The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-10-01

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Act to establish in this state Boards of Health
and Bureau OF Viuh Statistics and TO de.
| line their respective powers and duties" ap.
proved March 81, 1887, and of other acts, or
| dams:
SECTION l.-That hereafter no person shall
sell or expose tor sale in his township, any
KIM of adulterated food or drink, or sell or
expose for sale any kind of meat or vegeta-
Dies unfit or unwholesome for food, and every
person who shall violate this section shall for
ieit and pay penalty not TO exceed one hum
ored dollars and not less than two dollars for
every such offense.
SEC. 2--That whatever Is dangerous to hui
man health, or whatever renders the ground,
the water, the air or food a hazard or an in
jury to human health, is hereby declared to be
nuisance, and any person or persons Great
ing or maintaining or aiding in the creation
or maintenance of any such nuisance, shall
pc liable to penalty not TO exceed one hun
dred dollars and not less than two dollars.
SEQ 3.-That the accumulation of any de-
caylng animal or vegetable substance or SUD-
stances, or OF other offensive matter IN the
form OF rubbish. garbage or offai, in or upon
any lot, road, avenue, street, alley or high
way, or IN or upon any public or private
place, ana allowing the same TO remain in or
upon any such lot, street, highway, public or
private place, until the same shall become
hazardous to health, or until the same shall,
by reason OF offensive odors, become a source
OF discomfort to persons living or passing in
the vicinity thereof. is hereby declared to be
a nuisance, and any person or persons who
snail cause any such accumulation, or who
shall aid therein, shall be liable to penalty
not to exceed one hundred dollars ana not
SEQ. 4.--Hereafter any physician neglecting
or refusing to report to the Board of Health
any infectious or contagious disease in his
pracllce In the township, shall be punished by
a nne OF ten dollars for each and every offeDse.
And any person or persons having the care or
charge OF any one in this township, having
any such disease. neglecttng or refusing 10
comply with the directions of the Board OF
Health concerning the prevention and spread
ing OF sHch diseases, shall be punished by a
fine of twenty-five dollars tor each and every
offense.
SEC. 5.-That whenever the Board of Health
In this township shall know of a person sick
with any contagious or infectious disease, in
house, building OF locality. from which the IN
terests of the public health require his or her
removal 1t may direct the removal of said
person to suitable place, when SAID removal
can be made without undue risk to the person
Sicks ana may cause the premises where such
person has been sick TO be disinfected; and
every person or persons who shall violate any
notice or command given by the said Board OF
healtn under this section, shall forfeit ana
pay penalty not to exceed one hundred dol
lars and not less than two dollars
SKC. 6.-Hereafter in every case OF contagious
disease the Board of Health will plaee n MIA
card on the house containing such disease and
stating the name of the same; and any person
or persons removing this card without per-
mission of the Board of Health, shall be pun
ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars and not less than two dollars tor each
SEC. THAT the keeping of any pen or en-
closure for goats, swine or other animals, or of
any slaughter house. tannery or factory in
nate therefrom to the detriment OF the health
OF the persons living or passing In the vicinity
tnereof or to common discomfort, IL hereby
declared to be . nuisance, and any person or
persons who shall keep any such pen, enclos-
ure, slaughter house, factory g tannerq In
such manner as aforesaid, shall be liable to a
penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars
and not less than two dollars.
SEC. S-That the storage OF animal refuse or
decayaOle or putresciDle matter In liquid or
solid form in any vault, cesspOol or other re-
ceptacle in such manner as to endanger
health, or in such manner that the same shall,
by reason OF offensive od0rs ema nating there
from, become source of discomfort To per-
sons living or passing in the vicinity thereof,
Is hereby declared to be a nuisance and any
person or persons causing or maintaining
any such nuisance, or aiding therein shall be
liable to penalty not to exceed one hundred
dollars and not less than two dollars.
SEC. 9.-That the keeping OF any tenement
house, or other house or building or any part
thereof, in such state of uncieanliness, or
the crowding of persons in any tenement
house In such manner as to endanger the
health of the persons dwelling therein, is
hereby declared TO be a nuisance, and any
person or persons through whose act or ne
glect such state of uncleanliness shall be
caused, ana any person or persons by whom
such crowding shall be caused shall be liable
to penalty not to exceed one hundred dol
lars and not less than two dollars.
SEC. l0-That the dumping OF garbage, the
overflow of any foul liquids or gases into any
place where they become injurious 10 health,
or the keeping or forming such sunken
places or excavations upon any lot or land as
or vegetable matter, Is hereby declared TO be
a nuisance, and any person or persons who
shall cause or maintain such nuisance, or who
shall atdsin causing or maintaining any such
nuisance, shall be liable to a penalty not to
exceed one hundred dollars and not less than
l., o dollars.
