[Ord. #1804 § 1]
A Code regulating the use, operation and maintenance of coin-operated
dry cleaning establishments, authorizing inspection of and operations
connected therewith and fixing penalties for violations is hereby
established pursuant to R.S. 26: 3-69.1 to 69.6. A copy of the Code
is annexed and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text
thereof herein.
[Ord. #1804 § 2]
The Code established and adopted by this ordinance is commonly
known as the "Coin-operated Dry Cleaning Establishment Code of New
Jersey (1962)."
[Ord. #1804 § 3]
Three copies of the "Coin-operated Dry Cleaning Establishment
Code of New Jersey (1962)" have been placed on file in the Township
Clerk's office and shall remain on file for the use and examination
of the public.
[Ord. #1805 § 1]
A code regulating retail food establishments and fixing penalties
for violations is hereby established pursuant to R.S. 26: 3-69.1 to
69.6. A copy of the Code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof
without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
[Ord. #1805 § 2]
The code established herein is commonly known as the "Retail
Food Establishment Code of New Jersey (1965)."
[Ord. #1805 § 3]
Three copies of the "Retail Food Establishment Code of New Jersey
(1965)" have been placed on file in the Township Clerk's office and
shall remain on file for the use and examination of the public.
[Ord. #3282]
a. Adoption of Standards.
All licensed retail food establishments must install and properly
maintain:
1. Grease Trays:
(a)
Adoption of Standards. All licensed retail food establishments
must install and properly maintain grease traps. Said devised shall
operate to separate, capture and contain all rendered animal fat,
all oily matters and all thick lubricants from wastewater discharging
from any of the aforementioned food establishments and flowing into
the sewer system.
(b)
In addition to routine inspections by the health department,
all retail food establishments must employ, at their own expense,
a New Jersey licensed Master Plumbing Inspector to conduct an annual
inspection of their grease trap(s) and flow valve(s) and connecting
wastewater lines to ensure that waste oil and grease is being adequately
removed from wastewater being discharged into the sewer system. The
owner(s) of the establishment shall be required to provide the health
department with a formal inspection report from the New Jersey licensed
Master Plumbing Inspector.
(c)
The inspection report shall be submitted to the health department
by January 31st of each calendar year, with the annual retail food
licensing. Any change of ownership for an existing retail food establishment
shall be required to submit the report prior to operation. All new
retail food establishments are required to submit said report prior
to issuance of Certificate of Occupancy.
[Ord. #1843]
Prepackaged fresh cut meats offered for sale by food dealers
and retail food establishments throughout the Township are often contained
within partially transparent sealed wrappings or are shingled or layered
when packaged, making the condition and contents thereof not fully
or wholly visible to the consumer because of the shingling or layering
of meats and the insertion of a cardboard or other opaque substance
on one or more sides of such transparent packaging.
There have been instances within the Township of misrepresentation
as to the condition and contents of the items in such packages because
of the method of packaging presently used by food dealers and retail
food establishments within the Township.
[Ord. #1843 § 1]
"Food dealer" as used in this section shall be construed to
mean every person engaged in the business of selling, offering or
exposing for sale, food at retail for human consumption either on
or off the premises where sold.
[Ord. #1843 § 2]
It is unlawful for any food dealer in the Township to sell or
offer or expose for sale, at retail, any sealed, prepackaged, unprocessed
or untreated fresh cut meat or frozen meat unless the packaging thereof
is colorless and transparent on all sides, exclusive of labeling,
which labeling shall not occupy more than 10% of one side of the package;
or which fresh cut meat or frozen meat is layered or shingled making
the entire contents of the package not wholly visible. This subsection
shall not apply to meat commonly designated or known as "chopped meat"
or "ground meat."
[Ord. #1493 § 1]
Any ditch, sewer, stream, brook or reservoir located on filled
or unfilled land, below or above grade, in which stagnant water shall
settle or block up or create a dangerous condition, or be located
thereon, is hereby declared a nuisance. Where water from adjacent
property shall settle, block up, become stagnant or create a dangerous
condition or cause damage to adjacent property by reason of water
infiltration is hereby declared a nuisance.
[Ord. #1493 § 2]
Whenever the health officer or any other official hereinafter designated by resolution duly adopted by the Township Council determines that any premises in the Township has located thereon stagnant water (or obstructed water courses) as referred to in subsection
16-4.1 which is detrimental to the life or health of the public, it shall be the duty of the official making such determination to make a complaint in writing to the Township Council setting forth the existing conditions.
[Ord. #1493 § 3]
The Township Council, immediately upon the receipt of the complaint
required to be made, shall proceed to consider the complaint and if
in the judgment of the Township Council it is deemed advisable that
for the best interest of the public that the conditions described
in the complaint are detrimental to the life or health of the citizens,
the Township Council shall adopt a resolution containing such a declaration
and authorizing and instructing the Township Clerk to give notice
to the owner of the premises on which the stagnant or obstructed water
courses are located to immediately remedy the conditions by removal
of the cause of the stagnant or obstructed water courses. Such notice
shall contain a description of the property affected and a description
of the manner in which the removal of the cause of the stagnant or
obstructed water courses can be affected by the owner, and the notice
shall further contain a statement that if the condition is not remedied
within five days after service of such notice, the Township will proceed
to remedy the condition and charge the cost and expense thereof against
the property, which charge shall become a lien and shall be collectible
and enforced in the same manner as other liens.
[Ord. #1493 § 4]
In the event that the owner or agent of the lands shall not
comply with such notice within the time stated therein, the health
officer or any other official hereafter to be designated by resolution
shall immediately take steps to abate the nuisance in accordance with
prior determinations as to the manner of abatement.
[Ord. #1493 § 5]
After the abatement of such nuisance the official abating shall
render to the Township Council in writing an actual account of the
cost and expense thereof, together with a description of the lands
whereon the same was abated; also the name of the owner of the land
or the agent in charge thereof, and when such report and account is
approved by the Township Council, a copy thereof shall be filed in
the Township Clerk's office, who shall file a certified copy thereof
with the department of revenue and finance, and from the date of filing
of such copy with the department of revenue and finance the cost and
expense of abating such nuisance shall be a lien on the lands where
any such nuisance has been abated hereunder.
[Ord. #1493 § 6]
Whenever it comes to the attention of the Township Council that,
due to the conditions existing on any lands within the Township, a
nuisance is created detrimental to the safety, health and general
welfare of the community, the Township Council may pass a resolution
declaring that the conditions complained of constitute a nuisance
within the meaning of this section and provide for the abatement thereof
in the same manner as provided herein.
[Ord. #971 § 1]
It is unlawful for any owner or tenant of any lot or tract of
land or any part thereof in the Township to permit or maintain on
any such lot or tract any growth or rag weed, poison ivy, poison sumac
or other noxious or poison weeds injurious to health.
[Ord. #971 § 2]
It is the duty of the owner or tenant of any such lot or tract
of land or any part thereof in the Township, to cut and remove or
cause to be cut and removed all such rag weed, poison ivy, poison
sumac or other noxious or poisonous weeds injurious to health, within
five days after receiving notice to do so from the Township.
[Ord. #971 § 3]
If the provisions of subsection
16-5.2 are not complied with, the Township shall serve written notice on the owner or tenant of any such lot or tract of land, requiring them to comply with this section. Should the person upon whom such notice is served fail, neglect or refuse to cut and remove such rag weed, poison ivy, poison sumach or other noxious or poisonous weeds within five days after the service of such notice, the Township shall cause same to be cut and removed, and the actual cost of such cutting and removal shall be certified by the health officer to the collector of taxes and shall thereupon become and be a lien on the property on which such poisonous weeds were located and shall be added to and form part of the taxes next to be assessed on the lot or tract of land and shall be collected and enforced by the same officer and in the same manner as taxes.
[Ord. #984 § 1]
No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or in any
way aid in same or distribute or in any way aid in same of any horse
flesh without first obtaining a written permit thereof from the director
of public affairs or the health department of the Township, upon written
application made for such permit.
[Ord. #984 § 2]
No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale, or in anywise
aid in same any horse flesh unless every carcass, piece and parcel
thereof shall have conspicuously attached thereto a label or tag not
less than three inches wide and four inches long, on which shall be
printed or stamped, in letters not less than one inch in height, the
words "horse flesh."
[Ord. #984 § 3]
No person shall erase, cancel, obliterate, deface, cover, remove
or alter any brand, tag, label or other marking required by any provision
of this section to be attached or affixed to any package or container.
[Ord. #984 § 4]
The director of public affairs may, after hearing held by him, suspend or revoke the permit mentioned in subsection
16-6.1 for failure of the "permittee" to abide by the provisions of this section; provided that the "permittee" is given at least three days' notice of the hearing, so as to afford an opportunity to be heard prior to such suspension or revocation.
[Ord. #984 § 5]
It is unlawful for the owner or operator of any restaurant or
other food handling establishment, serving cooked or prepared horse
meat, or food products containing horse meat, for consumption on the
premises, to sell or permit the same to be sold under any designation
not indicating that horse meat is used in such cooked or prepared
meat or food products.
[Ord. #984 § 6]
The owner or manager of any restaurant or other food handling
establishment serving cooked or prepared horse meat for consumption
on the premises, shall cause at least one sign to be prominently displayed
in each room where such foods are served, containing the words in
letters not less than four inches high:
"HORSE MEAT SERVED HERE"
If menu cards are used, any food containing horse meat shall
be so designated on the menu.
[Ord. #984 § 8]
The necessary signs shall be displayed at all times as required
under the R.S. 24:5-21 entitled "Horse flesh labeling." There shall
be displayed in every shop selling horse flesh a sign at least eight
feet long, and two feet wide upon which shall be printed in letters
not less than six inches in height and four inches in width the words
"Horse flesh sold here," and a sign shall be conspicuously displayed.
The store window shall be lettered with letters not less than 1 1/2
inches in height and one inch in width the words "Horse flesh sold
here."
[Ord. #984 § 9]
No horse flesh shall be sold, held, or offered for sale in the
Township except that slaughtered under Federal Inspection, and so
branded.
[Ord. #984 § 10]
In any establishment where both horse flesh and other food animal
flesh shall be sold, the horse flesh shall by hung or racked on one
side of the ice box and no other animal flesh shall be hung or racked
on the same side with the horse flesh. All tags or stamped surfaces
of horse flesh hung or racked shall be plainly visible to any inspector
entering ice box at all times.
