[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-1]
The terms "Board of Health" and "Board" as used in this Chapter
shall be construed to mean the Board of Health of the Township of
Mahwah in the County of Bergen.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-2]
No privy shall hereafter be constructed, reconstructed or installed
in the Township unless a permit therefor shall first have been issued
by the Board of Health of this Township.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-3]
Each privy hereafter constructed, reconstructed, installed,
maintained or used in the Township shall conform to the following
requirements:
a.
The privy building shall be substantially constructed and shall be
kept in good repair.
b.
There shall be a vault or other container for excremental matter
beneath the seat in each privy building, and in the case of all privies
located within fifty (50') feet of any well or spring, the waters
of which are used for domestic or drinking purposes, the vault or
excrement container shall be watertight.
c.
Each privy and vault or other container for human excrement shall
be so constructed and maintained that flies cannot gain access to
excrementitious matter contained therein.
d.
The openings in the seats of each privy shall be fitted with substantial,
tightly fitting covers hinged to some part of the seat framework or
to the back wall of the privy building and so arranged as to be self-closing.
e.
The privy building shall rest upon a substantial foundation and in
such a manner that flies cannot gain access to the material in the
vault or other container between the foundation and the privy building.
f.
The privy building shall be securely anchored to keep it in an upright
position, and each privy shall be kept in an upright position except
during the process of cleaning, reconstruction or removal.
g.
Each privy shall be located at least eight (8') feet from any
property line and thirty (30') feet from any well.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #59; 1976 Code § 206-6]
Each owner of property on which there is now or hereafter constructed
a structure or building of any kind, which building is required to
have or does have a need for disposal of sewage or other waste generally
disposed of by a sanitary sewer treatment facility, shall within one
(1) year from the date written notice is given to such person that
a public sanitary sewer system is complete and available to serve
such property, make a suitable, proper and lawful connection to such
system.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #59; 1976 Code § 206-6.2]
Notice referred to in subsection BH11-2.6 of this section shall be given to each property by the administrative authority (Plumbing Subcode Official) designated in the Uniform Construction Code then in force in New Jersey. Notice shall be in writing and shall be deemed delivered when mailed by regular mail to the owner shown on the current Municipal real estate tax records at such owner's last known post office address shown on such records or by delivering such notice to the owner or his agent or by leaving such notice at such property with any person over the age of fourteen (14) or by securely and conspicuously affixing such notice to the principal building on such property in the absence of such resident person.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #60; 1976 Code § 206-6.4]
Every house sewer, whether dry or wet, installed at any time
prior to completion of construction and operation of the public sanitary
sewer system shall conform in every respect to the National Standard
Plumbing Code regulations for house sewers in force at the effective
date of this section or, if installed subsequent to the effective
date of this section, such as are in effect at the commencement of
such installation.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord.#60; BH Ord. #69; 1976 Code § 206-6.5]
Every dry sewer installed in new residential construction shall
begin within such residential building and be capped at that end.
Every dry sewer installed in an existing residential building shall
be capped by an expandable plug or "test plug" either inside or outside
such residential building. Every dry sewer installed after the effective
date of this section shall be installed in a straight line, or on
a course traversing the shortest practicable distance from the dwelling
to the point of connection of such dry sewer to the Public Sanitary
Sewer System. Every such dry sewer shall be indicated on every sewerage
disposal plan approved by the Board of Health. Every owner of every
lot upon which any such dry sewer is installed shall, upon completion
of such installation, file with the Board of Health a copy of a prior
approved plan marked "as built" and certified by the owner, a licensed
plumber or professional engineer, to show the actual location of such
dry sewer.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; BH Ord. #40; BH Ord. #54; BH Ord.
#74; 1976 Code § 206-7; BH Ord. #12-128]
No person shall bring into the Township, own, keep, harbor,
board, raise, breed or maintain any cattle or horse, as hereinafter
respectively defined, within the Township nor permit the same, without
first having applied for and having obtained from the Board of Health
of the Township, a license for that purpose, as hereinafter prescribed.
