[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health
of the Borough of Dumont as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Article XXII of the Board of
Health Sanitary Code; amended 5-5-1960 (Appendix A, Article 10, of the 1970 Revised Ordinances)]
If any well or spring in the Borough, or any
water used for drinking or bathing purposes, is found to be polluted
or to be the cause of any sickness, the Board of Health may order
the same to be closed or not to be used, and every person who shall
refuse to obey such order shall be deemed to have violated this section.
Whatever is dangerous to human health, or whatever
renders the ground, the water or the air a hazard to human health,
is hereby declared a nuisance.
No animal or vegetable substance or garbage
or street sweepings, muck or silt or dirt gathered in cleaning yards,
buildings, sewers, waste of mills or factories, or any materials which
are offensive to health or to render the atmosphere impure or unwholesome
shall be deposited upon or used to fill up or raise the surface or
level of any lot, ground, street or alley in this Borough or any ground
filled for the purpose of building thereon, unless pursuant to a special
permit from the Board of Health.
Any imperfect trap, sink or water closet within
any building or any other drainage appliance or fixture within any
building from which there shall arise any foul or obnoxious gas or
odor, is hereby declared a nuisance.
All sunken lots or marsh lands or lots below grade where stagnant water gathers or is collected are hereby declared nuisances, and any owner or owners or agent or tenant of any such lot or lots shall on written notice from the Board of Health correct and abate this nuisance in the manner prescribed by said board in said notice; and any owner or owners, tenant or agent failing to comply with such notice shall on conviction thereof, be fined as provided in § 520-13.
No person, having the right and legal power
to prevent the same, shall knowingly cause or permit any person to
sleep or remain in any cellar or in any place dangerous to life or
health by reason of want of ventilation or drainage or lack of water
closet lavatory and sink or by reason of the presence of any poisonous,
noxious or offensive substance or otherwise.
The keeping of any apartment house or other
house or building or any part thereof in such state of uncleanliness,
is hereby declared a nuisance. The crowding of persons in any building
or room in such manner as to endanger the health of persons dwelling
therein, or so that there shall be less than 400 cubic feet of air
for each person occupying such building, is hereby declared to be
a nuisance.
Whenever it shall be decided by the Board of
Health that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation,
by reason of its being infected with disease or by reason of its being
in a condition dangerous to health or life, or to be likely to cause
sickness among the occupants, a notice of such decision shall be affixed
conspicuously on building or any part thereof so decided to be unfit
for human habitation and personally served upon the owner, agent or
lessee if the same can be found in the state, requiring all persons
thereon to vacate such building or part thereof, for the reasons to
be stated therein as aforesaid, such building or part thereof shall
within 10 days thereafter be vacated. In case of special emergency,
the building or part thereof shall be vacated within such shorter
time as in said notice may be specified.
No premises shall be rented, let, leased or
occupied as a dwelling, apartment house or place of business unless
said premises shall have a plentiful supply of pure water, 24 hours
a day suitable for domestic purposes, furnished at one or more places
in such premises, so that the same may be adequate and reasonably
convenient for the use of the occupants of said dwelling, apartment
house or place of business.
In all premises leased for residential purposes
where a home-laundry washer type of machine is provided by the landlord
for use by his tenants, it shall be equipped with a backflow preventor
so as to assure elimination of any possible cross-connections.
In dwellings occupied by three or more families
living independently of each other, all laundry tubs, sinks and water
closets located in cellars or other community rooms shall be maintained
in a sanitary manner and kept in a good state of repair.
Any person, who violates any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not
less than $2 nor more than $500. A separate offense shall be deemed
committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
[Adopted 2-2-1965 (Appendix A, Article 12,
of the 1970 Revised Ordinances)]
A.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUISANCE CODE OF NEW JERSEY (1953)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
As used in this article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
Refers to that certain code approved by the New Jersey Sate
Department of Health on September 16, 1953, for adoption by reference
by local boards of health in accordance with law, being a code:
Defining and prohibiting certain matters, things,
conditions or acts and each of them as a nuisance;
Prohibiting certain noises or sounds;
Requiring proper heating of apartments;
Prohibiting lease or rental of certain buildings;
Prohibiting spitting in or upon public buildings,
conveyances or sidewalks;
Authorizing the inspection of premises by an
enforcing official;
Providing for the removal or abatement of certain
nuisances and recovery of expenses incurred by the Board of Health
in removing or abating such nuisances.
B.
BOARD OF HEALTH
MUNICIPALITY
Whenever the following words, terms or phrases are
used in the Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953), they
shall have the following meanings herein given:
Refers to the Board of Health of the Borough of Dumont.
Refers to the Borough of Dumont.
A.
Pursuant to and in accordance with the Public Health
and Sanitation Codes Adoption by Reference Act (N.J.S.A. 26:3-69.1
to 26:3-69.6), there is hereby established and adopted as the public
health nuisance code of the Borough the whole of the Public Health
Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953), save and except Section III thereof,
entitled "Proper Heating of Apartments," which section is deleted
and not adopted. A printed copy of said code, with Section III thereof
deleted, is annexed to and incorporated by reference in the ordinance
passed on February 2, 1965 adopting said code.
B.
The Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953),
save and except Section III thereof which is deleted, is hereby incorporated
in this article by reference and made a part hereof as fully as though
it had been set forth at length herein.
C.
In accordance with law, three printed copies of the
Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) have been placed
on file in the office of the Health Officer of the Board of Health
and shall remain on file in said offices for the use and examination
of the public so long as this article shall remain in effect.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates
or neglects to comply with any provision of this article, including
the Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) incorporated
herein by reference, or notice or order issued pursuant thereto, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than $2 nor
more than $500. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each
day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
