mi library OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS * -■ AND CODE PLUMBING CODE. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SANITARY CODES ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE Township of East Orange. 1889. East Orange, N. J. : GAZETTE BOOK AND JOB PRINT. 1889. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/sanitarycodesadoOOeast THE SANITARY CODE. THE SANITARY CODE, ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE TOWNSHIP OF EAST ORANGE, N. J. (Called the Sanitary Code in Conformity with Section 16 of Chapter lxviii, of the Laws of the State of New Jersey of 1887.) Be it enacted by the Board of Health of the Township of East Orange , as follows : DEFINITION OF TERMS. Section i. That the terms “Board,” “this Board,” “said Board,” and “Board of Health,” shall be held to mean the Board of Health of the Township of East Orange. Section 2. That the word “regulations” shall be held to include “special regulations,” (which latter will be from time to time issued, and will contain more detailed provisions than can be ■-herein conveniently set forth ;) that the word “permit” shall be - construed to mean the permission in writing of this Board, issued ' according to its rules and regulations and Sanitary Code ; that . the word “ light” or “lighted” shall be held to refer to natural, external light ; and that all words and phrases herein defined shall also include their usual and natural meanings, as well as those herein especially given. 4 Section 3. That the phrase “contagious disease” shall be held to include any disease of an infectious, contagious or pestil- ential nature with which any person may be sick, affected or at- tacked (more especially, however, referring to cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, diphtheria, ship or typhus, typhoid and scarlet fevers) and also including any new disease of an infectious, con- tagious or pestilential nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board dangerous to the public health. Section 4. That the word “street,” when used in the Sani- tary Code, shall be held to include avenues, sidewalks, gutters, places and public alleys; and the word “public place” shall be held to include parks, piers, docks and wharves, and water and open spaces thereto adjacent, and also public yards, grounds and areas, and all open spaces between buildings and streets; the word “rubbish” shall be held to include all the loose and decayed material and dirt-like substance that attends use and decay, or which accumulates from building, storing or cleaning; the word “garbage” shall be held to include every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, decay and dealing in, or storage of meats, fish, fowls, birds, fruits or vegetables; and the word “dirt” shall be held to mean natural soil, earth and stone. Section 5. That a “tenement house” shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied as the house, home or residence of more than two families living in- dependently of one another, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water closets or privies or some of them. A “cellar” shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which one 'half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street ad. joining. Section 6. That the word “meat,” whenever hereafter used, includes every part of any land animal and eggs (whether mixed or not with any other substance;) and the word “fish” includes every part of any animal that lives in water, or the flesh of which is not meat; and the word “vegetables” includes every article of human consumption as food, which (not being meat, or fish, or milk) is held, or offered, or intended for sale or consumption; and 5 all fish and meat and vegetables found in any place shall be deemed to be therein, and held for such sale or consumption as such food, unless the contrary be distinctly proved. Section 7. That the word “cattle” shall be held to include all animals except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part of the body is used as food; the word “butcher” shall be held to include whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving or slaugh- tering any cattle or in selling any meat; the words “private mar- ket” shall include every store, cellar, stand and place (not being part of a public market) at which the business is the buying, sell- ing, or keeping for sale, of meat, milk, fish or vegetables for human food. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES. Section 8. That any member of the Board of Health, the officers or agents thereof, may make the inspections and examina- tions required by any law of this State, or by any code, ordinance, regulation or order of this Board, upon exhibiting his badge, ac- companied by a certificate of authority under the seal of the Board; and all persons are hereby forbidden to interfere with or obstruct such inspection, examination (or execution,) under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offence. SANITARY CONDITION OF BUILDINGS AND DRAINAGE. Section 9. That no premises shall be rented, let, leased or occupied as a tenement house, unless said premises shall have a plentiful supply of pure water, suitable for domestic purposes, furnished at one or more places in such house, or in the yard thereof, so that the same may be adequate and reasonably con- venient for the use of the occupants of said house. Any owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any building or build- ings who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of Section 9, of this Code, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offence. FOOD AND DRINK. Section 10. That no person shall manufacture, have, offer for sale, or sell any article of food or drink which is adulterated within the meaning of an act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled “An act to prevent the adulteration of food and drugs,” approved March 25, 1881, and the supplement thereto approved March 23, 1883, or of any act or acts of said legislature hereafter passed amendatory, supplementary or additional thereto. 