[Ord. #984 § 11]
A section of any display case used for horse flesh and other
food animal flesh display shall be made by a separating partition
and this section shall only be used for the display of horse flesh.
A separate block shall be provided for the cutting of horse flesh
or a hard wood top provided which may be placed on top of the regular
counter or block for the cutting or chopping of horse flesh.
[Ord. #984 § 12]
There shall be provided separate knives, saws, steels and chopping
machine for horse flesh. Paper shall be placed upon scale plate when
used for weighing horse flesh.
[Ord. #984 § 13]
Wherever horse flesh is held, stored, or offered for sale in
any box or case, counter or block, all tags or stamped surfaces shall
be so displayed as to be easily read by the public.
[Ord. #984 § 14]
Horse flesh and the flesh of other food animals shall not be
ground together except upon request of the buyer and grinding of same
shall be done in machine assigned for grinding horse meat.
[Ord. #984 § 15]
No provision manufacturer shall be permitted to manufacture
provisions from horse flesh while manufacturing provisions from other
food animals. No manufacturer shall be permitted to use the flesh
of horses and other food animals in the manufacture of their product.
No manufacturer shall be permitted to manufacture provisions from
horse flesh without a permit to do so issued by the Department of
Health. Any manufacturer whose product is made of horse flesh shall
stamp every article so as to comply with R.S. 21:5-21.
[Ord. #984 § 16]
HORSE MEAT OR HORSE FLESH
Shall mean the flesh of the equine animal family when same
is offered for sale in the Township, and either or both shall be deemed
correct within the meaning of this regulation.
[Ord. #984 § 17]
Horse flesh prepared as dog food shall be packed in containers
and shall not be kept, stored, or offered for sale from case or ice
box maintained for horse flesh offered for sale for human consumption.
A separate case shall be provided.
[Ord. #984 § 18]
No person shall transport in the same truck horse flesh while
transporting other animal flesh.
[Ord. #750]
RAW MILK OR RAW CREAM
Shall mean all milk or cream which has not been subject to
heat at a temperature of not less than 142° F. for 30 consecutive
minutes.
[Ord. #750 § 1]
No person shall sell or distribute or have in possession with intent to sell or distribute in the Township any raw milk, raw cream or raw milk products (except butter, cheese or butter milk), providing, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the sale or distribution of certified milk or certified cream in the Township as defined and produced under regulations as provided for in Chapter
11 of the Sanitary Code of the New Jersey Department of Health.
[Ord. #134y; Ord. #501; Ord. #549; Ord. #1009; Ord. #1039;
Ord. #1091; Ord. #1203; Ord. #1386; Ord. #1487; Ord. #1614; Ord. #1707;
Ord. #1775; Ord. #1915; Ord. #3088]
[Ord. #134y § 1]
This section shall be known and designated as "The Sanitary
Code of the Township of Belleville."
[Ord. #134y §§ 2 — 7]
As used in this section:
a. Department shall mean the Department of Health of the Township, or
its official representative, except where otherwise specified.
b. Rubbish shall mean all waste or refuse organic matter.
c. Garbage shall mean all decayed organic matter.
d. Food establishment shall mean any place, building, vehicle or device
in which food is manufactured, sold, stored, prepared, served or handled
with intent to sell or distribute.
e. Nuisance shall mean whatever is dangerous to human health, whatever
renders the ground, the water, the air or food a hazard or any injury
to human health. Nuisance shall include the throwing, placing or depositing
in or on any place, street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, lot or public
or private grounds within the Township, any dead animals, fish, birds,
or any part of the same, or any carrion, putrid meat, manure or compost;
also any foul, offensive or obnoxious matter or substance whatever,
whether composed wholly, partly or jointly or entirely of animal or
vegetable matter; also any matter, thing, or substance of any kind,
nature or composition, in or upon any private land, lot, building,
tenement, cellar, pit, well or other structure, whether the substance
or matter is mixed or unmixed, compounded or otherwise composed wholly
or jointly or partly of liquid or solid matter or substance, which
shall cause or produce or from which there shall arise or be cast
off, any impure or obnoxious or offensive or foul odor, smell or gas,
annoying, harmful or dangerous to any person. Also any full or leaky
cesspools or any full or leaky privy vault, allowing or permitting
any liquid or solid matter taken from any cesspool or privy vault
to be placed or deposited in or upon any lot, place, street, gutter
in the Township; allowing or permitting of the substances to leak
or ooze out of the cart, wagon or vessel or other thing in which the
same may be placed, while upon or crossing along any of the streets;
conveying the substances along any of the streets of the Township,
except in air-tight tanks or vessels. Nuisance shall include the burning
of anything, matter or substances within the Township (other than
coal, wood or charcoal), which shall emit into the air, or cause,
or produce, or cast off any foul, obnoxious, offensive, harmful annoying
or repulsive gas, smoke or odor of any kind whatever.
[Ord. #134y §§ 8 — 10]
a. No person shall throw, place or deposit or allow to collect on, or
flow over any sidewalk, street or place, any slops, dirty water or
filth of any kind; and no person shall throw, place or deposit on
any street or place, any dead animal, fish or any part of the same,
or any putrid meat, compost or any foul or offensive substance whatever.
b. No person shall throw, cast, place or deposit, or allow to flow or
run into any stream, river or brook in the Township, any dead animal,
putrid meat, garbage, offal, manure or compost or any foul or offensive
substance whatever.
c. No person shall throw, cast, place or deposit, or allow to flow into
any river, stream, brook, reservoir, cistern or well, the water of
which is used for drinking purposes, any dead animal, or any part
of the same, or any carrion, putrid meat, manure, compost, slops,
or any offensive substance whatever, or any substance or thing that
shall pollute or render harmful or unhealthy the water.
[Ord. #134y § 11]
No person shall maintain any sunken land, or marsh land, with
stagnant water therein or thereon, or any pool, pond, stream, ditch,
or other body of water, or any cistern, privy vault, cesspool, rain
barrel or other receptacle containing water, in which mosquito larvae
exist; and all sunken land or marsh land, or lots below grade, shall
be drained or otherwise cared for as not to be or become a nuisance.
[Ord. #134y § 12]
Any owner, or occupant of any lot, ground, building, house or
stable in this Township, on notice from the health officer, shall
remove from the lot, ground, building, house or stable, any rubbish,
garbage, offal or any offensive matter or thing (or any weeds or growing
vegetation liable to become the breeding grounds for mosquitoes or
the hiding place for nuisances, or any poisonous plants); and any
person on notice from the health officer, shall abate any nuisance
existing on any premises of which he is the owner or occupant.
If any person refuses to remove any foul or obnoxious or hurtful
matter or thing, or if any person refuses or neglects to abate any
nuisance, then the health officer may proceed under the provisions
of "An act to revise, consolidate and amend certain acts, concerning
Board of Health in this State," approved March 31, 1887, and the supplements
thereto, to remove the nuisance, source of foulness or cause of sickness,
and to recover, by action of debt against such persons, the expense
incurred by the health officer by such removal.
[Ord. #134y § 13]
All spitting on the sidewalks of the public streets or public
places of the Township, or on the floors of public buildings and in
public conveyances, is hereby declared a public nuisance, and a source
of danger to public health, and is hereby prohibited. All officers
in control thereof shall keep posted permanently in such buildings
or conveyances a sufficient number of notices forbidding spitting
upon the floors thereof.
[Ord. #134y § 14]
No person shall carry on any trade, manufacture or business
within the Township which may be obnoxious or offensive to the Township
residents, or any part of the Township and which may be attended by
noisome and offensive odors, without obtaining a permit from the Department
of Health. The permit shall be granted only on such terms and conditions
as shall be prescribed by the department, to which terms and conditions
the applicant for such permit shall subscribe before receiving such
permit. The permit shall not be transferred in case of sale or transfer
of business, in which case a new application shall be made in the
name of the party who proposes to conduct the business. The trade,
manufacture or business may be at any time summarily abated in case
of failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the permit and
same shall be abated if a permit is not obtained.
[Ord. #134y § 15]
No premises shall be rented, let, leased or occupied as a tenement
house unless the premises have a plentiful supply of pure water suitable
for domestic purposes, furnished at one or more places in such house,
or in the yard thereof, so that the same may be adequate and reasonably
convenient for the use of the occupants of the house.
[Ord. #134y § 16]
Whenever the Department of Health has satisfactory evidence
that any well or cistern, the water of which is used for domestic
purposes, has become polluted and rendered unsafe for use, notice
to discontinue the use of the polluted water shall be sent to the
person in charge of the well or cistern, who shall, upon receipt of
such notice, close the well or cistern and fill it up with fresh earth.
[Ord. #134y § 17; Ord. #3456]
Every dwelling and building, and the yard, court passage and
area or alley connected with the same, shall be kept clean and free
from dirt, filth, garbage or other matter. It shall be unlawful for
any dwelling or business in the Township of Belleville to put up a
laundry line in the front yard of any dwelling or business. If any
owner, agent, lessee or occupant of a dwelling or building violates
this section; for a first offense a warning shall be issued, any offense
thereafter a fine of up $100 shall be issued.
[Ord. #134y § 18]
Whenever it is decided by the Department of Health that any
building is unfit for human habitation, by reason of its being infected
with disease, or by reason of its being in a condition dangerous to
health or life, or to be likely to cause sickness among the occupants,
and notice of such decision is affixed conspicuously on the building
and personally served upon the owner, agent, or lessee, if the same
can be found requiring all persons therein to vacate such building,
for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid, such building,
shall, within 10 days thereafter, be vacated; or in case of special
emergency, within such shorter time as may be specified in the notice.
[Ord. #134y § 19]
The owner, lessor, or agent of any building or part thereof
used in any degree for occupation by human beings whether for business
or dwelling purposes, shall keep the roofs, gutters, and side walls
of such buildings so that the same shall not leak, and shall cause
all rain water to be drained and conveyed from such roofs, gutters
or side walls in such manner as to prevent the dripping of water upon
the ground or upon any portion of the structure, or in the yard adjacent
thereto.
[Ord. #134y § 20]
A building or portion of a building occupied as a dwelling shall
be lighted and ventilated by means of at least one window in each
room, the window opening to the outer air.
