Every owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant
of any stall, stable or apartment in which any horse or any other
cattle shall be kept, or any place in which any manure or any solid
or liquid discharge or excrement may collect or accumulate, shall
at all times keep or cause to be kept such stall, stable or apartment
and the drainage, yards and appurtenances thereof in a cleanly, healthful
and wholesome condition, and no offensive smell shall be allowed to
escape therefrom. In all cases where the Division of Health or its
Health Officer shall by written notice so require, all manure or excreta
shall be removed from all stables and premises where it may accumulate,
as often as once in each week. And each stable or building harboring
horses or cattle shall be provided with a modern watertight manure
pit. No manure pit used for storage of stable manure shall be directly
or indirectly connected with any sewer, nor shall drainage from any
building be emptied into any manure pit; such manure pit shall be
kept dry and shall be protected from sun, rain, snow and all other
conditions which tend to produce wetness and offensive decomposition
of manure stored therein. Such manure pit for the storage of stable
manure shall not be built nor maintained within five feet of any party
line nor within 20 feet of any street line nor within 40 feet of any
door or window of any dwelling house unless authorized by the Division
of Health.
To prevent the spreading of disease, all manure
pits must be properly sprinkled with lime by the owner upon notification
by the Division.
Whenever the Division or the Health Officer
shall by written notice so require, every stable or building in which
any horse or cattle are kept shall be so constructed and drained that
no fluid excrement or refuse liquids nor washings from vehicles shall
flow upon or into the ground. It may be required by written notice
that all of the surface beneath such stables and buildings and of
the yard adjoining shall be covered with a concrete or other watertight
covering, the material and manner of construction of said covering
to be subject to the approval of said Division.
Whenever on any premises within this Township
anything in violation of this article exists or is maintained, or
whenever the condition of any premises is such as to call for the
interference of the Division, notice may be served on the owner, agent,
lessee, tenant or occupant or other proper person by order of the
Health Officer, which notice shall enable the person served therewith
to know wherein any section of this article is violated or what is
to be remedied and such notice shall, when served, give not less than
one day nor more than 10 days for compliance with the provisions of
said section or with the requirements of the Division. Such notice
may be served on the owner, lessee, agent, tenant or occupant or other
proper person personally or, when there is an occupied dwelling on
the premises, by leaving it with an adult occupant of such dwelling.