6 Section ii. No milk nor butter, nor any other food nor drink which has been exposed to the emanation or infection of any com- municable disease, shall be brought into the township of East Orange, or held or offered for sale in said township. Section 12. That every person being the owner, lessee or oc- cupant of any room, stall or place where any meat, fish, birds, fowl, fruit, nuts or vegetables, designed or held for human food, shall be stored or kept, or shall be held or offered for sale, shall put and keep such room, stall or place, and its appurtenances, in a cleanly and wholesome condition; and every person having charge, or interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care of, or in respect to, the custody or sale of any meat, fish, birds, fowl, fruit, nuts or vegetables, designed for human food, shall put and preserve the same in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall not allow the same or any part thereof, to be poisoned, infected or rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human food. Section 13. That no cased, blown, plaited, raised, stuffed, putrid, impure or unhealthy or unwholesome meat, fish, birds or fowls, shall be held, bought, sold, or offered for sale for human food, or held, or kept in any market, public or private, or in any public place in said township. Nor shall the carcass, meat or flesh of any cattle, sheep or swine killed while in a diseased, over- heated, feverish or exhausted condition, nor any calf which shall be less than four weeks old, nor any pig that shall be less than five weeks old, nor any lamb that shall be less than eight weeks old be brought into or be kept, sold or offered for sale for human food in the township of East Orange. Section 14. That no decayed or unwholesome fruits, nuts or vegetables shall be brought into said township, nor held, bought or sold, nor offered for sale for human food, nor held nor kept in any market, public or private, nor in any public place in said township. Section 15. That upon any cattle, meat, fish, birds, fowl, fruit, nuts or vegetables being found by any inspector or other officer of the Board of Health / in a condition which renders the same unsafe or unwholesome for human food, it shall be the duty of said inspector or officer to affix to said article or articles a label on which shall be written or printed the words “Condemned by direction of the Board of Health of East Orange, N. J.;” and when anything included within the provisions of this section 7 shall be found in numbers, quantity or bulk, it shall only be necessary for said inspector or officer to affix one such label to a conspicuous part of the box, tin, basket, compartment or other place or thing containing the same, and he shall forthwith report every such condemnation at the office of the Board. And no per- son or persons shall destroy, deface, conceal, interfere with nor remove any label affixed by any inspector or officer of this Board, as aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of any matter or substances that have been condemned, to immediately remove the same from any market, street or place, and convey the same to such place as may be designated by the inspector or officer, and such articles shall not be sold or offered for sale, nor in any way disposed of, and in case the. owner or person in charge shall fail or neglect, or refuse to remove said articles within three hours after having been notified to do so, the same may be removed by the inspector or other officer of this Board, the owner or person in charge paying all expenses there- for. Section 16. That whenever this Board shall have satisfactory evidence that any well, the water of which is used for domestic purposes, has become polluted and rendered unsafe for potable use, notice to discontinue the use of said polluted water shall be sent to the owner, agent, lessee, or party in charge of said well and at the discretion of this Board, the owner, agent, lessee or party in charge of said well, may be ordered, in writing, to close or fill up said well. If the said order is not complied with within the time therein specified, this section shall be deemed violated and this Board may proceed to cause the said well to be closed or filled up, the owner, agent, lessee, or person in charge paying all expenses therefor. Any person or persons or corporation, who shall fail to comply with, or violate any of the provisions of Sections io, n, 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16 of this Code, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offense. NUISANCES. Section 17. That nuisances are hereby defined and declared, and shall include and embrace, [1] The placing or depositing, or allowing to remain in or upon any street or public place, or in or upon any open lot or public or private property, any dead animal or any part of the same, or any offal or garbage, or any carrion or putrid meat, or manure or compost, (stable manure used as a fer- tilizer, or kept in manure piles built as hereinafter directed, ex- cepted) or any foul or offensive or obnoxious substances whatso- ever. [2] The throwing upon, or allowing to flow from, any premises upon any street or public place, open lot or public or private property, or the allowing to collect upon the surface of any premises, any waste water, dirty water, slops, stable drain- age, liquid filth, overflow from cesspool or privy vault, or any offensive liquid matter whatsoever. [3] Also any full, foul, or leaky privy vault or cesspool, or other receptacle for filth; also any privy vault, cesspool or catch-basin which is beneath any dwelling or other building, or is attached to the foundation wall of any dwelling or other building. [4] Allowing or permitting any night soil, garbage, or any offensive or decomposing solid or fluid matter or substance to leak or ooze, or escape from any cart or wagon, or vessel in which the same may be conveyed or carried. [5] Also the carrying or conveying through any street, any sub- stance which has been removed from any privy vault or cesspool, unless the same shall be enclosed in air-tight receptacles. Any and every nuisance as above defined, is hereby prohibited and forbidden in this township, and any person or persons, or corporation making, causing, maintaining or permitting any of said nuisances, shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 18. That whatever is dangerous to human life or to health, whatever building, erection, or part or cellar thereof is not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress, or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, drained, cleaned or lighted, and whatever renders food or water unwholesome, is hereby de- clared to be a nuisance. And any person or persons, or corporation who shall aid in erecting or contribute to, or who shall erect, or contribute to, or who shall continue to retain or maintain any of them, shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 19. That any imperfect trap, sink or water closet, within any house, or any other drainage appliance or fixture within any house, from which there shall arise any foul or ob- noxious gas or odor, is hereby declared a nuisance; and any per- son maintaining any such nuisance, or any person who shall refuse or neglect to repair or make perfect any defect in any drainage appliance, or any part of the soil pipe or waste pipe, 9 Or any fixture, sink basili, water closet or traps attached to said waste pipe or soil pipe, shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 20. That all sunken lots or marsh lands, or lots be- low grade, where stagnant water gathers or is collected, are here- by