§ BH:12-1. DEFINITIONS.

As used in this chapter:

BUILDING

Any structure, whether public or private, that has been adapted for occupancy, for transaction of business, for rendering of professional service, for amusement, for display, sale or storage of goods, wares or merchandise, for the housing of animals, storage of feed for animals and lands used as a repository for animal wastes, and all outhouses, sheds, barns and other structures on premises intended for demolition.

HEALTH INSPECTOR

The Health Officer of the Township or any duly authorized agent or employee of the Board of Health.

PERSON

And include person, persons, partnership, firm, association, corporation and the owner of buildings subject to demolition.

REPUTABLE PROFESSIONAL EXTERMINATING FIRM

Persons, sole proprietorships, partnerships, firms, associations or other business entities engaged in rodent elimination or eradication by use of rodenticides approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

RODENT EXTERMINATION

The elimination or eradication of rats and other rodents within buildings so that the buildings are completely freed of such rodents or there is no evidence of rodent infestation remaining after implementation of accepted measures, such as but not limited to poisoning, trapping and other means approved by the Health Inspector.

Ord. No. 7-3-75; 1967 Code § 59-1