The license is renewable April 1 of each year.
a.
A license shall be issued as follows.
1.
For cattle, as hereinafter defined, upon making application for a
license, payment of ninety ($90.00) dollars for one (1) to three (3)
cattle, payment of one hundred fifty ($150.00) dollars four (4) to
nine (9) cattle, and payment of two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars
for ten (10) cattle or more, upon presenting a veterinarian's
certification that each cattle is free of communicable disease and
is currently and effectively inoculated against any communicable disease
against which either or both the Department of Health and/or the Department
of Agriculture of the State of New Jersey may recommend or direct
cattle as hereinafter defined, to be inoculated, and upon making an
application for a license, and if the cattle are to be kept in a proper
and sanitary place and will not result in giving forth of any offensive
odor and will not in any way be unsanitary or dangerous or injurious
to health.
2.
For horses, as hereinafter defined, upon making application for a
license, payment of a fee of ninety ($90.00) dollars for one (1) to
three (3) horses, payment of one hundred fifty ($150.00) dollars for
four (4) to nine (9) horses, payment of two hundred fifty ($250.00)
dollars for ten (10) or more horses, upon presenting a veterinarian's
certification that each such horse is free of communicable disease
and is currently and effectively inoculated against eastern and western
encephalitis and any other communicable disease against which either
or both the Department of Health and/or the Department of Agriculture
of the State of New Jersey may from time to time recommend or direct
horses, as hereinafter defined, to be inoculated, and upon making
an application for a license, and if the horses are to be kept in
a proper and sanitary place and will not result in giving forth of
any offensive odor and will not in any way be unsanitary or dangerous
or injurious to health.
b.
As used in this section unless the context otherwise requires, the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Application (in the case of application for a license for horses
or cattle) shall mean a sketch or plot plan of the premises containing
sufficient data which, together with a physical inspection of the
premises, would tend to establish compliance with the requirements
of this section.
Barn shall mean a structure housing any horses or cattle.
Cattle shall mean domestic quadrupeds of the bovine species,
including, without limitation cows, bulls, sheep, goats and swine,
but excluding horses as hereinafter defined.
Horse shall mean horses, asses, mules, burros and ponies.
c.
No person shall keep any cattle or horses in excess of the number
specified in the license granted for that purpose. License shall be
prominently displayed where such cattle or horses are kept.
d.
The Board may, after reasonable notice and public hearing if demanded,
refuse to grant a license if a proper and sanitary place for keeping
cattle or horses is not to be provided by the applicant or if it finds
that a health hazard is likely to arise or if the applicant fails
to comply with any part of this section.
e.
The Board at any time may revoke any license if it finds, after reasonable
notice and public hearing, the license notwithstanding, that a subsequent
health hazard has arisen or that there is a failure to comply with
any part of this section.
f.
Should the Board find, determine or have reason to believe that an
applicant should be denied a license, or, in any case where a license
has been issued, should the Board find, determine or have reason to
believe that the license should be revoked, then in such event the
Board shall so notify the applicant or licensee, as the case may be,
in writing, either by delivery of a copy of the notice to him personally
or by mailing a copy by certified mail, return receipt requested.
The applicant or licensee shall have ten (10) days from receipt of
the notice if delivered personally, or from the date the notice was
postmarked if mailed, in which to notify the Board in writing, signed
by him, that the applicant or licensee desires a hearing on the matter.
g.
Should the applicant or licensee not request a hearing as provided
in paragraph f., or should the Board, upon conclusion of a hearing
held upon such request, determine that a license should not be issued
or that a license already issued should be revoked, then in that event
the Board shall notify the applicant or licensee, personally at the
conclusion of the hearing or by mailing him a copy of the written
notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, of the fact and,
in the case of a licensee, that the licensee shall have ten (10) days
from the date of the hearing, if notice is in person, or, if by mail,
ten (10) days from the date of mailing of the notice, to remove any
and all such cattle or horses from the licensee's premises.
h.