[Ord. #134y § 21]
Every plumbing or drainage fixture, appliance or pipe, and every
part thereof, and every appliance or pipe or part thereof for water
supply, upon any premises, whether inside or outside of any building
shall be maintained free from any leak, obstruction or other defect,
and shall be kept by the person in charge in good repair and serviceable
condition. Any imperfect trap, sink or watercloset within any house,
or any other drainage appliance or fixture within any house from which
there arises any foul or obnoxious gas or odor, is hereby declared
to be a nuisance, and a source of danger to public health.
[Ord. #134y § 22]
No person shall use any room for sleeping in any dwelling house,
apartment house, hotel or other building, which is overcrowded and
where the cubic capacity for each adult is less than 400 cubic feet
and for each child under 12 years of age 250 cubic feet, occupying
such building or room, and upon written order from the Department
of Health the number of occupants of such building or room so overcrowded
shall be reduced in accordance with this subsection.
[Ord. #134y § 23]
Every building, whether for business or dwelling purposes, shall
be provided with water closets and urinal accommodations according
to the number of occupants, and maintained in good and serviceable
condition. In all tenement houses where separate water closets are
not provided for each family and in all business places, separate
water closets shall be provided for each sex so as to secure absolute
privacy; in dwellings or places used as a permanent place of abode
for persons, at least one water closet shall be provided and maintained
for each six persons; for lodging houses, hotels or other places used
as a temporary place of abode, at least one water closet for each
10 persons; and in stores of every kind including restaurants and
lunch rooms, at least one water closet for each 10 persons.
[Ord. #1009 § 1]
The person in charge of any building, tenement or apartment
house occupied by six or more families shall provide adequate janitorial
service at all times for the purpose of keeping the premises in a
clean and sanitary condition, and daily all garbage and other household
refuse from each flat or apartment in such building, tenement or apartment
house shall be removed.
No person shall in any flat or apartment in any house occupied
by two or more families, use any window, dumbwaiter, shaft, fire escape
or porch of such house for the purpose of discharging dust, by shaking
or otherwise, from any clothes, rug or other floor covering, broom,
mop, rag, or other cleaning implement or material.
[Ord. #1203 § 2]
Adequate and convenient hand washing facilities shall be provided
in each toilet room of any food establishment. Adequate and convenient
hand washing facilities shall include hot and cold running water,
soap, and approved sanitary towels. The use of a common towel is specifically
prohibited as unsanitary. No employee shall resume work after using
the toilet room without first washing his hands, and every toilet
in a food establishment shall have a sign posted to this effect.
[Ord. #134y § 24]
No person shall paper the walls or ceilings of any room in any
building used for a dwelling before all the old paper is previously
scraped or thoroughly removed from the walls or other parts.
[Ord. #134y § 25]
All owners, lessees, tenants, or occupants of any and all lots
and lands in this Township shall keep the sidewalks and streets in
front of such lots and lands free from filth, slops, dirty water,
rubbish or any other thing dangerous to health, life or limb.
[Ord. #134y § 26]
It is the duty of the owner or contractor engaged in the construction or erection of any new building, or other construction work in the Township to provide a sufficient number of water closets for the use of the persons employed in the work of erecting such buildings or other construction work. Such water closet or privy vault shall be placed at the commencement of the work and shall be continued until the completion of the same. Every such water closet or privy vault shall be kept and maintained at all times in a clean and sanitary condition, and subsection
16-8.53(b) and
(d) shall be complied within the erection and maintenance of any such privy vault.
[Ord. #134y § 27]
No person who is responsible by reason of ownership, possession,
or agreement shall allow any building to be occupied as a tenement
house, apartment house, dwelling house or factory building in which
the water supply has been turned off for any reason, except to repair
faulty plumbing, for any period longer than 12 hours.
[Ord. #134y § 28]
It is the duty of the owner of every structure used for dwelling or business purposes to keep the cellar free from accumulations of water. If such accumulations occur the owner shall immediately have such water pumped out and have the cause repaired or conditions altered so that further accumulations will be prevented. Failure to comply with subsections
16-8.8 through
16-8.23 is declared a public nuisance, and a source of danger to public health.
[Ord. #134y § 29]
Allowing any dog to run at large or come in contact with persons
other than the immediate household of the owner, if in the opinion
of the department or the health officer, the dog is vicious and hazardous
to the health of the Township, or if it molests pedestrians or others
without provocation, is hereby declared a public nuisance, and a source
of danger to public health. Such dogs, if taken out, shall be muzzled
completely or on the leash.
[Ord. #1915 §§ 1, 2; Ord. #3088]
a. It shall be the duty of every person who shall have contracted or
undertaken, or shall be otherwise bound, or legally obligated to heat
or to furnish heat for any building, part of any building, apartment
or space occupied as a home, or place of residence, of one or more
persons, or as a business establishment where one or more persons
are employed, to heat or to furnish heat to every occupied portion
of such building, part thereof, apartment, room or space, so that
a minimum temperature of 68° F. is maintained therein at all times.
This subsection shall not apply to buildings or parts thereof used
and occupied for trades, businesses or occupations where high or low
temperatures are essential and unavoidable.
At no time, however, shall the minimum temperature be permitted
to fall below 65° F., between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00
a.m. in any building, apartment, part of any building or apartment,
or other space wherein or wherefore there shall be any obligation
to furnish heat. It shall be the duty of every person who shall have
such obligation to so furnish such heat to maintain the same in accordance
with this chapter.
c. With respect to the obligation or duty to furnish heat to or in a
building, apartment or portion thereof, occupied as a home or place
of residence, the term "at all times," as used in this subsection,
shall mean the time between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m.
and with respect to the obligation or duty to furnish heat to building
or portion thereof used and occupied as a business establishment,
the term "at all times," as used in this subsection shall mean the
working hours established and maintained in the said building or portion
thereof so involved, whenever the outer temperature shall fall below
55° F.
[Ord. #134y § 32; Ord. #3283]
No person shall keep or allow to be kept in any dwelling house
or structure, premises or upon any open property within the Township
of Belleville, any horse, cattle, swine, goat, sheep, horses, or venomous
snakes.
[Ord. #134y § 33; Ord. #3283]
No person shall have or keep or harbor in any dwelling house,
building, premises or on any grounds of which he or she may be the
owner, leasee, tenant or occupant any chickens, pigeons, or other
fowl (excepting those persons engaged in the keeping of fowl for commercial
purposes in the business zone), nor shall any person have or keep
any animal or animals for the purpose of breeding, nor permit the
breeding or raising of any animals, domestic or non-domestic on any
property, premises, dwelling, or business within the limits of the
Township of Belleville.
[Ord. #134y § 34; Ord. #3283]
No pedigreed homing, high flying or air-performing pigeons shall
be kept within the Township of Belleville except upon the following
conditions:
a. Such pigeons shall be housed in sheds, coops, pens or other structures
meeting the following requirements:
1. No such structure shall be built or maintained less than 50 feet
from the property line of any neighboring property.
2. All such structures shall be keep in good repair, shall have a floor
and impervious to moisture, and be kept waterproofed, free from rats
and vermin, properly lighted and ventilated in a clean and sanitary
condition at all times.
3. All such structures intended for the use of the housing of such pedigreed
homing, highflying or air-performing pigeons shall be in accordance
with the building code of the Township of Belleville.
b. Upon satisfactory compliance with paragraph a., a person seeking
to house pedigreed homing, highflying or air-performing pigeons shall
make application to the Health Department for a permit from both the
Health Department and the Construction Code Department at the Township
of Belleville. The cost of such permit shall in the aggregate, not
exceed $100.
c. Pedigreed homing, highflying or air-performing pigeons housed in
compliance with this subsection shall be permitted to fly for exercising
or training unless such flights shall prove to be a public nuisance.
A violation of this subsection shall subject the violator to
a fine not less than $100 per day, nor more than $500 per day, or
a term of imprisonment not to exceed 15 days. Each day of noncompliance
shall be considered a separate violation.
d. Compliance with subsection
16-8.28 shall not operate to exempt a person from otherwise complying with any other ordinance, law, or regulation relating to noise, nuisance, health, or odor related violations.
[Ord. #1344 § 35; Ord. #3283]
[Added 10-23-2018 by Ord. No. 3508. Prior history includes
Ord. #134y § 36; Ord. #3283]
No person(s) shall keep on his property, or in his possession,
or permit to be kept, any rabbits, live chickens, pigeons, or fowl
in excess of six (Excepting those persons engaged in the keeping of
fowl for commercial purposes in the business zone), in number nor
shall such animals or fowl be permitted to run or fly at large within
the Township of Belleville. No person(s) shall have or keep any animals
for the purpose of breeding. Such animals and fowl shall be confined
in a suitable house or coop with an enclosed runway and house or coop
shall be no less than 30 feet from a human dwelling, store, or office
building and not less than 10 feet from any neighboring property line.
Such house or coop shall be throughly cleaned weekly or more often,
and may be subject to periodic inspection by the Health Department.
A property survey must be submitted to the Health Department showing
the proposed location of the house or coop. Houses or coops must be
registered with the Health Department along with an annual fee of
$50.
[Ord. #549 § 1]
The slaughtering or killing of cattle, horses, swine, poultry
or sheep, shall not be allowed within the Township, unless a permit
is granted for that purpose by the department. The permit fee shall
be $50 and all such permits shall terminate on June 30 next following
their issuance. No permits shall be issued where the slaughtering
of cattle, horses, swine, poultry or sheep is, in the judgment of
the department, deemed to be a nuisance or detrimental to the public
health.
[Ord. #134y §§ 38, 39]
a. Every person leasing or occupying any place, room or building where
any cattle, horses, swine, poultry or sheep have been killed or dressed,
shall thoroughly clean and purify such place, and all offal, blood,
fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome or offensive matter shall be
removed therefrom at least once every 24 hours after use thereof,
and all such rooms, buildings, yards or appurtenances thereto shall
be at all times clean and wholesome,
b. No cattle, swine or sheep shall be killed for human food, while in
a diseased condition, overheated, feverish or in an exhausted condition;
nor shall cattle, swine or sheep, for human food, be killed within
24 hours after driving or transportation, nor until rested and properly
fed and watered, nor shall any meat from any diseased animal be sold
or offered for sale in the Township.
[Ord. #134y § 41]
It is the duty of every person having charge of any animal dying
in the Township to notify the Department of Health and such person
aforesaid shall not remove any such carcass from the premises where
the animal died without a permit from the Department of Health.
[Ord. #134y § 43; Ord. #1707 § 1; Ord.
