[HISTORY: Derived from § BH:2-1
of the 1974 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes such buildings as are on one tract of land or on
contiguous tracts. Where a farm is divided by a public road or other
premises which are used for any farming purposes by another, or are
inhabited by another, each such section or tract shall have a separate
pit.
Every farm, dressing plant and dealer holding
poultry over 12 hours in the Township, having 100 or more head of
poultry or 100 or more other fowl of any kind or housing capacity
to maintain thereon 100 or more head of poultry or 100 or more other
fowl shall have constructed upon it a disposal pit not smaller than
six feet long, six feet wide and six feet in depth; or have a cubic
content of not less than 218 cubic feet, and so constructed as not
to have a runoff through the top, and a cover of durable material
which shall be flytight and to fit well that it shall not permit odors
to escape therefrom. The cover shall be constructed of appropriate
permanent metal or concrete. It shall not be closer than 50 feet to
any boundary, water supply or stream of water, and shall be kept in
a sanitary manner, contents to be covered with lime or other decomposing
element.
Any person who owns or occupies any farm, where
poultry or other fowl came to their death by reason of natural causes,
ill health or disease, shall, within 24 hours after such death, place
such poultry or other fowl in the pit. When the pit becomes nearly
full or for other reasons becomes unused or unusable, another pit
shall be constructed to replace the same.
The requirements of this chapter may be temporarily
suspended by the Board of Health in proper cases for such period of
time and in such manner as the justice of the situation shall require,
upon application being made thereof by the person owning or occupying
the premises.
The placing in, discharging into, casting or
depositing or allowing to flow or to enter into, or the placing or
depositing on the banks of any stream, river, lake, pond, bay, thoroughfare
or other body of water within the Township, any excremental matter,
substance containing excremental matter waste liquids from wash tubs,
basins or sinks, or other foul or putrescible or decomposable liquids
is hereby declared to be a nuisance, provided that this chapter shall
not apply to the effluent from a sewage disposal plant which has been
approved by the State Department of Health.
The placing in or depositing upon the banks
of any river, stream, lake, pond, bay, thoroughfare or other body
of water in the Township, any dead animal, or any part of the same,
or any garbage, offal, rubbish, or any foul, offensive, or obnoxious
substance whatsoever, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
