This chapter and all ordinances supplementary
hereto and amendatory hereof shall or may be known as the "Sanitary
and Health Code of the Borough of Rockaway."
In the construction of this chapter or any amendments
hereof or any supplements hereto, words and phrases shall be read
and construed with their context and, unless inconsistent with the
manifest intent of the Board, as expressed herein, or unless another
or different meaning is expressly indicated, such words or phrases
shall be given the meanings expressed herein, or if no such meaning
is given, their generally accepted meaning according to the approved
usage of the language shall be applied. Technical, trade or commercial
words and phrases having a special or accepted meaning in the law
shall be construed in accordance with such technical, trade, commercial
or special and accepted meanings.
The following definitions shall apply in the
interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
Includes rabbits, hares, dogs, horses or any other animal
kept or raised for commercial or sale purposes.
The Board of Health of the Borough of Rockaway.
The Borough of Rockaway.
Any person who harbors an infectious agent of disease but
who, at the same time, may or may not have symptoms of the disease.
Domesticated bovine animals, especially cows, bulls, steer
or oxen.
Includes this chapter, which is the Sanitary and Health Code
of the Borough of Rockaway, unless some other code is expressly indicated
or referred to.
Any infectious or contagious disease so declared or defined
by law or by this code or which has been or may hereafter be declared
a "communicable disease" by the Board or by the State Department of
Health.
Any person who has been sufficiently near or exposed to any
infected person or animal to make probable the transmission of an
infectious or causative agent to such person.
Includes the Health Officer, Sanitarian or other official
authorized by the Board of Health to enforce this code and chapter.
The executive officer so designated by the Board who shall
enforce the laws of the state relating to public health, the provisions
of the State Sanitary Code and the ordinances adopted by the Board
and who shall perform the duties assigned him by the Board.
Separation of a person affected or suspected of being affected
with a communicable disease, or a carrier of the infectious or causative
agent of a communicable disease from other persons, in such a manner
as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious
or causative agent to other persons.
Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding,
selling or breeding for sale dogs or any other animal intended to
be a pet is carried on, except a pet shop.
A special privilege from the Board of Health to carry on
an activity otherwise unlawful.
Those persons duly appointed by the Mayor and Council of
the Borough of Rockaway to constitute the Board of Health.
A calendar month.
The sanctioning of any activity not prohibited by law by
the Rockaway Board of Health pursuant to any power granted to a municipal
Board of Health by statute or regulation after the Board is satisfied
that all reasonable and necessary conditions for the granting of a
permit have been met.
Any person, persons, associations or partnerships or corporations
or any one or more of them or combinations of any of them.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein dogs or other animals for sale are kept and displayed.
An establishment for the confinement of dogs or other animals.
Unless restricted or limited by the context to either real
or personal property, includes both real and personal property.
Includes any public place as well as any restaurant, lunchroom,
tavern, barroom, hotel and motel and any and every establishment or
place where food or beverage is sold or offered for sale to the public
for consumption on the premises and any camp, trailer camp, tourist
home or public recreation place or any other place of business where
toilet facilities or water for drinking or culinary purposes are available
for the use of the public.
The restriction of movement of any person who has been exposed
to a communicable disease by confining such person to a restricted
area and the exclusion of other persons from that area. The term "quarantine"
shall also apply to the confinement of any animal suspected of being
infected with rabies.
Includes lands, buildings and hereditaments or all rights
thereto or any interest therein.
Any person duly appointed as Registrar of Vital Statistics
by the Board.
Includes any regulations, whether general or special, which
the Board may from time to time lawfully adopt and issue.
The officer appointed by the Board to enforce the Sanitary
and Health Code of the Borough of Rockaway, the sanitary laws of the
state and the rules, regulations and ordinances of the Board, as directed
by the Health Officer.
Any establishment where dogs or other animals are received,
housed and distributed without charge.
The Department of Health of the State of New Jersey.
Includes every street, avenue, sidewalk, gutter, highway,
park or place in the Borough open to the public.
Any person occupying any lands, premises, houses, buildings
or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be
occupied for any purpose whatsoever.
A calendar year.
Whenever in describing or referring to any person,
party, matter or thing any word importing the singular numbers is
used, the same shall be understood to include and to apply equally
to several persons, parties, corporations, partnerships and associations,
as well as to one person or party. Where a word of masculine gender
is used, it shall apply to females as well as males and to bodies
corporate, partnerships and associations as well as individuals.