#501 § 1]
a. No meat, fish, poultry, vegetable, fruit or milk, not being healthy,
fresh, sound, wholesome and safe for human food, nor the meat of any
fish, bird, poultry or animal that has died from disease or accident
shall be brought into the Township or offered for sale or sold.
b. No live poultry or live animals used for human food shall be sold
or offered for sale in the Township at any other place than a duly
licensed slaughter house, nor by anyone other than the proprietor
or same.
c. If it is established that the meat or meat product, including chopped
meat, ground meat or meat patties, of any animal, fish, shell fish,
bird or poultry:
1. Has a total bacteria count exceeding 10,000 per gram by agar plate
method; or
2. Has a count of coliform bacteria exceeding 100 per gram; or
3. Contains any staphylococci or any other pathogenic organisms; then
it shall be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that
the meat is not fresh, of decomposed substance, unwholesome, unsafe
for human food and may be injurious to health.
d. No person shall manufacture, have, offer for sale, or sell any article
of food or drink which is adulterated within the meaning of "An Act
to Prevent the adulteration of food or drugs," approved March 25,
1881, and the supplements and amendments thereto.
e. No decayed or unwholesome fruit or vegetables shall be brought into
the Township, sold or offered for sale.
f. No calf, pig or lamb, or the meat thereof, shall be brought into
this Township, held or offered for sale, or sold, which at the date
of its death, being a calf was less than four weeks old, or being
a pig was less than five weeks old, or being a lamb, was less then
eight weeks old, nor shall any meagre, sickly or unwholesome fish,
bird or poultry be brought into the Township, held, sold or offered
for sale.
g. When any meat, fish, poultry, bird, fruit or vegetable is offered
for sale, or exposed for sale which is in a condition unwholesome
or unfit for food, the same shall be removed, and it shall be the
duty of the person in charge of such substance to immediately remove
the same from any place, and such shall not be sold or offered for
sale nor in any way disposed of for human food. And in case the person
in charge fails or neglects or refuses to remove the articles within
three hours after having been notified to do so, the same may be removed
by the Department of Health, the person in charge paying all expenses
thereof.
[Ord. #1614 § 1; Ord. #134y § 47]
"Hamburger," "chopped meat," "ground meat," or "beef patties,"
shall consist of chopped fresh beef with or without the addition of
beef fat as such, and seasoning, and shall not contain more than 30%
beef fat.
[Ord. #1487 § 1]
No fruit, vegetables or other food shall be stored, exhibited
or exposed for sale outside of any building in the Township unless.
a. The base of the display fixture is at least 18 inches above the ground
level.
b. They shall extend no further than 30 inches away from the foundation
of the aforesaid building;
c. They shall not exceed 20 lineal feet of display area adjacent to
the building;
d. They shall have a canopy above.
[Ord. #134y § 50]
All bakers, wholesale or retail, confectioners, grocers and
others selling bread in the Township, shall wrap each and every loaf
of the same in clean paper.
[Ord. #134y §§ 51, 52]
No sleeping room nor any room of a dwelling apartment or tenement
shall be directly connected with a room which is used as a restaurant
or public dining room or with the room in which the food for consumption
in the dining room is to be prepared or cooked. No store in which
food is sold shall be directly connected with any sleeping room of
a dwelling apartment or tenement.
[Ord. #134y § 53]
No person shall engage in the business nor shall any person
employ any person in the business of handling any foodstuffs in the
Township intended or suited for human consumption unless such person
files with the Department of Health a medical certificate, from a
physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this State, setting
forth that such person is free from tuberculosis or any contagious
disease; provided that this subsection shall not apply to the handling
of any foodstuffs which are enclosed in cans or other receptacles.
No waiter, cook or other employee of a boarding house, hotel or restaurant,
or other place where food is served, who lodges or visits in a household
where he comes in contact with any person affected with amoebic or
bacillary dysentery, diphtheria, scarlet fever, paratyphoid fever,
typhoid fever, or any communicable disease which may be transmitted
through food or food products, or with any person who is a carrier
of the causative agent of any such disease, shall serve or handle
food for others in any manner whatsoever.
a. "Contagious disease" shall include venereal diseases and the communicable diseases set forth in subsection
16-8.54.
b. "Business of handling" shall include manufacturing, cooking, selling
or serving.
c. "Foodstuffs" shall include every article used for food or drink by
man, and every ingredient of such article, and all confectionery and
condiments. A separate certificate shall be filed for each person
for a period of six months.
[Ord. #134y § 54]
All bakeries in the Township shall be open at any time to inspection
by the department. The bakeries shall be kept in a thoroughly sanitary
condition, shall be used for no other purpose and shall not be connected
with any sleeping room of a dwelling, apartment or tenement.
[Ord. #134y § 55]
All persons engaged in the sale of ice cream in the Township
shall file annually with the department before June 1 a true statement
of the place where the milk and cream to be used is produced, of the
place of manufacture and from whom the ice cream is purchased. All
premises where ice cream is manufactured for sale in the Township,
shall be kept in a thoroughly sanitary condition and shall be open
to the department for inspection at any time. No refrozen ice cream,
nor any ice cream, one or all of the various ingredients of which
could not be sold separately under this section shall be offered for
sale in the Township.
[Ord. #134y § 56]
All refrigerators or ice boxes maintained in any butcher shop
or other mercantile shop in the Township shall be open to inspection
by the department at any time when business is being carried on in
the shop. No person shall allow any animal or vegetable matter which
is foul or which is in a state of decay to remain within the refrigerator
or ice box, nor shall the refrigerator or ice box be allowed to become
foul or malodorous.
[Ord. #1203 § 1]
All hotels, restaurants, cafes, soda fountains, and other places
where food is produced, manufactured, stored, cooked, prepared, distributed
and sold, or intended for sale for human consumption shall be provided
with cold running water and hot running water at a temperature of
not less than 175° F. under pressure easily accessible to all
rooms in which food is prepared or utensils are washed. The supply
of hot and cold running water shall be of adequate quantity and of
safe and sanitary quality.
[Ord. #1091 § 1]
No person conducting a place of business in the Township where
persons are served with a beverage of any kind for consumption upon
the premises, shall serve or allow or permit to be served to any person
drinking straws, tube or other similar device, which are not completely
enclosed in an individual wrapper to keep the drinking straws, tube
or other similar device in a clean and sanitary condition. No single
service containers, paper cups, paper spoons, paper forks or paper
plates shall be used a second time. All single service drinking straws,
tube and paper containers shall be destroyed immediately after use.
[Prior § 16-8.45 Dair Farm Regulations was deleted 7-14-2020 by Ord. No. 3583. History includes Ord. #134y §§ 75 - 99]
[Ord. #134y § 100-105]
a. No impure ice or ice cut within or outside of the Township from a
polluted pond, lake or stream, and no ice manufactured from impure
water, shall be used or sold within the Township. No ice shall be
brought into the Township for the purpose of use or sale.
b. No person shall sell, deliver or deal in ice for domestic or public
use in the Township without a permit obtained from the Department
of Health. A separate permit shall be required for each office, store,
station, depot or other place used for the distribution or sale of
ice.
c. Before any permit is granted, an application shall be made to the
Department of Health by the party seeking such permit, which application
shall be signed by such party, or if a corporation, by an authorized
agent, and shall give the usual post office address of the party,
the name under which and the place where the ice business is to be
conducted, the character of the business, whether wholesale or retail,
the name of the party from which the ice is secured, and the places
where such ice is cut or manufactured. Before such permit is granted
the applicant shall pay to the Department of Health a fee of $2. Every
such permit, unless sooner forfeited or revoked, shall expire on December
31.
d. Upon request of the Department of Health, any person, to whom any
permit is granted, shall at any time during the period thereof, furnish
any further information in writing, which the department may demand
as in paragraph (c). If such information is not furnished to the department
within five days after the request thereof, the permit shall be void,
and therefore no person shall be protected thereby in any manner whatsoever.
Nothing herein shall prohibit the party whose permit is forfeited
from making application for a new permit.
e. Any permit granted hereunder may be revoked by the Department of
Health for the violation of any provision hereof or for good cause
shown, and after a hearing by the Department of Health. During the
pendency of such proceedings the department may in its discretion
order the permit to be suspended, and all transactions thereunder
to be discontinued.
f. No wagon, cart or vehicle of any kind shall be used or run at any
time by any one for the sale or delivery of ice in the Township unless
there is displayed on each side thereof a tag or plate furnished by
the Department of Health, showing that the vehicle is owned, controlled
or used by a party to whom a permit has been granted. Each owner of
a vehicle used for the sale or delivery of ice shall pay an annual
license fee of four $4. No one except a party to whom a permit has
been issued shall use any such tag or plate on any vehicle whatsoever,
and no person shall make or use an imitation or copy of such tag or
plate. No such tag shall be used after the forfeiture, revocation
or expiration of the permit the existence of which is indicated and
is intended to show. An annual license fee of $25 shall be paid for
the maintenance of each ice or milk depot.
[Ord. #134y § 107]
Every barber shop in the Township shall be open to the department
for inspection at any time, and the following rules shall be observed
therein:
a. All barber shops, together with all furniture therein, shall be kept
in a clean and sanitary condition.
b. Mugs, shaving brushes, razors, scissors, clipping machines, pincers,
needles and other instruments shall be sterilized, either by immersion
in boiling water or in alcohol of at least 60% strength or formaldehyde
solution of at least five 5% strength, after each separate use. Combs
and brushes shall be thoroughly cleaned with soap and water after
each separate use.
c. Fresh, clean towels shall be used for each person.
d. Alum, styptic pencils or other material used to stop the flow of
blood, shall be applied only on a clean towel or other clean cloth.
The use of powder puffs and sponges is prohibited, except that a sponge
owned by a customer may be used on him.
e. Every barber shall thoroughly cleanse his hands immediately before
serving each customer.
f. Every barber shop shall be well ventilated and provided with running
hot and cold water.
g. No barber shop shall be used as a sleeping room.
h. No barber shall shave any person when the surface to be shaved is
inflamed or broken out or contains pus, unless such person is provided
with a cup, shaving brush and razor for his exclusive individual use.
i. No owner or manager of a barber shop shall knowingly permit any person
suffering from a communicable disease or skin disease or from venereal
disease to act as a barber in the shop; nor shall any person who to
his own knowledge is suffering from a communicable disease or venereal
disease act as a barber.
j. A copy of this subsection shall be kept posted in plain view in every
barber shop.
