[1980 Code § 117-1]
This chapter shall be known as the "Health Code of the Town
of Morristown (1975)" and shall herein be referred to as the "code."
[1980 Code § 117-2; Ord. No. O-2-08; Ord. No. O-35-2014; Ord. No. O-13-2015]
As used in this chapter:
Any substance which will inhibit the growth and multiplication
of microorganisms, without necessarily killing them.
The application of any method or substance for the destruction
of pathogens and all other organisms, as far as practicable, which
is effective and does not adversely affect the equipment or the food
or drink or the health of the consumer.
Any house or other place where one or more children is received,
cared for or kept, unattended by his parents or legal guardian, for
the purpose of providing such child or children with food, lodging
or care.
One who prepares food at one location and transports it to
another location for consumption, or one who prepares food for special
functions with facilities provided by those being served, with or
without additional equipment of his own.
The lowermost portion of the building partly or totally underground,
having 1/2 or more of its height measured from clear floor to ceiling
below the average adjoining ground level. Where the natural contour
of the ground level immediately adjacent to the building is interrupted
by ditching, pits or trenching, then the average adjoining ground
level shall be the nearest natural contour line parallel to the walls
of the building without regard to the levels created by the ditching,
pits or trenching.
Removal by scrubbing and washing, as with hot water, soap,
detergent or by vacuuming infectious agents from surfaces.
The thorough removal of dust and other contaminating material
in such a way as to prevent the entry thereof as far as may be possible
into either rooms or dwellings; washing with soap and hot water; scouring,
airing and exposure to sunlight.
Any systematic body of law, especially one given statutory
force.
An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic
products that arises through transmission of that agent or its products
from an infected person, animal or other object to a susceptible host,
either directly or indirectly.
The time during which an infectious agent may be transferred
directly or indirectly from an infected person to another infected
person.
To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service.
Person or animal in close proximity to an infected person
so as to have an opportunity to be infected.
The definitions of dairy products as defined in N.J.S.A.
24:10-1 et seq. and in N.J.A.C. 8:21-10.1 et seq. are incorporated
herein as if set forth at length.
Any chemical substance or agent which will destroy microorganisms.
The process of destroying the vitality of the disease-producing
organisms by physical or chemical means.
The Division of Health of the Department of Human Services
for the Town of Morristown.
A building or structure or part thereof containing one or
more dwelling units or lodging units.
Any room or group of rooms or any part thereof located within
a building and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which
are used or designed to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and
eating.
Any raw, cooked, processed, edible substances, water, ice,
beverage or ingredient used or intended for use for sale, in whole
or in part, for human consumption.
Any fixed or mobile restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short
order cafe, luncheonette, grill, tearoom, sandwich shop, soda shop,
ice cream parlor, tavern, bar, night club, industrial cafeteria, bakery,
public food market, meat market, dairy, non-profit caterers, food
stands, liquor stores and supermarkets and grocery stores where food
is prepared on or off- site for sale.
Putrescible animal and/or vegetable waste resulting from
the handling, preparation, consumption or cooking of food.
Any substance which will kill microorganisms.
A room or enclosed floor space within a dwelling unit used
or designed to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes,
excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries,
foyers or communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
Physical, mental and social well being with the absence of
disease.
Anything that is detrimental to health or is potentially
injurious or dangerous to health.
The Health Officer for the Town of Morristown. A person who
holds a license as a Health Officer from the New Jersey Department
of Health and Senior Services.
The time from contact with an infectious agent to showing
signs and symptoms.
The entry, development or multiplication of an infectious
agent into the body of a human or an animal.
The placing apart of a person or persons affected with or
exposed to a communicable disease for the purpose of preventing contact
with other persons, and the establishment of restrictions directly
surrounding such person or persons.
Hawking, soliciting or peddling ready-to-eat produce, meat,
fish, poultry or any other edible substance from a vehicle, cart,
truck or other conveyance on any public or private thoroughfare in
the Town of Morristown.
The formal, written permission to perform certain acts or
carry on a certain business embodied in the document granting such
permission, issued by the Division of Health in accordance with its
rules and regulations and the Sanitary Code.
Any place where for a fee a business is conducted which involves
caring for and beautifying the human body by means of hand manipulation
or instrumental devices, except such places where the individual performing
such hand manipulations or operating such instruments, operating or
supervising the operation of such devices is licensed by the State
Board of Medical Examiners.
The secretion produced by the mammary glands of humans, cows
and other mammals.
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
Anything which is detrimental or hazardous to health or which
is potentially detrimental or hazardous to health, as determined by
the Division of Health.
Whenever, in describing or referring to any person, party,
matter or thing, any word importing the singular number or masculine
gender is used, the same shall be understood to include and to apply
to several persons or parties, as well as to one person, and to females
as well as males, and to bodies corporate as well as individuals,
and to several matters and things as well as one matter or thing.
Any person or persons in actual possession of and living
in the building or dwelling unit, including the owner.
Any person who, by contract, agreement or ownership, conducts
a restaurant, food-handling establishment or itinerant restaurant
or operates a vending machine or apparatus, or who vends any food
or food products within the Town.