declared nuisances, and any owner or owners or agent of any such lot or lots or lands shall on notice from this Board fill the same or cause them to be filled with fresh earth, ashes or cinders; any owrner or owners or agent failing to comply with such notice shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty - five dollars. Section 21. That no animal nor vegetable substance nor gar- bage nor street sweepings, muck, nor silt, nor dirt gathered in cleaning yards, buildings, sewers, docks or slips nor waste of mills or factories, nor any materials which are offensive, or tend to decay, to become putrid or to render the atmosphere impure or unwholesome, shall be deposited upon or used to fill up, or raise the surface or level of any lot, grounds, street or alley in this township, or any ground filled for the purpose of building there- on, unless pursuant to a special permit from this Board; any per- son or persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- five dollars. Section 22. That no act, place or thing shall be deemed a nuisance within the provisions of this Code, which shall be authorized by a permit from the Board of Health, said permit to be issued in the discretion, and to be revocable at the pleasure of the Board, but immediately upon such revocation the provisions of this Code shall apply as though said permit had never been granted. RUBBISH AND FILTH. Section 23. That all owners, lessees, tenants or occupants of any and all lots and lands in this township shall keep the side- walks and streets in front of such lots and lands free from filth, slops, dirty water, rubbish or any other thing dangerous to health, life or limb. Section 24. That the proprietor, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any tenement house, restaurant, saloon or any other premises where any refuse matter, offal, or shells from oysters or other shell fish shall accumulate, shall daily cause all such shells, io offal or refuse matter to be removed to some proper place, and shall keep such premises at all times free from offensive smells and accumulations. Section 25. — That the owner, agent, lessee, tenant or oc- cupant of every dwelling, market, restaurant, or other premises where refuse matter shall accumulate in the township of East Orange, shall provide and keep on the premises suitable barrels or receptacles for receiving and holding garbage. Section 26. — That no rags, bones, scraps or refuse matter shall be brought into or be stored or kept within the limits of the town- ship of East Orange, except on permit of this Board, said Board to reserve the right of revocation at any and all times. Section 27. — That no cart or other vehicle for carrying any offal, swill, garbage, ashes, or rubbish, or the contents of any privy vault, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or having upon it or in anything on such cart or vehicle, any manure or other nauseous or offensive substance, shall, without neces- sity therefor, stand or remain, nor shall a needless number gather before or near any building, place of business, or other premises where any person may be; nor shall the person using said cart or vehicle occupy an unreasonable length of time in loading or unloading, or in passing along any street or through any inhabited place or ground; nor shall any such cart or vehicle, or the driver thereof, or anything thereto appertaining, be (or by any person having a right to control the same be allowed to be) in a condition needlessly filthy or offensive; and when not in use all such carts and vehicles, and all implements used in connection therewith, shall be stored and kept in some place where no needless offense shall be given to any inhabitant of said township. Section 28. — That all carts and vehicles in the last section mentioned, and boxes, tubs and receptacles thereon, in which any substance in said section referred to, may be or be carried, shall be strong and tight, and the sides shall be so high above the load, or contents that no part of such contents or load shall fall, leak or spill therefrom; and that each of such carts, tubs, or boxes, and receptacles shall be adequately and tightly covered, as the orders or regulations of this Board may provide or direct. Any person or persons or corporation who shall fail to comply with or violate any of the provisions of Sections 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 or 28 of this Code, shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense the sum of twenty-five dollars. Section 29. That any owner, agent, tenant, lessee or occu- pant of any lot, ground, building, house or stable in this town- ship on notice from this Board shall forthwith remove from said lot, ground, building, house or stable, any rubbish, garbage, offal or any offensive matter or thing ; and any person on notice from this Board shall abate any nuisance existing on any premises of which he may be the lessee, owner, agent, tenant or occupant. And any person offending against or violating the provisions of this Section, or any of them, shall on conviction thereof for- feit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense the sum of twenty-five dollars. If any person shall refuse or neglect to remove any foul or ob- noxious or hurtful matter or thing; or if any person shall refuse or neglect to abate any nuisance, then this Board may proceed under the provisions of “An Act to revise, consolidate and amend certain acts concerning Boards of Health in this State,” approved March 31, 1887, and the supplements thereto to remove said nui- sance, source of foulness, or cause of sickness and to recover by action of debt, against such person, the expense incurred by said Board by such removal. SLAUGHTER HOUSES. Section 30.— That in every slaughter house hereafter con- structed or maintained within the township of East Orange, the floors shall be paved with asphalt or some other impervious mate- rial, properly sloped to a well trapped and permanently graded inlet having a direct communication with a sewer ; the walls thereof shall be covered to a height of seven feet with some smooth impervious material, the yards, appartments and pens conected therewith shall be paved with brick or stone laid in cement or concrete or some other impervious material, and prop- erly sloped to a well trapped and permanently graded inlet having a direct communication with a sewer. Every ‘'Slaughter house shall be supplied with an adequate water supply, and such an arrangement of hose or pipes as will enable the walls, floors and yards to be effectually washed; and every slaughter house and the appartments and pens connected therewith shall be prop- erly ventilated according to the direction and to the satisfaction of the Board of Health. 