There shall be established in and for Colts
Neck Township a local Board of Health pursuant to an Act entitled
"An Act to Establish in This State Boards of Health and a Bureau of
Vital Statistics and Defining Their Respective Rights and Duties,"
approved March 31, 1887, and the supplements thereto.
The Board of Health of Colts Neck Township shall
be established according to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 26:3-3, Chapter
3, Article 1, Subdivision B, as amended by L. 1953, Chapter 349, Page
1918, Section 1.
[Amended 10-8-1997; 7-14-2010]
A. The Board
of Health of Colts Neck Township shall be composed of seven members,
to be selected and appointed by said Township Committee at its next
regular meeting after this chapter shall go into effect.
B. The local
Health Board shall consist of no more than seven members and may include
not more than two alternate members. The members and alternate members
shall be appointed by the Township Committee, shall be residents of
the municipality, and shall serve without compensation.
C. The alternate
members shall be assigned and designated by the Township Committee
as "Alternate No. 1" and "Alternate No. 2" and shall serve during
the absence or disqualification of any regular member or members.
The terms of alternate members shall be for two years, except that
the terms of the alternate members first appointed shall be two years
for Alternate No. 1 and one year for Alternate No. 2, so that the
term of not more than one alternate member shall expire in any one
year. A vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall
be filled by the appointing authority for the unexpired term only.
An alternate member may participate in discussions of the proceedings
but may not vote except in the absence or disqualification of a regular
member. A vote shall not be delayed in order that a regular member
may vote instead of an alternate member.
[Amended 10-8-1997]
The members of said Board of Health shall be
appointed by the Township Committee, and in making said appointments,
the Township Committee shall designate one member who shall hold his
or her office for one year from the date of his or her appointment;
one member who shall hold his or her office for two years; and one
member who shall hold his or her office for three years; and two members
who shall hold their offices for four years from the date of their
appointment; and thereafter at the expiration of said respective terms,
said appointments shall be made by said Township Committee in the
same manner for the term of four years, provided that in case a vacancy
shall occur in said Board by death, resignation or removal, it shall
be filled in the same manner in which the original appointments were
made, but for the unexpired term only.
Any member of said Board of Health may be removed
from his or her office for cause after an opportunity has been given
for a hearing and upon the vote of a majority of the Township Committee.
Within 10 days after this chapter shall go into
effect, said Board of Health shall meet and organize and appoint the
necessary agents and officers of said Board, establish rules for its
own government and pass ordinances and make rules and regulations
in regard to the public health in said township as directed by law.