No person shall allow any cattle or horses to run at large in the
Township. Cattle and horses shall at all times be confined to the
premises for which a license is issued or be under the immediate control
of the licensee.
i.
It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into the Township, for
any purpose whatsoever, any pigeon. This provision shall not be construed
to prohibit the keeping of pigeons already within the Township prior
to the effective date of this amendment, provided that the owner,
keeper or breeder of such pigeons has obtained from the Board of Health
a permit for such purpose and provided further that the holder of
such permit shall not be in violation thereof.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; BH Ord. #54; 1976 Code § 206-8]
a.
Upon each lot on which a horse is to be owned, kept, harbored, boarded,
raised, bred or maintained there must be a barn under roof, within
which barn there must be for each horse a box stall located within
an area ten (10') feet square and unoccupied by any other stall
or any part of any other stall. Such minimum areas shall be exclusive
of storage area for feed and materials kept within any barn.
b.
No barn shall be located nearer than fifty (50') feet to any
dwelling.
c.
Feed and products shall be kept in sanitary containers, which containers
shall be constructed to prevent entry of rats or other vermin and
shall be located so as to be inaccessible to any horses or cattle.
If such containers are located in any part of a barn not separated
from all stalls by a solid partition, the floor area between all stalls
and the containers shall be of impervious material. If such containers
are kept in any area separated from all stalls by a solid partition
as permitted, access to such area shall be fitted with a tight door
which shall be kept securely closed when not in actual use.
d.
Every barn, feed room and material room shall be so constructed as
to discourage the entry of rats and other vermin.
e.
Every yard, arena, paddock, rink, stable and every other structure
or enclosure where any horses or cattle are kept, housed or confined
shall be kept in a clean and dry condition. No vegetable or other
putrescible matter shall be allowed to remain or decay in any such
structure or enclosure.
f.
Liquid wastes of horses and cattle shall not be permitted to stand
or accumulate upon the surface of any lot or premises.
g.
Every barn shall be kept free of flies and like insects and pests.
h.
No part of any barn, arena, paddock, rink, corral or pigpen shall
be located nearer than fifty (50') feet to any adjacent property.
i.
No horses or cattle shall be grazed or pastured nearer than eight
(8') feet to any dwelling or adjacent property.
j.
Nothing herein shall be construed to permit construction of any structure
or enclosure not conforming to the Building Code and complying with
the zoning ordinances of the Township of Mahwah.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; BH Ord. #65; 1976 Code § 206-8A;
BH Ord. #12-128]
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-9]
No house or kitchen slops, sink drainage, laundry waste or other
decomposable or putrescible waste liquids shall be discharged or deposited
in or upon any sidewalk, street, highway or public place in the Township
nor in such place or manner as to reach any sidewalk, street, highway
or public place in the Township, nor in or upon any private property
within a distance of eight (8') feet from any property line;
nor shall any such waste material be discharged or disposed of in
any place or manner that will pollute the water in any well or spring,
the waters of which are used for drinking or household purposes; nor
shall such waste liquids otherwise be disposed of or permitted to
accumulate in any manner that will create a nuisance detrimental to
the public health; provided, however, that this subsection shall not
apply to any sewerage system approved by the State Department of Health.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-10]
No owner, tenant or other person in charge of any property in
the Township shall maintain or permit to be maintained on the property
any accumulation of house or kitchen slops, sink drainage, laundry
wastes or other waste liquids in which fly larvae or mosquito larvae
exist.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-11]
All garbage, offal and decomposing animal or vegetable matter
which shall accumulate at any dwelling, camp, restaurant, market,
store or at other similar places in the Township shall be stored in
watertight, tightly covered receptacles or buried daily in the ground
to the depth of one (1') foot.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-12]
No person shall deposit nor permit to be deposited any garbage,
rubbish or decomposing animal or vegetable matter in or upon any sidewalk,
street or highway in the Township.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-13]
No owner, tenant or person in charge of any premises in the
Township shall maintain or permit to exist on the premises any accumulation
of decomposing animal or vegetable matter in which fly larvae exist
or which otherwise contributes to and constitutes a nuisance.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-14]
No person, firm or corporation shall transport, carry or cause
to be transported or carried through or along any sidewalk, street,
alley or public highway in the Township any night soil or material
removed from any privy vault or from any cesspool, septic tank or
other drainage receptacle except where such material is transported
or carried in a watertight receptacle so covered as to prevent the
oozing, leaking or splashing of any liquid or solid therefrom.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-15]
Any person, firm or corporation collecting and transporting
garbage, refuse, decomposing animal or vegetable matter shall first
have obtained a permit from the Board of Health.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-16]
Cleaning of privy vaults, cesspools and septic tanks and transporting
of such waste material shall be done only by duly licensed scavengers.