12 Any parson or persons or corporation failing to comply with the directions of or offending against or violating any of the pro- visions of this section, shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offense. Section 31. That the owners, agents, lessees and occupants of all slaughter houses, located within the township are required to provide movable receptacles, with tightly fitting covers, for the purpose of receiving and conveying away blood, filth, offal and other offensive matters, and these matters must be deposited in the receptacles immediately after slaughtering, and removed, with all fat, hides, skins, tripe and bDnes, daily, between the hours of 6 P. M. and 8 A. M. No blood nor offal shall be permitted to flow into the sewer. Any person or persons, or corporation offending against, or violating any of the provisions of this section shall, on convic- tion thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 32. That the owners, agents, tenants, lessees or occu- pants of all slaughter houses, shall, when the same are in use, thoroughly and effectually wash the walls, floors and yards there- of at least once in every twenty-four hours; and during the months of May, June, July, August and September, shall distribute twice in each week a sufficient quantity of chloride of lime or some other suitable disinfectant about their premises, and shall also re- move the contents of any manure pit on the premises, once in each week during the said months; if the above requirements are not complied with, the health officer is hereby directed to carry out the provisions of this section as to disinfecting and the removal of the contents of said manure pits at the expense of the said owner, agent, tenant, lessee or occupant. Any person or persons, or corporation failing to comply with, or offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 33. That no blood pit, dung pit or privy well shall re- main or be constructed within any slaughter house. Any person or persons, or corporation offending against or vio- lating any of the provisions of this section, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. If it shall at any time appear to the Board of Health that exception to any of the provisions of Sections 30, 31, 32 or 33, of this Code should be made, a permit in writing to that effect may be granted, subject to revocation at the pleasure of the Board. J 3 KEEPING AND SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS. Section 34. That no animal affected with an infectious or contagious disease shall be brought into the township of East Orange, nor shall any animal so affected be kept within said town- ship except by written permission of the Board of Health. Any perso nor persons, or corporation offending against any of the pro- visions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 35. That no person shall keep, or allow to be kept, in any dwelling house, or any part thereof, any horse, cattle, swine, goats or fowls. And any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. Section 36. That the slaughtering, killing or dressing of cattle, swine or sheep shall not be allowed within the limits of the town- ship of East Orange except in regularly authorized slaughter houses, without a permit for that purpose from this Board; and no slaughter house or other place where cattle, sheep or swine are slaughtered, killed or dressed shall be allowed within this township unless a permit for that purpose shall be granted by this Board; and any person or persons, or corporation offending against or violating any of the provisions of this section shall on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars' Section 37. That no cattle, sheep or swine shall be killed for human food while in a diseased, overheated, feverish or exhaust- ed condition, and no calf that shall be less than four weeks old, and no pig that shall be less than five weeks old, and no lamb that shall be less than eight weeks old shall be killed for human food or shall be kept or offered for sale, or sold, to be killed for human food within such ages respectively; and any person or persons, or corporation offending against or violating any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay the penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offense. Section 38. That it shall be the duty of any inspector or any other officer of the Board of Health, when any cattle, sheep or swine shall be found in a diseased, overheated, feverish or ex- hausted condition, or if any calves, pigs or lambs shall be found between the ages respectively named in the preceding section of this Code, to immediately attach to any such diseased, over- heated, feverish, exhausted or underaged animal, or to pen or stall in which any such animal or animals shall be confined, a H label or tag on which shall be written or printed the words, “ Quarantined by the Board of Health, East Orange, N. J.,” and such inspector or other officer shall immediately report such quar- antine at the office of the Board, that proper action may be taken relative thereto. And any person other than an inspector or other officer of this Board, who shall destroy, deface, conceal, interfere with or re- move, any label or tag so attached to any pen, stall or animal shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty- five dollars; and any person or persons, or corporation, removing any animals so as aforesaid quarantined, without the permission of the Board shall on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars, and any person or persons interfering with, hindering or preventing any inspector or other officer of this Board, in performing the duties imposed by this section shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay the penalty of twenty-five dol- lars. Section 39. That no person or persons, or corporation shall kill, scald, pick or dress any chicken, turkey, duck, goose or other feathered animal, within the limits of any market, public or pri- vate, within the township of East Orange. Any person or per- sons, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dol- lars for each and every offence. STABLES. Section 40. That every owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any stall, stable, or apartment in which any horse or any other cattle shall be kept, or any place in which any manure or any solid or liquid discharge or excrement may collect or accumulate, shall at all times keep or cause to be kept, such stalls, stables or apartments, and the drainage yard and the appurtenances thereof, in a cleanly, healthful and wholesome condition, and no offensive smell shall be allowed to escape therefrom. In all cases where this Board shall by written notice so require, all manure or excreta shall be removed from all stables and premises where it may accu- mulate, as often as once in each week. Any person or persons or corporation offending against or violating any of the provisions of this section shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. Section 