[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Burlington 5-28-1968 (Sec. 4:5 of the 1975 General Ordinances). Amendments noted
where applicable.]
Terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings indicated below:
A strictly residential dwelling containing two or more dwelling
units, exclusive of that of the owner-occupant, each unit of which
has its self-contained separate and individual bathroom and kitchen
and is rented and used for only one family occupancy.
The Board of Health of the Township of Burlington.
Any establishment, building, dwelling house, or house or
building partly used for dwelling purposes, insofar as used for dwelling
purposes, but not including an apartment house, where (exclusive of
the owner or operator and his family) two or more persons are harbored,
received, boarded, lodged or permitted to remain overnight for monetary
consideration, hire or in payment of services as transient or otherwise,
or for other consideration.
Any act or omission prohibited by this chapter or any act
or omission dangerous, unsafe or detrimental to the public health
or having a tendency to create, invite, aggravate, or spread illness,
disease or sickness.
Any person, firm, corporation, agent or officer thereof who
owns, operates or is in charge of any boardinghouse, rooming house,
lodging house, tenement house or furnished rooms, and any person who
makes an application for the license set forth in this chapter.
Any house, building or part thereof, used or to be occupied
by a family in addition to the owner or his family, with each family
living independently of each other, but without each family unit having
its separate and self-contained or individual water closet, bathroom,
hot and cold running water or kitchen.
The enforcement official designated to enforce
the provisions of this chapter shall be the Board of Health of the
Township of Burlington.
The provisions of this chapter apply to boardinghouses,
rooming houses, lodging houses, tenement houses and furnished rooms
in the Township of Burlington.
No building in the Township of Burlington shall
be used both as a boardinghouse or tenement house and an apartment
house (exclusive of those buildings where one apartment is used by
the owner or operator and the rest of the building is used as a tenement
or boardinghouse).
No person shall operate any boardinghouse, rooming
house, lodging house, tenement house or furnished rooms without first
obtaining a license from the Burlington Township Board of Health.
A written application shall be submitted and a fee of $5 paid for
such license, which license shall be renewed annually upon payment
of like fee, unless revoked by the Board for sufficient cause. The
annual term of each license shall be for the calendar year or the
unexpired period of the calendar year. The license shall be displayed
in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises. All licensees shall
keep a book of registry, which shall show all tenants who occupied
or who are currently occupying the premises as lodgers, boarders or
roomers and the date each tenancy commenced and terminated.
The operation, conduct, management of a boardinghouse,
rooming house, lodging house, tenement house or furnished rooms shall
not be under the management, control or supervision in whole or part
of any person convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or suffering
from a contagious or venereal disease, unless such person does not
live in or have his abode on the premises and does not physically
enter thereupon.
A.
Running water and facilities. Every occupant shall
have made available to him in the building where he has a room or
rooms, at all times, a reasonable amount and sufficient supply of
cold running water which can be turned off by the user, adequate water
closet facilities and an adequate bathtub or shower room. Such facilities
shall be maintained in reasonably good and safe condition by the owner.
There shall be at least one toilet or one water closet plus one bathtub
or shower room or combination for every six boarders, roomers or occupants
in each building.
B.
Sink facilities. There shall be provided at least
one sink or washbasin, supplied with hot and cold running water and
kept in reasonably good condition and repair by the owner, for every
six roomers or boarders, who shall have reasonable access thereto
at all times.
A.
Good order required. All plumbing and heating and
drainage pipes, apparatus and facilities shall be kept in good, adequate
and sanitary working condition.
B.
Rain accumulation. No owner shall cause or permit
or suffer water or rainfall to accumulate upon any rooftops, porches,
cellars, basements, ceilings or floors or upon the grounds whereon
the building is situated, exclusive of a properly constructed swimming
pool or fish pond, natural streams or lakes.
C.
Ceilings, roofs, walls and windows. All buildings
shall have airtight and have watertight roofs, ceilings, walls and
windows.
