Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-28
BROWN SEWERAGE
MEASURE PUZZLES
STATE OFFICIALS
Vague Statements in Bill That
Gives Anti-P0lluti0n P0wer
to Health Board.
fF1om a stan Correspondent !

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TRENTON, March 28.-The Passaic
Valley Sewerage Commission and other
officials throughout the State are Won
dering just what would be the effect
of the passage OF Senate bill Nc. 2SS,
introduced by Senator Brown. of Mon
mouth, a measure that gives the State
Board of Health sweeping powers to
stop pollution of the waters of this
State.
The bill apparently would allow the
State Health Board to have something
TO say about Passaic river pollution,
although there are some vague state
ments at its conclusion which may
mean that 1t does not affect the Pas
sale river anti pollution law provid-
Ing for the building of the trunk sewer.
1t a as follows:
An act prohibiting the discharge of
sewake. excremental matter. domestic
refuse and other polluting matter into
fresh water.
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
sey:
No person shall hereafter discharge
or permit to be discharged into n
fresh water. sewage, excremental mat
tCis QOlllC6ilC IEiuSCg vi DOll4llItk HAT
ter.
The term fresh water" as used in
this act, shall be taken to mean and
include all water commonly known as
fresh, and which may be used for hu-
man consumption, irrespective of
whether such water shall be found in
a stream where the tide GIBBS and
flows or not.
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the provisions of this act shall be liable
to a penalty of 800 for each offense,
to be recovered in an action of debt
by the Board of Health of the State
of New Jersey; said penalty when re-
covered by the aid Board of Health
of the State of New Jersey to be paid
into the treasury of this State.
1t shall be the duty of the Board of
Health of the State of New Jersey to
give notice, in writing, to any person
violating the provisions of this act, 20
discontinue such violation, and If said
violation be not discontinued within
ten days from the date of service of
said notice then it shall be lawful for
the said Board of Health to institute
a suit to recover the penalty provided
for In the second section of this act.
The sale notice shall describe in gen.
eral terms the location of the premises
from which said violation ccurs
Whenever any said person shall vio-
late any of the provisions of this act,
it shall be lawful for the State Board
of Health, either before or after the
institution of proceedings for the col
lection of the penalty imposed by this
act for such violation. to file a bill in
the Court of Chancery in the name of
the State, at the relation of such board,
for an injunction to restrain such vio-
lation and for such other or further re-
lief in the premises as the Court of
| Chancery shall deem proper, but the
| filing of such bill. or any other of the
proceedings thereon shall not relieve
any party to such proceedings from the
penalty or penalties prescribed by this
act for such violation.
The word person" as used in this
act, shall be construed to imply both
the plural and the singular, as h case
may demand, and shall include corpo-
r~ations, companies. associations and
societies, as we'll as individuals, and
the word corporation" shall include
municipal corporations.
Nothing in this act contained shall
be construed to operate as a repeal
of any act OF the Legislature designed
to secure the purity of the public sup
plies of potable water. or to prevent
| the pollution of streams, whether such
| streams be tide water streams or not.
but his act shall be deemed only to
be additional legislation.
This act shall take effect imme-
diately.