The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-14
CHAPTER CLxxxu.


ing county boards" established for the protec.
ton of the public health and the registration Of
vital facts and statistics in counties of this state,
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General AS
sembly of the State of New Jersey, That any such
county board is provided for in the act to which
this is supplement, shall, by virtue of the pow
conferred upon it by the fourth section of the
said act have power to fix and charge reason
able license or permit fee for any license or per-
NIT which may be granted by such board under
said section; such fee not to exceed twenty-five
dollars annually, which said fees may be fixed by
ordinance or by resolution of the board.
2. And be it further enacted, That all fees OF
moneys collected or realized by any such board
may be used by it to prevent the spread of dis
ease, the abatement of nuisances, and for other
sanitary purposes and all such moneys and fees
shall, at the end of each fiscal year, be accounted
for in detailed written statement. to the county
collector other like officer having charge of the
financial affairs or accounts of the county, and
any balance on hand at that time exceeding three
hundred dollars shall be paid over to him.
3. And be it further enacted, That any such
board shall have power to remove or cause to be
removed to proper place to be by them desig-
mated, persons sick with any contagious, pesulen-
tal or infectious disease and said board shall also
have power to remove or cause to be removed TO q
proper place to be by them designated, all things
within the county which in their opinion shall be
infected with any matter likely to communicate,
disease to the inhabitants thereof and said board
may destroy such things, or cause them to be de-
stroyed, when, in their opinion, the public safety
requires it; ard no person shall remove from any
vessel, boat, house or place any person sick with
any disease mentioned in this section without
permit from such board or member of it. =
A. And be it further enacted, That the place or
places to which removals may be made as provided
in the preceding section of this act, shall be pro-
vided by the board of chosen freeholders of every
such county, and such board shall also provide
ambulances or other proper means for making
said removals !.
s. And be it further enacted, That such county
board of health may cause any street, avenue,
alley or other passage or place whatever. to be
fenced up or otherwise enclosed, if they shall
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bid and prevent communication with any place
infected with any contagious infectious or pesti-
lential disease, except by means of physicians,
nurses or messengers carrying necessary advice,
medicines and provisions to the afflicted, and said
board may put or place, or cause to be put OF
placed. on or near any place infected with any
contagious, infectious or pestflential disease, OK
with any nuisance dangerous to health, placaFdS
OF notices to indicate to and warn people of the
existence of any such disease; and said board may
also, by ordinance, prescribe penalties for any in
fraction or violation of this section; provided SUCH
penalties shall not exceed the penalties provided
for in the seventh section of the act to which this
is supplement, and the same may be enforced
and recovered in the manner provided for the en-
forcement and recovery of the penalties mem
toned in said section.
6. And be 1t further enacted, That any such
board of health may, by resolution, delegate any
portion of its power to any member of the board
or to any officer thereof to be exercised only when
the board is not in session; any exercise of such
powers shall be reported TO the board at its next
meeting thereafter
Z. And be it further enacted That service Of
any order, demand, or notice OF any such board OF
health as also of any summons in any suit OK
action to recover q penalty or penalties COM
menced by it may be made upon any person, firms
copartnership, corporation, company or board
by handing true copy thereof to such person or
to any member of any such firm copartnership,
corporation, company or board, or by leaving the
same at his or her residence or usual place Of
abode; in the absence of such person or member,
service as aforesaid may be made upon person,
firm copartnership, corporation, company or
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agent manager, superintendent, bookkeeper on
clerk of the same and W en- service of any order,
demand, notice or summons as aforesaid shall be
made in the manner above provided such service
shall be deemed and taken to be a sufficient and
legal service thereof; provided. that nothing In
this section shall be taken as limiting or affecting
the time fixed for appearance TO answer or re-
spond to any such order, demand, notice or sum-
mons but same shall remain as heretofore
8. And be it further enacted, That any such
board of health as aforesaid, shall have power to
prescribe ordinances to regulate and control the
plumbing, ventilation and drainage of all build
ings, both public and private erected within the
county, after the passage of this act, and may
quire plans for the same with necessary drawings
or descriptions to be submitted to such board for
its inspection and approval; and such board may
require all master and foremen plumbers and all
building contractors to register their names and
addresses at the Office of such board and all city
and other local boards of health and health OFF,
GERS are hereby authorized to enforce and carry
out the provisions of this section. I-,--
9. And be it further enacted That 1t shall be
the duty of every board of health to aid in the en-
forcement of and so far as practicable to enforce
all laws of this state applicable in said county to
the preservation of human life, or the care, pro-
motion or protection of health, ana said board
may exercise the authority given by said laws to
enable it to discharge the duty hereby imposed,
and by this section 1t is intended to include all
laws relative to cleanliness and 70 the or sale
of poisonous, unwholesome deleterious or adu1-
terated drugs medicines, or food.
10. And be it enacted, That such board of health
shall hereafter have power to control, appoint
and supervise all the officers and employees con-
nected Herewith, or authorized and required to
perform service for it in any capacity and may
appoint such sanitary inspectors or officers not
exceeding three and from time to time procure
such sanitary engineering service as may be
essential for carrying out efficiently the objects,
purposes and duties eoniided to it or which may
hereafter be confded to it by any law of this state
said board may fix the pay and compensation for
all services which may be rendered under this
shall be paid by the county in the same manner
that the compensation of the other officers and
members of said board is now paid.
IL. And be 1t further enacted, That any expense
incurred by any such board of health in abating
any nuisance upon any property in such county
or in the filling up of sunken lots which have
become the repositories of stagnant water or are.
otherwise dangerous to health, shall be a lien on
the same and may be enforced by such board In.
such manner as IT. shall by ordinance direct; q
record of all such liens and expenses shall be
kept in the Office of the board in a book TO be-
provided for the purpose, which shall be properly
indexed. 8
II And be it further enacted, That no member,
officer or agent of such board of health shall be
sued or held to liability for any act done omitted
byeitheE person as aforesaid with good faith and