The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-28
NoDE OF ORDINANCES RELATING TO

a GODE OF ORDINANCES RELATING tt
IO THE PUBLIC HEALTH
] Be it ordained by the Board of Health o
q the township of Northampton, in the county
of Burlin gton:
5 Section l. Water in which mosquito larvae
breed is hereby declared a nuisance, ano
where me shall be found on private proper
ty the owner or owners. tenant or occupant
thereof shall, on notice from the said Board
, within such time as the said Board may deem
proper; and any owner or owners, tenant OF
occupant of such premises failing to comply
with such notice shall forfeit and pay pen
atty not exceeding one hundred dollars and
not less than two dollars.
Section O. Whatever is dangerous to human
health or whatever renders the ground, the
water, the air or food hazard or an injury
to human health, is hereby declared to be a
nuisance, and any person or persons creating
or maintaining, or aiding in the creation or
maintenance Of any such nuisance, shall be
liable to penalty not to exceed one hundred
dollars and not less than two dollars.
Section The accumulation of any de-
caying animal or vegetable substance or sub
stances or OF other offensive matter In the
form OF rubbish, garbage or offal in or upon
any lot, road, avenue, street, alley or highway,
or in or upon any public or private place, and
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 discom-
fort to persons living or passing in the vicin-
ity thereof, is hereby declared to be a
nuisance, and any person or persons who
shall cause any such accumulation, or who
shall aid therein shall be liable to a penalty
not to exceed one hundred dollars and not
less than two dollars.
Section 4. Whenever the Board of Health
in this township shall know of a person sick
with any contagious or infectious disease in
house, building or locality, from which the
interests of the public health require his or
her removal, it may direct the removal of
said person to a suitable place, when said re-
moval can be made without undue risk to the
person sick, and may cause the premises
where such person has been sick to be dts1n-
fected; and every person or persons VINO snail
| violate any notice or command given by the
| said Board of Health under this section, shall
! forfeit and pay penalty not to exceed one
| hundred dollars and not less than two dollars.
| Section 5. Hereafter in every case of con-
| tagious disease the Board of Health will
place placard on the house containing such
disease and stating the name OF the same,
and any person or persons removing this
card without permission of the Board of
| Health, shall be punished by a fine not ex
ceeding one hundred dollars and not less
than two dollars for each and every oHenSe.
| Section 6. The keeping of any pen or en-
| closure for goats, swine, or other animals, or
of any slaughter-house tannery or factory,
| in such manner that offensive odOrs shall
| emanate therefrom to the detrimeut of the
health of the persons living or passing In the
vicinity thereof, or to common discomfort, is
hereby declared to be a nuisance. and any
person or persons who shall keep any such
| pen, enclosure, slaughter house, factory or
tannery in such manner as aforesaid, shall be
liable to penalty not to exceed one hundred
dollars and not less than two dollars.
Section 7. The storage of animal refuse or
decayable or putrescible matter in liquid or
/ SOHO form IN any vault, CeSSpOOl OF ObQSr
receptacle in such manner as to endanger
health, or in such manner that the same
shall, by reason of offensive odors elnanatfng
therefrom, become source of discomfort to
persons living or passing in the vicinity there
| of, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and
any person or persons causing or maintain
| ing any such nuisance, or aiding therein,
shall be liable to penalty not to exceed one
hundred dollars and not less than two dollars.
Section s. The keeping of any tenement
house, or other house or building, or any part
thereof, in such state of uncleanliness, or the
crowd1ng Of persons In any tenement house
| of the persons dwelling therein, is hereby de-
clared to be nuisance, and any person or
| persons through whose act or neglect such
state of uncleanliness shall be caused, and
any person or persons by whom such crowd
ing shall be caused shall be liable to a pen
atty not to exceed one hundred dollars and
not less than two dollars
Section 9. The dumping of garbage or the
overflow of any foul liquids or gases into any
place where they become injurious to health,
or the keeping or forming such sunken places
or excavations upon any lot or land as accu-
mulate foul water or offensive animal 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 aid in causing or maintaining any
such nuisance, shall be liable to penalty
not to exceed one hundred dollars and not
less than two dollars.
Section 10. Hereafter no person shall clean
out or cause to be cleaned out any privy or
private vault between the hours of six O'Clock
In the morning and ten O'Clock at night, or
without written permit from the said Board
privy vaults upon their premises, or the
premises occupied by them as tenants, shall |
forthwith cause the same to be thoroughly
cleaned, if SO ordered in writing by the said |
Board of Health, and persons having privies, |
privy vaults, cesspools or any other nuisance
prejudicial to the health of the town on their |
premises or the premises occupied by them |
as tenants, situate in such place 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. |
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or any part thereof, shall be punished by a |
fine not to exceed one hundred dollars and |
not less than two dollars for each and every |
offense.
Section IL. All owners of property on any
street in which public sewer now is or here |
after may be constructed and laid, shall con- |
meet their houses and other buildings with |
such sewer, and any such owner who shall fail |
to comply with the provisions hereof. within |
thirty days after notice from the said Board |
of Health to make the aforesaid connection, |
shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty-five
for each and every day after the said thirty |
days in which the provisions of such notice |
shall not be compiled with.
Section II. Hereafter no person shall drain |
or allowed to be drained, or cause to be |
drained, into any of the streetsgroads, lanes |
or alleys OF this township, from their premises
or premises occupied by them as tenants, any |
water or liquid of any kind, unless the same
be free from any odor or vegetable animal |
substance or matter; and all existing drains |
covered by the provisions of this section shall |
be forthwith abandoned. Any person viOlat- |
of, shall be punished by fine not exceeding |
one hundred dollars and not less than two |
dollars for each and every Offense.
Section ID. Hereafter there shall be sur |
face or open drains leading from any pr1vy, |
cesspool, or privy vault in this township, and |
where such drains now exist, the person or |
persons SO using or owning or draining into |
the same shall forthwith change the same |
so as not to violate this section of the code. |
Any personsviolating this section of this code |
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one |
hundred dollars and not less than two dollars |
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Section ii. Hereafter no person shall battle, |
swim, or go into the water in the Rancocas
Creek above the dam In the township of
Northampton under penalty not to exceed |
one hundred dollars and not less than two /
dollars for each and every offense.
Section 10. Hereafter no person shall |
throw, place, or allow to be thrown or placed, |
in the Rancocas Creek above the dam In the |
township of NOrtham pton, or in the basin on |
the Mount any dead animal or animals, Offal, |
decaying or vegetable substances Of any kind, |
or drain or cause or allow to be drained into
liquor, animal or vegetable substance
Any person violating this section of this code, |
or any part thereof, shall be punished by |
fine OF fifty dollars for each and every ofense |
Section 16. II any well or spring in this |
township, or any water used Tor drlnklng
of any sickness, the Board of Health may |
order the same to be closed or not used, or to |
be used only after thorough boiling, and every |
person or persons who shall violate this sec
ton shall forfeit and pay penalty not to ex-
coed one hundred dollars and not less than
Section IL. Hereafter no public burial shall
be held in this township of the body of a per- |
son dying of small pox, scarlet fever, or any |
other malignant or infectious disease; and 1t |
shall not be lawful for any person or persons |
to disinter any dead body during the months |
of June, July, August or September, without |
first obtaining a 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 and
not less than two dollars.
Section Is. All ordinances and codes here
tofore passed and enacted by the said Board
of Health are repealed upon the taking effect
of this code of ordinances
Passed July Is. 1908.
FRANKLIN DILL,