41. That every stable or apartment in which any horse or other cattle shall be kept, shall be provided with an under- 15 ground and properly covered manure vault of sufficient capacity to care for all manure that may accumulate in such stable or apartments ; said vaults shall not be nearer than ten feet to the line of any' adjoining lot, street, alley or public place without a permit from this Board. Any person or persons, or corporation offending against any of the provisions of this section shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of ten dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense the sum of twenty- five dollars. Section 42. That whenever this Board shall by written notice so require, every stable or building in which any horses or cattle are kept or stabled, shall be so constructed and drained that no fluid excrement or refuse liquids, or washings from vehicles shall flow upon or into the ground. It may be by written notice re- quired that all of the surface of the ground beneath such stables and buildings, and of the yard adjoining, shall be covered with a concrete or other watertight covering; the material and manner of construction of said covering to be subject to the approval of said Board. Any person or persons or corporation offending against any of the provisions of this .section shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. Section 43. That whenever on any premises within this town- ship anything in violation of any of the preceding sections of this Code exists, or is maintained, or whenever the conditions of any premises is such as to call for the interference of this Board notice shall be served on the owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant or other proper person by order of the Health Officer, which notices shall enable the person served therewith to know wherein any section of this Code is violated or what is to be remedied, and shall give not less than one day nor more than ten days for com- pliance with the provisions of said section or with the require- ments of the Board. Such notice may be served on the owner, agent, lessee, tenant, occupant or other proper person, personally, or when there is an occupied dwelling on the premises, by leaving with an adult occupant of such dwelling. And no suit shall be brought for a penalty fixed by any of the foregoing sections of this code until such a notice shall have been disregarded by non-compliance. MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS. Section 44. That every person having authority to solemnize marriages shall transmit to the Assessor of this township a certi- i6 ficate of every marriage solemnized before him within thirty days next thereafter, and said certificate shall be made out on blank forms furnished by him for that purpose, and shall include all facts required by said forms. Any person or persons failing to comply with, or violating any of the provisions of this section, shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. Section 45. That the physician or midwife present at the, birth of every child born in this township, and in case there is no physi- cian or midwife present, the parent or witness present at said birth shall report in writing to the Assessor of this township all particu- lars concerning said birth called for on the blank forms furnished by him for that purpose, and said report shall be made within thirty days next after the date of said birth. Any person or per- sons failing to comply with, violating or offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on' conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars. Section 46. That when any person shall die within this town- ship, the physician who may have attended during the last illness shall furnish the undertaker or any member of the family a certi- ficate of death, which certificate shall be made out on, and shall comprise all the facts stated in, the blank forms furnished for that purpose by the Township Assessor. Any person or persons fail- ing to comply with, violating or offending against any of the pro- visions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Section 47. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances hereto- fore passed by this Board inconsistent with the provisions of this Code be and the same are hereby repealed. PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS. AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS, ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE TOWN' SHIP OF EAST ORANGE. Be it ordained by the Board of Health of the Township of East Orange , as follows: Section i. That hereafter the office of the Board of Health shall be at the tax office of the Township of East Orange. Section 2. Every person before doing any plumbing work in the Township of East Orange shall appear in person at the office of the Board of Health of the Township of East Orange and register his name, residence and place of business on the blank forms furnished for that purpose, and in case of removal shall make a change in said register accordingly. Section 3. Before any portion of the plumbing and drainage system of any building shall be constructed, there shall be filed in the office of the Board of Health a plan or drawing and written description thereof, signed by the owner, showing the said plumb- ing and drainage system entire, from its connection with the sewer, cesspool or vault throughout the entire building, together with the location of all fixtures, traps, ventilating pipes, etc. Said plan must be approved in writing by the Board of Health and the name of the plumber attached thereto before any portion of the work shall be executed. After the plan has been approved no alteration shall be made except upon the written application of the owner, which shall clearly specify the proposed alterations, and must be approved by the Board of Health before the altera* i8 tions shall be made. Before any changes are made in the direction of the pipes or location of fixtures they must first be approved, and said changes made on the original plan on file. This regula- tion also applies to any extensions or alterations of existing sys- tems, with the addition that in such cases a plan of the old system, as well as a plan of the proposed changes, must be filed in the office of the Board of Health. Drawings and descriptions of the plumbing and drainage of buildings erected prior to the passage of this regulation may be placed on file in the office o£ the Board. Section 4. When the plan of any plumbing and drainage system is filed in the office of the Board of Health a fee of two dollars will be charged to defray the expenses of inspecting the plans, of filing the same, and superintending the testing of the work, as provided in section 37. The same to be paid by the party filing such plans. Said fee shall be paid