[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township of Raritan 10-11-2000 by Ord. No. 00-27 as
Ch. 17.32 of the 2000 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes all waste material from the tables of hotels, restaurants,
and private homes and all other waste products from kitchens, stores,
bake shops, or places where food is prepared, consumed, handled or
sold for human use.
Includes hogs, swine, shoats and pigs, more than 60 days
of age.
Sterilized, dehydrated, ground animal protein.
The granting of a license shall in no way authorize the creation
of a nuisance or the maintenance of an obnoxious condition and shall
in no way regulate or prevent the passing of future ordinances concerning
the prohibition of, or the limitation upon, the keeping of pigs or
the bringing of garbage into the Township.
No person shall have, keep, raise or maintain more than 100
pigs in the Township without first procuring a license. The license
period shall be from the first day of January to the 31 day of December
of each year.
A.
Application for license. Application
for a license shall be made to the Secretary of the Board of Health
of the Township in writing. The application shall include a statement
of the location of the premises on which the pigs are proposed to
be kept, the name and address of the owner and operator of the premises,
and the number of pigs proposed to be kept thereon and shall include
such other information as may be required by the Board of Health.
If the application is refused, the fee shall be returned to the applicant.
B.
Inspection of premises; granting
of license. The Board of Health shall inspect the premises of the
applicant prior to issuing the license and may conduct a public hearing
upon the application. It shall be the duty of the applicant to publish
a notice of his or her intention to apply for a license in a newspaper
circulating within the Township at least two weeks before the date
of issuing the license. The Board of Health shall have the authority
either to grant the license or to refuse the license, or to grant
it upon condition or in modified form. The license shall not be assignable
and shall be limited to the premises on which the licensee had pigs
on the date the license was issued. All applicants, in accepting a
license, must agree to conform to the requirements of this chapter.
A.
General regulations. Any person
having or keeping pigs under a license issued under this chapter shall
comply with the following provisions:
(1)
All buildings, yards or enclosures
in which any pigs shall be kept shall be, at all times, in a neat,
orderly, clean and sanitary condition.
(2)
All buildings used for the
keeping of pigs shall be provided with a concrete or other nonabsorbent
floor built above the surface of the surrounding ground with a concrete
or other nonabsorbent sidewall on all enclosed portions extending
36 inches above the floor and so jointed with the floor as to furnish
a cove or curved surface for easy cleaning.
(3)
All feeding shall be done
under cover upon a concrete floor or floor of a nonabsorbent character.
(4)
A suitable receptacle for
manure and other waste material shall be constructed of concrete or
other nonabsorbent material, shall be under cover, shall be watertight
on the sides and bottom, and shall be covered by a tight removable
top to prevent the escape of odors and access of flies or other insects.
Compliance with this subsection shall not be necessary if manure is
spread daily. Dung, manure and food residue shall be removed from
the area where pigs are kept at least once daily. When the material
is spread upon the ground, it shall be spread in thin applications
so as to dry quickly, but the same area shall not be spread more often
than once in every 30 days.
(5)
All liquid waste, including
water used to wash down the sidewalls, liquids from the sheds, the
barns, from the manure pit or leading area, and any water from washing
trucks or other equipment, shall be conducted by a suitable drain
to an underground cistern and either disposed of in an approved sewage
disposal field or pumped into a closed tank and spread upon the fields
in such a manner and at such time as to prevent it gathering in pools
or running off the land.
(6)
There must be an available
supply of water kept under at least 20 pounds of pressure, equipped
with sufficient hose connections to allow all parts of the building
wherein pigs are kept to be completely hosed down at least once in
each seven days, or all such times as the Board of Health shall indicate.
(7)
All buildings where pigs are
kept shall be whitewashed semiannually.
(8)
Proper equipment and material
shall be constantly kept on hand and used as required to control flies
and other insects.
(9)
All dead animals shall be
buried or removed within 24 hours of death.
B.
Location of building. No person
operating under a license issued hereunder shall locate any building,
pig run, yard or pasture wherein pigs are kept closer than 500 feet
to any highway or closer than 1,000 feet to any dwelling or residence
other than the dwelling or residence of the farm whereon the pigs
are kept.
C.
Fences required. The area wherein
pigs are kept, except where they are housed in closed buildings, shall
be completely fenced with a sturdy, well-constructed, closely woven
wire fence or other equally effective fence so as to prevent any pigs
from trespassing on adjoining property.
D.
Pigs at large. No pig or pigs
shall be allowed at large upon the owner's property outside of properly
fenced pasture.
E.
Transportation of garbage prohibited.
No garbage or vegetable matter and no flesh of any animal, fowl or
fish shall, at any time, be transported upon the highways of the Township,
or brought into the Township, for the purpose of feeding the same
to pigs within the Township.
