Applied meaning of words and terms. As used in this article, the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A building which is customarily used as an incidental building
to a principal building and located on the same lot with such principal
building; excluding, however, any structure which is attached to a
principal building.
APPROVED
As applied to a material, device or method of construction,
approved by the enforcement officer under the provisions of this code
or approved by another authority designated by law to give approval
in the matter in question.
BASEMENT
A story, the floor of which is below grade and the ceiling
of which is not less than four feet, six inches above grade. (See
also "cellar.")
BATHROOM
Enclosed space containing one or more bathtubs, showers,
or both, and which may also include toilets, lavatories or fixtures
serving similar purposes.
BUILDING CODE
The Building Code, latest edition and current accumulative
supplement officially adopted by the Township; or such other code
as may be officially designated by the legislative body of the Township
for the regulation of construction, alteration, addition, repair,
removal, demolition, use, location, occupancy and maintenance of buildings
and structures.
BUILDING SERVICE EQUIPMENT
The mechanical, electrical and elevator equipment, including
piping, wiring, fixtures and other accessories, which provide sanitation,
lighting, heating, ventilation, fire-fighting and transportation facilities
essential for the habitable occupancy of the building or structure
for its designated use and occupancy.
CELLAR
A story, the floor of which is below grade and the ceiling
of which is less than four feet, six inches above grade.
CURRENTLY UNINSPECTED OR UNREGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle of which the registration thereof or inspection
marker thereof is 30 days overdue in accordance with the laws of the
State of New Jersey or which does not properly display the correct
license plate consistent with the currently valid registration of
that vehicle.
DETERIORATION
The condition of a structure or part thereof characterized
by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, cracking, peeling, rusting or other
evidence of physical decay or neglect, lack of maintenance or excessive
use.
DWELLING
Any building which was or is, wholly or partly, used or intended
to be used for living or sleeping quarters by human occupants.
DWELLING UNITS
Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and
forming a single habitable unit, with facilities which are used or
are intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
EMANCIPATED MINOR
Any person under the age of 18 who is gainfully employed
and self-supporting or who is married to a spouse who is gainfully
employed and who supports said minor or who is a student living away
from home and in regular attendance at an institution of higher learning.
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The official designated herein or otherwise charged with
the responsibilities of administering the code or his authorized representatives,
including the Township Administrator, Zoning Officer, Building Inspector,
Construction Officials, Health Officer and/or Property Maintenance
Officer and their subordinates or designees.
[Amended 6-29-1999 by Ord. No. 19-99; 6-12-2012 by Ord. No. 18-2012]
EXTERIOR PROPERTY AREAS
The open space on the premises and on adjoining premises
under the control of the owners or operators of said premises.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents or other
pests by eliminating their harborage places or by removing or making
inaccessible materials that may serve as their food, by poison, spraying,
fumigation, trapping or by any other approved pest-elimination methods.
FAMILY
One or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit
and maintain a common household and who are related by blood, marriage
or adoption. For the purpose of this article, a "family" includes
only a husband and wife, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law,
father-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, brothers and sisters, grandparents,
grandchildren, stepchildren and adopted children and bona fide family
servants living in and working full-time on the premises. For the
purpose of this article, "family" shall also mean one or more persons,
but not more than three persons, unrelated and unmarried to each other,
but living together in one dwelling unit and maintaining a common
household.
FIRE HAZARD (also see NUISANCE)
Anything or any act which increases or may cause an increase
of the hazard or menace of fire to a greater degree than that customarily
recognized as normal by persons in the public service of preventing,
suppressing or extinguishing fire or which may obstruct, delay or
hinder or may become the cause of an obstruction, a delay, a hazard
or a hindrance to the prevention, suppression or extinguishment of
fire.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
GROSS FLOOR AREA
The total area within a dwelling unit available and accessible
to the occupants thereof for all purposes associated with living in
said unit.
HABITABLE ROOMS
Rooms used or designated for use by one or more persons for
living or sleeping or cooking and eating, but not including bathrooms,
water closet compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries,
corridors, foyers, vestibules, cellars, heater rooms, boiler rooms
and utility rooms or porches. Other rooms or spaces that are not used
frequently or for an extended period or that have less than 70 square
feet of floor area shall not be considered as "habitable rooms."
HOTEL or MOTEL
Any building kept, used, maintained, advertised as or held
out to be a place where sleeping accommodations are supplied for pay
to transient or permanent guests, in which rooms are rented, furnished
or unfurnished, including any room found to be arranged for or used
for sleeping purposes, with or without meals, for the accommodation
of such guests.
HOUSING INSPECTORS
All officials, officers or employees of the Township of Mount
Olive entrusted with the enforcement of this code.
[Amended 9-25-1990 by Ord. No. 40-90]
INFESTATION
The presence, within or contiguous to a structure or premises,
of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE
Any motor vehicle which cannot be moved under its own power
from place to place by reason of mechanical defects or inadequate
equipment, including but not restricted to the lack of one or more
tires, and which shall remain in such condition for a period of 14
days or more.
