Article VI: Nurseries, Nursing Homes, Boarding Homes for Sheltered Care and Convalescent Homes

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

Any private establishment which provides food and shelter to four or more adult persons unrelated to the proprietor and which also provides some personal care or service beyond food, shelter and laundry, but not including nursing care, to any one or more persons.

CONVALESCENT HOME

Any privately operated establishment, whether operated for profit or not, devoted to the care, treatment or nursing of two or more nonrelated individuals during the recuperation stage of an illness or injury. This definition shall not be construed to imply or permit the practice of general hospital functions, such as major surgical operations, or the rendering of service beyond nursing care.

FAMILY DAY-CARE HOME

A day-care home for children which has been registered with the State of New Jersey pursuant to the Family Day Care Provider Registration Act of 1987.[1]

[Added 3-22-1988 by Ord. No. 88-9]

NURSERY

An establishment which is not operated, maintained, licensed or regulated by the State Division of Youth and Family Services, where children under six years of age are kept during the daytime while parent or parents are at work or otherwise engaged, or where four or more children under six years of age are lodged at a stipulated rate of pay. Such an establishment may be privately operated and supported by fees charged for the service, or it may be an establishment owned and operated by the municipality.

[Amended 3-22-1988 by Ord. No. 88-9]

NURSING HOME

A privately operated establishment, whether operated for profit or not, which maintains and operates facilities for the treatment, care or nursing of two or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, injury, infirmity or deformity, or which provides convalescent or other medical or nursing care. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to imply or permit the practice of general hospital functions, such as surgical operations; the establishment of a home or hospital for persons suffering from mental illness, mental retardation or mental deficiency; or the rendering of services beyond nursing care.[2]

[1]

Editor's Note: N.J.S.A. 30:5B-16 through 30:5B-25.

[2]

Editor's Note: Former 119-50, Fire safety specifications for buildings, which immediately followed this section, was deleted 5-23-2000 by Ord. No. 00-19.

§ 153-32 Family day-care homes.

[Added 3-22-1988 by Ord. No. 88-12]

Family day-care homes shall comply with all provisions of the National Fire Prevention Association's Life Safety Code, Section 10-9, Family Day Care Homes.

§ 153-33 Employee instruction for fire emergency duties.

All employees shall be instructed periodically in the fire protection facilities of the institution, in the use of the fire-fighting apparatus and in the methods of removing patients and inmates from the building.

§ 153-34 Inspection of buildings, correction orders.

Any building in the Township conducted or operated as a nursery, nursing home, boarding home for sheltered care or convalescent home may be inspected from time to time by any officer of the Fire Department. If said inspections disclose conditions existing in the building which tend to create fire hazards or conditions contrary to the provisions and requirements of this article, such condition or conditions shall be corrected within 30 days after notice and order in writing to the owner or operator of the establishment or within such other time as may be required by the Fire Chief or his or her duly authorized agent. Such notice and order shall be served in the manner provided in § 153-10.

§ 153-35 Review of orders.

Orders issued under § 153-34 may be reviewed in the manner provided in § 153-10.