There shall be and is hereby created a Board of Health to be
known as "The Township of Quinton Board of Health."
The Board of Health shall reorganize annually, which reorganization
meeting shall take place between January 1 and January 15 of every
year.
The Board of Health shall consist of three members, all of whom
shall be members of the Township Committee. The members shall select
a President, Vice President and Secretary.
The term of the members of the Board of Health shall be for
a period of one year commencing on January 1 and ending December 31.
All members of the Board of Health shall serve without compensation
for their services.
The purpose of the Board of Health shall be to monitor and regulate
the public health within the Township of Quinton.
The Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953), approved
by the New Jersey State Department of Health on September 16, 1953,
is hereby adopted as the Health Nuisance Code of the Township of Quinton,
a copy of which code is on file in the office of the Municipal Clerk
and is available for public inspection.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Township Health Officer,
which individual shall be appointed annually by the Township Committee
of the Township of Quinton for a term of one year, and who shall be
paid in accordance with the Township's Salary Ordinance.
A code defining and prohibiting certain matters, things, conditions
or acts and each of them as a nuisance prohibiting certain noises
or sounds, requiring the proper heating of apartments, prohibiting
spitting in or upon public buildings, conveyances or sidewalks, authorizing
the inspection of premises by an enforcing official, providing for
the removal or abatement of certain nuisances and recovery of expenses
incurred by the Board of Health in removing or abating such nuisances
and prescribing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant
to Chapter 188, Laws of 1950. A copy of said code is on file with the Secretary of this
Local Board of Health and in the Township Clerk's Office.
The said code established and adopted by this chapter is described
and commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey
(1953)."
Three copies of the said Public Health Nuisance Code of New
Jersey (1953) have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary
of this local Board of Health and will remain on file there for the
use and examination of the public.
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision
of this chapter, including the Public Health Nuisance Code of New
Jersey (1953) incorporated herein by reference, or notice issued pursuant
thereto, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not
exceeding $2,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day
during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
All ordinances, codes or parts of same inconsistent with any
of the provisions of this chapter and the code established hereunder
are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
In the event that any section, article or clause of this code
shall be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction
such declaration shall not in any manner prejudice the enforcement
of the remaining provisions.