[Ord. #134y §§ 109 — 123]
a. No person shall keep or maintain any building, home, institution
or place where infants are taken to board, or keep, for pay, either
temporarily or permanently, or wherein the business of nursing or
caring for babies or infants is carried on or conducted, without a
permit therefor issued by the Department of Health. The permit shall
be issued upon such conditions as the Department of Health shall impose
and shall be for a period ending May 1 after the date of its issuance,
and the fee for such permit shall be $5.
b. At no time shall more babies or children be kept in a boarding home,
than in the opinion of the Department of Health or health officer,
can well and sufficiently be cared for.
c. In case of a contagious disease or other illness a physician shall
be called in attendance and the health officer notified at once.
d. No child suffering from any form of venereal disease shall be admitted
for care or nursing at any such home.
e. A room shall be maintained for the proper isolation of any case of
contagious or infectious disease.
f. The caretaker shall be physically examined by a physician, duly licensed
to practice medicine in this State, at least once a year or more often
if deemed necessary.
g. All rooms in which the children are kept either during the day or
night shall be above the street level unless there is a cellar underneath
the room so occupied.
h. Adequate ventilation, lighting and heating shall be provided. Except
in extremely cold weather, adequate ventilation shall be maintained
by means of open windows.
i. A minimum of 250 cubic feet of air space shall be provided for each
child, in sleeping rooms, and beds or cribs shall be at least two
feet apart.
j. Separate beds shall be provided for all children under two years
of age.
k. The premises shall at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition,
with proper inside toilet facilities; and all doors and windows screened
from April 1 to October 31.
l. No soiled clothing shall be allowed to accumulate, but shall be thoroughly
washed and boiled after each use.
m. No milk or water shall be used except such as has been approved by
this department.
n. No medicine shall be administered to any child except by a physician's
prescription.
o. Every infant boarding home shall be open at all times to inspectors
from this department. A complete record of all children received in
such home shall be kept at all times and a full and accurate report
shall be submitted under the direction of the Department of Health
in writing upon the request of the department.
[Ord. #1386 §§ 1, 2; Ord. #1039 § 1;
Ord. #134y §§ 125 — 129]
a. No person shall maintain or allow or keep upon his premises any box,
can or other receptacles containing coal or wood, ashes, dirt, plaster
or other household' refuse not of an animal or vegetable nature, together
or mixed with any decaying vegetables or animal substances, but such
coal, wood, ashes, dirt, plaster and other household refuse shall
be kept separate from such decaying vegetable or animal substance.
b. Every person shall place in a watertight receptacle which may be
conveniently handled and which shall have a proper covering for the
opening thereof, all decaying vegetable and animal substances, upon
his premises in which receptacle shall be placed no other household
refuse.
c. Every person shall place in a box, can, or other receptacle, which
may be conveniently handled and which shall have a proper covering
for the opening thereof, all ashes and other household refuse upon
his premises, in which receptacle no decaying vegetable or animal
substances shall be placed.
d. Every person shall upon the days appointed by the proper authorities
for the collection of garbage, place every box, can or other receptacle
upon his premises containing vegetable or animal substances and the
receptacle containing household refuse upon the sidewalk in front
of his premises, as near the curb as the same can be conveniently
placed and immediately after the same are emptied to remove the same
from the sidewalk.
e. All receptacles in paragraph (d) which are metallic shall be covered
with a metallic top. Receptacles other than metallic cans or receptacles
shall be securely bound or tied in a manner which shall prevent the
spilling of the contents of the cans or receptacles. No decaying matter
shall be placed in receptacles other than metallic containers adequately
covered with a metallic top.
f. No person shall dispose of waste materials of any nature whatsoever
by sweeping same on the public sidewalks, curbs, gutters or public
streets, nor shall any decaying matter be placed in any manner on
the public sidewalks, curbs, gutters or public streets other than
in cans or receptacles.
g. Any person whose duty it is to undertake removal from any street
or other public place any decaying or vegetable substances lawfully
placed thereon, shall do so within 12 hours after placement thereon.
h. In all buildings intended for the occupancy of four or more families
the owner of the premises shall be responsible for this subsection,
whether they personally occupy the premises or not, and shall be liable
for all violations hereof.
[Ord. #134y § 130]
All vehicles or receptacles used under any permit for removing
the contents of cesspools or privy vaults, or for conveying swill,
garbage, or other liquid or partially liquid material, shall be only
such as may be approved by the Department of Health, shall be watertight,
shall be kept clean and inoffensive, and shall be covered with tightly
fitting wooden, metal or canvas covers, shall be closed at all times,
except when opened for the omission or discharge of proper matter,
and no such vehicle shall be filled with such decaying substance or
offensive matter to any point higher than one inch from the top of
the side of any such vehicle.
[Ord. #134y § 131]
No animal or vegetable substances or swill or garbage nor any
offensive material shall be deposited on, or used to fill in or raise
the surface or level of any ground, lot or street, except by a permit
in writing granted by the Department of Health.
[Ord. #134y §§ 133 — 139]
a. No privy vault or cesspool in the Township shall be cleaned, nor
shall any material from the same, nor any garbage, ashes, swill, refuse,
dead animals or other matter which is or may become offensive or dangerous
to health, shall be conveyed through the Township streets by any person
who has not obtained a license from the department to be known as
a "scavenger's license," permitting him to perform such services or
acts in accordance with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the
Department of Health.
b. All persons required by paragraph (a) to obtain a license shall make
application for same to the Department of Health, in writing, addressed
to the Department of Health, stating the nature of the business they
intend to conduct, or the acts to be performed, the number and kind
of vehicles to be used in such business, and the disposition to be
made of the material they may remove, collect or convey, and such
other information as the Department of Health may require. If an application
is granted, the Department of Health shall issue a license for one
year to the applicant, upon the receipt of the license fee of $1.
Such license may be revoked by the department whenever the licensee
has failed to comply with any ordinance, rule, regulation or order
of the department.
c. All persons shall, before cleaning or emptying any privy vaults or
cesspool, obtain from this department a permit to do so.
d. No work in connection with the cleaning and emptying of privy vaults
and cesspools shall be done except between the hours of 7:00 p.m.
and 6:00 p.m.
e. Every person holding a scavenger's license and in receipt of a written
order from the Department of Health stating the necessity for the
immediate cleaning or emptying of a privy vault or cesspool, shall
perform such work within 24 hours.
f. None of the material collected, conveyed or handled in paragraph
(a) shall be disposed of in the Township in any manner not approved
by the Department of Health. No swill, garbage, offal nor other refuse
collected by any person holding a scavenger's license, shall be fed
to any cow or hog; nor shall any such matter be fed to any other animal
without a permit from the department.
g. No vehicle shall stand in the streets or public places of the Township
at any time except when being loaded or unloaded. Every vehicle licensed
under this subsection shall have metal tags containing its license
number, together with the designation "Scavenger's License, Belleville,
N.J.," conspicuously placed on each side thereof, such metal tags
to be furnished by the department when such license is granted.
[Ord. #134y §§ 141 — 146]
a. No privy vault, cesspool or manure pit shall be constructed in the
Township without a permit being obtained from the Department of Health.
All privy vaults, cesspools and manure pits shall be built in such
manner as the department shall direct.
b. No privy vault or cesspool shall be constructed or maintained on
any lot or premises having a sewer connection or abutting on a street
within which there is a sewer, unless special permission is granted
by the department. No privy vault, cesspool or manure pit shall be
constructed or maintained unless same is so constructed and maintained
that flies cannot gain access to the excremental matter contained
therein. No privy vault, cesspool or manure pit shall hereafter be
constructed or maintained within 100 feet of any spring, well or stream,
the waters of which are used for drinking or domestic purposes, unless
such privy or other receptacle is provided with a watertight vault.
c. No rain water leader, waste pipe or soil pipe shall discharge into,
or be connected with any privy vault, nor shall any rain water leader
be used for conducting household wastes.
d. No privy vault or cesspool shall be built or maintained within 15
feet of the line of any street; within five feet of any party line
or fence of the adjacent lot, nor within 25 feet or the door or window
of any house, unless otherwise permitted by the Department of Health,
and no privy vault or cesspool shall be completed nor shall any cover
be put upon or over the same until same has been inspected by an inspector
of the Department of Health and has been found to correspond to the
terms of the permit and the provisions of this subsection.
e. No manure pit or other receptacle used for the storage of stable
manure shall be directly or indirectly connected with any sewer, nor
shall the drainage from any stable or other building be emptied into
the manure pit or other receptacle. The manure pit or other receptacle
shall be kept dry and protected from the sun, rain, snow and all other
conditions which tend to produce wetness an offensive decompositions
of manure stored therein. The manure pit shall not nor shall any other
receptacle for the storage of stable manure be built or maintained
within five feet of any party line, within 20 feet of any street line,
nor within 40 feet of any door or window of any dwelling house, unless
otherwise permitted by the Department of Health.
f. No owner or occupant of any premises shall allow the contents of
any privy vault or cesspool to overflow or rise within one foot from
the top thereof; nor shall any privy vault be allowed to become offensive
to sight or smell, nor shall any privy vault or cesspool be filled
with sand or earth until the contents are removed. No person shall
throw, cast, place or deposit in any privy vault or cesspool any dead
animal, swill, ashes, garbage, rubbish, offal or any substance not
appropriate to the purpose for which the structure was intended.
