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NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-19.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-19.2 - Incumbent plumbing inspectors; placing in classified service without examination

26:3-19.2. Incumbent plumbing inspectors; placing in classified service without examination  Any person holding the position or employment of plumbing inspector under any local board of health of any municipality, which has adopted the provisions of subtitle three of Title 11 (Civil Service) of the Revised Statutes, who has held such position or employment continuously for twelve years from the date of his original appointment thereto, shall be placed in the classified service of civil service without examination, and such employee shall thereafter be subject to all the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes with respect to tenure, classification and compensation. L.1953, c. 382, p. 2002, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-20 - License necessary for appointment.

26:3-20 License necessary for appointment.  26:3-20. No local board shall appoint any person to a position for which a license is required under section 41 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-41) nor employ a person to do work ordinarily performed by a person required to hold a license under that section, who is not the holder of a proper license as such. Amended 1947, c.181; s.2; 1950, c.119, s.6; 1997, c.416, s.11
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-20.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-20.1 - Violations by local board in appointments; injunction

26:3-20.1. Violations by local board in appointments; injunction  Whenever any local board shall violate any of the provisions of section 26:3-20 of this Title, the department may institute an action in the Superior Court in the name of the State at the relation of the department to enjoin such violation and for such other relief as the court deems proper. L.1947, c. 181, p. 828, s. 8. Amended by L.1953, c. 26, p. 468, s. 13.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-21 - Licensee eligible for appointment.

26:3-21 Licensee eligible for appointment.  26:3-21. Any holder of a license required under section 41 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-41) shall be eligible to appointment to the position for which the license is required by any local board. Amended 1947, c.181, s.3; 1950, c.119, s.7; 1997, c.416, s.12.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-22 - Joint health officer, registered environmental health specialists.

26:3-22 Joint health officer, registered environmental health specialists.  26:3-22. Local boards of health of two or more adjacent municipalities may join in employing a health officer and one or more registered environmental health specialists and other personnel. In such case, the local boards of such municipalities or a regional health commission formed by them, as the case may be, shall fix the salary to be paid to these persons, arrange the duties of such persons and in the case of regional health commissions apportion the sums to be paid by each of the municipalities, which sums shall be paid from moneys appropriated to the local boards of such municipalities. Amended 1947, c.181, s.4; 1997, c.416, s.13.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-23 - Registered environmental health specialist for township.

26:3-23 Registered environmental health specialist for township.  26:3-23. If in any township sufficient environmental inspection is not secured, the State department may, on notice to the local board, require the appointment by the local board of a registered environmental health specialist for the township who shall be paid by the local board of the township at an equitable rate of reimbursement for his services. Amended 1997, c.416, s.14.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-24 - Registered environmental health specialist in municipality of over 2,000.

26:3-24 Registered environmental health specialist in municipality of over 2,000.  26:3-24. In every municipality containing a population of 2,000 inhabitants or more, there shall be at least one registered environmental health specialist appointed by the local board. Amended 1997, c.416, s.15.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-25.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-25.1 - Receipt of maximum salary.

26:3-25.1 Receipt of maximum salary.  5. Every person holding a license issued under section 41 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-41), who is employed in a position for which this license is required by any board of health, municipality or group of municipalities shall receive the maximum salary in the person's range, within five years from the date of appointment to this position if the majority of the person's job performance evaluations are satisfactory. L.1947,c.181,s.5; amended 1950, c.119, s.8; 1997, c.416, s.16.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-26 - Removal of licensed health officers; necessity of public hearing

26:3-26. Removal of licensed health officers; necessity of public hearing  No health officer, inspector or employee holding a license issued in the name of the State Department of Health, after five years' consecutive service in the employ of a local board or regional health commission, shall be removed from office or reduced in pay or position except for just cause and after public hearing as provided in section 26:3-27 of this Title. Amended by L.1947, c. 181, p. 827, s. 6.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-27 - Removal of health officer.

