[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Knowlton as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 10-13-1998 by Ord. No. 98-15]
Be it ordained and enacted by the Township Committee of the
Township of Knowlton, County of Warren, State of New Jersey, as follows:
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Knowlton of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Knowlton, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 177, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Knowlton," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general
and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code,
except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly saved from repeal
or continued in force.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage and
publication according to law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the
office of the Township Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination
by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and,
if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to
by the Clerk of the Township of Knowlton by impressing thereon the
Seal of the Township, as provided by law, and such certified copy
shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Township, to
be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all
times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code,
when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of
the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to
be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the "Code of the
Township of Knowlton" shall be understood and intended to include
such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments
or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf
book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Township of Knowlton, pursuant to law, shall
cause to be published, in the manner required, a copy of this Adopting
Ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Sufficient
copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk
for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours.
The enactment and publication of this Adopting Ordinance, coupled
with availability of copies of the Code for inspection by the public,
shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication
of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk or someone authorized and
directed by the Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the
book containing the Code required to be filed in his or her office
for the use of the public. All changes in said Code and all ordinances
adopted subsequent to the effective date of this codification which
shall be adopted specifically as part of the Code shall, when finally
adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes or new
ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which
time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code may be purchased
from the Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of
the Township Committee, which may also arrange, by resolution, for
procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend,
by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter
or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the law of the Township of Knowlton to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance shall
be subject, upon conviction, to one or more of the following: a fine
of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more than 90 days or
a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, in the discretion
of the Judge imposing the same.
Each section of the Code and every part of each section is an
independent section or part of a section, and the holding of any section
or a part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for
any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other sections or parts thereof.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent section, and
the holding of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional,
void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the
validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent
nature adopted and in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance
and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective
date of this Adopting Ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-12 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to 12-8-1997.
B.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any
legislative provision prior to the effective date of this ordinance
or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right
or liability.
C.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective date of
this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision or any penalty,
punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending
or any judgment rendered, prior to the effective date of this ordinance,
brought pursuant to any legislative provision.
E.
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted
or conferred.
F.
Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening,
relocating, straightening, establishing of grade, changing of name,
improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement,
street, road, highway, park or other public place or any portion thereof.
G.
Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or transferring funds,
promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the
issuance and delivery of any bond or other instruments or evidence
of the Township's indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property
or any lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges or the approval
of the municipal budget.
J.
The dedication of property or approval of preliminary or final subdivision
plats.
K.
All currently effective ordinances pertaining to the rate and manner
of payment of salaries and compensation of officers and employees.
L.
Any ordinance adopting or amending the Zoning Map.
M.
Any ordinance relating to or establishing a pension plan or pension
fund for municipal employees.
N.
Ordinance No. 95-22, authorizing the adoption of rules and regulations
governing the use of the sewer system.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption and revision
as part of the Code pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, certain grammatical
changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances.
It is the intention of the Township Committee that all such changes
be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had
been previously formally amended to read as such.
A.
CLERK or TOWNSHIP CLERK
DEPARTMENT
LICENSED
MONTH
ORDINANCE
PERSON
STREET
TOWNSHIP
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE or COMMITTEE
YEAR
Definitions. For the purpose of this Code, 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 Code as a department, together with any agency
or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational
unit by the Township Committee.
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 Code, 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 Knowlton in the County of Warren and State
of New Jersey.
The Mayor and Committee of the Township of Knowlton.
A calendar year unless otherwise specific provided.
B.
Word usage. For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances
heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise
require:
(1)
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future
the present.
(2)
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
(3)
The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
(4)
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
(5)
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.
(6)
"Writing" and "written" shall include printing, typewriting and any
other mode of communication using paper or similar material which
is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
(7)
Whenever a specific time is used in this Code, it shall mean the
prevailing and established time in effect in the State of New Jersey
during any day in any year.
(8)
Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this Code
shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as amended,
whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
(9)
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Code identified
by a numeral and divided by subject matter.
(10)
"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
(11)
"Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified by
a capital letter.
[Adopted as Sec. 3-1 of the Revised General Ordinances]
For violation of any provision of this chapter, any other chapter
of this revision or any other ordinance of the Township where no specific
penalty is provided regarding the section violated, the maximum penalty,
upon conviction, shall be a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment
for a period not exceeding 90 days, or both (N.J.S.A. 40:49-5).
Except as otherwise provided, every day in which a violation
of any provision of this chapter or any other ordinance of the Township
exists shall constitute a separate violation.
The maximum penalty stated in this article is not intended to
state an appropriate penalty for every violation. Any lesser penalty,
including a nominal penalty or no penalty at all, may be appropriate
for a particular case or violation.
The Township Committee may prescribe that, for the violation
of any particular Code provision or ordinance, at least a minimum
penalty shall be imposed, which shall consist of a fine which may
be fixed at an amount not exceeding $100 (N.J.S.A. 40:49-5).