KITCHEN
Any room or part of a room used for cooking or the preparation
of food.
MOTOR VEHICLE
An automobile, omnibus, road tractor, trailer, truck, truck-tractor and other vehicles defined in Chapter
1 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey, as amended (N.J.S.A. 39:1-1).
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
All hotels, motels and residential structures, except one-
or two-family dwelling units, and the premises upon which they are
situated in the Township of Mount Olive, used or intended to be used
for dwelling occupancy. This shall include all buildings or structures
which meet this definition but additionally have commercial or other
use also.
[Added 3-1-1990 by Ord. No. B-5-90; amended 9-25-1990 by Ord. No.
40-90]
NET FLOOR AREA
The net floor area within a dwelling unit shall be computed
by deducting from the gross floor area the following:
(1)
Built-in equipment, wardrobes and closets, bathrooms, water
closet compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, cellars,
heating rooms, boiler rooms, utility rooms, kitchens, kitchenettes
and areas utilized for cooking purposes.
(2)
Other rooms or spaces that are not used frequently and regularly
for living purposes.
(3)
Such part of any room where the floor-to-ceiling height is less
than seven feet.
(4)
Any room or part remaining after eliminating the areas in Subsection
(3) or
(4) of this definition which would then contain less than 70 square feet.
NUISANCE
(1)
Any public nuisance known at common law or equity jurisprudence
or as provided by the statutes of the State of New Jersey or the ordinances
of the Township of Mount Olive.
(2)
Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to the health
and safety of persons, whether in a building, on the premises of a
building or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes but it is not limited
to abandoned wells, shafts, basements, excavations, abandoned iceboxes,
refrigerators, motor vehicles, any structures, unsound structures,
lumber, trash, fences, debris or vegetation, such as poison ivy, oak
or sumac.
(3)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life or detrimental to
health of persons on or near the premises where the condition exists.
(4)
Overcrowding of a room with occupants in violation of this code.
(5)
Insufficient ventilation or illumination in violation of this
code.
(6)
Inadequate or unsanitary sewerage or plumbing facilities in
violation of this code.
(7)
Unsanitary conditions or anything dangerous to health in violation
of this code.
(8)
Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome or detrimental
to the health of human beings.
OCCUPANT
Any person living, sleeping or having actual possession of
a business, dwelling unit or room unit.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a structure,
whether with or without the knowledge and consent of the owner.
OWNER
The owner or owners of the freehold of the premises or lesser
estate therein, a mortgage or vendee in possession, assignee of rents,
receiver, executor, trustee, lessee or other person, firm or corporation
in control of a building or their duly authorized agents.
PARTIES IN INTEREST
All individuals, associations and corporations who have interests
of record in a building and any who are in actual possession thereof.
[Added 6-12-2012 by Ord. No. 18-2012]
PERSON
An individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
PLUMBING and PLUMBING FIXTURES
All of the following supplies, facilities and equipment:
gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste
pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs,
shower baths, installed clothes-washing machines, catch basins, vents
and any other similar fixtures, together with all connections to water-,
sewer or gas lines and water pipes and -lines utilized in conjunction
with air-conditioning equipment.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or
structures thereon. For the purpose of this code, a vacant lot shall
be defined as a "lot." For the purpose of this code, "premises" shall
also include the area between the sidewalk and curb, where applicable.
ROOM
Space in an enclosed building or space set apart by a permanent
partition or partitions.
ROOMING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking
or eating purposes.
RUBBISH
All combustible and noncombustible waste materials, other
than garbage, and includes paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior,
rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals,
mineral matter, glass, crockery and the residue from burning wood,
coal, coke or other combustible materials, solid market and industrial
waste.
SEWAGE
Waste from a flush toilet, bathtub, sink, lavatory, dishwashing
or laundry machine or the water-carried waste from any other fixture
or equipment or machine.
STRUCTURE
That which is built or constructed or any piece of work artificially
built or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner,
the use of which requires more or less permanent location on or in
the ground. The word "structure" shall be construed as if followed
by the words "or part thereof" and shall be construed to include a
building or buildings.
SUPPLIED
Paid for, furnished or provided by or under control of the
owner or operator.
UTILITIES
Gas service and equipment therefor, electric service and
equipment therefor and water supply, including hot water and equipment
therefor.
VACANT
Not occupied by an incumbent or possessor.
VENTILATION
Supply and removal of air to and from any space by natural
or mechanical means.
WASHROOMS
Enclosed space containing one or more bathtubs, showers,
or both, and which shall also include toilets, lavatories or fixtures
serving similar purposes.
WATER CLOSET COMPARTMENTS
Enclosed space containing one or more toilets, which may
also contain one or more lavatories, urinals and other plumbing fixtures.
WEATHERING
Deterioration, decay or damage caused by exposure to the
elements.
YARD
An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a building
extending along the entire length of a street or rear or interior
lot line.