26:3-27 Removal of health officer.  26:3-27. The local board or regional health commission, not operating under the provisions of Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes, employing a health officer or any other person whom it is sought to remove, shall formulate or receive charges in writing, against such person and shall fix a time and place for a hearing thereon. A written copy of the charges and a written notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be served upon the person sought to be removed at least 20 days prior to the hearing. At the hearing the local board or regional health commission shall hear all witnesses and receive all evidence produced, and if the charges are found to be true in fact, and just cause be shown, the local board or regional health commission may remove or reduce the pay, or position of the person against whom the charges are made. Amended 1947, c.181, s.7; 1950, c.119, s.9; 1997, c.416, s.17.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-29 - Representative at health officers' association

26:3-29. Representative at health officers' association  A local board employing a health officer shall defray his necessary expenses in attending the regular meetings of the health officers' association of New Jersey.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-30 - Representative at health convention

26:3-30. Representative at health convention  A local board in cities of the second class may appoint and send its health officer to any medical convention meeting for the purpose of discussing the improvement of the health and sanitary condition of municipalities, and pay his necessary expenses while attending the convention.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.1 - Plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings and connection with sewers, cesspools, etc.; ordinances regulating

26:3-31.1. Plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings and connection with sewers, cesspools, etc.; ordinances regulating  Local boards of health may enact, amend or supplement ordinances to establish, amend or supplement rules and regulations affecting the installation, maintenance, repair and control of the plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings and the connection thereof with an outside sewer, cesspool or other receptacle, regulating the practice of plumbing, or dealing with the issuance of licenses to practice plumbing, by reference to such rules and regulations in any such ordinance and without the inclusion of the text thereof therein, if the rules and regulations to be adopted are printed or otherwise reproduced in book form as a code or as a part of a code of such rules and regulations; provided, that a copy of such printed code, so marked as to indicate plainly what portion thereof, if less than the whole, is intended to be adopted, is annexed to such ordinance; that said code or such portion thereof as is intended to be adopted is so described in said ordinance as to identify it and there is indicated in said description the common or trade name, if any, of such code of rules and regulations and that it is stated in the ordinance that three copies of said code, similarly marked, have been placed on file in the office of the municipal clerk, upon the introduction of said ordinance and will remain on file there until final action is taken on said ordinance, for the use and examination of the public. L.1948, c. 275, p. 1177, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.2 - Publication of rules and regulations not required; filing printed copies

26:3-31.2. Publication of rules and regulations not required; filing printed copies  It shall not be necessary to publish any such rules and regulations, so to be adopted, as part of said ordinance, notwithstanding that a printed copy thereof is annexed thereto, either before or after the final passage of such ordinance; provided, that said printed copies are filed as aforesaid, and, if said ordinance is adopted, the said copies shall remain on file in said office so long as said ordinance is in effect, and three copies shall be placed on file, and shall so remain on file, in the office of the body or department having charge of the enforcement of said ordinance, so long as said ordinance is in effect, for the use and examination of the public. L.1948, c. 275, p. 1178, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.3 - Proof of ordinance

26:3-31.3. Proof of ordinance  For the purpose of proof of any such ordinance or the receipt thereof in evidence in all courts and places, such copy of said code, so marked and so annexed to such ordinance, shall be construed to be part of said ordinance as fully as though it had been set forth at length therein. L.1948, c. 275, p. 1178, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.4 - Short title

26:3-31.4. Short title  This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Emergency Fuel Oil Delivery Act." L.1980, c. 170, s. 1, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.5 - Local health officer to act as agent of landlord in engaging fuel oil dealer; conditions