Such licenses shall be issued by the Board of Health for a period
of one (1) year from the date of issuance, unless revoked prior to
that date by the Board.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-17]
Whenever the Board of Health of the Township of Mahwah shall
have satisfactory evidence that any well, spring, or cistern, the
waters of which are used for drinking or for domestic purposes or
in the process of cleaning utensils used in handling food or drink
at any hotel, restaurant, lunchroom, ice-cream store, soda fountain
or similar food vending establishments, or in the process of cleansing
utensils in handling milk or other dairy products, has become polluted
and rendered unsafe for potable use, notice to discontinue the use
of the polluted water for such purposes shall be sent to the owner
or party in charge of the well, or, at the discretion of this Board,
notice may be served upon the owner or party in charge of such well
to close, fill up or withdraw from the ground the well or to make
such supply safe for potable purposes.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-18]
Each water closet, bathtub, washbowl, sink, washtray and other
drainage fixture, also each trap, waste pipe, drainpipe, vent pipe
and other drainage appliance, which is not constructed in a workmanlike
manner or which is damaged, broken, imperfect or defective, and also
each untrapped drainage fixture, is hereby declared to be a nuisance,
and any person, firm or corporation which shall cause or maintain
any such nuisance or which shall refuse or neglect to repair and make
perfect any defect in any such water closet, bathtub, washbowl, sink,
washtray, trap, waste pipe, drainpipe, vent pipe or any other drainage
appliance or portion thereof shall be liable to a penalty.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-19]
Whenever it shall be decided by this Board that any building
or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of its becoming
infected with disease or by reason of its being in a condition dangerous
to health or otherwise likely to cause sickness among the occupants,
and notice of such decision shall be affixed conspicuously to the
building or any part thereof so decided to be unfit for human habitation
and shall be served personally upon the owner, agent or lessee, if
the same can be found in the State, requiring all persons therein
to vacate such building or part thereof, such building or part thereof
shall, within ten (10) days thereafter or within such shorter time
as may be specified in the notice, be vacated.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #41; 1976 Code § 206-20]
The owner, tenant, manager and all other persons maintaining,
operating or in charge or control of any public place, including without
limitation any service station, hotel, motel, restaurant, school,
theater, public hall or railroad station, shall at all times keep
and maintain every such public place and all parts thereof in a clean
and sanitary condition and open to inspection by the Board of Health.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #41; 1976 Code § 206-21]
Every public place shall have separate toilet facilities for
male and female and each such facility shall contain the following:
a.
A washroom containing a sink and hot and cold water under pressure.
b.
A sufficient quantity of toilet tissue.
c.
Clean individual towels, mechanically adjustable roller towels or
air-drying facilities.
d.
A sanitary waste receptacle for towels customarily discarded after
usage and a sanitary napkins waste receptacle.
e.
