[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Fairfield as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted as § 14-1 of the 1980 Code]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
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
lease or rental of certain buildings, 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 Township Committee in removing or abating such nuisances and prescribing
penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant to Chapter
188, Laws of 1950,[1] except that Section 2.1(a) and (b) are excluded from this
adoption. A copy of the code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof
without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1 et seq.
The code established and adopted by this article is described
and commonly known as the "Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey
(1953)."
Three copies of the Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey
(1953) have been placed on file in the office of the Township Clerk
and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision
of this article or the code established herein or notice issued pursuant
thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of
not less than $5 nor more than $500 for each violation.
