bottles have been sterilized
by immersion in boiling water for at least three minutes.
J. No bottle or container containing milk or cream shall be opened,
nor shall it be tampered with, from the time it leaves the place where
capped or sealed to the time when it is delivered to the consumer.
Rules and regulations of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge governing the water supply are as follows:
A. No person shall use for drinking or domestic purposes any water taken
from any spring, well, reservoir, pond or other source of water which
has been declared by the Board of Health to be unfit for such use.
Any spring, well, reservoir, pond or other source of water may, in
the discretion of the Board, be posted with placards forbidding the
use of its waters for either or both of the purposes aforesaid. No
person shall hinder, delay or obstruct the posting of any such placard,
nor shall any person use or permit the use of the waters of any such
placarded well, spring, reservoir, pond or other source of water for
drinking or domestic purposes.
B. The Board may, in all cases where there is any reason to believe
that the waters of any well are polluted or detrimental to the public
health, notify the owner or occupant of the lands upon which such
well is located to close said well within the time specified in said
notice. If any person fails to comply with any such notice within
the time mentioned therein, the Board may physically close said well
and, if it sees fit, recover the expenses of such closing by an action
at law.
C. No premises shall be rented or occupied as a place of business or
as a tenement house or place for human occupancy, unless such premises
shall have a plentiful supply of pure water suitable for domestic
purposes, furnished in one or more places in the building upon such
premises or in the yard adjacent thereto reasonably convenient for
the use of the occupants thereof.
Rules and regulations of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge governing the sanitary conditions of buildings are as
follows:
A. Every building used for dwelling, industrial or mercantile purposes
and all yards, courts, passages, areas and alleys connected therewith
shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth,
garbage, refuse and other offensive material, and the owner or occupant
of every such building shall thoroughly cleanse all rooms, passages,
stairs, halls, floors, windows, doors, cellars, walls, ceilings and
plumbing equipment as often as shall be required by the Board and
shall, when notified to do so, well and sufficiently whitewash or
paint any parts of the same specified by the Board.
B. The Board, in all cases where it finds that a building is unfit for
human occupation, either by reason of the same being infected with
disease or in some way dangerous to the life or health of any person
who resides or is employed or occupied therein, may serve upon the
owner or occupant of such building an order directing that such building
or any part thereof be vacated within the time specified in such order.
In all cases where such order cannot be served upon such owner or
occupant, a copy thereof affixed to the main entrance or to some other
conspicuous part of said building shall suffice.
C. No owner or agent shall paper the walls or ceilings of any room in
any building rented by him to be used for dwelling purposes without
having first removed all the old papers from said walls and ceilings
and having thoroughly cleansed said walls and ceilings.
D. Every room used for dwelling purposes shall be lighted and ventilated
by means of at least one window opening to the outer air.
E. No room shall be used for sleeping purposes which affords less than
400 cubic feet of air space for each adult and 250 cubic feet of air
space for each child under 12 years of age.
F. Every building which is occupied as a residence of two or more families
living independently of each other shall be provided with at least
one water closet for the exclusive use of each family.
G. Every general contractor engaged in any enterprise or work requiring
the services of a number of artisans and employees shall provide adequate
temporary toilet facilities for the use of such artisans and employees
during the progress and until the completion of such enterprise or
work. Such facilities shall afford privacy to the persons using the
same and shall be so designed and maintained as not to be offensive
to the public or any member thereof.
H. The owners or occupants of all buildings occupied either in whole
or in part for dwelling purposes shall keep the cellars thereof free
from water, dampness and moisture.
I. All chimneys and flues in all buildings shall be maintained in a
clean and tight condition. No person shall operate or maintain any
heating system, including water heaters, in such a manner that it
may emit coal gas or other noxious or harmful substances formed by
incomplete combustion into the interior of any building.
J. Any place of business where one or more persons are employed shall
be equipped with at least one water closet with separate facilities
for each sex.
