[Adopted 5-16-1978 (Ch.
1, Secs. 1-2 and 1-3, of the 1978 Revised General Ordinances)]
For the purpose of this revision, and in the interpretation
and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require:
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated
by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency
or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational
unit by the Township Council.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this revision.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this revision, so long as it is adopted by the procedure
required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains
in force and effect pursuant to law.
Any individual, natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures,
societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or
unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees, servants,
factors or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in
any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under
either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
Includes a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard,
concourse, driveway, culvert, sidewalk, and crosswalk, and every class
of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the general
public.
The Township of Denville in the County of Morris and State
of New Jersey.
The local legislative body of the Township constituted and
elected pursuant to the Charter or Code and designated as the Municipal
Council of the Township of Denville.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
For the purpose of this revision and any other ordinances heretofore
or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
A.
The
present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future,
the present.
B.
The
masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
C.
The
singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
D.
"Shall"
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
E.
The
time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding
the first and including the last day and if the last day be a Sunday,
a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of the Township are
closed, that day shall be excluded.
F.
"Writing"
and "written" shall include printing, type-writing and any other mode
of communication using paper or similar material which is in general
use, as well as legible handwriting.
G.
Whenever
a specific time is used in this revision, it shall mean the prevailing
and established time in effect in the State of New Jersey during any
day in any year.
H.
Any
citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this revision
shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as amended,
whether or not such designation is included in the citation.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The four final paragraphs stating the meanings of "chapter," "section," "subsection" and "paragraph" of original § 1-3 of the 1978 Revised General Ordinances, which immediately followed this subsection, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).