[Ord. #134y §§ 148 — 174]
a. Every physician shall within 12 hours after his first professional
attendance upon any person in the Township who is affected with anthrax,
chickenpox, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria (membranous croup), dysentery
(amoebic or bacillary), erysipelas, glanders, influenze, leprosy,
malaria, measles, German measles, mumps, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis,
opthalmia neonatorum, paratyphoid fever, broncho pneumonia, lobar
pneumonia, plague, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis),
rabies (Hydrophobia), scarlet fever, smallpox (including varioloid),
trachoma, trichinosis, tuberculosis (in any of its manifestations),
typhoid fever, typhus fever, (Brill's disease), whooping cough, yellow
fever, or any other communicable disease that may be hereafter declared
by this department to be dangerous to the public health, report such
sickness in writing to the Department of Health; the report shall
be signed by the physician, and shall set forth the nature of the
disease, and the name, age, sex, color and precise location of the
person suffering from or affected by such disease; and every houseowner
who has reason to believe that any person living, dwelling or being
in any building under his control, is affected by any communicable
disease as hereinabove specified or referred to, shall when no physician
has previously attended such sick person, within 12 hours after discovering
the same, report the fact in writing to the same person in the same
manner as any physician attending such person would be required to
do, as hereinabove set forth. The hereinabove specified diseases are
declared to be communicable.
b. The regulations concerning communicable diseases as set forth in Chapter
6 of the Sanitary Code enacted by the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey on April 17, 1917, and the amendments thereto, are hereby adopted as a part of this subsection; provided, the regulations shall be considered as the minimum requirement and the regulations shall not conflict with any paragraph of this subsection that may require more than the minimum as set forth.
c. Every teacher, nurse and medical school inspector shall report to
the principal or other person in charge of a school, the name of any
child in such school who appears to be affected with a disease declared
herein to be communicable, and the principal or person in charge shall
report forthwith in writing, and by telephone or in person if practicable,
to the Department of Health the supposed nature of the disease and
the name, age, sex, color, and address of such person and the person
shall be at once sent home or isolated.
d. The principal or other person in immediate charge of any public,
private or Sunday school shall exclude therefrom any child or other
person affected with a disease suspected to be communicable, until
such person presents a certificate issued by the health officer, stating
that such person is not liable to transmit infection.
e. No person affected with chickenpox, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal
meningitis, German measles, measles, mumps, acute anterior poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, trachoma or whooping
cough shall be permitted to attend any public, private or Sunday school,
or any public or private gathering; nor shall such person visit or
make use of any public library, or any of the books belonging thereto;
nor shall the personal or bed clothing of any person affected with
such disease be sent to a public laundry unless it is disinfected.
Such exclusion shall be for such time and under such conditions as
may be prescribed by the department, not inconsistent with the provisions
of this subsection.
f. Every child and every school teacher in or who has visited any household,
at the time when there has been therein a case of chickenpox, diphtheria,
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, German measles, measles, mumps,
acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox,
or whooping cough shall be excluded from every public, private or
Sunday school, and from every public and private gathering, for such
time and under such conditions as may be prescribed by the department.
g. It is the duty of the health officer of the department upon receiving
a report of a communicable disease, to establish such isolation or
quarantine, or other restrictive measures, as may be required by this
subsection or by the State Sanitary Code. Whenever isolation or quarantine
is to be established on any premises, the health officer shall cause
a written order establishing such isolation or quarantine to be served
upon the person in charge of such premises. Service upon any responsible
member of a household shall be deemed sufficient service upon all
members of the household of the person served. In lieu of such service,
such order may be posted on the building or premises occupied by the
affected person and when so posted all persons on such premises shall
be bound by such notice. When such isolation or quarantine has been
established it shall remain in force until the health officer has
served on the affected person or posted on the premises, a notice
in writing terminating such isolation or quarantine.
h. After isolation or quarantine of any person affected with or exposed
to a communicable diseases is established, such person shall not leave
the apartment or premises where he is isolated, nor shall any other
person remove such person, or permit him to be removed, unless a permit
for such removal is issued by the health officer.
i. When violations of quarantine or isolation methods are observed which
the family cannot or will not correct, the health officer shall request
the assistance of the attending physician, and should these measures
fail and the patient's or parent's consent to removal to a hospital
be refused, the case shall be forcibly removed to an isolation hospital,
on the ground that the patient is a menace to the health of others.
j. It is the duty of the physician in attendance on any case known or
suspected by him to be a case of communicable disease to inform the
nurse or other person in attendance in regard to the disinfection
and disposal of bodily discharges. Such information shall be given
on the first visit and shall be in accordance with the regulations
of the State Department of Health, and it is the duty of the nurse
or other person in attendance to carry out such disinfection and disposal
until further or different directions have been given by the Department
of Health.
k. Adequate cleansing of room, furniture and belongings, when deemed
necessary by the Department of Health, or required by this subsection
or by law, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal
of a person affected with a communicable disease. Such cleansing shall
be performed by and at the expense of the occupant of the premises,
upon the order and under the direction of the Department of Health,
in accordance with this subsection.
l. Adequate disinfection of premises, furniture and belongings, when
deemed necessary by the department or required by this code or by
law, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal of a
person affected with a communicable disease. Such disinfection shall
be performed by or under the direction of the Department of Health
in accordance with the regulations of this subsection and at the public
expense unless otherwise provided by law.
m. It is the duty of the patient, upon convalescence or recovery from
any communicable disease, and of any person in attendance on such
patient, throughout the course of the disease as well as at its termination,
to cleanse, and, when necessary, to disinfect their persons.
n. No proprietor of a hotel, boarding house or lodging house, or owner
of any dwelling house, shall let or hire or cause or permit anyone
to reoccupy any room or apartment previously occupied by a person
affected with diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, measles,
acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever,
smallpox, typhus fever or tuberculosis until such room or apartment
has been cleansed or disinfected under the direction of the Department
of Health.
o. When an order requiring the cleansing or disinfection of articles
or premises is not complied with, the department shall post a placard
on the premises forbidding the occupancy of such rooms or premises
until the order is complied with. No person except an employee of
the department shall remove, mutilate, conceal or destroy any such
order.
p. No person shall remove milk bottles from a building wherein a disease
dangerous to the public health has existed, until he has obtained
permission in writing from the Department of Health.
q. The maximum periods of incubation (that is, the time which may elapse
between the date of last exposure to a given disease and the date
of its development), of the following communicable diseases is hereby
declared as follows:
r. The minimum periods of quarantine during which persons affected with
the diseases hereinafter named shall be completely isolated from contact
with other members of the family and the general public shall be as
follows:
1. Chickenpox, until 12 days after the appearance of the eruption, and
until the crusts have fallen and the scars completely healed.
2. Diphtheria (membranous croup), until two successive negative cultures
are obtained from both the nose and throat at intervals of not less
than 24 hours, or until the bacilli present have been shown to be
nonvirulent.
3. Measles, until seven days after the appearance of the rash and until
all abnormal discharges from the nose, ears and throat have disappeared
and until the cough has ceased.
4. German measles, until seven days after the onset of the disease.
5. Mumps, until two weeks after the onset of the disease and all swelling
of glands has disappeared.
6. Acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), until three weeks
after the onset of the disease, and until the temperature has returned
to normal.
7. Scarlet fever, until 30 days after the onset of the disease, and
until all abnormal discharges from the nose, ears, throat or glands
have ceased.
8. Smallpox, until 14 days after the onset of the disease, and until
scabs have all separated and the scars completely healed.
9. Whooping cough, until three weeks after the onset of the disease,
and until paroxysmal coughing has ceased.
10. Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, until two weeks after the onset
of the disease. All recognized methods for arriving at an accurate
bacterial diagnosis of such cases shall be employed.
11. Erysipelas, until two weeks after the onset of the disease, and until
all local and inflammatory swelling and discharges have ceased.
12. Typhoid fever, until the temperature has remained normal for seven
successive days and until two successive specimens of both the intestinal
discharges and the urine of the patient, taken at an interval of not
less than seven days, have been found to be free from typhoid bacilli.
s. Every member of a household in which any case of diphtheria, epidemic
cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile
paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox (varioloid), chickenpox, or typhus
fever may have occurred, and every person who has been in contact
with such case or with the secretions or excretions therefrom, may
be placed in quarantine or isolated during the incubation period of
the disease to which exposed or until such time as in the opinion
of the Department of Health all danger of communicating the disease
from any such house or the members thereof or contacts pass.
t. No person shall bring or knowingly cause to be brought into the Township,
any person infected with any communicable disease, except upon a permit
granted by the Department of Health; and no person shall knowingly
bring or cause to be brought into the Township any article liable
to propagate a communicable disease.
u. Whenever in the Township a case of diphtheria (membranous croup),
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile
paralysis), scarlet fever, smallpox, measles, or typhus fever occurs
the Department of Health shall place upon the house in which the case
is confined a placard stating the existence therein of a communicable
disease and the name of such disease. The placard shall be so maintained
until the same is ordered removed by the department and no person
shall remove, mutilate or conceal same without the authority of the
department.
v. Whenever a placard is placed, as in paragraph (u), no person except
the medical attendant shall either enter therein or depart therefrom
without the permission of the Department of Health.
w. If a vehicle conveys a patient affected with a communicable disease,
the vehicle shall be disinfected under the direction of the Department
of Health before being used again.
x. Whenever a person affected with tuberculosis moves out of a house
or apartment, the attending physician, if there is one or the active
head of the family, shall notify the department within 24 hours, and
both of the above mentioned persons shall be held equally responsible
for a violation of this paragraph.
y. Every veterinarian or other person who is called to examine or professionally
attend any animal in the Township having the glanders or farcy, rabies,
tuberculosis or any other communicable disease, shall, within 24 hours
thereafter, report in writing to the Department of Health the following
facts:
1. A statement of the location of each diseased animal.
2. The name and address of the owner thereof.
3. The type and character of the disease.
z. Any animal which has rabies, or which shows symptoms thereof, or
is suspected of having the disease, shall be securely confined until
the diagnosis is accurately made. In order to establish a correct
diagnosis when an animal has the physical signs of rabies, the animal
shall be killed and a microscopic examination of the brain made. Every
animal that has been exposed to such disease shall be immediately
confined in some secure place for such length of time as to show that
such exposure has not given the animal such disease, and the body
of any animal that has died of such disease shall be disposed of as
may be directed by the department. Any animal which bites a person
shall be securely confined by the owner for such length of time as
to show that the animal is not affected with rabies, the confinement
and observation being under the direction of the health officer. Every
owner of an animal suspected of being rabid or any person having knowledge
of any such animal shall immediately report the known facts to the
Department of Health or to the police department in order that appropriate
measures may be taken to safeguard the public health.
