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Township of Saddle Brook, NJ
Bergen County
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A. 
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BUTCHER
Includes whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving or slaughtering any cattle or in selling any meat.
CATTLE
Includes all animals, except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part of the body is used as food.
CELLAR
Includes every basement or lower story of any building or house of which 1/2 or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street or yard adjoining.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE
Any disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature with which any person may be sick, affected or attacked, more especially, however, referring to cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, including varioloid, chicken pox, diphtheria, membranous croup, cerebrospinal meningitis, ship or typhus fever, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary, laryngeal or other forms of tuberculosis, mumps, whooping cough, epidemic dysentery, infantile paralysis; and also including any new disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by the Division to be dangerous to the public health.
DIRT
Natural soil, earth and stone.
DIVISION or DIVISION OF HEALTH
The Township of Saddle Brook Division of Health.
FISH
Includes every part of any animal that lives in water or the flesh of which is not meat.
GARBAGE
Includes every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both, liquid or otherwise, that attends to the preparation, decay, dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, fruits or vegetables.
LIGHT or LIGHTED
Refers to natural, external light.
MEAT
Includes every part of any land animal and eggs, whether mixed or not with any other substance.
PERMIT
The permission in writing of the Division, issued according to its rules and regulations and this chapter.
PERSON or PERSONS
Any person, firm, partnership or corporation.
[Added 3-23-1934]
PRIVATE MARKET
Includes every store, cellar, stand or place, not being a part of a public market, at which the business is the buying, selling or keeping for sale of meat, milk, fish or vegetables for human foods.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Includes State House, Court House, County House, Town House, arsenal, magazine, prison, jail workhouse, poorhouse, market or other building belonging to the state or to any county, town, city, village or borough in the state, and any church, chapel, meeting house or other building generally used for religious worship, and any college, academy, schoolhouse, theater, place of amusement and any other building used for public gatherings.
PUBLIC PLACES
Includes parks, piers, docks and wharves, and water and open space adjacent thereto, and also open spaces between buildings and streets.
REGULATIONS
Includes special regulations which will be from time to time issued and will contain more detailed provisions than can be herein conveniently set forth.
RUBBISH
Includes all the loose and decayed materials and dirt-like substance that tends to decay, all which accumulates from buildings, storing or cleaning.
STREET
Includes avenues, sidewalks, gutters, places and public alleys.
TENEMENT HOUSE
Includes every house, building or every portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the house, home or residence of more than two families living independently of one another and doing their cooking upon the premises or of more than two families upon a floor so living and cooking but having a common right to the hall, stairways, yards, water closets or privies or some of them.
VEGETABLE
Includes every article of human consumption as food which, not being meat or fish or milk, is held or offered or intended for sale and consumption.
B. 
Interpretation and usage.
(1) 
All words and phrases herein defined shall also include their usual and natural meaning as well as those meanings herein especially given.
(2) 
All fish and meat and vegetables found in any place shall be deemed to be held therein for sale or consumption as food, unless the contrary shall be distinctly proved.