A mechanical dispenser filled with liquid or powdered soap.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #41; 1976 Code § 206-22]
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-23]
No person shall engage in the handling, selling or preparing
in any store, bakery or market, or in the preparing, cooking or serving
in any public restaurant, hotel or other boarding place, of any article
of food for human consumption, unless such person furnishes to this
Board a certificate signed by a licensed physician approved by this
Board, stating that such person is free from evidence of communicable
disease, such examination to be made with special reference to tuberculosis
and venereal diseases. Such person shall be reexamined at least yearly
on or before May 1 of each year and such certificate shall be filed
with the Board not later than May 1 of each year.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-24]
The sale or offering for sale of any meat or vegetable, food
or drink for human consumption that is unwholesome or unfit for food
is hereby prohibited; any person or persons who shall sell, offer
for sale or have in his or their possession with intent to sell any
meat or vegetable, food or drink for human consumption that is unwholesome
or unfit for food shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-25]
When any meat, fish, bird, fowl, fruit, vegetable or drink is
found by an inspector or member of this Board being offered or exposed
for sale which is in a condition which renders it unwholesome or unfit
for use for human food, he shall order the same to be removed, and
the owner or persons in charge of such article or matter or substance
shall immediately remove the same from any market, street or place
and such article shall not be sold or offered for sale nor in any
way disposed of for human food.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-26]
All dishes and other utensils in which food or drink is served
or which are used by customers, and all knives, forks, spoons, cups,
glasses and similar articles used by customers in the consumption
of food or drink, except single-service utensils, shall be thoroughly
cleansed in hot soapy water or a hot alkaline solution and later rinsed
or immersed in clean water of a temperature of at least one hundred
eighty (180°) degrees Fahrenheit before being used in serving
another customer, or shall be cleansed and treated in some other manner
which will yield equal results. Facilities for providing an adequate
supply of hot water for the purpose above set forth shall be maintained
and used.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-27]
All utensils and implements used in cooking, preparing or serving
food shall be cleansed in hot soapy water or a hot alkaline solution
and later rinsed in clean scalding water or shall be cleansed and
treated in some other manner which will yield equal results.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-28]
The vessel in which dishes and other utensils and equipment
used in preparing or serving food are washed shall be of metal or
some other nonabsorbent material and shall be used for no other purpose
unless it has been cleansed in accordance with the provisions of subsection
BH11-6.7.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-29]
Every physician shall, within twelve (12) hours after his first
professional attendance upon any person who is afflicted with any
of the following diseases, report such sickness by telephone or message
and confirm the same in writing to the person designated by this Board
to receive such reports:
Anthrax
Chicken pox
Cholera, Asiatic
Diphtheria (membranous croup)
Dysentery (Amebic and bacillary)
Encephalitis, lethargic
Glanders
Influenza
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Measles, German (rubella)
Meningitis (epidemic cerebrospinal)
Mumps
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paratyphoid fever
Pneumonia (broncho, lobar)
Plague
Poliomyelitis, acute anterior
Rabies (hydrophobia)
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Scarlet fever
Smallpox (varioloid)
Streptococcic sore throat
Tetanus
Trachoma
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis, all forms
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever
Undulant fever
Whooping cough
Yellow fever
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-30]
When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of every person who has reason to believe that any person living, dwelling or being in any building or apartment under his control is affected with any of the communicable diseases enumerated in subsection BH11-7.1, to, within twelve (12) hours after discovering the same, report the facts in writing to the person designated by this Board to receive such reports.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-31]
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by this Board to establish
the true character of any disease which it may believe to be communicable,
a medical examination of the person or persons affected by such disease
may be ordered and such examination shall be permitted by all attendants
and persons.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-32]
In case an infectious, contagious or communicable disease occurs
in this Township, the person affected thereby shall, at the discretion
of this Board, be isolated or he may be removed to such locality as
this Board may order and direct; and all buildings, clothing, property,