26:3-31.5. Local health officer to act as agent of landlord in engaging fuel oil dealer; conditions  The governing body of any municipality may provide, by ordinance, that the local health officer or other officer designated in the ordinance shall, whenever necessary to protect the health and safety of residential tenants, act as an agent for a landlord in engaging a fuel oil dealer to deliver fuel oil at a reasonable price per gallon and to refire the burner to restore the proper heating of any residential property rented by said landlord; provided, however, that at least 12 hours have elapsed, if the outside air temperature is between 33` and 55` F., inclusive, or at least 4 hours have elapsed, if the outside air temperature is 32` F. or less, since the tenant has lodged a complaint with any municipal officer or agency, prior to which complaint a bona fide attempt has been made by the tenant or his representative to notify the landlord of the lack of heat, and the landlord has failed to take appropriate action. Lack of heat means maintaining less heat than required by R.S. 26:3-31. L.1980, c. 170, s. 2, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.6 - Billing to landlord or municipality for delivery of fuel oil and refiring of burner

26:3-31.6. Billing to landlord or municipality for delivery of fuel oil and refiring of burner  Any fuel oil dealer who delivers fuel oil or refires the burner in accordance with section 2 of this act may bill the landlord directly, or the municipality in which the rental property is located may issue a voucher to the fuel oil dealer who delivered the fuel oil for the money amount due on the fuel oil delivered and the service charge for refiring the burner, if any. The voucher shall be paid in the manner provided for the approval and payment of claims pursuant to N.J.S. 40A:5-17. L.1980, c. 170, s. 3, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.7 - Liability of landlord or agent due to negligence; penalty enforcement

26:3-31.7. Liability of landlord or agent due to negligence; penalty enforcement  4. Any landlord or his agent whose negligence or failure to act results in municipal action pursuant to section 2 of this act shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $300.00 for each affected dwelling unit in the residential property. Such penalty shall be recoverable by the municipality in a civil action by a summary proceeding under "the penalty enforcement law" (N.J.S.2A:58-1 et seq.). Any action to collect or enforce any such penalty shall be brought in the Superior Court or municipal court. The amount of such penalty shall be paid to the municipality to be used for general municipal purposes.  L.1980,c.170,s.4; amended 1991,c.91,s.289.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.8 - Penalty enforcement proceeding; reimbursements; injunction; collection of reimbursements

26:3-31.8. Penalty enforcement proceeding; reimbursements; injunction; collection of reimbursements  In any penalty enforcement proceeding brought pursuant to this act the court shall also order the landlord or his agent to reimburse the municipality for the actual costs incurred for any fuel oil delivered and the service charge for refiring the burner, if any, and for reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The court shall further be empowered to issue any appropriate injunctive orders, and to authorize immediate collection of reimbursable costs due the municipality out of the goods and chattels of the landlord, including all sums due, or which may come due, as present or future rents. Any landlord who prevails in such an action shall be entitled to reimbursement by the municipality for all reasonable costs and expenses. Such landlord, however, shall still remain responsible for the cost of any fuel oil delivered and any charge for refiring the burner incurred by the municipality. L.1980, c. 170, s. 5, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.9 - Immunity of municipality or its employees in enforcing act; exception

26:3-31.9. Immunity of municipality or its employees in enforcing act; exception  No municipality or its employees shall be liable for any damages to any person or property in enforcing this act except for the gross negligence or malfeasance of any municipal official, officer or employee, and under no circumstances shall a municipality be held liable for damages from the lack of heat in the residential property. L.1980, c. 170, s. 6, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-31.10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-31.10 - Application of law

26:3-31.10. Application of law  The provisions of this act shall not apply to owner-occupied residential rental properties containing five units or less. L.1980, c. 170, s. 7, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-32 - Granting of licenses and permits in cities over 80,000

26:3-32. Granting of licenses and permits in cities over 80,000  Local boards of health in cities having a population of more than 80,000 inhabitants may grant and regulate licenses and permits incident to health matters and charge a reasonable fee for any such license or permit, but this provision shall not apply to any fee otherwise specifically provided for. Amended by L.1981, c. 462, s. 30.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-33 - Sanitation, plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings

26:3-33. Sanitation, plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings  Local boards of health may within their respective jurisdictions: a. Secure the sanitary condition of every building, public or private. b. Compel, prescribe, regulate and control the plumbing, ventilation and drainage of every building, public or private, and the connection thereof with an outside sewer, cesspool or other receptacle; c. Require plans of such plumbing, ventilation or drainage, with necessary drawings or descriptions, to be submitted to it for its inspection and approval, and may charge a fee not exceeding two dollars ($2.00), to be paid by the owner or other person filing the plans at the time of filing; and d. Require every master and foreman plumber and every building contractor to register his name and address at the office of the board. Amended by L.1949, c. 94, p. 412, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-34 - Delegation of powers to members or officers of board

26:3-34. Delegation of powers to members or officers of board  The local board of health in any municipality, except townships other than densely populated townships having a public water supply, may delegate by resolution any of its powers to any member of the board or to any officer thereof, to be exercised only when the board is not in session. Notice by any member or officer of the board shall be notice by the board, and the person served therewith shall be bound thereby.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-35 - Annual report to director

26:3-35. Annual report to director  The local board of health, on or before the fifteenth day of February in each year, in addition to other reports required, shall prepare and file with the director an annual report for the preceding calendar year. Such report shall state the condition of the public health within the limits of its jurisdiction, noting therein any special cause for the deterioration of health or of hazard thereto, and shall contain answers to any questions which may have been addressed to the local board by the director.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-36 - Fee for preparing report

26:3-36. Fee for preparing report  The person performing the clerical work necessary in the preparation of the annual report required by section 26:3-35 of this title, upon receiving a certificate from the director of health that such annual report has been duly prepared and received by the director at the time required, shall be entitled to receive from the proper disbursing officer of the municipality for which the report is made the sum of two dollars for such clerical services.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-37 - Appropriation for dispensaries

26:3-37. Appropriation for dispensaries  The body having charge of the finances of any city of the first class may by resolution, approved by the mayor, appropriate and set aside annually to the credit of the board having charge of the public health in the city a sum of money, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be used by such board for the establishment and maintenance of medical dispensaries for the free distribution of medicines among the poor of such city. The money so appropriated shall be annually levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected in the city.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-38 - Establishment and control; annual expenses

26:3-38. Establishment and control; annual expenses  The local board having charge of the public health in any city of the first class, provided the body having charge of the finances in such city shall appropriate the necessary moneys: a. Shall establish, in suitable locations in the city, dispensaries for the free distribution of medicines among the poor, and for that purpose shall procure suitable quarters where medicines and medical attendance can be given to the poor of the city; b. May appoint for that purpose necessary officers or employees and fix their salaries and terms of office; and c. May provide medicines and medical attendance, and, in general, supervise and direct the affairs of such dispensaries. The expense incurred under the provisions of this section shall not exceed ten thousand dollars in any one year.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-39 - Annual reports

26:3-39. Annual reports  The local board having charge of such dispensary shall annually make report of its transactions and accounts, and of the state and condition of the dispensary, to the body having charge of the finances of the city.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-40 - Visiting nurses; appointment; salaries

26:3-40. Visiting nurses; appointment; salaries  The local board having charge of the public health in any city of the first class may appoint and designate nurses, who shall be regularly graduated from a recognized training school of nurses, to act as nurses in such dispensary and to render such services as may be required of them in attendance upon the sick poor of such city. The salaries of such nurses shall be fixed by the local board, but in no event shall exceed the sum of seventy-five dollars per month and shall be chargeable to the appropriation providing for such dispensary.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-41 - Estimate of township appropriation necessary for health purposes; appropriation

26:3-41. Estimate of township appropriation necessary for health purposes; appropriation  The local board of health of each township shall each year, before the budget of municipal taxes to be levied for the year shall be determined, present to the governing body of the municipality, an estimate of the appropriation which it believes necessary for health purposes. The governing body shall appropriate the amount of such estimate or such other amount as it may determine. Amended by L.1943, c. 115, p. 347, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:3-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:3-42 - Payment of township health bills

26:3-42. Payment of township health bills  Every expenditure of money shall be presented by an itemized bill, approved by the president and secretary of the local board, to the usual disbursing officer of the township who shall pay the same. Amended by L.1943, c. 115, p. 347, s. 2.