The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01

intervene between the second and third readings
of said ordinance, and notice stating the title of
the ordinance and the date when it passed its
second reading shall be published at least one
week prior to its final passage in at least one news
any newspaper is published therein, and If there
be no such newspaper then in some newspaper
of the county circulating in such township, city,
town or borough:
/. TO aid in the enforcement of the laws as to
the adulteration Of all kinds of food and drink.
and TO prevent the sale or exposure for sale OF
any kind Of meat or vegetable that is unwhole-
some or unfit for food
II To define and declare what shall constitute
nuisances in lots, streets docks, wharyes vessels
and piers, and all public and private places
+ III. TO prevent the spreading Of dangerous cpl
denies or contagious diseases and TO declare that
the. same has become epidemic, and to maintain
and enforce proper and sufficient quarantine
whenever deemed necessary;
~ To regulate, control and prohibit the keep
ing or Strengthening of ali kinds of animals;
Y. To regulate, control and prohibit the accu-
substances
VI TO prohibit and remove any offensive mat
road, street. avenue, alley or other place, public
or private, and to cause the removal of the same
at the expense of the owner;
VII. To compel the return of all births, deaths
and marriages by physicians, midwives, nurses,
clergymen, magistrates and other persons profess
sionally officiating at such death, birth or mar
rage;
ment houses, jails, prisons and all public build
TX. To regulate, control or prohibit the clean
ing of sewers, the dumping of garbage, the filling
of sunken lots or marsh lands, and to provide for
the filling up Of such lots or lands
In addition thereto, all such boards except
township boards shall have further power in like
/. 10 regulate and control the method of con-
struction, the location, the method and manner
ii. To regulate and control the mode of con-
nection of house-drainage and plumbing with
outside sewers. ccsspools or other receptacles;
Ill. To protect the public water supply and pre-
vent the pollution of any stream of water or we'll
the water Of which is used for domestic purposes
and to order not to be used, or closed, any well,
the water of which is polluted or detrimental to
the public health;
w To remove persons infected to a suitable
place, i'll case OF contagious and infectious disease
where, in the judgment of the board, such removal
is necessary and can be accomplished without
undue risk 10 the person or persons diseased and
to disinfect the premises when deemed necessary.
V. To regulate the burial and disinterment of
human bodies.
Is And be it enacted, That such boards shall,
within their respective jurisdiction, examine into
all nuisanccs, foul or noxiotis odors, gases or
vapors, and all causes of disease which may be
known to them or brought to their attention,
which, in their opinion, are injurious to the
health of the inhabitants therein, and shall cause
the same to be removed and abated; whenever
such nuis,lnces, noxious odors, gases or vapors
cause of ill-health or disease shall be found on
public properly or on highway, notice shall be
charge thereof officially, and such persons shall
be notified to remove and abate the same and if
there be failure or neglect to comply with such
notice the mode of procedure shall be the same
as is hereinafter provided in case Of private indi
viduals.
49, And be it'enacted. That where such NUS
nnces, noxious gases or vapors, or cause of ill
health or disease Shall be found on private property
the said board shall cause notice thereof to be given
to the owner or owners to remove and abate the
same at his own expense within such time as the
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notice SO given shall be left with one or more of
the tenants or occupants of the premises if the
owner resides out of the state cannot be reached
with notice speedily, notice left Mt the house OF
posted on the premises shall be deemed sufficient,
and If the owner or owners thus notified shall
not comply with such notification or order of the
local board of health within the time specified,
the board shall proceed to abate such nuisance
and remove the cause of such foul and noxiuus
odors, gases or vapors or other thing detrimental
to the public health, and such board shall have q
right TO recover by action of debt the expenses
incurred by such board in the abatement or re-
moval from any person or persons who shall have
caused or allowed such nuisance, source of foul
ness, cause of sickness, hazardous to the public
-calth and from any owner, tenant or occupant
of the premises who, after notice as aforesaid,
shall have failed to remove such nuisance, source
of foulness cause of sickness, hazardous to the
public health, within the time specified in such
notice; and in case such board of health shall
fail to recover by such action an amount sufficient
to defray such expenses, or it shall be deemed
inexpedient to bring such suit, they may present
bill, certified by such board, majority there
of, to the local municipal authorities, and such
bill shall be audited and paid by the borough,
town, township or other local municipal govern
ment in and for which such board is organized in
the same manner as the bills for the ordinary
current expenses for such municipality are paid.
20. And be it enacted, That no Injunction shall
issue out of any of the courts of this state to stay
stop enjoin proceedings, or to prevent any local
board of Health from proceeding with the removal
of any alleged nuisance source of foulness OF
cause Of sickness, hazardous to the public health,
until such board has been duly notified to appear
and to be present at the hearing of such applica-
ton and has an opportunity to be heard thereon !;
and no suit shall be maintained in any of the
courts OF this state to recover damages against
any such board, its officers agents on proceed
ings had and maintained by them to abate and
remove such nuisances and cause of disease, UNI
less it shall be shown in sich suit that the alleged
nuisance and cause OF disease did not exist and
that the same was not hazardous and preiudicial
to the public health, and unless it be shown that
the said board acted without reasonable and prob
able cause to believe that such nuisance did exist
and that such foul or noxious odors gases
vapors or other cause WIS, in ict prejudicial and
hazardous to the public health.
u. And be it enacted, That in the making of
ordinances any board of health may adopt and
0rdain the same in the form of a code or each
ordinance may be separate and apart by itself,
and in all cases said board shall cause such code
ordinance OF ordinances to be published for at
least two weeks, once in each week in one or
more newspapers printed and circulating in the
city, township, or in the borough town or other
local municipal government in which such code
ordinance or ordinances shall take effect; and in
case no newspaper shall be printed i'll such town
ship or insuch city, borough town or other local
municipal government, then the said code or ordi-
nances shall be posted in five public places there
in and published for the said period of time in
some newspaper published in the county and
circulating in such township or in such city, Dor
ough, town or other local municipal government.
q. And be it enacted, That such boards of
health may amend.or repeal any part or section
of such code or ordinances as they may see fit,
such amendments to be passed and amended as
aforesaid, and every CODE ordinance, amendment
or repeater shall take effect in thirty days after
the date of the first publication
%. And be it enacted, That any such board of
health may prescribe penalty for the violation
of any of their ordinances sections of any code
they make and ordain as aforesaid, not to exceed
one hundred dollars and not less than ten dollars
and every district court In any city, and every jus
tice of the peace in any county and any police
justice OF recorder in any city, is hereby empow-
cred, on oath or affirmation made according to
the law that any person or persons has or may
have violated any section of the code, or any OF
the ordinances of any S,1ch hoard as aforesaid to