premises and vehicles which may become infected by the presence of
persons affected with contagious, infectious or communicable disease
shall be disinfected, and the disinfection shall be made and performed
in such manner and with such materials and within such stated time
and under such supervision as this Board may direct. This Board may
establish such separation and isolation or quarantine of the sick
from other persons not necessary as attendants and also provide and
effect such special care, disinfection and cleansing of property and
premises as shall, in the judgment of the Board, be needed in order
to prevent the spreading of such diseases to other persons.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-33]
Whenever quarantine or isolation and separation of persons or
property on account of contagious, infectious or communicable disease
is ordered by this Board, notice of the order shall be given to the
persons affected thereby. Notice shall be in writing and it may be
served personally, left with some person at the infected house, or
it may be posted upon the building or premises occupied by the infected
persons or property. The requirements of the quarantine notice shall
be obeyed by all persons, and no such notice or any other sign indicating
the presence of communicable disease upon any premises shall be removed
except by consent of this Board.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-34]
No person or article liable to contribute to the spread of a
communicable disease shall be brought within or removed from the limits
of the Township of Mahwah without the written permit and except under
the direction of the Board of Health thereof; and whenever it shall
come to the knowledge of any person that such a person or article
has been brought within such limits, he shall give notice thereof
immediately to the Board. No person shall, within the Township, without
a permit from the Board of Health therefor, carry or remove from one
(1) building to any other any person sick of any communicable disease,
nor shall any person by an exposure of any individual sick of any
communicable disease, or of the body of such person, or by a negligent
act connected therewith or in respect to the care or custody thereof,
or by a needless exposure of himself or of others by his instigation
or direction, cause or contribute to or promote the spread of communicable
disease. No owner, lessee or tenant of any dwelling, temporary or
permanent, in which there shall occur a case of communicable disease,
shall permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed
to infection to be removed from the dwelling until permission therefor
shall have been granted by this Board, nor shall any occupant of such
a dwelling change his residence elsewhere without the consent of the
Board during the prevalence of any public danger from the disease.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-35]
No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school and no parent or guardian of any child attending any school shall permit any child sick with any disease mentioned in subsection BH11-7.1 or any other contagious or infectious disease, or any child residing in any house in which such disease shall exist, to attend any school or any public gathering until a permit is granted by this Board.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-36]
When any person shall be sick or infected with smallpox, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles, German measles, cholera, typhoid fever,
typhus fever, yellow fever, whooping cough, chicken pox, poliomyelitis,
meningitis or any other contagious disease to be hereafter specified
by the Board, it shall be the duty of the representative of the Board
to cause to be put up or to put up and maintain in a conspicuous place
in front of the dwelling house or place occupied by such person, a
card or sign on which the name of the disease, together with such
other words as may be necessary, shall be written or printed in plain
letters of such size as the Board shall direct, and the card or sign
shall be so maintained until the same shall be ordered to be removed
by the Board.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-37]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to remove, deface,
injure, obstruct, hide or cover up the card or sign, or to cause the
same to be removed, defaced, injured, obstructed, hid or covered up.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-39]
No dog shall be allowed to enter any marketplace or store where
food of any kind intended for human consumption is offered for sale.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-40]
No vegetables, fruit, berries nor any article or substance intended
to be used as food shall be displayed or exposed on sidewalks or otherwise
on or in any public thoroughfare in the Township, and all fruits,
berries, lettuce, celery and all other substances intended to be used
as food and which may be eaten without being divested of an outer
skin or husk or shell shall be effectually protected from dust, flies,
etc, by netting or other covering approved by this Board.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-41]
Every building, room, basement or cellar occupied or used as
a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, slaughterhouse, dairy,
creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery or meat market,
