Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-15
NEW ORDINANCE
BY HEALTH BID.
To Regulate Boarding Houses
for Children Licenses
Granted by Health BID.

An ordinance regulating h oper-
! alton of boarding houses for chill
dren was passed upon first reading
last night at the regular meeting of
the Board of Health. The ordinance
| makes it necessary for anyone oper-
| ating such boarding house to first
obtain a license from the health de-
partment to conduct the place in
| accordance with various rules the
health department may see fit to
make. The penalty for not obeying
the ordinance is a fine of not less
| than $40 nor greater thar $50.
The ordinance as passed on first
reading follows:
The Board of Health of Perth
Amboy, by virtue of the provisions
| of an act of the legislature, of the
State of New Jersey, entitled IAN
| act empowering boards of health or
| commission or board authorized by
law to pass ordinances, in any in
corporated municipality in the state
to pass and enforce ordinances to
license and regulate the ann of
keeping boarding houses for infants
and children within such municipal
| ity, and to fix a license fee for the
same, and to prevent unlicensed per-
\ sons or corporations from keeping
such boarding houses for infants
and children, and approved April 8,
1915, do hereby ordain
An ordinance entitled IAN ord1-
nance to license boarding houses for
| children or infants within the incor-
! porated limits of the city of Perth
Amboy, New Jersey.
Definitions: A boarding house for
| children or infants shall mean any
house, home or other place conduct
ed by any person., persons or COM
bination of persons. who advertise
themselves or hold themselves out
as conducting q boarding home for
children o. who has III their custody
or control one or more children UNI
/ attended by parent or guardian, Tor
the purpose of providing for SUCH
children, with food and lodging, ex-
eepting children related to them by
blood or marriage or have been
legally accepted.
1t shall. be unlawful for any per-
son, persons or combination of per-
sons to conduct a home of this
character in the limits of the city of
Perth Am.boy unless they have first
received a license to conduct such
home from the Board OF Health OF
Perth Amboy, N. j.
No license shall be granted by the
Board of Health for a term exceed
ing one year, and any license which
shall have been issued by said
board may be revoked by the same
board for cause.
The Board of Health reserves the
right to make any i or regulation
which they shall, from time'to time,
find necessary for the better control
of such homes and any violation OF
| thacA rrt1aS ~. rnuulatinnS shall be
considered a violation of this section
of the ordinance.
Penalty. Upon the conviction of
any person, persons or combination
of persons, of a violation of this Or
dinance, the penalty shall be a fine
Of not less than $40 nor greater
than sac.
Among the communications re-
ceived was one inviting the board
to attend the Newark Public Health
Institute and annual conference OF
the state and local health officers to
be held in Newark from April 10 to
Is. The local board will be repre-
scented.
Licenses granted we're: Three ice
cream, three milk, m barber and
one fish. Eight certificates Of in
| spection of plumbing were also
granted.
The dental clinic was reported TO
be working on full time and getting
along nicely. However, the scholars
of the Parochial schools are not at
tending as they should and many
times when the operator should be
busy with these children they fail TO
| attend the clinic. The matter Will
be investigated.
The secretary's report showed to-
| tai deaths for February were AZ, last
year they were sixty; birth record
was 121. There were twenty-five