[1971 Code § 102-1]
A Code regulating the location, construction, alteration, use
and supervision of individual and semipublic water supplies; requiring
certain permits; providing for the inspection of such supplies, the
fixing of fees; and prescribing penalties for violations, is adopted
pursuant to Chapter 188, P.L. 1950 (N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 to 69.6). A
copy of this Code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without
inclusion of the text herein.
[1971 Code § 102-2]
The Code established and adopted by this section is described
and commonly known as the Safe Drinking Water Act — N.J.A.C.
7:10 (1979).
[1971 Code § 102-3]
Three copies of the Safe Drinking Water Act — N.J.A.C.
7:10 (1979) have been placed on file in the Office of the Secretary
of the Division of Health and will remain on file in the office for
the use and examination by the public.
[1971 Code § 102-4; Ord. No. 11-10]
A. No person shall locate, construct or alter any water supply until
a permit for the location, construction or alteration of the water
supply shall have been issued by the Department of Community Services.
B. The Department of Community Services may issue a permit if an application for the same is accompanied by a Permit to Drill a Well issued by the D.E.P., Division of Water Resources and a New Jersey licensed Professional Engineer for the installation of the water supply is in compliance with N.J.A.C., Chapter
7:10, Safe Drinking Water Act.
[Ord. No. 11-10]
In case any permit required by this section is denied by the
Department of Community Services, a hearing shall be held before the
Department within 15 days after request is made by the applicant,
and upon such hearing the Department of Community Services shall affirm,
alter or rescind its previous determination and take action accordingly
within 15 days after the date of such hearing.
[1971 Code § 102-7; Ord. No. 11-10]
The Department of Community Services may order all further work
in and about any water supply which is being erected or installed
in violation of the Code, to be stopped, except such work as shall
be necessary to remedy the 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 upon any person
connected with or working in and about the erection or installation
of any such water supply or any part thereof, no further work shall
be done except as aforesaid.
[1971 Code § 102-8; Ord. No. 3-1-83]
The following fees and charges are established:
A. Permit to locate and construct a water supply: $50.
B. For each reinspection of a water supply or part thereof caused by
the failure of the permittee to locate and construct or alter the
same in accordance with the terms of the permit issued or the terms
of the Code, an inspection fee of $10 shall be charged.
[Ord. No. 00-3 § 1]
This section of the Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Rockaway shall be known as the "Noise Control Ordinance."
[Ord. No. 00-3 § 1]
The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall
have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise. Terms not defined in this section have the same meaning
as those defined in N.J.A.C. 7:29.
CONSTRUCTION
Any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, alteration
or similar action, including demolition of buildings or structures.
DEMOLITION
Any dismantling, destruction or removal of buildings, structures
or roadways.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
EMERGENCY WORK
Any work or action necessary to deliver essential public
services including, but not limited to, repairing water, gas, electricity,
telephone, sewer facilities, or public transportation facilities,
removing fallen trees on public rights-of-ways, dredging navigational
waterways, or abating life-threatening conditions.
IMPULSIVE SOUND
Either a single pressure peak or a single burst (multiple
pressure peaks) and has a duration of less than one second.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any vehicle that is propelled other than by human or animal
power on land.
MUFFLER
A properly functioning sound dissipative device or system
for abating the sound of escaping gasses on equipment where such a
device is part of the normal configuration of the equipment.
MULTI-DWELLING UNIT BUILDING
Any building comprising two or more dwelling units, including,
but not limited to, apartments, condominiums, co-ops, multiple-family
houses, townhouses, and attached residences. Multi-use property shall
mean any distinct parcel of land that is used for more than one category
of activity. Examples include, but are not limited to:
A.
A commercial, residential, industrial or public service property
having boilers, incinerators, elevators, automatic garage doors, air
conditioners, laundry rooms, utility provisions, or health and recreational
facilities or other similar devices or areas, either in the interior
or on the exterior of the building, which may be a source of elevated
sound levels at another category on the same distinct parcel of land;
or
B.
A building which is both commercial (usually on the ground floor)
and residential property located above, behind, below or adjacent.
