[1967 San. Code § 52; BH:Ord. 1/3/80; New]
Any thing, condition or act which is or may become a detriment
or menace to human health and the following specified things, conditions
and acts are, each and all of them, hereby declared to be and are
defined as follows:
a. Depositing, maintaining or permitting to be maintained or to accumulate
upon any public or private property any household wastewater, sewage,
garbage, dead animals, tins cans, unused appliances, furniture and
construction materials, offal or excrement; any decaying fruit, vegetables,
fish, meat or bones; any oyster or clam shells; or any foul, putrid
or obnoxious liquid or substance; any manure or compound (stable manure
used as fertilizer and kept as hereinafter provided, excepted).
b. Allowing or permitting any household wastewater, sewage or other
nauseous or offensive liquid matter of any kind to be cast off or
to run into any pipe, drain, sewer, cesspool or sink which the pipe,
drain, sewer, cesspool or sink empties its contents into or near any
brook, running stream, pond, spring or sunken lot or other ground,
public or private in the Township.
c. Any full, foul, or leaky privy vault or cesspool or other defective
or inadequate receptacle for filth; also any privy vault, cesspool
or catch basin which is beneath any dwelling or other building or
is attached to the foundation wall of any dwelling or other building.
d. Allowing or permitting any night soil, garbage or any offensive or
decomposing solid or liquid matter or substance to leak or ooze or
escape from any cart of wagon or vessel in which the same may be held
or carried.
e. Carrying or conveying through any street any substance which has
been removed from any privy vault or cesspool, unless the same shall
be enclosed in watertight and flyproof receptacles.
f. Any water or liquid in which mosquito larvae exist.
g. Any accumulation of manure or vegetable or animal matter in which
fly larvae exist.
h. Any well or other supply of water used for drinking or household
purposes which is polluted or which is so situated or constructed
that it may become polluted.
i. Permitting poison ivy, ragweed or other noxious vegetation to be
or to grow upon any private property within two hundred (200) feet
from the street line or from any boundary of any lot.
j. Any imperfect, leaking, unclean or filthy sink, water closet, urinal
or other plumbing fixture in any building used or occupied by human
beings.
k. Any imperfect trap, sink or water closet within any house or any
other drainage appliance or fixture within any house from which there
shall arise any foul or obnoxious gas or odor.
l. Whatever is dangerous to human life or to health and whatever renders
food or water unwholesome.
m. Whatever building, or part thereof is not provided with adequate
means of ingress and egress, or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated,
drained, cleaned or lighted.
n. Furnishing or permitting to be used in any railroad station, theatre,
hotel, factory, store, automobile service station, or any other place
to which the public at large is invited, and in or in connection with
which facilities for the washing of the face, hands or other portions
of the body are furnished by the owner or person in possession or
control thereof, of any towel composed of cloth or similar material
which may or is intended to be used, before complete sterilization,
by more than one (1) person.
o. No person owning, keeping, harboring, walking or in charge of, any
dog shall cause, suffer, permit or allow such dog to soil, defile,
or defecate on any common thoroughfare, street, sidewalk, passageway,
road, bypath, play area, park, or place where people congregate or
walk, or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private
property without the permission of the owner of the private property
in the last instance. When the dog shall defecate on the areas aforesaid
it shall not be considered a violation of this ordinance if, and only
if, the person owning or in charge or control shall immediately remove
and dispose of all feces thus deposited in a sanitary manner.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to blind persons
who may use dogs as guides.
[1967 San. Code § 53]
No person, firm or corporation shall create, commit, maintain or permit to be created, committed or maintained any nuisance defined in subsection
BH3-1.1.
[1967 San. Code § 54]
No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter erect, start
or establish in this Township any factory or place of business that
will or does generate any unwholesome, offensive or deleterious gas,
smoke, deposit or exhalation, or any business whatsoever that is or
may become dangerous to life or detrimental to health unless the applicant
first obtains the written consent of the Board of Health.
[1967 San. Code § 55]
No dead horse or cow or other animal shall be buried within
the limits of the Township without a permit from the Health Officer
designating the place and conditions of the burial.
[1967 San. Code § 57]
The owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any dwelling,
market, restaurant or other building where refuse matter shall accumulate
in the Township, shall provide and keep on the premises suitable receptacles
for receiving and holding such garbage and refuse. A separate receptacle
shall be provided for ashes and rubbish and another for garbage. Ashes
and rubbish shall not be placed or kept in the same receptacle with
garbage. Garbage shall be kept only in watertight and flyproof containers.
[1967 San. Code § 58]
No rags, bones, scraps or refuse shall be brought into or stored
or kept within the Township, except by permission of the Board, the
Board reserving the right of revocation of such permits at any time.
[1967 San. Code § 59]
No owner, or occupant, as tenants or otherwise, of any lot,
house, building, shed, cellar or other place within the Township shall
suffer or permit any noxious, offensive or unwholesome smell to arise
from any lot, house, building, shed, cellar or place, or allow the
same to become offensive, noxious or detrimental to the health of
any of the inhabitants of the Township by reason of any matter, thing,
or substance of any kind which may be placed or remain, or be permitted
or suffered to remain, in or upon any lot, house, building, shed,
cellar or place.