or other place or apartment used for the production, manufacture,
preparation, packing, storage or distribution of food intended for
sale or distribution, shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed
and ventilated, and the operations carried on in such building, room,
basement or cellar shall be conducted in such a manner that the purity
and wholesomeness of the food therein produced, manufactured, prepared,
packed, stored, sold or distributed shall not be impaired.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-42]
The floors, sidewalls, ceilings, receptacles, implements and
machinery of every establishment or place where food intended for
distribution or sale is produced, manufactured, prepared, packed,
stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks and vehicles used
in the transportation of such food products, shall at all times be
kept in a clean and sanitary condition. All food intended for distribution
or sale, while in the process of production, manufacture, preparation,
packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation, shall be securely
protected from flies, dust, dirt and, so far as the same is possible,
by the use of all reasonable means, from all other foreign or injurious
contamination; the refuse, dirt and waste products subject to decomposition
or fermentation incident to the production, manufacture, preparation,
packing, storing, sale, distribution or transportation of food shall
be removed daily. The clothing worn by all operatives, employees,
clerks and other persons while engaged in work in any of the places
where food intended for sale or distribution is produced, manufactured,
prepared, packed, stored, sold, distributed or transported shall be
in a clean condition at all times. No person shall transport any such
food in such a manner that the purity or wholesomeness thereof shall
be in anywise impaired.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-43]
The sidewalls of every bakery, confectionery, creamery, cheese
factory, hotel or restaurant kitchen shall be well plastered, wainscoted
or ceiled with metal or lumber and shall be oil-painted or kept well
lime-washed, and all interior woodwork in every bakery, confectionery,
creamery, cheese factory, hotel or restaurant kitchen shall be kept
well oiled or painted with oil paint and shall be kept washed clean
with soap and water, and every building, room, basement or cellar
occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage,
sale or distribution of food intended for distribution or sale and
in which food is exposed shall have a tight floor made of cement or
of tile laid in cement, brick, wood or other suitable material which
can be flushed or washed clean with water.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-44]
All operatives, employees, clerks or other persons who handle
the material from which food intended for distribution or sale is
prepared, or the finished product, before beginning work and after
visiting the toilet, shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly with
clean water and soap, and every owner or manager of any place in which
food is produced, manufactured, prepared, packed, stored, distributed
or sold shall provide adequate facilities for such washing, and it
shall be the duty of every such owner or manager to take all reasonable
means to compel all operatives, employees, clerks or other persons
handling the material from which such food is prepared, or the finished
product, to perform such washing as aforesaid. All toilets, lavatories
and washrooms shall be separate and apart from the room or rooms where
any processes incident to the production, manufacture, preparation,
packing, storage, sale or distribution of such food are carried on,
and such toilets, lavatories and washrooms shall at all times be kept
in a clean and sanitary condition.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-45]
No person or persons shall expectorate within any building or
portion thereof where foodstuffs of any description whatsoever are
produced, manufactured, packed, distributed or sold.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-46]
No person or persons shall be allowed to live or sleep in any
room where food intended for sale or distribution is produced, manufactured,
packed, distributed or sold.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-47]
a.
All persons who are engaged in the business of barbering, shaving
or haircutting or in the beauty shop business shall abide by the following
regulations:
1.
Barbers and beauty shop operators must wash their hands thoroughly
with soap and water before attending each and every person.
2.
No alum or other astringent shall be used in stick form, but if used
at all, it must be applied in powder form.
3.
The use of powder puffs, sponges and finger bowls is prohibited.
4.
No towel shall be used for more than one (1) person without being
washed.
5.
All apparatus, utensils and appliances shall be kept clean and sanitary.
6.
Towels shall not be dipped into warm-water tanks.
7.
Shaving mugs shall be thoroughly washed before each use.
8.
No person or persons suffering from any communicable skin disease
or eruption of face or scalp shall be served in any barbershop or
any beauty shop in the Township of Mahwah.
9.
No person suffering from any such disease or from tuberculosis or
other communicable disease shall engage in barbering, shaving or haircutting
or in the beauty shop business in the Township of Mahwah.
b.