NOISE CONTROL OFFICER
An employee of: (1) a local, County or regional health agency
which is certified pursuant to the County Environmental Health Act
(N.J.S.A. 26:3A2-21 et seq.) to perform noise enforcement activities;
or (2) a municipality with a department-approved noise control ordinance
and the employee has received enforcement training and is currently
certified in noise enforcement. The employee must be acting within
his or her designated jurisdiction and must be authorized to issue
a summons in order to be considered a noise control officer.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE
Any sound that can be detected by a person using his or her
unaided hearing faculties. As an example, if the sound source under
investigation is a portable or personal vehicular sound amplification
or reproductive device, the detection of the rhythmic bass component
of the music is sufficient to verify plainly audible sound. The noise
control officer need not determine the title, specific words, or the
artist performing the song.
PRIVATE RIGHT-OF-WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley
or easement that is owned, leased, or controlled by a non-governmental
entity.
PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, sidewalk, alley
or easement that is owned, leased, or controlled by a governmental
entity.
PUBLIC SPACE
Any real property or structures thereon that are owned, leased,
or controlled by a governmental entity.
REAL PROPERTY LINE
Either (a) the imaginary line including its vertical extension
that separates one parcel of real property from another; (b) the vertical
and horizontal boundaries of a dwelling unit that is part of a multi-dwelling
unit building; or (c) on a multi-use property, the interface between
the two portions of the property on which different categories of
activity are being performed (e.g., if the multi-use property is a
building which is residential upstairs and commercial downstairs,
then the real property line would be the interface between the residential
area and the commercial area).
WEEKDAY
Any day that is not a Federal holiday, and beginning on Monday
at 7:00 a.m. and ending on the following Friday at 6:00 p.m.
WEEKENDS
Beginning on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and ending on the following
Monday at 7:00 a.m.
[1971 Code § 69-4; Ord. No. 11-10]
A. No person shall locate, construct or alter any individual sewage
disposal system until a permit for the location, construction or alteration
of the sewage disposal system has been issued by the Department of
Community Services.
B. The Department of Community Services may issue a permit if an application
made by a licensed New Jersey Professional Engineer and the design
is in compliance with the provisions of this Code.
[1971 Code § 69-5; Ord. No. 11-10]
A. New individual disposal systems shall not be placed in operation,
nor shall new buildings or buildings or additions be sold or occupied,
which must rely on such a system for sewage disposal, until the Department
of Community Services shall have issued a permit indicating that the
disposal system has been located and constructed in compliance with
the terms of the permit issued and the requirements of the aforesaid
Code.
B. The Department of Community Services may issue such a permit if a
licensed New Jersey Professional Engineer submits an as built design
of the individual disposal system indicating said system is located
and constructed in accordance with the terms of the permit issued
and the requirements of the aforesaid Code.
[1971 Code § 69-6]
Persons shall not engage in the business of emptying or cleaning
septic tanks, cesspools, privies or any place used for the reception
or storage of human excrement who do not hold a license to engage
in such business issued by DEP, Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste.
[1971 Code § 69-7; Ord. No. 11-10]
In case any permit or certificate required by this section is
denied by the Department of Community Services a hearing shall be
held before the Council within 15 days after a request is made by
the applicant and upon such hearing the Department of Community Services
shall affirm, alter or rescind its previous determination and take
action accordingly within 15 days of the hearing.
[1971 Code § 69-8; Ord. No. 11-10]
The Department of Community Services 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, except
such work as shall be necessary to remedy the 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 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 except as aforesaid.
[1971 Code § 696; Ord. No. 3-1-83; Ord. No. 3-15-83; Ord. No. 4-1-86]
The following fees and charges are established:
A. New systems.
(1)
Single family.
Application fee/permit: $100/lot.
Soil evaluations: $105/lot.
(2)
Multiple dwelling. Ten dwelling units or less.
Application fee/Permit: $150/system.
Soil evaluations: $160/system.
(3)
Multiple dwelling. More than 10 dwelling units:
Application fee/permit: $150/system.
Soil evaluations: $160/system.
(4)
Commercial.
Application fee: $250/system.
Soil evaluation: $160/system.
(5)
The aforesaid permits shall expire one year from the date of
issue. The renewal fee for the reissuance of the aforesaid permits
shall be $15.
B. Existing systems.
(1)
All alterations and repairs to septic systems.
Application fee/Permit: $50.
(2)
The aforesaid permits shall expire one year from the date of
issue. The renewal fee for the reissuance of the aforesaid permits
shall be $15.
[1971 Code § 69-10; Ord. No. 3-21-78]
Any person violating any of the provisions of or any order promulgated under this section or the Standards for Individual Disposal Systems (1990) made a part hereof shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalty stated in Chapter
1, Section
1-5. Each and every violation in nonconformance with this section shall have been violated shall be construed as a separate and distinct violation hereof.