Nuisances are hereby defined and declared to
include and embrace any pool, ditch, urinal, cesspool, drain or pit,
on any lot or street in the Town of West New York.
The overflowing of privies, sinks or cesspools,
heaps of manure, garbage, offal, pens, coops, kennels, stables, carcasses,
or parts of dead animals upon any street, lot, yard, cellar or place
is hereby prohibited.
The casting, throwing, draining or causing to
be cast, drained or discharged into any public street or private property,
gutter or place within the Town, any slops, kitchen water, sewage
waste, laundry water or other liquids is hereby prohibited.
No person shall suffer any slops, dirty water
or other liquid of offensive smell or otherwise nauseous or unwholesome
matter to flow from his or her house or premises, or throw or deposit
the same or any garbage or other offensive refuse, such as paper,
into or upon any street, gutter, sidewalk, alley or public ground.
It shall be the duty of all owners, lessees,
tenants or occupants of any and all buildings to keep the gutters
and sidewalks in front of such buildings free from any offensive substance
or any dirt, rubbish, water, snow, ice, stones, paper or any other
thing dangerous to health, life or limb.
It shall be the duty of the owner of any house
or building erected upon a lot of land adjoining a street in which
a public sewer is located to properly connect the same with such sewer
so that all drainage and sewage of and from such house or building
shall pass and flow into such sewer.
All buildings where no sewer is located shall
drain into a proper and sanitary cesspool.
No swill bins, urine of animals or other offensive
animal substances, nor any stinking, noxious liquid or other filthy
matter of any kind shall by any person be allowed to run or fall from
out of any building, vehicle or erection into or upon any street or
public place or to be taken or put therein, except as herein elsewhere
provided.
The contents of any garbage or swill barrel
or other receptacle, cesspool, privy vault, sink or water closet in
any room, excavation, vat, building, premises or place shall not be
allowed to become a nuisance, or offensive or prejudicial or dangerous
to health.
No person shall drain off or allow to run into
any ground, street or place the contents of any vault, cistern, cesspool
or sink or permit the contents of any part thereof to flow therefrom.
The overflow of any foul liquids or gases into
any place where, they may become injurious to health or the keeping
or forming of such sunken places or excavations upon any lot or land
as accumulating foul water or offensive animal matters is hereby prohibited.
No water nor any other liquid shall be allowed
to run from any building or lane upon or across any sidewalk or street
or any public or private place causing any foul or offensive odor
or of such a character as to breed mosquitoes.
All sunken lots where stagnant water gathers
or is attached to the foundation of any dwelling or building are hereby
forbidden.
No person or persons shall place or throw or
cause to allow to be thrown, having power to prevent the same, on
any street, sidewalk, highway, road or other place wherein the public
has a right to be, any broken glass, crockery, iron, wire or other
matter dangerous to life, limb or health of man and beast.
No person shall deposit upon any street any
dirt or building materials in such manner as to obstruct the free
flow along any gutter.
All substances or things emitting offensive
odor, or smell from any place whatsoever, that shall be conveyed through
any street in the Town, shall be in tight boxes, barrels or vessels
and effectively covered.