SEQ. II.-Hereafter no person shall, under
any circumstances, clean out or cause to be
cleaned out. any privy or privy vault, between
the hours OF six O'Clock in the morning and
ten O'Clock at night, or without written per-
init from the said Board OF Health, and per-
sons having privtes or privy vaults upon
their premises or the premises occupied by
them AS tenants, shall forthwith cause the
same 10 be thoroughly cleaned, If so ordered
in writing by the said Board of Health; and
persons having privies, privy vaults, cess
pools, or any nuisance prejudical to the
health OF the town on their premises or the
premises occupied by them as tenants, situate
in such place or places as shall be considered
detrimental to the public health by said
Board shall, upon the written order of said
Board, forthwith remove or alter the same, as
the said board shall direct Any person Vio-
lating this section of this code, or any part
thereof, shall be punished BY fine not to ex-
coed one hundred dollars and not less than
two dollars for each and every Offense.
SEC. l2-Every owner of property on any
street in which public sewer has been laid,
shall connect with the same forthwith, unless
such property has private drain into the
creek, approved by the inspector; and every
owner OF property on any street in which the
pU6tfc Setcer shall hereafter be laid, shall con-
meet with the same as soon as completed, UNI
less such property has private drain into the
enacted, that any property owner refusing to
comply with the provisions of this section as
amended. or any part thereof, shall be punish
ed by fine of twenty-five dollars and the
drain to be connected 10 said sewer by the
Board of Health at the expense of property
owner. II shall be the duty OF the inspector
to examine every property fronting on a
street in which a public sewer has been or
shall hereafter be laid, and require the owner
thereof to make connections with the same,
and upon their refusal, to report the same to
said Board of Health. who shall at once lake
necessary steps to have said connections
made and the expenses thereof collected and
the hne imposed as provided In this section.
SEC. lS.-Hereafter no person shall drain or
allow to be drained or cause to be drained,
into any of the Streets roads, lanes or alleys OF
this township, from their premises or prem
ises occupied by them as tenants, any water
or liquid of any kind, unless the same be free
from any odor or vegetable or animal sub
stance or matter; and all existing drains, COW
cred by the provisions of this section, shall be
forthwith abandoned. Any person violating
this section of this code or any part thereof,
shall be punished by "A fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars and not less than two dollars
for each and every offense.
SEQ. l4.-Hereafter there shall be no surface
or open drains leading from any privy, cess
where such drains now exist, the person or
persons so using or cunning or draining into
the same, shall forthwith change the same so
Is not to violate this section OF The code. Any
person violating this section of this code
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars and not less than TWO dollars
SEC 10. Hereafter no person ehall, under
any circumstances. battle. swim. OF go into
the water in the Raneooas creek above the
dam in the township of Northampton, under
penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars
and not less than two dollars Tor each ana
every offense.
SEQ l6.-Hereafter no person shall, under
any circumstances, throw, place, or allow or
cause to be thrown or placed in the Rancccas
creek above the dam in the Township OF North
ampton, or In the basin on the Mount, any
dead ANIMAL or animals ofal, decayiDg or
vegetable substances of any kind; or drain,
or cause to be drained, or allowed TO be drain
ed into said creek. above said dam,a any impure
liz uer or animal or vegetable substance. Any
person violating this section of this code OF
any part thereof shall be punished by fine
OF fifty dollars for each and every offense
SEC. l7-That If any well or spring in this
! township, or any water used for drin kin <
purposes, is found to be polluted, or to be the
cause OF any sickness, the Board OF Health
may order the same not to be used, or closed,
4 or 20 be used only after thorough boiling, and
every person or persons who shall violate this
section shall forfeit and pay penalty not to
exceed one hundred dollars and not less than
two dollars.
SEC. 1s.-Hereafter no public burial shall be
held OF the body OF person dying OF small
pox, scarlet fever. or any other malignant or
| INFECTIOUS disease, in this township. and il
| shall not be lawful for any person or persons
| 10 disinter any dead body during the months
CT June, July, August and september, with
out first obtaining permit so TO do from the
! Township Assessor. Any person violating
this section of this code shall be punished by
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ana
not less than two dollars.
| SIC. i9.-That any penalty incurred under
the provisions of these ordinances. or any ex-
pense incurred In the abatement OF any nuis-
ance by the Board, shall be collected I'm the
manner prescribed by the act cited in the
preamble hereto, with the suppleHe nts there
to or, in lieu thereof, the Local Board oil
Health may file bill In the Court OF Chan
Gerry for an Injunction pursuant TO the pro
visions of said act.
! SEC. 20.-That all ordinances and codes here.
| tofore passed and enacted by the Local Board
of Health are repealed upon the taking effect
of these ordinances
SAMUEL I. ENGLE.
CHARLES G. COwPRRTHwAIT,
| I. LACEY AKINs
RICHARD H. PARSONS, NJ D.,
| MARTIN II. GIRvEN,
Sept a. 1895.