to the Receiver of Taxes to the account of Board of Health. Section 5. The Health Officer shall be notified promptly by the plumber when the plumbing and drainage work of any build- ing, or any portion thereof, is completed and ready for inspection and testing. All inspections and testings shall be made as soon as possible after such notification. Any such system put in and covered without due notice to the Health Officer must be uncov- ered for examination at the direction of said officer. Section 6. No building or premises shall be connected with any cesspool or vault without a permit first obtained from the Board of Health ; and it is further required that permits shall be kept on hand for inspection during the progress of the work to which they relate, and that they shall be exhibited, whenever required by the proper officers of the board. The conditions of this permit must be strictly complied with. Before laying the drain from the building to the sewer, cesspool or vault, and after the trench is graded, the bottom of the trench must be carefully rammed to avoid unequal settling of the drain. After the pipe is laid, as the trench is filled, the earth must be tightly rammed as near as possible to its original compactness. Tunneling is pro- hibited unless special permission be granted. Section 7. When the ground is made or filled-in, the drain, extending from the sewer, cesspool or vault to the foundation wall, must be of extra heavy cast-iron pipe, of such diameter as may be approved. Such pipes should be laid with the joints properly caulked with lead. *9 Section 8. Where the soil consists of a natural bed of loam, sand or rock, the drain may be of hard, salt-glazed and cylindri- cal, earthenware pipe, not less than three-quarters of an inch in thickness, free from any fire cracks, flaws, blisters or other defects, laid on a smooth bottom, free from all projections of rock. Each section must be wetted before applying the cement, and the space between each hub and the small end of the next section must be completely and uniformly filled with the best hydraulic cement. Care must be taken to prevent any cement being forced into the drain to become an obstruction. No tempered-up cement shall be used. A straight-edge must be used inside the pipe, and the different sections must be laid in perfect line on the bottom and sides. Section 9. Where a building is to be connected with a sewer ,< cesspool or vault, it must be connected by a drain not less than four inches in diameter, having a fall of not less than one-quarter or an inch to the foot unless special permission be obtained frorii the board. 1 * d it .. ...... , f ,^0/ I [ i'. t Section 10. Where there is no sewer in the street on which I,.. ' - 'I' ? r •? i 'H a building faces, and it is necessary to construct a private sewer to connect with a sewer on an adjacent street or avenue, it must, . . . • * f » ■ v 1 j ; Tpi ‘ j; be laid outside of the curb, under the roadway of the street, apd^ , not through yards or under houses, without a special permit from . the Board of Health. 1 Section ii. Pipe sewers must not be cut. House drain com n ; nections with pipe sewers must be made with Y branches. Where connection is made with brick sewers, a terra-cotta junction block must be used. Section 12. The house drain within buildings shall be se- curely hung on the cellar wall or properly suspended from the cellar ceiling, unless this is impracticable, in which case it must be laid under the cellar bottom. The house drain and all soil and waste pipes shall have a fall of at least one-quarter of an inch to the foot, and more, if possible. Said drains shall be provided with openings for cleansing purposes, the same to be closed with screw plugs. Section 13. AJ 1 cast or wrought iron pipes and fittings must be sound, cylindrical and smooth, free from cracks, sandholes and other defects, and when laid under ground shall have a uniform thickness of one-eighth of an inch and shall not be coated before they have been tested to the satisfaction of this board. Where the building is over sixty feet high above the curb, pipes of the following weights shall be used, with extra heavy fittings: 2- inch, 5^4 pounds per lineal foot. 3- inch, 9)4 pounds per lineal foot. 4- inch, 13 pounds per lineal foot. 5- inch, 17 pounds per lineal foot. 6- inch, 20 pounds per lineal foot. Section 14. All drain, soil, waste, vent and supply pipes shall be as direct and concentrated as possible, protected from frost, and, where practicable, readily accessible for inspection and convenience in repairing. Section 15. Every vertical soil and main waste pipe must be of cast or wrought iron, and must extend at least two feet above the highest part of the roof or coping, except in the case of flat roof tenement houses, in which case it shall extend at least five feet above the roof, and said pipe shall have a diameter above the roof at least one inch greater than that of the pipe proper; but in no case shall it be less than four inches in diameter above the roof. No cap, cowls or bends shall be affixed to the top of such ventilation pipe, but in tenement houses a stiong wire basket shall be provided and securely fastened thereto. Each length shall be securely fastened, and in the case of each line of soil pipe it shall rest at its foot on a pier or foundation to prevent settling. All joints in cast iron drain, soil or waste pipes must be made with picked oakum and molten lead, and said joints must be made impermeable to gases by bedding the lead with hammer and caulking iron. For each joint in cast iron pipe twelve ounces of lead must be used to each inch of diameter of the pipe in which the joint is made, and in that proportion for fractional parts of an inch. The lead used for caulking must be pure, soft piglead. No putty or cement joints shall be made. Section 16. Horizontal soil and waste pipes are prohibited. Section 17. There shall be no traps placed on vertical soil pipes. Section 18. All changes in direction in cast or wrought iron pipes shall be made with curved pipes, and all connections with Y branches and one-sixteenth or oue-eightli bends, if possible. Section 19. Soil, waste and vent pipes in an extension must be extended above the roof of the main building, when otherwise 21 they wouid open within twenty feet of the windows of the main house, or the adjoining house. Section 20. A vertical waste. pipe receiving the discharge from a line of five or more sinks must be at least three inches in diameter, and shall have two-inch branches. Section 21. Where lead pipe is used to connect fixtures with vertical soil or waste pipes, or to connect traps with vertical vent- pipes, it must not be lighter than D pipe. Section 22. All connections of lead with iron pipes must be made with a brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe and caulked with lead. The lead pipe must