As used in this
article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE
A motor vehicle exposed to public view which does not have
a valid registration and license plate and has no inspection sticker
or an inspection sticker which has elapsed for more than 60 days or
has been inoperative for more than 60 days because of the lack of
essential components such as engine parts or wheels.
BATHROOM
Any enclosed space which contains one or more of the following,
i.e., bathtub, shower, water closet, lavatory, water closet compartment,
washbowl, sink or fixtures serving similar purposes.
BLIGHT
That which causes or is likely to cause disease or injury
or, in terms of the neighborhood, frustrates its healthy growth and
sustenance and that which tends to impair, wither, destroy or cause
deterioration in the neighborhood, adversely affecting the general
welfare of its inhabitants.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Montvale, County of Bergen, State of New Jersey.
BUILDING
A combination of materials intended to form a safe and stable
structure for human habitation or otherwise and includes any accessory
buildings and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith.
DETERIORATION
The condition of a building, or part thereof, characterized
by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, cracking, peeling, rusting or other
evidence of physical decay, lacking structural maintenance, whether
interior or exterior.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
which includes or is intended to include living, sleeping, bathing,
toilet and cooking facilities.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW
Any building or premises, or part thereof, which may be lawfully
viewed by the public, or any member thereof, from a sidewalk, street,
alleyway or parking lot or from any adjoining or neighboring premises.
EXTERIOR OF PREMISES
Those portions of a building which are exposed to public
view or the elements and the open space of any premises not occupied
by any building.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents and vermin
by eliminating their harborage places or by removing or making inaccessible
material that may serve as their food or by poisoning, spraying, fumigating,
trapping or any other approved means of pest elimination.
GARBAGE
Animal, vegetable and other organic waste resulting from
handling, preparing, cooking and consumption of food or other products
(see also "refuse" and "rubbish").
HABITABLE ROOM
A room occupied by one or more persons for living, eating
or sleeping, but not including bathrooms, laundries, serving and storage
pantries, corridors, foyers, vestibules, cellars, boiler and utility
rooms or spaces that are not used frequently or for an extended period
of time, or areas that have less than 50 square feet of floor area.
INFESTATION
The presence, on or within a premises, of any insects, rodents
or other pests.
MIXED OCCUPANCY
Any building containing two or more dwelling units and also
having a portion thereof devoted to nonresidential uses. The applicable
provisions for residential and nonresidential buildings shall control.
NONRESIDENTIAL
The use of the word refers only to the nondwelling use of
a mixed-occupancy building.
NUISANCE
(1)
Any public nuisance known at common law or in
law or equity jurisprudence, or as provided by the statutes of the
State of New Jersey or the ordinances of the Borough.
(2)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life
or detrimental to health of persons, including but not limited to
any inadequately protected well, shaft, basement, excavation, abandoned
motor vehicle, icebox and refrigerator, structurally unsound fence,
wall or building, lumber, trash, debris or vegetation, such as but
not limited to poison ivy, oak or sumac, or detrimental to the safety
or health of persons.
(3)
Physical conditions dangerous to human life
or detrimental to the health of persons on or near the premises where
the conditions exist.
(4)
Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome
or detrimental to the health of human beings.
OCCUPANCY UNIT
Any room or group of rooms or part thereof forming a single
usable unit (used or intended to be used or designed to be used for
nonresidential purposes) and located within a building used or intended
to be used or designed to be used, in whole or in part, for commercial
business, industrial or any other nonresidential occupancy.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
OCCUPANT
Any person or persons, including the owner, having actual
possession of and using the entire building or any part thereof.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a premises
or part thereof, whether with or without the knowledge and consent
of the owner.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others,
shall have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without
accompanying actual possession thereof, or shall have charge, care
or control of any dwelling unit as owner or agent of the owner or
as executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or guardian of an estate
or as a mortgagee in possession, regardless of how such possession
was obtained. Any person who is a lessee, a sublessee or assignee
of all or any part of the building shall be deemed to be a co-owner
with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility over the portion
of the premises sublet or assigned by such lessee.
PARTIES IN INTEREST
All individuals, associations and corporations who have interests
of record in a building and any who are in actual possession thereof.
PERSON
Same meaning as defined in N.J.S.A. 1:1-2.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land and any buildings located thereon,
including but not limited to sidewalks, yards and parking areas.
PUBLIC OFFICER
The person or persons who are authorized by this article
to exercise powers prescribed by this code.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body
wastes), including but not limited to brush, weeds, broken glass,
debris of any description, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleaning,
dead animals, abandoned motor vehicles and solid market and industrial
wastes.
RUBBISH
Includes all combustible and noncombustible waste material
excluding garbage but including liquid commercial and industrial wastes.
STRUCTURE
An assembly of materials forming a construction, including
but not limited to buildings, stadiums, gospel and circus tents, reviewing
stands, platforms, stagings, observation towers, radio towers, water
tanks, trestles, open sheds, bins, shelters, fences and display racks
and signs.
WEATHERING
Deterioration, decay or damage caused by exposure to the
elements.
WINDOW
An opening in the wall or roof of a building for the admission
of light, which opening may be closed to the elements by casements
or sashes containing glass or other transparent material.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
WINDOW DISPLAY AREA
That area of a building in proximity to the inner surface
of a window which is designed or used for the viewing of the interior
and the display of items representative of any goods or services pertaining
to the business therein.