Borough of Brooklawn, NJ
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2023-07-17
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 94 Hazardous Materials
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 (Reserved)
- Ch 9 Chief Financial Officer
- Ch 11 Claims Approval
- Ch 14 Court, Municipal
- Ch 20 Emergency Services
- Ch 21 Fire Department
- Ch 26 Health, Board of
- Ch 32 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 36 Officers and Employees
- Ch 39 Police Department
- Ch 41 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 42 (Reserved)
- Ch 45 Salaries and Compensation
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 50 Abandoned Property
- Ch 52 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 55 Amusement Devices
- Ch 56 Animals
- Ch 60 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 63 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 63A Cable Television Franchise
- Ch 64 Canvassers and Solicitors
- Ch 65 (Reserved)
- Ch 68 Commercial Maintenance Standards
- Ch 72 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 75 Curfew
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 81A Electric and/or Natural Gas Aggregation Program
- Ch 82 Drugs
- Ch 82A Fees for Public Records
- Ch 83 Fences
- Ch 84 Fire Prevention
- Ch 86 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 88 Abandoned Vehicles and Machinery
- Ch 90 Garage Sales
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 94 Hazardous Materials
- § 94-1 Definitions.
- § 94-2 Liability for costs.
- § 94-3 Hearing on assessment.
- § 94-4 Attorneys’ fees; collection costs.
- Ch 98 Housing Standards
- Ch 101 Hunting and Firearms
- Ch 102 Jewelry, Gems, and Precious Metals
- Ch 107 Mercantile Licenses
- Ch 110 Outside Sales
- Ch 112 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 113 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 114 Property Maintenance
- Ch 115 Public Defender Services
- Ch 115A Public Health Nuisances
- Ch 116 Rental Properties
- Ch 118 Sewers
- Ch 119 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 121 Signs
- Ch 121A Smoking in Public Areas
- Ch 122 Source Separation and Recycling
- Ch 122A Special Assistance Registry
- Ch 123 Stormwater Management and Control
- Ch 124 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 127 Swimming Pools
- Ch 129 Tattooing and Body Piercing
- Ch 130 Taxation
- Ch 133 Theaters
- Ch 135 Tobacco Sales and Use
- Ch 136 Trailers
- Ch 137 Towing
- Ch 141 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 142 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 145 Water
- Ch 146 Wedding and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 150 Zoning
- Ch 151 Land Use
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 153 General Provisions Board of Health
- Ch 159 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 165 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 171 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Brooklawn 12-3-2001
by Ord. No. 17-01. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
All costs associated with the discharge within the boundaries of
the Borough of Brooklawn, which shall include labor and material for the removal
of hazardous substances or taking of reasonable measures to prevent or mitigate
damages to the public health, safety or welfare of the residents of the Borough
of Brooklawn, including the lands, private and public, therein.
Any intentional or unintentional action or omission resulting in
the release, spill, leak, emission, dump or disposal of hazardous substances
into the waters or lands within the Borough of Brooklawn or outside the Borough
when damage may result to the waters of lands inside the Borough.
All elements and compounds, including petroleum products as set forth
within N.J.S.A. 58-10-23.11b, as amended, except that sewage and sewage sludge
shall be considered hazardous substances for the purpose of this chapter.
Any individual, public or private corporation, companies, association,
societies, firms, partnerships or joint-stock companies.
Any person who shall discharge hazardous substances within the Borough
of Brooklawn shall be strictly liable for all cleanup and removal costs incurred
by the Borough of Brooklawn or agencies and employees thereof.
Upon assessment of cleanup and removal costs, the person assessed may,
within 10 days of receipt of such assessment, make a written request for a
hearing before Borough Council exclusively upon the reasonableness of the
amount assessed.
The person responsible for the discharge shall be liable for all reasonable
attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in the collection of cleanup and
removal costs.
