As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ENFORCING OFFICIAL
The Health Officer or other official authorized by the Board
of Health to enforce this code and chapter.
PERSON
An individual, firm, corporation, association, society, partnership
and their agents or employees.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, cause or suffer
or permit to be made or caused upon any premises owned, occupied or
controlled by him or it or upon any public street, alley or thoroughfare
in this municipality any unnecessary noises or sounds by means of
the human voice or by any other means or methods which are physically
annoying to persons or which are so harsh or so prolonged or unnatural
or unusual in their use, time and place as to occasion physical discomfort
or which are injurious to the lives, health, peace and comfort of
the inhabitants of this municipality or any member thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, lease or otherwise
permit the occupancy of any building as a residence or for any person
to reside in any building as its owner, which building:
A. Is not adequately and properly ventilated;
B. Fails to provide potable water at sufficient pressure and quantity
for each family unit from a public supply approved by the State Department
of Health or a private supply approved by the enforcing official;
C. Does not have plumbing fixtures consisting of a kitchen sink, bathtub
or shower, lavatory and flush toilet connected to the potable water
supply; or
D. Does not have facilities for the discharge of all household liquid
wastes into a public sewerage system approved by the State Department
of Health or into a private sewerage system approved by the enforcing
official.
It shall be unlawful for any person to spit upon any public
sidewalk or upon any part of the interior or exterior of any public
building or public conveyance.
The Board of Health may institute an action at law to recover costs incurred by it in the removal or abatement of any nuisance, as declared by §
433-8 of this chapter, from any person who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance to exist or from any owner, tenant or occupant of premises who, after notice and notification as herein provided, shall fail to remove and abate the same within the time specified in such notice.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Board
of Health or its enforcing official.
[Added 4-10-1975 by Ord. No. B-1-75; amended 1-10-1985 by Ord. No.
B-12-84; 10-4-1990 by Ord. No. B-8-90]
In lieu of the abatement remedies referred to in §
433-7 hereinabove, any individual, partnership or corporation continuing to maintain a nuisance as defined in §
433-2 after notice to abate has been given or violating any other provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $500 nor less than $50. This penalty provision is adopted in accordance with N.J.S.A. 26:3-70.