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Borough of Palisades Park, NJ
Bergen County
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No person shall construct or repair any privy or septic tank upon any property without first obtaining from the Board of Health or Plumbing Inspector a permit to so construct the same.
No person shall clean or empty any privy vault or septic tank without first obtaining from the Board or Plumbing Inspector a permit to do so.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of cleaning or emptying privy vaults or septic tanks shall use in such instances a suitable vehicle properly provided with watertight, completely closed tanks or boxes designed to prevent leakage onto the streets or highways within the Borough and further designed to prevent the escape of offensive odors into the atmosphere.
All construction undertaken under any permit under this article shall fully comply with every provision of this article affecting the same.
No cesspool shall hereafter be constructed upon property, nor shall any cesspool now in existence be maintained, if the maintenance thereof shall be detrimental to the public health.
No person shall maintain, use or permit to be used any receptacle for human excrement unless such receptacle is so constructed and maintained that flies cannot gain access to the excremental matter contained therein and unless such excremental matter shall, at all times, be prevented from flowing over upon the surface of the ground. Every receptacle for human excrement located within 100 feet of any stream, the waters of which are used for drinking or domestic purposes, shall be provided with a watertight vault.
Whenever any premises contains a septic tank, cesspool or privy which is abandoned or which the Board determines is in a dangerous condition, the same shall, upon notification to the owner thereof, be promptly pumped out and filled with clean earth by the owner or agent at the owner's expense.
A. 
Persons maintaining, operating or in charge or control of any public place shall at all times keep and maintain such public place and all parts thereof in a clean and sanitary condition and open to inspection by the Board, its officers or any employee of said Board.
B. 
Every public place shall contain the following:
(1) 
Proper lavatory facilities.
(2) 
A washroom, comfort station or other place of a like nature.
(3) 
A mechanical dispenser for liquid or powdered soap.
(4) 
Individual single-service towels or a forced-air hand-drying device.
(5) 
A sanitary waste receptacle for towels customarily discarded after usage.
C. 
In all public places, there is prohibited:
(1) 
The use of cake soap in common.
(2) 
The use of any drinking cup in common.
(3) 
The use of towels in common.
A. 
No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter place or install a portable toilet in the Borough without first obtaining a permit from the Board of Health to do so. Said applicant shall provide the following information as part of the permit application procedures:
(1) 
The name of the owner of the portable toilets.
(2) 
The dates during which the toilets are to be provided.
(3) 
The proposed location of the toilets.
(4) 
Emptying and maintenance procedures.
B. 
No portable toilet shall be located within 200 feet of any commercial food-service operation or any surface waterway.
C. 
Portable toilets shall have watertight, completely closed tanks for storage of wastes, shall be flyproof, shall be adequately vented and shall be provided with cleanable seats.
D. 
No person shall maintain a septic tank, cesspool, privy or portable toilet which creates a nuisance as a result of overflow, lack of absorption or faulty design or construction.