Temporary permission, in writing, to cover the doing of a
single act or series of acts and which may be revoked by the Division
of Health for cause, at any time, although the act or acts for which
the permit was granted have not been completed.
Any person or persons, firm, corporation, association, societies,
firms, partnerships, joint-stock companies and political subdivisions,
as well as individuals.
Those protective measures taken by a person to promote health
and limit the spread of infectious disease.
And include all installed receptacles or devices which are
supplied with water or which receive or discharge liquid waste or
sewage into the drainage system with which they are directly or indirectly
connected.
Any food which consists in whole or in part of milk or milk
products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, edible crustacea,
raw seed sprouts, heat treated vegetables and vegetable products,
or other ingredients, including synthetic ingredients, in a form capable
of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic
microorganisms, or the slower growth of C. botulinum. The term does
not include foods which have a pH level of 4.6 or below or a water
activity (a [w]) value of 0.85 or less.
The placing of restrictions upon households or premises,
or the persons thereof, for the purpose of preventing the spread of
a communicable disease to other persons, households or premises.
And include but shall not be limited to garbage, ashes, street
cleanings, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, dead animals, paper,
cardboard, glass, tin cans, yard trimmings, leaves, wood and dead
tree limbs, bedding, furniture, excelsior and discarded clothing.
Two or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit
or rooming unit and who maintain a common household and who are related
by blood, marriage or adoption, except as hereinafter provided. For
the purpose of this chapter, "related persons" includes only a husband
and wife, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, brother, brother-in-law,
sister, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, father, father-in-law, mother,
mother- in-law, grandparent, grandchild, stepchild, adopted child
and bona fide family servants living in and working full time on the
premises. "Related persons" shall also mean foster children placed
in homes by a duly authorized State agency or court of competent jurisdiction.
The process of notifying the Health Division of the occurrence
of a communicable disease.
Restaurant, hotel, coffee shop, dining room, cafeteria, luncheonette,
soda fountain, sandwich stand or any other place where food or drink
is prepared, handled, stored, sold or served for consumption on the
premises to the public, organization members or employees, with or
without charge.
As applied to hazardous foods, below 45° F., or above
140° F.
Every delivery of food, whether the same is by direct sale
or the solicitation or acceptance of an order for food, and including
exchange, barter, traffic in, keeping and exposing for sale, displaying
for sale, serving with meals, delivering for value, peddling, possession
with intent to sell, the gratuitous delivery or gift of any food by
any licensee or person to whom a food certificate has been issued
or by any other person.
That degree of cleanliness as the Division of Health may
demand.
The process of rendering eating or drinking utensils free
from disease, bacteria or other organisms indicative of unsanitary
conditions.
The method of removing microorganisms from surfaces as approved
by the NJDOHSS.
Edible species consisting of clams, mussels and oysters,
either shucked or in a shell, either fresh or frozen.
A vessel of paper or plastic which may be used only one time.
The Sanitary Code enacted by the Department of Health of
the State of New Jersey.
The destruction of all microbial life on or in an object.
And include outdoor and indoor pools which are artificially
constructed to provide recreational facilities for swimming, bathing
or wading. It shall not include artificially constructed outdoor ponds,
rivers or lakes nor swimming or wading pools maintained by an individual
for his own or his family's use or for the guests of his household.
A person, corporation or partnership operating a swimming
pool for profit.
To mark or color the skin by pricking in coloring matter
so as to form indelible marks or figures or by the production of scars.
Any room or space where tattooing is practiced or where the
business of tattooing is conducted, or any part thereof.
Any person who controls, operates, conducts or manages any
tattoo establishment, whether actually performing the work of tattooing
or not.
Any place where a business is conducted which involves the
placing of an indelible mark or figure upon the body by insertion
of a pigment under the skin or by the production of scars.
The Town of Morristown, County of Morris, State of New Jersey.
And include electric, gas, heating, water and sewerage services
and equipment therefor.
Rats, mice, roaches, bed bugs, fleas and other animals and
insects of like nature.
[1980 Code § 117-3]
a.
Owners and operators. Owners and operators shall have all the duties
and responsibilities as prescribed in this code and the regulations
promulgated pursuant thereto, and no owner or operator shall be relieved
from any such duty and responsibility nor be entitled to defend against
any charge of violation thereof by reason of the fact that the occupant
or tenant is also responsible therefor and in violation thereof.
b.
Occupants or tenants. Tenants or occupants shall not be relieved
from any such duty and responsibility nor be entitled to defend against
any charge of violation thereof by reason of the fact that the owner
or operator is also responsible therefor and in violation thereof.
c.
Contract not to alter responsibilities. Unless expressly provided
to the contrary in this code, the respective obligations and responsibilities
of the owner and operator on one hand and the occupant or tenant on
the other shall not be altered or affected by an agreement or contract
by and between any of the aforesaid or between them and other parties.
[1980 Code § 117-4]
All licenses and permits issued pursuant to any of the sections
hereinafter repealed, and in force on the effective date hereof, shall
continue in force until the respective expiration date specified herein:
provided, however, that the holder of any such license or permit shall
be subject to and comply with the requirements and the respective
rules and regulations of this chapter.