K. For every building which is occupied as a residence of two or more
families living independently of each other which has one heating
system controlled by the owner, the owner shall provide heat for inhabited
residences from the first day of October to the first day of May,
so that the temperature may be kept at 70° F. between the hours
of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and 60° F. between the hours of 10:00
p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
[Added 11-7-1968 by Ord. No. 1-68]
[Amended 5-5-1960 by Ord. No. 1-60]
The rules and regulations of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge governing animals and fowl are as follows:
A. No person shall keep within the Borough of Wood-Ridge any cattle,
chinchilla, guinea hens, guinea pigs, hamsters, hogs, horses, ocelots,
pigs, pigeons, rabbits, sheep, swine, monkeys, chimpanzees, ponies,
skunks, bees, squirrels, fowl, chickens, ducks, geese, snakes, raccoons,
goats or any other animal that can be dangerous to humans if such
animal escapes from captivity.
[Amended 11-7-1968 by Ord. No. 1-68; 1-5-1979 by Ord. No. 1-79]
B. No slaughterhouse or any market or store where live animals or fowl
are kept for sale or slaughtered on the premises shall be conducted
or maintained in the Borough of Wood-Ridge.
Rules and regulations of the Board of Health of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge governing septic tanks, cesspools, privies, sewer connections
and scavengers are as follows:
A. Within 10 days after any sewer connection is established, all septic
tanks and cesspools in or upon the property so connected shall be
filled in with stones, earth, ashes, cinders or other appropriate
materials, and all privy vaults in or upon such property shall be
cleaned out and permanently sealed with some proper airtight material.
B. The owner, occupier or tenant of any premises in or on which there
exists a septic tank, cesspool or privy vault shall cleanse the same
and remove the contents therefrom within four days after being ordered
to do so by the Board or its representatives.
C. No septic tank, cesspool or privy vault shall hereafter be constructed
in the Borough.
D. No septic tank, cesspool or privy vault shall be cleansed or emptied
without the special permission of the Board having been first obtained,
and then only by a duly licensed scavenger.
E. Application for all scavenger's licenses shall be made to the
Board in writing and shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the licensee
setting forth the number of vehicles or conveyances which he proposes
to employ in the Borough. A fee of $2 shall be charged for each vehicle
or conveyance used in the Borough for the purpose aforesaid. All licenses
shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance,
unless sooner revoked.
F. Any scavenger who shall commence to clean or empty any septic tank,
cesspool or privy vault shall, without interruption or delay, proceed
with said work until it is completed and until the contents of such
septic tank, cesspool or privy vault are carried away.
G. All vehicles and conveyances used for the transportation of the contents
of septic tanks, cesspools or privy vaults shall be equipped with
watertight bodies with tight-fitting covers or shall be equipped with
watertight vessels or containers with tight-fitting covers. All vehicles
and conveyances used for the purpose aforesaid shall be approved by
the Board before they are placed in use. No vehicle or conveyance
shall be approved unless it is constructed and equipped in such a
manner as to ensure the transportation of the substances aforesaid
without leakage of offensive odors.
Nothing in this chapter or in the code hereby adopted shall
be construed to affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any court
or any right acquired or liability incurred nor any cause or causes
of action accrued or existing under any act or ordinance repealed
hereby, nor shall any right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired
or affected by this chapter.
Any inconsistency between this chapter, the codes adopted herein
by reference and the State Sanitary Code, as revised and enacted by
the Public Health Council of the State of New Jersey under date of
June 22, 1953, and any supplements thereto, shall be so construed
as to result in the enforcement of the most stringent requirement
of the inconsistent provisions, rules or regulations.
The civil action for the penalty, as authorized by N.J.S.A.
26:1A-10, and the penalties, as provided herein, for the violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter or any of the codes adopted
herein by reference shall not be considered as inconsistent but shall
be interpreted as alternate actions which may be taken by the Board.
[Amended 11-6-1986 by Ord. No. 1-86]
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision
of this chapter or the codes adopted herein by reference or notice
issued pursuant to this chapter or said codes shall, upon conviction
thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $2 nor more than
$500 for each violation. Each day a particular violation continues
shall constitute a separate offense.