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Timestamp: 2018-12-12 15:01:40
Document Index: 70699132

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 94', '§ 94', '§ 94', '§ 94', '§ 94', '§ 94']

§ 94-2 Findings and declaration of policy.
§ 94-3 Director of Air Pollution Control; enforcement personnel.
§ 94-4 Promulgation of rules and regulations; filing.
§ 94-5 Availability of regulations to owners and operators; conspicuous posting.
§ 94-6 Construction of provisions.
§ 94-7 Violations and penalties.
Chapter 94 Air Pollution Article I General Provisions
[Added 9-11-1972 by Ord. No. 33-1972]
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration as are or tend to be injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life or property, or would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property as shall be affected thereby, and excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationship as to health and safety hazards.
An incinerator designed and used to burn waste materials of Types 0, 1, 2 and 3 only, in all capacities not exceeding 2,000 pounds per hour of waste material input.
The person holding the position of Director of Air Pollution Control created and established by this chapter and authorized to exercise the powers, duties and functions prescribed herein.
Airborne solid particles, including but not limited to fly ash, cinders and soot.
Particles of gasborne solid matter arising from the combustion of solid fuel, not including process materials.
Oil commonly used as a fuel. The grades are commonly numbered 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 and have the requirements as shown in Table I of Commercial Standard CS 12-48 published by the United States Department of Commerce or any equivalent succeeding table or reference published hereafter by such Department.
Solid particles generated by condensation from the vapor state, generally after volatilization from molten metals, etc.
[Amended 9-11-1972 by Ord. No. 33-1972]
A formless fluid which occupies space and which can be changed to a liquid or solid state by increased pressure with decreased or controlled temperature or by decreased temperature with increased or controlled pressure.
Any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial, manufacturing or processing factors, methods or forms, including but not limited to furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns, crucibles, stills, dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors, regenerators, separators, filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers, screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters, towers, washers, scrubbers, mills, condensers and absorbers.
Any fire whose products of combustion are emitted directly into the open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney of an incinerator.
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, or shall have charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as fiduciary, including but not limited to executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee, receiver or guardian of the estate, or as a mortgagee in possession regardless of how such possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee subletting or reassigning any part or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed to be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility over the portion of the premises sublet or assigned by such lessee.
Ringelmann's Scale for grading the density of smoke, published by the United States Bureau of Mines, or any chart, recorder, indicator or device which is approved by the State Department of Environmental Protection as the equivalent of such Ringelmann's Scale for the measurement of smoke density.
Any fuel that is not liquid or gaseous.
A dark substance, essentially carbon, resulting from the burning or heating of coal, wood, oil or other fuels or burnable material.
Municipal, pathological waste or trade waste incinerator of any burning capacity, or any incinerator with a burning capacity in excess of 2,000 pounds per hour.
A fuel, conduit or opening designed and constructed for the purpose of emitting air contaminants into the outdoor air.
Seventy degrees Fahrenheit and one atmospheric pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch absolute or 760 mm Hg).
Includes smoke, cinders, soot, fly ash, dust, gases, fumes, mists, vapors or odors, or combination thereof.
The gaseous form of substances which, under standard conditions (14.7 pounds per square inch absolute and 70º F.), are in the solid or liquid state and which can be changed to these states by either increasing the pressure or decreasing the temperature.
It is hereby declared that pollution of the atmosphere by smoke, cinders, soot, fly ash, gases, fumes, vapors and odors is a menace to the health, welfare and comfort of the residents of this City and a cause of substantial damage to property. For the purpose of controlling and reducing atmospheric pollution, it is hereby declared to be the policy of this City to minimize air pollution as herein defined and prohibit excessive emission of the same by establishing standards governing the installation, maintenance and operation of equipment and appurtenances relating to combustion, which is a source or potential source of air pollution.
There is hereby established the position of Director of Air Pollution Control, who is hereby vested with the duty of enforcing and administering this chapter and with all other duties and powers provided herein. The Director may appoint or designate other employees or officers of the City to perform duties necessary for the enforcement of this chapter.
The Board of Health, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:3-90, may appoint any person employed by the Suburban Air Pollution Commission, or its successor, to administer and enforce this chapter in addition to the powers and appointments provided by Subsection A above.
The Director of Air Pollution Control, with the approval of the Board of Health, may promulgate such rules and regulations consistent with this chapter governing installation, maintenance and use of fuel-burning equipment, incinerators, the burning of various types of fuel and fuel oil, and the types of matter subject to incineration, as may be necessary to minimize or eliminate air pollution. The Director of Air Pollution Control may conduct such investigations, hold such hearings and make such tests as may be necessary to establish specifications to be incorporated in such rules and regulations. All regulations shall be filed 15 days prior to the effective date thereof with the City Clerk, the Mayor and the City Council.
All owners or operators of property on which there exists fuel-burning equipment or incinerators, or both, shall secure from the Director of Air Pollution Control such regulations as shall be reproduced and made available as to the maintenance and operation of such equipment and incinerators, and copies of the regulations shall be kept posted at all times by such owner or operator at a conspicuous location at or near such equipment or incinerator affected thereby. Copies of such regulations shall be distributed personally to each person who has responsibility for the maintenance or operation of such equipment or incinerator in behalf of the owner or operator. The Director of Air Pollution Control may require the posting by the owner or operator at specified locations of such other permanent-type signs as may be necessary and desirable to instruct personnel or occupants of the premises as to the proper maintenance and operation of the equipment or incinerator.
A violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed $2,500 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, for each violation committed hereunder.[1]
Each violation of a provision of this chapter shall constitute a separate and distinct violation independent of any other section or subsection or any order issued pursuant to this chapter. Each day's failure to comply with any such section or subsection shall constitute a separate violation.