[Ord. #134y §§ 176 — 181]
a. There shall be appointed annually by the director of the Department
of Health, a suitable person to be registrar of vital statistics in
the Township, who shall serve until January 1 next succeeding his
appointment, or until his successor is appointed and qualified.
b. In addition to the duties prescribed under the State laws, the registrar
of vital statistics shall perform such other duties as may be required
by the director of the Department of Health. He shall, in addition
to transmitting to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics, all certificates
of marriages, births and deaths received by him, report the same to
the director of the Department of Health at least once in each month.
c. The returns of all marriages, births and deaths required by law or
by any ordinance of the Township to be made by physicians, midwives,
nurses, clergymen, magistrates, undertakers and other persons officiating
at such marriage, birth or death shall be made to the registrar of
vital statistics.
d. It is the duty of the physician or midwife present at the birth of
every child born in the Township, but in case there is no midwife
or physician present, it is the duty of the parent or witness present
at the birth, to report in writing to the Township registrar of vital
statistics all particulars concerning the birth and called for on
blank forms furnished by the department for that purpose, and the
report shall be made within five days after the date of the birth.
e. Every person having authority to solemnize marriages shall transmit
to the Township registrar of vital statistics a certificate of every
marriage solemnized before him, within five days next thereafter,
and the certificate shall be made out on the blank forms furnished
by the department for that purpose and shall include all facts required
by the forms.
f. In case of any person dying within the Township, it shall be the
duty of the physician who attends the person during the last illness
to furnish the undertaker or any member of the family, a certificate
of death, which certificate shall be made out on and shall comprise
all the facts stated in the blank forms furnished for that purpose
by this department.
[Ord. #134y §§ 182 — 185]
a. No body of an adult person shall be buried in the Township so that
the box or coffin containing it shall be nearer than four feet to
the surface of the ground, or in case of any person deceased under
the age of 14 years, not less than 3 1/2 feet, and no disinterment
shall take place between May 1 and November 1 of any year, nor shall
any disinterment take place at any time without a permit from the
Department of Health.
b. There shall not be a public funeral of any person who has died of
smallpox, diphtheria (membranous croup), scarlet fever, epidemic cerebrospinal
meningitis, acute anterior poliomyelitis, plague, measles, yellow
fever, typhus fever, leprosy, glanders, or Asiatic cholera, but the
funeral of such person shall be private, and held within 24 hours
after the death of such person. It shall not be lawful to permit at
the funeral of any person who has died of any of the above named diseases
or at any services connected therewith any person whose attendance
is not necessary.
c. It shall be the duty of every undertaker having notice of the death
of any person within the Township of smallpox, varioloid, diphtheria,
membranous croup, scarlet fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis,
acute anterior poliomyelitis, plague, measles, yellow fever, typhus
fever, leprosy, glanders or Asiatic cholera or any other communicable
disease dangerous to the general health of the community, or of the
bringing of the body of any person who has died of any such disease
into the Township, to give immediate notice thereof to the Department
of Health.
d. No public coach, cab, carriage, automobile or any upholstered vehicle
used for the conveyance of passengers shall be used to convey the
body of a person who has died from any communicable disease.
[Ord. #1039 § 2]
In all buildings intended for the occupancy of four or more
families all refuse, as cans and boxes shall, except at the time appointed
for the collection of garbage, refuse and ash cans by the proper authorities,
be kept and stored within the interior of the building. However, the
owner of the buildings referred to in this paragraph may at their
option place such boxes and cans outside of the buildings, provided
in such case, the boxes and cans are placed in a receptacle below
the ground level, which receptacle shall be water tight and be approved
as to sanitary conditions by the health officer.
[Ord. #2497 § I]
a. Hazardous material shall mean any material solid, liquid or gas listed
as such under N.F.P.A. Guide of Hazardous Materials or Department
of Transportation Guide Book.
b. Vehicle shall mean any motorized equipment, registered or unregistered,
including, but not limited to passenger cars, motorcycles, trucks,
tractor-trailers, construction equipment and farm machinery.
c. Vessel shall mean any container, drum, box, cylinder or tank used
to hold or contain or carry or store any hazardous material.
d. Expendable items shall mean any items used to extinguish any fire
or stop or contain any leak or spill involving any hazardous material
which cannot be reused or cannot be replenished without cost after
that particular fire, leak or spill. These include but are not restricted
to fire fighting foam, chemical extinguishing agents, absorbent material,
sand, recovery drums, and specialized protective equipment to include,
but not restricted to acid suits, acid gloves, goggles and protective
clothing.
[Ord. #2497 § II]
This section provides for the replacement or reimbursement of
the specialized and sometimes nonreusable equipment required by State
and Federal regulations to be made available in the Township in case
of fire, leakage or spillage involving any hazardous material.
This section entitles the Township of Belleville to reimbursement
for any expendable items used by the Township or any of its agencies
in extinguishing any fire, stopping or containing any leak or controlling
any spill of hazardous materials.
[Ord. #2497 § III]
Reimbursement to the Township for any expendable items used,
shall be made by the following parties:
a. The owner or operator of any vehicle responsible for any fire, leak
or spill of hazardous material.
b. The owner or person responsible for any vessel containing hazardous
materials involved in any fire, leak or spill on public or private
property whether stationary or in transit, whether accidental or through
negligence.
c. The owner or person responsible for any property from which any leak
or spill of hazardous material emanates, whether accidental or through
negligence.
d. Any person responsible for any fire, leak or spill of hazardous materials
on public or private property, whether accidental or through negligence.
[Ord. #2497 § IV]
Any person or company responsible for any fire, leak or spill
involving a hazardous material must provide reimbursement for services
rendered by any recovery company, towing company, or other technical
assistance called for by the fire department to handle such incident.
[Ord. #2497 § V]
Any person, owner or company responsible for any fire, leak
or spill of hazardous materials shall reimburse the Township of Belleville
Fire Department for the full price of any expendable items used to
extinguish such a fire, stop or contain such a leak or control such
a spill within a period of 45 days after receipt of a bill for such
items from the Township of Belleville Fire Department.
[Ord. #2497 § VI]
Any person, owner or company responsible for any fire, leak
or spill of hazardous materials who fail to reimburse the Township
of Belleville Fire Department within the time set forth in this advance
shall be subject to a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500
per day or by imprisonment for a period of not more than six months
or both.
[Ord. #2721 § I]
a. Health officer shall mean the Belleville Township Health Officer
or his/her authorized representative.
b. Certificate of inspection shall mean written approval from the health
officer or his/her authorized representative that said tattooing or
body piercing establishment has been inspected and meets all of the
terms of this section.
c. Operator shall mean any individual, firm, company, corporation or
association that owns or operates an establishment where tattooing
or body piercing is performed, and any individual who performs or
practices the art of tattooing on the person of another.
d. Tattoo, tattooed or tattooing shall mean and refer to any method
of placing designs, letters, scrolls, figures, symbols or any marks
under the skin with ink or any other substance resulting in the coloration
of the skin, by the aid of needles or any other instruments designed
to puncture the skin.
e. Body piercing shall mean and refer to the piercing of any portion
of the human body for placement of any type of jewelry or any other
ornamentation, other than ear piercing.
f. Establishment shall mean the location wherein tattooing or body piercing
is performed.
g. Tattoo artist shall mean one who engages in tattooing.
h. Body piercer shall mean one who engages in body piercing.
[Ord. #2721 § II]
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of
operating an establishment where tattooing or body piercing is performed
without first obtaining a license from the Belleville Finance Department
to engage in such business in accordance with the provisions hereof.
b. An application for an initial license shall be made to the Finance
Department of the Township of Belleville, accompanied by a fee in
the amount of $200.
1. Application for licenses under this section shall be made to the
Belleville Finance Department, in writing, upon such printed forms
as the Belleville Board of Health shall prescribe and prepare. Such
forms as the Board of Health shall prescribe and prepare may be obtained
from the Belleville Finance Department and shall be signed by the
applicant under oath and shall contain the following information:
(a)
If an individual, the full name, age, sex, and residence address
at the time of application.
(b)
If a corporation, the full corporate name, the date and the
state of incorporation, address of the place or places of business,
the name and address of the registered agent and the name, address
and age of any principal owning more than 10% of the stock.
(c)
If a partnership, the information required by paragraph b,1(a)
above for each partner and the name under which the business is being
conducted.
(d)
The educational and/or business experience of the applicant
in the business or occupation for which the license is sought.
(e)
The length of time that the applicant has been engaged in such
business or occupation.
(f)
Whether the applicant carries public liability insurance and,
if so, the amount of said coverage and the company providing such
liability insurance.
(g)
Whether the applicant has ever been convicted of any criminal
violation, the date, nature and disposition of such criminal charges,
summons, complaint or indictment.
(h)
Name, address and age of every person to be initially employed
to conduct the service. This shall be a continuing obligation for
licenses to update the list of employees.
(i)
State the date upon which construction official has approved
the location for business.
2. Investigation and issuance. Upon receipt of an application, the Board
of Health will cause to be conducted a brief inquiry by the police
department, construction official and any other department or agency
of the Township of Belleville or State of New Jersey to verify the
information contained in the application. Such inquiry shall be designed
to include the reputation, business responsibility, reliability, criminal
background and motor vehicle license abstracts of the applicant and
all persons having management or supervision. It shall further include
an inquiry or investigation of the proposed location and items proposed
to be sold or used in the business or enterprise of tattooing or body
piercing.
3. The Board of Health may deny an application where the investigation
or inquiry demonstrates that:
(a)
The information set forth in the application is incomplete or
fraudulent;
(b)
The applicant or any person conducting the business has been
convicted of a crime or disorderly person offense which has not been
expunged pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:52-1 et seq. or pardoned and which
offense relates adversely to the business for which the license is
sought. In this regard the Board of Health shall be guided by N.J.S.A.
2A:168A-2;
(c)
The applicant has within four months of the application been
addicted to the habitual use of drugs or intoxicating liquors;
(d)
The business property and location do not comply with requirements
for business use, as same are set forth by the construction official,
and/or other departments or agencies of the Township of Belleville.
4. The Board of Health shall not issue any license until the Belleville
Health Official shall issue a certificate stating that the proposed
establishment, instruments and applicant have met all applicable State,
Federal and municipal health codes and regulations.
c. No license or renewal thereof granted under the provisions of this
section shall be assignable or transferable. Any change of ownership
shall require a new application and license with payment of fees.
d. The renewal license fee for engaging in the business of operating
an establishment subject to this section within the Township of Belleville
shall be $100 per year. All licenses shall expire on the last day
of each calendar year. The first license expiration date for renewal
shall be December 21, 1996. All applications for renewal must be presented
to the board in writing, in forms prescribed by the board, within
30 days of the end of the calendar year.
e. All establishments existing at the time of the enactment of this
section will be considered renewal applications provided that they
apply for renewal of said license within one month after the effective
date of this section. Establishments failing to apply within the specified
time period will be considered new applicants and will be subject
to the provisions of paragraph b of this section.
f. If renovations of the tattoo or body piercing establishment occur, plans must be submitted to the Belleville Health Department and the applicant will be required to comply with subsection
16-10.4 herein, as well as all other applicable codes, regulations, or laws.
g. In the event that an applicant fails to qualify for a license under
this section, the fee herein shall not be refunded.
h. The license issued pursuant to this section shall be posted conspicuously
in the place of business or location named therein.
i. All establishments shall manage contaminated (body fluids) contact
waste materials as medical waste pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:26-3A.8.
j. The number of licenses issued in the Township of Belleville shall
be limited to one for every 7,500 of its population as shown by the
last then preceding Federal Census.
