34:9A-27. Bathing facilities
(a) Convenient and suitable bathing facilities of a reasonable nature to suit conditions, kept clean and sanitary, shall be provided for every camp.
(b) The occupants of each camp erected or constructed subsequent to the effective date of this act shall be provided convenient and suitable bathing facilities of a reasonable nature to suit conditions which shall be kept clean and sanitary, shall be constructed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commissioner, and whose effluent shall be discharged into and treated by sewerage facilities constructed in accordance with the provisions of "The Realty Improvement Sewerage and Facilities Act (1954)," P.L.1954, chapter 199, and any standards and regulations duly issued pursuant thereto by the Commissioner of Health; provided, that the commissioner for good cause shown and upon consultation with the Commissioner of Health, is authorized to amend or revise any such standard or regulation for application to the camps to which this article applies.
(c) The occupants of each camp which, on the effective date of this act, is maintained, occupied or used by persons working in or at camps to which this article applies, shall be provided, no later than January 1, 1970, convenient and suitable bathing facilities of a reasonable nature to suit conditions which shall be kept clean and sanitary, shall be constructed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the commissioner, and whose effluent shall be discharged into and treated by sewerage facilities constructed in accordance with the provisions of "The Realty Improvement Sewerage and Facilities Act (1954)," P.L.1954, chapter 199, and any standards or regulations duly issued pursuant thereto by the Commissioner of Health; provided, that the commissioner, for good cause shown and upon consultation with the Commissioner of Health, is authorized to amend or revise any such standard or regulation for application to the camps to which this article applies.
(d) The commissioner, upon proper application therefor, may grant exceptions from the literal requirements of this section and any rule or regulation duly issued hereunder, if he finds that strict compliance would cause undue hardship and that the exception, if granted, will not unreasonably jeopardize the health or safety of the intended occupants.
L.1945, c. 71, p. 359, s. 27. Amended by L.1967, c. 259, s. 6, eff. Dec. 26, 1967.