be attached to the ferrule by a wiped joint. All connections of lead waste and vent-pipes shall be made by means of wiped joints. No putty or cement joints shall be made. Section 23. Every water-closet, urinal, sink, basin, wasli- tray, bath, and every tub or set of tubs and hydrant waste-pipe must be separately and effectively trapped, sinks and sets of wash tubs must be separately trapped. Urinal platforms, if connected with drain pipes, must also be properly trapped, and a supply of water so arranged as to always maintain the seal of said traps. In no case shall the waste from a bath tub or other fixture be con- nected with a water closet trap. Section 24. Traps must be placed as near the fixtures as practicable, and in no case shall a trap be more than two feet from the fixture. All water closet traps and main soil pipes and traps shall be vented to the roof. No vent pipe shall be allowed to open into a chimney flue. Approved mechanical traps may be substituted where it is necessary or advisable, but only on special permit from the Board of Health. Section 25. The vent-pipe for each water closet trap shall be at least two inches in diameter, and for traps under other fixtures not less than one and one-half inches. In all cases vertical vent pipes must be of cast or wrought iron. Section 26. Vent-pipes must extend two feet above the high- est part of the roof or coping, the extension to be not less than four inches in diameter, to avoid obstruction from frost, except in cases where the use of smaller pipes is permitted by the Board of Health. These vent pipes must always have a continuous slope, to avoid collecting water by condensation. 22 Section 27. No trap vent pipe shall be used as a waste or soil pipe. Section 28. Overflow pipes from fixtures must in each ease be connected 011 the inlet side of the trap of the same fixture. Section 29. Waste pipes from safes under fixtures must be discharged upon a floor. In no case shall they be connected with the soil pipe, house drains or sewers. The waste pipe from re- frigerators shall in no case be directly connected with any soil or waste pipe or with any drain or sewer. Section 30. The sediment pipe from kitchen boiler, if con- nected with the waste pipe, must be connected on the inlet side of the sink trap. Section 31. Water closets must never be placed in an unven- tilated room or compartment. In every case the compartments must be open to the outer air, or be ventilated by means of a shaft or air-duct. Section 32. Pan-closets and all plunger-closets are prohibited in all houses hereafter erected. Section 33. Overflow pipes from water closet cisterns must discharge into an open sink, or where its discharge will attract attention and indicate that waste of water is occuring; but not, directly into a soil or waste pipe, nor into a drain or sewer. Section 34. Water closets when placed in the yard, must be so arranged as to be conveniently and adequately flushed, and their water supply pipes and traps must be protected from freez- ing. The compartment of such water closets must be ventilated by means of slatted openings in the doors and roof. Section 35. All waste or overflow pipes shall be of lead, cast or wrought iron. Section 36. No steam-exhaust, blow-off or drip-pipe from a steam-boiler shall connect with the sewer. Such pipes must dis- charge into a tank or condenser from which a suitable outlet may be provided. Section 37. Every new plumbing system, including those altered or extended, must be tested by the plumber in the pres- ence of a proper officer of the Board of Health, by the water test after traps, and before basins are connected and by the peppermint test, 01 any other test which may be perscribed by this Board, if demanded by the inspector. All defective joints must be made 23 tight and other openings made impervious to gases. Defective pipe must be removed and replaced by sound pipe. Section 38. Cellar and foundation walls must be rendered im- pervious to dampness by the use of asphaltum or coal-tar pitch in addition to hydraulic cement in all houses hereafter erected. Section 39. No cesspool, privy or privy vault shall be con- nected with a public sewer. Section 40. No rain water leader or pipe for the drainage of any cellar, or for the conveyance of storm water or surface water shall be connected directly or indirectly with the sewer. Section 41- The employment of an unused well as a cesspool is hereby prohibited. Section 42. That hereafter whenever this Board shall order the discontinuance of any cesspool, said cesspool shall be emptied of cesspool matter and be properly cleansed and disinfected. Section 43. That hereafter whenever this Board shall so direct, the vault of a privy shall be made water-tight and so con- structed that in cleaning, the contents may be readily accessible. Section 44. Any person or persons or corporation offending against or violating any of the provisions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 or 43 of this ordinance, shall, on conviction thereof, pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for the first offense, and for the second and each subsequent offense the sum of fifty dollars. Sanitary Code, Adopted October 15, 1888. Plumbing Code, Adopted July, 15, 1889. Memorandum : — It is recommended that all connections with the soil pipe shall be from above downward, in order that the peppermint test, when attempted, may be effective. EAST ORANGE BOARD OF HEALTH G. E. P. HOWARD, Chairman, T. R. CHAMBERS, M. D., Secretary, J. FRANK SMITH, THOMAS E. VERMILYE, Jr. DAVID WILSON, FRANCIS A. NOTT, RICHARD COYNE, NOAH M. CULBERSON, ABRAHAM H. RYAN, HENRY E. JEPSON, EDWARD M. COWDREY. blank.) By whom Performed \ Name of Owner , Address of Owner , of Application , p p aq >0 to >p 3 es i § * § © p* © p P £» ^ © © * © p p 3 P- p © a p 5 ' ©' 0 q g P" © © ^ •s ? p S' P CO § w * i -3 on H O g | *3 3 o p* p: © o p- ?! Q C 02 w Cl o h — 3 o o b 02 K 02 Ed 3 td es H < Cl b o? H W b H £ b b cl l-H b b l-H Q £ ° S - p> S, © © r+ P & ff y III gas © P P P °2 P p 3 1 -2- O 1 £ 3- § sa all 2 E ° * 5 p p p p © p “p p « p’ S. § aq P 0 CO p © p P g a "i § I iSI © P r+ E7 ^ o ©£?