A copy of these regulations shall be conspicuously posted in every
barbershop and beauty shop.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-48; BH Ord. #12-128]
All persons who desire to engage in the business of cleaning cesspools, privy vaults, septic tanks and holding tanks shall first apply for and obtain a license from this Board for that purpose, which application shall be in writing and shall give the place of residence of applicant; every person so licensed, when about to engage in his occupation, shall give notice to the Health Inspector or Secretary of the Board of Health of the time and place when and where he is to be so engaged, indicating the time and place he proposes to dump the material gathered. Every person so licensed shall pay an annual license fee as stated in Chapter BH15 of one hundred fifty ($150.00) dollars per year.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-49]
No person shall expectorate upon the floor of any street or
railway car or any public conveyance, nor upon the floor or any stairway
of any public building, nor on any sidewalk of any public street in
the Township.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-50]
Whatever loud and unnecessary noise which disturbs the public
peace, i.e., the unnecessary blowing of whistles or horns, sounding
of gongs, ringing of bells, barking of dogs, operating of noisy delivery
wagons, the use of muffler cutouts or the occurrence in any manner
of loud and unnecessary noise in the Township is hereby declared a
nuisance and is prohibited at all times.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-51]
Every veterinary or other person who is called to examine or
professionally attend any animal within the Township having the glanders,
rabies, tuberculosis or any other communicable disease shall, within
twenty-four (24) hours thereafter, report in writing to the Board
of Health the following facts:
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; BH Ord. #54; 1976 Code § 206-52]
Every barn shall be cleaned daily. Every barn shall be ventilated
to keep the air in every part of the barn clean at all times.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; BH Ord. #54; 1976 Code § 206-53]
Manure shall be removed daily from barns and stalls. No manure
shall be stored in a building. No person shall construct, reconstruct
or maintain any receptacle for manure within one hundred (100')
feet of any street, road or avenue, whether public or private, dwelling
or property line, stream or body of water.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; 1976 Code § 206-54]
No manure shall be stored or piled in any manner on any premises
in the Township without a written permit therefor first having been
obtained from this Board, which permit may be incorporated in a permit
permitting the keeping of horses or cattle. Unless such permit otherwise
provides, all manure shall be removed from the premises on which horses
or cattle are kept, harbored, raised, bred or maintained not less
than once each week during that portion of the year embraced between
the first day of April and the 30th day of November, and the Board
shall be notified of the location to which such manure is removed.
This subsection shall not apply to the keeping of small quantities
of well-rotted manure for use as fertilizer on lawns or gardens. Any
manure permitted by the Board to be kept or piled must be kept in
such a manner and in such a place that it will not give forth any
offensive odor and will not in any way be unsanitary or dangerous
or injurious to health.
[BH Ord. #3; BH Ord. #39; BH Ord. #65; 1976 Code § 206-54A;
BH Ord. #12-128]
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-55]
No person shall conduct a public place for swimming without
having first obtained a permit therefor. The Board of Health may,
after public hearing refuse to grant a permit for the conduct of a
place for swimming if in its opinion the sanitary conditions of the
water or of any of the facilities provided at such place are such
as to be dangerous or detrimental to the health of the persons who
may attend such place. If a permit has been granted, the Board, after
public hearing, may revoke such permit at any time when in its opinion
either the water or the facilities at such place for swimming are
such as to be dangerous or detrimental to the health of the person
attending such place.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-56]
The water in all such places for swimming shall at all times
be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. The operator of all such
places for swimming shall, at least once in each month during the
swimming season, have an analysis made of the water and furnish a
report thereof to this Board. Such analysis shall be made under the
supervision of this Board by a laboratory approved by this Board,
all at the cost and expense of the owner or operator of such place
for swimming.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 § 206-57]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to create, maintain
or aid in creating or maintaining anything that is dangerous to human
health or that renders the ground, water, air or food a hazard or
an injury to human health.
[BH Ord. #3; 1976 Code § 206-58]
No person shall aid or contribute in doing any act dangerous
to the life or detrimental to the health of any human being, except
for justifiable motives and for adequate reasons, nor shall any person
omit any precaution reasonable and proper to prevent or remove anything
that is dangerous or detrimental to life or health of any human being.
