Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Union of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Union as revised, codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
75 through
80, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Union, County of Ocean, New Jersey."
This ordinance shall supersede all other general and permanent
ordinances passed by the Board of Health of the Township of Union
prior to the enactment of this Code, except such ordinances as are
expressly saved from repeal or continued in force and effect, as shall
hereafter be set forth by reference.
All provisions of the Code of the Township of Union, County
of Ocean, New Jersey, shall be in full force and effect on and after
the effective date of this ordinance.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature, adopted by
the Board of Health of the Township of Union and in force on the date
of the adoption of this ordinance, and not contained in the Code of
the Township of Union, County of Ocean, New Jersey, are hereby repealed
as of the effective date of this Adopting Ordinance, except as hereinafter
provided.
The repeal provided for in §
1-21 of this ordinance shall not affect:
A. Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture
incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before the
effective date of this ordinance.
B. Any prosecution, action, suit or other proceeding pending or any
judgment rendered on or prior to the effective date of this ordinance.
C. Any provision of an ordinance or resolution of the Board of Health
of the Township of Union creating employments, positions or offices
and fixing duties therefor which are not provided in the Code hereby
adopted and which are not in conflict or inconsistent therewith.
D. Any ordinances of the Township of Union adopted subsequent to November
2, 1950.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances of the Township of
Union for adoption and revision as part of the Code of the Township
of Union, County of Ocean, New Jersey, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4,
certain grammatical changes and other minor changes were made for
one (1) or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Board
of Health of the Township of Union that all such changes be adopted
as part of the Code of the Township of Union, County of Ocean, New
Jersey, as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally
amended to read as such.
A copy of the Code of the Township of Union, County of Ocean,
New Jersey, in loose-leaf form has been filed in the office of the
Township Clerk of the Township of Union and shall remain there for
the use and examination of 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 Union by impressing
thereon the seal of the Township of Union, as provided by law, and
such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk
of the Township of Union to be made available to persons desiring
to examine the same during all times while the said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code
of the Township of Union, County of Ocean, New Jersey, when passed
and adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Board
of Health to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated
into such Code so that reference to the "Code of the Township of Union,
County of Ocean, New Jersey" shall be understood and intended to include
such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments
or supplements to the Code of the Township of Union, County of Ocean,
New Jersey shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and,
as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
the said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Township Clerk, or someone authorized
and directed by the Township Clerk, to keep up-to-date the certified
copy of the book containing the Code of the Township of Union, County
of Ocean, New Jersey, required to be filed in the office of the Township
Clerk for the use of the public. All changes in said Code and all
ordinances adopted by the Township Committee subsequent to the effective
date of this codification which the Township of Union shall adopt
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 of the Township
of Union, County of Ocean, New Jersey, may be purchased from the Clerk
of the Township of Union upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution
of the Township Committee, who may also arrange by resolution for
procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
The Clerk of the Township of Union, 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 of Union. Sufficient
copies of the Code of the Township of Union, County of Ocean, New
Jersey, shall be maintained in the office of the Township Clerk for
inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours.
The enactment and application 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.
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 section or part 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.
Any person, firm or corporation convicted of violating any provision
of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than five
dollars ($5) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation,
as provided by law.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately after final approval
and publication according to law.