►*■ S 5 § p p P. 3 i3 'h © Oq © © g aq P 2 (jq > P P © - P o P H o 1 1 o 2. P co' - © o V * © o © < X b W 02 o tc o O T1 02 cz> CD O o o c-ra O p b p 3 O CD cr p o FT O Cfc o. £ b 3* Q CD Pj 02 CD CD o’ 3 C /2 > b o > HH 0 2 •g 5 •g 5 r 2 cd AST ORAXGK SEWER DEPARTMENT. A n ordinance establishing and providing for the enforcement of regu- lations AND CONDITIONS AS TO THE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF THE SEWERS AND WORKS OF THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM, AND AS TO CONNECTIONS THEREWITH. Be it ordained by the Township Committee of the Townsnip of East Orange : Section 1. Before any building shall be connected with a public sewer, the owner thereof must obtain a written permit authorizing such connection to be made. Blank forms of application for permits will be furnished by tbe Receiver of Taxes. Section 2. Every application shall be signed by the owner of the building, or by his or her authorized agent ; shall state the name and address of the owner and applicant, describe the build- ing sufficiently to identify the same, and specify, as nearly as possiole, by ground plan or otherwise- t he exact point or points in the wall of the building where it is desired that connection with the building shall be made. If the owner wishes to construct, at his or her own expense, under the supervision and subject to the inspection and approval of the Township Committee or their-autlior- ized agent or agents, as prescribed in section seven, so much of the house sewer as lies between the street line and the building, the application must so state. Applications must be filed with the Receiver of Taxes. Section 3. The Committee on Sewerage and Drainage shall be agents of the Township Committee as to matters falling under the operation of this ordinance, and shall appoint and employ necessary inspectors, agents and workmen, and exercise the powers hereinafter mentioned, in the name and subject to the approval and ratification of the Township Committee. Section 4. The Committee on Sewerage and Drainage shall consider the applications filed with the Receiver of Taxes as nearly as possible in the order in which they are received ; may return, suspend action on, or l eject any application, for correction in form or substance, or for any other reason satisfactory to them, and shall grant permits in proper cases. The agents and employees of the Township Committee shall have the right to enter the building and premises mentioned in any application, whenever necessary to examine the same, or to do any work thereon. Section 5. Every permit shall be signed by the Chairman of the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage in the name of the Township Committee, and shall be issued by the Receiver of Taxes, upon the receipt by him of the payment of twenty-five dollars, mentioned in section six. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage to keep a record of the permits so issued. The Committee on Sewerage and Drainage may, for satisfactory cause, revoke a permit on leturn of said payment of twenty-five dollars, or of an equitable part thereof. Every application and permit shall be subject to the regulations and conditions created and imposed by this ordinance, and no appli- cant or person to whom a permit shall be granted, or his or her successors in interest shall have the right to claim or demand any damages against the Township of East Orange, its agents and ser- vants, in consequence of the refusal or revocation of a permit, or of delay in acting on an applica- tion or of making any connection, or because of the cutting off of a connection, under the provi- sions of this ordinance. A permit may, at the discretion of the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage, embrace special provisions and conditions as to the use of flush tanks, size of pipe, method of construction, mode of use and similar details. Section G. So much of the house sewer as lies between the public sewer and the street line shall, in all cases, be constructed by the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage. For this service each applicant for a permit shall pay to the Receiver of Taxes before the permit shall be issued the sum of twenty-five dollars. Section 7. So much of the house sewer as lies between the street line and the wall of the build- ing, may be constructed, at the option of the owner, either by the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage, for which service the owner shall pay to the Receiver of Taxes the sum of fifty cents per foot, or by the owner, under the supervision and subject to the inspection and approval of said Committee, for which service the owner shall pay to tbe Receiver of Taxes the sum of two dollars. If the owner elect to do the work himself, he shall declare that option in his application, as pre- scribed by section two. Section 8. The Township Committee may maintain an action, in the corporate name of the Township of East Orange, against the owner, to recover any payment that shall become due from him or her, under the provisions of section seven. Section 9. The payments mentioned in section seven shall be made to the Receiver of Taxes on the completion of the work. Upon default of payment for ten days after demand therefor, the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage may cutoff the connection between the building and the sewer. The Committee shall restore the connection on payment of all arrears and the sum of five dollars. Section 10. No permit shall be granted to connect with a public sewer any building not provided either with a ventilating pipe, extending without trap or other obstruction, from the house sewer to a point at least two feet above the roof of the building, or with a trap on the house sewer, in which latter case a ventilating pipe must be constructed from the sewer side of the trap to a point two feet above the roof, and a fresh air inlet must be introduced on the house side of the trap. Section 11. No permit shall be granted to connect any cesspool, privy or privy vault with a public sewer. Section 12. No rain water leader or pipe for the drainage of any cellar, or for the conveyance of storm water or surface water shall be connected directly or indirectly with a sewer. Section 13. If it shall appear that a building not provided with ventilating apparatus as men- tioned in section nine, is connected with a public sewer, or that any privy, privy vault or cesspool is connected with a public sewer, or that any building or premises have been connected with a public sewer, without a permit or in violation of this ordinance, or in a manner different from that author- ized by a permit, or contrary to the direction of the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage, their inspectors and agents, it shall be the duty of said Committee to cause the connection to be cut off. Upon compliance by the owner with the provisions of this ordinance, and payment of the sum of five dollars, the Committee on Sewerage and Drainage shall restore such connection. Section 14. Any person who shall make a connection .with a public sewer contrary to the pro- visions of this ordinance, or shall violate any of its provisions, or interfere with any agent or employe of the Township Committee while acting in the course of his duty, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offence, to be recovered with cost of suit in an action of debt, brought in the corporate name of the Townstiip of East Orange for the use of said township. Section 15. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, 3 0112 105539776