Plainsboro Township Committee has introduced two ordinances to tighten laws pertaining to parks and recreation as well as its health ordinance.
The first ordinance, dealing with parks and recreation, has not been updated in many years, explained Police Chief Richard Furda. “It’s going to take language out that shouldn’t be there.” He pointed to one provision that dealt with the killing of poisonous snakes, which are not even indigenous to the area.
The health ordinance, on the other hand, is being revised to apply to mobile food vendors, Furda said, and ties in to changes with the peddlers and solicitors ordinance. The ordinance pertains to mobile food vendors who come, for example, to business parks within the township to provide lunch to employees during their breaks. Under the current ordinance, those vendors were only required to get permits from the township, but it did not require a health inspection. But under the new ordinance it would.
The changes were prompted by an increase in the number of food vendors in the area. The ordinances, introduced October 14, will have a public hearing on Tuesday, November 10.
