City of Passaic, NJ
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2024-01-11
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 125 Dwelling Units
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Article III Bedbug Control
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Contracts
- Ch 8 Credit Card Payments
- Ch 9 Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Team
- Ch 11 Elections
- Ch 15 Emergency, State of
- Ch 17 Enterprise Zone Development Corporation
- Ch 18 Ethics
- Ch 18A Financial Disclosure Statements
- Ch 19 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Health Officer
- Ch 25 Insurance
- Ch 29 Land Development Procedures
- Ch 30 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 33 Parking Authority
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 39 Police Department
- Ch 40 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 44 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 46 Retirement
- Ch 49 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 59 Videotaping City Council Meetings
- Ch 61 Volunteer First Aid, Rescue and Ambulance Squads
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 70 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 71 Alarm Devices
- Ch 75 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 79 Amusement Devices
- Ch 83 Apartment Rental Businesses
- Ch 87 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 89 Auto Body Repair Facilities
- Ch 90 Automotive Repair Facilities
- Ch 90A Barbershops, Cosmetology and Hairstyling
- Ch 91 Body Piercing
- Ch 93 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 95 Buildings, Vacant
- Ch 99 Carnivals, Bazaars and Fairs
- Ch 100 Certificates of Occupancy and Tenancy
- Ch 101 Child-Care Services
- Ch 102 Clothing Bins
- Ch 103 Clubs
- Ch 107 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 109 (Reserved)
- Ch 110 Corporations, Representation of
- Ch 113 Curfew
- Ch 115 Dance Halls
- Ch 116 Demolition of Structures
- Ch 117 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 121 Dry-Cleaning Machines
- Ch 122 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 123 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Dwelling Units
- Ch 125 Art III Bedbug Control
- § 125-16 Definitions.
- § 125-17 Bedbugs declared public nuisance.
- § 125-18 Bedbug infestation - duty to exterminate.
- § 125-19 Disposal of furnishings, bedding, clothing or other materials infested with bedbugs.
- § 125-20 Enforcement.
- § 125-21 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 128 Employer Regulations
- Ch 129 Entertainment
- Ch 133 Fees
- Ch 135 Filming
- Ch 137 Fire Hydrants
- Ch 139 Fire Prevention
- Ch 143 Floodplain Management Regulations
- Ch 145 Florists
- Ch 149 Food Establishments
- Ch 151 Foreclosing Mortgages and Vacant Property, Registration of
- Ch 153 Games of Chance
- Ch 157 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 161 Graffiti
- Ch 162 Grocery Stores
- Ch 165 Heating of Residential Property
- Ch 169 Insurance
- Ch 173 Junkyards and Junk Shops
- Ch 175 Landscaping
- Ch 176 Library
- Ch 177 Licenses
- Ch 179 Littering
- Ch 181 Loading Zones
- Ch 185 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Noise
- Ch 194 Public Seating
- Ch 195 Paint, Spray
- Ch 197 Parades and Flag-Raising Ceremonies
- Ch 199 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 201 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 203 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 207 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 211 Peddling, Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 215 Police and Fire Equipment
- Ch 217 Poultry Markets
- Ch 219 Property Maintenance
- Ch 223 Public Health Nuisance Code
- Ch 227 Rat Control
- Ch 229 Real Estate Practitioners
- Ch 230 Recycling
- Ch 231 Rent Control
- Ch 231A Rental Property
- Ch 232 Recreational Cannabis Establishments
- Ch 234 Sales, Garage, Yard, Porch and House
- Ch 235 Sales, Special
- Ch 239 Sewers
- Ch 240 Sexual Offenders, Registry of
- Ch 243 Shopping Carts
- Ch 245 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 247 Signs
- Ch 251 Smoking
- Ch 255 Snow and Ice and Other Impediments, Removal of
- Ch 256 (Reserved)
- Ch 257 Storage Tanks, Underground
- Ch 258 Storm Sewers
- Ch 258A Stormwater Control
- Ch 259 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 263 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 267 Swimming Pools
- Ch 271 (Reserved)
- Ch 275 Taxation
- Ch 277 Taxicabs
- Ch 278 Limousines
- Ch 280 Telephones, Outdoor
- Ch 281 Tenancies, Protected
- Ch 283 Tobacco
- Ch 284 Tractor-Trailers
- Ch 285 Transient Merchants
- Ch 289 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 293 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 295 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 297 Vehicles, Towing of
- Ch 298 Vehicles, Vending
- Ch 299 Vending Machines
- Ch 301 Waterfront
- Ch 303 Wells
- Ch 317 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A321 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A323 Telephone Facilities
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 9-5-2018 by Ord.
No. 2165-18]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
All officials, officers or employees of the City of Passaic
entrusted with the enforcement of this Code.
A bloodsucking bug that is a parasite of birds and mammals.
Any mattress, mattress pad, quilted pad, box spring, foundation,
bunk quilt, cushion or couch made in whole or part from new or secondhand
fabric, filling material, or other textile product or material and
which can be used for sleeping or reclining purposes.
Shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms in § 219-4.
The control and elimination of insects, rodents and vermin
by exterminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible
material that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating,
or trapping; or by other approved means of pest elimination.
The presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests,
including, but not limited to, bedbugs, on the premises which constitute
a health hazard.
A building that contains three or more rental units; it does
not include a condominium or cooperative building.
Any person who is required to be certified and registered
pursuant to the provisions of either N.J.A.C. 7:30-6, Commercial Pesticide
Applicators, or N.J.A.C. 7:30-8. Private Pesticide Applicators.
Any dwelling unit that is not owner-occupied and is held
out for rent to tenants, including any single-family home held out
for rent to tenants.
Bedbugs are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and are
subject to the abatement provisions of this article.
A.
In any rental unit, or any multiple rental unit building, in which
authorized City personnel confirm an infestation of bedbugs following
an investigation, it is the responsibility of the property owner to
provide pest control services by a licensed pesticide applicator until
such time that no evidence of bedbugs can be found on reinspection
by authorized City personnel.
B.
Pest control services shall be provided within 10 days after being
notified in writing by authorized City personnel after same has conducted
on inspection and confirmed the presence of bedbugs on the premises
or in the tenant's rental unit.
C.
The extermination of bedbugs shall be undertaken by a licensed pesticide
applicator only. Extermination of bedbugs shall include the treatment
of the dwelling units on either side of the affected dwelling unit
as well as the units directly above and below the affected dwelling
unit. This pattern of inspection and treatment shall be continued
until no further infestation is detected.
A.
No person shall place, discard or dispose of any bedding, clothing
or other materials infested with bedbugs on the public way or in a
refuse container or dumpster located on the public way, except when
such bedding, clothing or other material is placed in or near the
person's refuse container or dumpster for pickup as trash and the
bedding, clothing or other material is totally enclosed in a plastic
bag or similar enclosure and labeled as being infested with bedbugs.
B.
No furnishing, bedding, clothing or other material infested with
bedbugs shall be recycled.
This article shall be enforced by the Division of Health and
the Department of Housing of the City of Passaic.
Any person(s) who is (are) found to be in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to the penalties set forth in the general penalty provisions. § 1-3 of the Code of the City of Passaic.
