City of Perth Amboy, NJ Nuisances

Whatever is dangerous to human life or health, whatever renders the ground, the water, the air or food hazardous, unwholesome or injurious to human life or health, and any building, erection or part or cellar thereof not provided with adequate means of ingress and egress or not sufficiently supported, ventilated, drained, cleaned or lighted, and the following specific acts, conditions and things, are, each and all of them, hereby declared to constitute nuisances:

(1)

The deposit or accumulation of any foul, decaying or putrescent substance or other offensive matter in or upon any lot, street or highway or in or upon any public or private place; the storage of such foul or decaying or putrescent matter in liquid or solid form in any vault, cesspool or other receptacle; the overflow of any foul liquids or the escape of any gases to such an extent that the same or any one of them shall become or be likely to become hazardous to health or that the same shall, by reason of offensive odors, become a source of discomfort to persons living or passing in the vicinity thereof.

(2)

A polluted well, spring or stream or the pollution of any body of water used for drinking purposes.

(3)

The maintenance of any privy vault or cesspool if any sewer is available.

(4)

Keeping any building or room in such a state of uncleanliness or the crowding of persons in any building or room in such a manner as to endanger the health of the persons dwelling therein or that there shall be less than four hundred (400) cubic feet of air to each adult and one hundred fifty (150) cubic feet of air to each child under twelve (12) years of age occupying such building or room.

(5)

Allowing cellars to be used as sleeping rooms.

(6)

A building or portion of a building occupied as a dwelling which is not provided with:

[Amended 1-7-53 by Ord. No. C-474]

(a)

At least one (1) window opening to the outer air in each room to provide light and ventilation.

(b)

A normal and adequate supply of pure water.

(c)

At least one (1) separate toilet or water closet for each family.

(d)

At least one (1) sink connected to a properly constructed sewer for each family.

(e)

Proper and approved plumbing which is kept in sanitary and working condition at all times.

(7)

Renting or occupying any building or portion of a building, dwellings excepted, for any purpose whatever except it be provided with at least one (1) water closet for every fifteen (15) persons or fraction thereof employed therein.

(8)

The accumulation of manure unless it be in a properly constructed pit.

(9)

The accumulation of water in which mosquito larvae breed.

(10)

Any laundry that is used as a sleeping room or any laundry that is directly connected with a sleeping room that has not adequate external light and ventilation, or any laundry that is not separated from living or sleeping rooms by plaster partitions or by other partitions equally impervious to gases.

(11)

The accumulation of manure, garbage or anything whatever in which flies breed.

(12)

The accumulation of manure or any form of filth that has not been so treated as to act as a repellent to flies. (The presence of fly eggs or maggots or flies will be sufficient evidence that such accumulation has not been properly treated.)

(13)

Any stable that is not provided with a watertight floor, which floor must be properly graded, trapped and drained to a sewer or to a cesspool if no sewer is available.

(14)

Any privy vault that is not watertight as well as flyproof. [All existing privy vaults on streets in which there is no sewer must be changed within thirty (30) days to comply with this regulation, or else a dry earth system must be installed in accordance with the rules of the Division of Health.]

(15)

Any privy vault that is filled to within one (1) foot of the top of the vault.

(16)

Any privy that is not of substantial construction and that is not flyproof.

(17)

Any cart, tank or barrel used in removing the contents of privy vaults or cesspools that is stored within three hundred (300) feet of any dwelling.

(18)

Any premises that are not provided with a suitable water closet or privy vault for all persons working thereon.

(19)

Any temporary privy vault the contents of which are not kept covered at all times.

(20)

The sale or exposure in a public place of wood alcohol, either with or without the admixture of other liquids, unless the container in which it is sold or exposed is conspicuously labeled "poison."

(21)

The doing of laundry work in the home of any person as a gainful occupation under conditions that are not approved by the Division. (Every such person who does laundry work in his or her house as a gainful occupation shall register his or her name and address at the office of the Division of Health.)

(22)

The sweeping or causing to be swept of any public sidewalk within the business district after 8:00 a.m. and before the hour of 7:00 p.m. of any day, except for the purpose of cleaning snow, ice or sleet therefrom, unless such sidewalk has been sprinkled sufficiently to lay the dust.

It shall be the duty of the owner of every structure used for dwelling or business purposes to keep the cellar free from accumulations of water. In case such accumulations occur, he shall immediately have such water pumped out and have the cause repaired or conditions altered so that further accumulations will be prevented.

It shall be the duty of every property owner to maintain the existing toilet fixtures in working order, and in case a catch basin or water-flushed toilet fixture becomes useless or obstructed, to immediately repair the same.

It shall be the duty of every property owner to maintain yards, drains, cisterns, downspouts, pipes, vaults, catch basins, water-flushed toilets and all other apparatus employed in the disposal of waste water and materials in such condition that there shall be no leakage into adjoining property to the damage or inconvenience of the owner or tenant of the same.

Whenever it shall be decided by the Division of Health that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of the number of occupants, want of cleanliness or by reason of its being so infested with disease or by reason of its being in a condition dangerous to health or life or likely to be the cause of sickness among the occupants and notice of such decision shall have been affixed conspicuously on the building or any part thereof and personally served upon the owner, agent or lessee, if same can be found in the state, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building or part thereof for the reasons stated therein, such building or part thereof shall within ten (10) days thereafter be vacated, or in case of special emergency, within such shorter time as may be specified in said notice.