No person, persons or body corporate shall hereafter
erect or cause to be erected or converted to a new purpose by alteration
any building or structure which shall be inadequate or defective in
respect to strength, ventilation, light, drainage or any other usual,
proper or necessary provision or precaution; nor shall the builder,
lessee, tenant or occupant of any such or of any other building or
structure (within the right or ability of either to remedy or prevent
the same) cause or allow any matter or thing to be or to be done in
or about any such building or structure dangerous or prejudicial to
life or health.
No owner, agent or lessee of any building or
any part thereof shall lease or let or hire out the same or any portion
thereof to be occupied as a place in which or for anyone shall dwell
or lodge except when said building or such parts thereof are sufficiently
lighted, ventilated, provided and accommodated and are in all respects
in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness for which this
chapter or any law of this state provides or in which they or either
of them require any such premises to be kept.
All refrigerators or iceboxes maintained in
any butcher shop or other mercantile business carried on in the Township
of Saddle Brook shall, at all times when said business is being carried
on, be open to inspection by the Division of Health or an authorized
agent. No person engaged in any such mercantile business shall allow
any animal or vegetable matter which is foul or which is in a state
of decay to remain within said refrigerator or icebox, nor shall the
said refrigerator or icebox be allowed to become foul or malodorous
through the lack of proper cleaning and disinfecting.
No person having the right and legal power to
prevent the same shall knowingly cause or permit any person to sleep
or remain in any cellar or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to
life or health by reason of a want of ventilation or drainage or by
reason of the presence of any poisonous, noxious or offensive substance
or any other cause detrimental to health.
No owner, agent, licensee or keeper of any building
shall cause or allow so great a number of persons to dwell, be or
sleep in any such building or any portions thereof as thereby to cause
any danger or detriment to life or health.
Every building and every part thereof shall
be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage
or other matter in or on the same or in the yard, court, passage,
area or alley connected with or belonging to the same. The owner,
agent, lessee or occupant of any building or part thereof shall thoroughly
cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls,
ceilings, privies, cesspools and drains of the building or part of
the building of which he is owner, agent, lessee or occupant so often
as shall be required by said Division or its officers, and shall,
when notified to do so, well and sufficiently whitewash or paint the
walls and ceilings thereof once in each year.
Whenever it shall be decided by the Division
that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by
reason of its being so 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 shall have
been affixed conspicuously on the building or any part thereof so
decided to be unfit for human habitation and shall have been personally
served upon the owner, agent or lessee, if the same can be found in
the state, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building or
part thereof for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid, such
building or part thereof shall be vacated within 10 days thereafter
or, in case of special emergency, within such shorter time as in said
notice may be specified.
No premises shall be rented, let, leased or
occupied as a tenement house unless said premises shall 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 said house.
Whenever the Division of Health shall so direct,
all houses and other buildings abutting on streets in which a sewer
is laid or shall be laid shall be connected with said sewer by the
owner, agent or lessee of said premises.
Whenever the Division of Health shall so direct,
the owner, agent or lessee of any premises abutting on a street in
which there is no sewer shall construct a cesspool on said premises,
to be built as hereinafter provided, and connect the house and other
buildings of said premises with said cesspool.
