City of Newark, NJ Nuisances

[R.O. 1966 C.S. § 14:4-1; Ord. 6 S+FN, 1-3-1990 § 1]

Nuisances are hereby defined and declared to include and embrace the following, but such enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:

The placing or depositing, or allowing to remain in or upon any street or public place, or in or upon any open lot or public or private property, any dead animal or any part of the same, or any offal or garbage, or any carrion or putrid meat, or manure or compost, or any foul or offensive or obnoxious substances whatsoever; provided, however, that stable manure used as a fertilizer, or kept in manure pits built as directed in these Revised General Ordinances is excepted from the provisions of this chapter.

The throwing upon, or allowing to flow from the premises upon any street or public place, open lot or public or private property, or the allowing to collect upon the surface of any premises, any waste water, dirty water, slops, stable drainage, liquid filth, overflow from cesspool or privy vault, or any offensive liquid matter whatsoever.

Any full, foul or leaky privy vault or cesspool, or other receptacle for filth; also any privy vault, cesspool or catchbasin which is beneath any dwelling or other building, or is attached to the foundation wall of any dwelling or other building.

Allowing or permitting any night soil, garbage or any offensive or decomposing solid or fluid matter or substance to leak or ooze, or escape from any cart or wagon, or vessel in which such matter or substance may be conveyed or carried.

The carrying or conveying through any street any substance which has been removed from any privy vault or cesspool, unless such substance shall be enclosed in airtight receptacles.

The use of any room for sleeping in any dwelling house, apartment house, hotel or other building 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.

The papering of any walls or ceilings of any room in any dwelling house, multi-family dwelling, apartment building or hotel, or any building used for a dwelling before all the old paper shall have been previously scraped or thoroughly removed from the walls or other parts.

Allowing any building to be occupied as a multi-family dwelling, apartment house, dwelling house, or factory building, without a plentiful supply of pure water, suitable for domestic or personal requirements, by any person who is responsible for providing such water, by reason of ownership, possession or agreement, or in which the water supply has been turned off for any reason, except to repair faulty plumbing.

Allowing any dog to run at large or come in contact with children or any persons other than the immediate household of the owner, if in the opinion of the Health Officer, the dog is vicious and hazardous to the health of the City, or if it molests pedestrians or others without provocation. Such dogs, if taken out, must be muzzled or on a leash.

10.

The shaking of mops, carpets or receptacles and the discarding of household or trade dirt or waste from any roof, window or porch of any building.

11.

The growing of any weeds or vegetation which are liable to become the breeding grounds for mosquitoes or the hiding place for nuisances; also the growing of any poisonous plants.

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Occupying, permitting another to occupy, or maintaining for residential purposes any dwelling or dwelling unit where any interior surface, or any other surface or area to which a child may have access, including, but not limited to, porches, fire escapes, fences and any other buildings or structures in the curtilage, has on it a paint containing more than 1% of metallic lead.

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The escape into the open air from any stack, vent, chimney or any entrance to the open air or from any fire into the open air of such quantities of smoke, fly-ash, dust, fumes, vapors, mists or gases as to cause injury, detriment or annoyances to the inhabitants of this municipality or endanger their comfort, repose or private place.

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Any matter, thing, condition or act which is or may become detrimental or a menace to the health of the inhabitants of this municipality.

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Any matter, thing, condition or act which is or may become an annoyance, or interfere with the comfort or general well-being of the inhabitants of this municipality.

CROSS REFERENCE: For procedure upon complaints as to vicious dogs, see Section 6:1-62 et seq. of these Revised General Ordinances.

For procedure as to nuisances created or maintained in multi-family buildings, see Section 18:7-1 et seq. of these Revised General Ordinances.