[Ord. #2721 § III]
a. Age. It shall be a violation of this section for anyone or any tattoo
or body piercing business to tattoo or body pierce any individual
under 18 years of age without authorization signed by the parent or
legal guardian witnessed by the operator. The operator shall be responsible
for maintaining the original consent form and copies of all consent
information for a period of two years beyond the recipient's twenty-first
birthday. The operator shall provide a copy of the consent form to
the individual being tattooed.
b. Each person wishing to receive a tattoo or body piercing must first
apply to the operator on a form approved by the Belleville Board of
Health. A tattoo or body piercing may then be applied no sooner than
one hour after the time of the application received by the tattooist
or body piercer. If the applicant is suspected to be under the influence
of alcohol, drugs or any other behavioral modifying substance, the
operator must refuse the applicant.
c. All records regarding tattoos or body piercing are to be maintained for a minimum of two years. Information required for each applicant referred to in subsection
16-10.3b is to include the name, age, date of birth, address, and telephone number of the applicant as well as the name of the person who did the tattoo or body piercing, the design, location, and the date of the tattoo or type of body piercing done.
[Ord. #2721 § IV]
a. Each tattoo or body piercing facility shall have a bathroom accessible
to the public and staff. Each bathroom shall be equipped with a commode
and a sink, with the sink being connected to hot and cold running
water. Soap and sanitary towels, or other approved hand drying devices,
shall be available at the sink at all times. Common towels are prohibited.
In addition to the above, each tattooing or body piercing cubicle
or work station must be provided with a sink connected to hot and
cold running water. This area shall also be supplied with soap and
appropriate hand drying facilities.
b. The chair or seat reserved for the person receiving the tattoo or
body piercing shall be a material that is smooth and easily cleanable
and constructed of material that is nonabsorbent. Any surface on the
chair that becomes exposed to blood or body fluids must be cleaned
and sanitized prior to use by the next customer.
c. The work table or counter used by the tattoo artist or body piercer
shall be smooth and easily cleanable and constructed of material that
is nonabsorbent. There shall be a coved junction between the table/counter
and the wall if the table/counter is to be placed against the wall.
This table/counter must be cleaned and sanitized, (utilizing a method
approved by the Belleville Board of Health), between customers.
d. The walls in the tattooing or body piercing area shall be smooth
and easily cleanable and constructed of a nonabsorbent material.
e. The floor in the tattooing or body piercing area shall be of a durable
material that is nonabsorbent and is smooth and easily cleanable.
Floors shall be kept clean.
f. Lighting within the tattoo or body piercing area shall be adequate
so as to provide a minimum of 200-foot candles in all areas.
g. The work area reserved for the application of the tattoo or body
piercing shall be separated from other areas of the establishment
by walls or durable partitions extending at least six feet in height
and so designed to discourage any persons other than the customer,
the tattoo artist or body piercer from being in the work area.
h. Any surfaces in the establishment that become exposed to blood or
body fluids must be cleaned and sanitized, utilizing a method approved
by the Belleville Board of Health.
i. Products used in the cleaning, sanitizing and sterilizing procedures
must be clearly marked and stored in an acceptable manner. Smaller
working containers filled on site from larger containers must be clearly
marked with the name of the product.
j. Proper waste receptacles shall be provided and waste shall be disposed
of at appropriate intervals.
[Ord. #2721 § V]
a. Tattoo Artist or Body Piercer.
1. Hepatitis B pre-exposure vaccination or proof of immunity is required
for all tattoo artists or body piercers. Any accidental needle stick
injury shall be reported to the Belleville Board of Health. If a person
cannot obtain the vaccination for medical reasons, he/she shall submit
to the Belleville Board of Health a letter from his/her physician
certifying that the individual does not have Hepatitis B and the vaccination
is contraindicated. This certification shall be annually renewed.
2. All tattoo artists and body piercers shall pass an examination showing
knowledge of sterile technique and universal precautions to assure
that infection and contagious disease shall not be spread by tattooing
practices. Once a year under the auspices of the Belleville Board
of Health a course leading to certification shall be given for any
person seeking to be a tattooist or body piercer within Belleville.
3. Before working on each patron, each tattoo artist or body piercer
shall scrub and wash his/her hands thoroughly with hot water and antiseptic
soap using his/her individual hand brush. Fingernails shall be kept
clean and short.
4. Disposable vinyl or latex gloves shall be worn by the tattoo artists or body piercers during tattoo preparation and application to prevent contact with blood or body fluids. It is recommended that universal precautions as described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) be followed. All materials shall be disposed of in accordance with subsection
16-10.5e of this section after contact with each patron. Hands shall be washed immediately after removal of gloves. Any skin surface that has contact with blood shall be washed immediately.
5. Immediately after tattooing or body piercing a patron, the tattooist
or body piercer shall advise the patron on the care of the tattoo
or body piercing and shall instruct the patron to consult a physician
at the first sign of infection of the tattoo or body piercing. Printed
instructions regarding these points shall be given each patron.
6. All infections resulting from the practice of tattooing or body piercing
which become known to the operator shall be promptly reported to the
health officer by the person owning or operating the tattoo or body
piercing establishment or by the tattoo artist or body piercer.
b. Skin Preparation.
1. Tattooing or body piercing shall be done only on normal healthy skin
surface that is free of moles or infection.
2. Only safety razors with disposable blades shall be used for the skin preparation. Blades shall be disposed of according to subsection
16-10.5e of this section after each use and new blades shall be used for each patron.
3. Following shaving, the area shall be thoroughly cleansed and scrubbed
with tincture of green soap or its equivalent and warm water. Before
placing the design or body piercing on the patron's skin, the area
shall be treated with 70% alcohol and allowed to air dry.
Piercing of mucous membranes (i.e. oral, nasal, vaginal, etc.)
shall be treated with an appropriate antiseptic solution prior to
the procedure.
(a)
Oral piercing: Shall be treated with a solution of equal parts
of hydrogen peroxide, H202 and water H20 or its equivalent and rinse
areas for two minutes.
(b)
Nasal, vaginal piercing, etc.: Area shall be treated with Betadine
Solution or its equivalent.
4. Only petroleum jelly (U.S.P. or National Formulary) or antiseptic
ointment shall be applied to the tattoo area prior to tattooing or
body piercing. The ointment shall be applied in a sanitary manner,
disposing of the utensil after spreading. Collapsible tubes of ointment
or jelly may also be used.
c. Tattooing or Body Piercing.
1. Design stencils and all instruments shall be thoroughly cleansed
and rinsed in an approved germicidal solution for at least 20 minutes
or disposed of following each use.
2. Only nontoxic dyes or pigments may be used. Pre-mixed sterile materials
are preferred. Pre-mixed dyes shall be used without adulteration of
the manufacturer's original formula. It shall be the responsibility
of the operator to provide certification to the Belleville Board of
Health of the nontoxicity of the dyes or inks at the time of license
application and renewal.
3. Single service or individual containers of dye or ink shall be used
for each patron and the container disposed of immediately after completing
work on each patron.
4. The completed tattoo shall be washed with sterile gauze and a solution
of tincture of green soap or its equivalent, then disinfected with
70% alcohol. The area shall be allowed to air dry and antiseptic ointment
shall be applied and spread with sterile gauze and sterile dressing
attached.
5. Upon completion of piercing of the mucous membranes the area shall
be disinfected by the following procedures:
(a)
Oral piercing: Shall be disinfected by a solution of equal parts
of hydrogen peroxide, H202 and water H20 or its equivalent and rinse
areas for two minutes.
(b)
Nasal, vaginal piercing, etc.: Areas shall be disinfected with
Betadine Solution or its equivalent and rinse areas for two minutes.
d. Needles and Instruments.
1. Only single-service sterilized needles and needle bars shall be used
for each patron.
2. If solder is used in manufacturing needles, needle bars or needle
tubes, it must be free of lead.
3. Any needle that penetrates the skin of the tattoo artist or body piercer shall be immediately disposed of in accordance with subsection
16-10.5e of this section.
4. Needle tubes shall be soaked with soapy water, then scrubbed with a clean brush, then rinsed clean. Needle tubes shall be sterilized in accordance with subsection
16-10.4e, stored in sterile bags and maintained in a dry, closed area.
5. Each item to be sterilized shall be individually wrapped using indicator
bags or strips. Sterilization shall be by steam sterilization. The
sterilizer shall be well maintained with a tight-fitting gasket and
clean interior. The manufacturer's operating instructions and sterilization
specifications shall be at hand. The sterilizer shall conform to the
manufacturer's specifications with regard to temperature, pressure
and time of sterilization cycle. Proper functioning of sterilization
cycles shall be verified by the weekly use of biologic indicators
(i.e. spore tests). A log book of these weekly test results shall
be available, and a test may be required to be done during any inspections.
6. If the primary source of sterilization malfunctions, the Belleville
Board of Health shall be notified within 24 hours. In an emergent
situation, the Belleville Board of Health may approve alternate sterilization
techniques.
7. Needles and bars shall not be bent or broken prior to disposal. Tattoo
artists or body piercers shall take precautions to prevent injuries
from contaminated needles or tubes.
e. Disposal of Waste. All used needles, needle bars or other tools used
in the tattooing process, as well as gloves, gauze and other materials
contaminated with blood or body fluids, shall be removed through the
use of a licensed medical waste hauler.
[Ord. #2721 § VI]
a. An amount not less than $250 nor more than $1,000 for each violation
of this section shall be payable to the Belleville Board of Health.
Each day that the violation exists is considered to be a separate
offense.
b. Reasonable counsel fees incurred by the Board of Health in the enforcement
of this section shall be paid by the defendant. The amount of such
reimbursable fees and costs shall be determined by the court hearing
the matter.
c. After due notice and hearing the Board may suspend or revoke any
license issued under this section for violation of the provisions
of this section.