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.
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.
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.
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.