Any person desiring to keep fowl, swine, cows or goats within
the City of Perth Amboy shall, before keeping the same, apply to the
Division of Health in writing, stating the location of the enclosure
in which it is proposed to keep the said fowl, swine, cows or goats
and the approximate number which is to be kept in said enclosure;
and no person shall keep the said fowl, swine, cows or goats unless
petition is favorably acted upon by the Division of Health and a permit
in writing is granted by said Division.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to keep fowl shall
secure a permit from the Division of Health, and no building, yard
or apartment in which fowl are continuously kept shall be built or
maintained within twenty-five (25) feet of any door or window of any
dwelling.
Any fowl, swine, cow, goat or any other animal having any contagious
or communicable disease shall be promptly destroyed by the owner or
person in possession thereof.
No goat pen, chicken coop, runway, yard or other place for the
keeping of any goat, chicken, duck, goose or other fowl shall be maintained
or suffered to exist or permitted nearer than twenty-five (25) feet
to any building used in whole or in part as a place of human habitation
or as a place where food is prepared, placed, kept or sold, except
that fowl for the purpose of sale or killing may be kept in crates,
provided:
A.
Every such crate shall be maintained in a cleanly condition.
B.
Every such crate shall be kept upon a watertight floor or pavement
that is thoroughly flushed with water daily.
C.
No crate containing or used to contain live fowl shall be kept in
the same room in which food other than live fowl is prepared, placed,
kept or sold.
No stable, pen, coop, runway or any other place for the keeping
of any horse, mule, donkey, bovine, goat, chicken, duck, goose or
other fowl shall exist or be permitted to exist unless such stable,
pen, coop, runway or other place is maintained in a clean condition,
free from any accumulation of filth, garbage, rubbish or other waste.
Every owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of any stable or apartment
in which any horse, cattle, swine or fowl shall be kept or any place
in which any manure or any solid or liquid discharge or excrement
may collect or accumulate shall at all times keep or cause to be kept
such stalls or apartments and the drainage yard and appurtenances
thereof in a cleanly, healthful and wholesome condition. In all cases
in which the Division of Health shall by written notice so require,
all manure or excrement shall be removed from all stables and premises
where it may accumulate as often as deemed necessary by the Division
of Health.
Every stable or apartment in which any horse or other cattle
shall be kept shall be provided with a properly covered manure vault
or other receptacle of sufficient capacity to care for all manure
that may accumulate in such stable or apartment. No manure vault or
other receptacle used for the storage of stable manure shall be directly
connected with any sewer, nor shall the drainage from any other stable
or other building be emptied into said manure vault or other receptacle.
Said manure vault or other receptacle shall be kept dry and shall
be kept protected from sun, rain, snow and all other conditions which
tend to produce wetness and offensive decomposition of manure stored
within. Said manure vault or other receptacle for the storage of stable
manure shall not be built or maintained within five (5) feet of any
party line, within twenty (20) feet of any street line nor within
forty (40) feet of any door or window of any dwelling house or other
building, factory, etc., used by man, unless otherwise permitted by
the Division of Health.
Every stable or apartment hereafter constructed or reconstructed
in the City of Perth Amboy in which any horse, mule or cow is kept
or stabled shall be so constructed or reconstructed and drained that
no fluid excrement or refuse liquids shall flow upon or into the ground.
The floors of all such stables or apartments shall be constructed
of concrete or other material impervious to water not less than six
(6) inches in thickness and so graded that all fluid excrement will
flow to a trapped sewer connection.
No refuse liquids nor any fluid excrement shall fall upon or
flow or soak into the ground beneath or adjoining any stable or apartment
which is already erected in the City of Perth Amboy and in which any
horse, mule or cow may be kept or stabled.
Whenever the floor of such stable or apartment is not watertight
and is not graded and drained in accordance with the requirements
of this section, then the owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of every
such stable or apartment shall, within thirty (30) days after receiving
notice from the Division of Health, cause the floor of such stable
or apartment to be relaid in conformity with the requirements and
specifications of this section.
[Amended 12-22-47 by Ord. No C-377]
A.
The slaughtering, killing or dressing of cattle, swine or sheep shall
not be allowed within the limits of the City of Perth Amboy, excepting
at regularly authorized slaughterhouses, without a permit for the
purpose from the Division of Health; and no slaughterhouse or other
place where cattle, sheep or swine are slaughtered, killed or dressed
shall be allowed within this city unless a permit for the purpose
shall be granted by the Division. The permit fee shall be two hundred
dollars ($200) per annum and such permit shall be effective from the
first day of January to the last day of December of each year.
B.
Slaughtering, killing or dressing of fowl shall not be allowed within
the limits of the City of Perth Amboy, excepting at regularly authorized
slaughterhouses, without a permit from the Division of Health, and
no slaughterhouse or other place where fowl are slaughtered, killed
or dressed shall be allowed within the city unless a permit for that
purpose shall be granted by the Division. The permit fee shall be
two hundred dollars ($200) per annum and such permit shall be effective
from the first day of January to the last day of December of each
year.
[Amended 7-14-2010 by Ord. No. 1519-2010]
No cattle, sheep or swine shall be killed for human food unless
such cattle, sheep or swine shall have passed an examination by the
Food Inspector or some other person designated by the Division of
Health, and no viscera shall be removed from any slaughtered animal
except in the presence of the said Inspector or person designated
by the Division. No calf which shall be less than four (4) weeks old,
no pigs which shall be less than five (5) weeks old and no lamb which
shall be less than eight (8) weeks old shall be killed for human food
or shall be kept or offered for sale or sold to be killed for human
food.
It shall be unlawful to sell, offer for sale or hold for the
purpose of sale the flesh of any cattle, sheep or swine which does
not bear the stamp of federal or state inspection or the stamp of
inspection of the Division of Health of Perth Amboy or of a municipality
maintaining the same standard of regulation as to purity and quality
as the City of Perth Amboy.
No cattle, sheep or swine shall be slaughtered at any time other
than between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on each day, Sunday
excepted, except by special permit of the Division of Health.
All offal and viscera of slaughtered animals, together with
condemned animals, shall be kept in a separate refrigerated room,
the temperature being maintained not higher than fifty degrees Fahrenheit
(50° F.).
