Borough of Rutherford, NJ
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2023-12-11
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The Code
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Chapter 131 Zoning
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Article XII Interpretation; Severability; Repealer; Title
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administrative Offices
- Ch 5 Administrative Code
- Ch 6 Alarm Equipment Installation
- Ch 7 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 8 Amusement Games
- Ch 10 Animals
- Ch 12 Bicycles
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Board of Health
- Ch 17 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 Building Code
- Ch 19 Builders and Contractors Licensing
- Ch 19A Cannabis
- Ch 20 Car Lots: New and Used
- Ch 20A Cat Licensing
- Ch 21 Clean Environment
- Ch 21A Commercial Property Maintenance
- Ch 22 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 22A Convenience Stores
- Ch 22B (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Curfew, Emergency
- Ch 24z (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Disability Act Advisory Committee
- Ch 26 Dogs, Pets, Animals and Kennels
- Ch 27 Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 28 Dry Cleaning and Laundry Machines, Coin-Operated
- Ch 29 (Reserved)
- Ch 30 Elevators
- Ch 31 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 31A Finance Department
- Ch 32 Fingerprint Identification and Criminal History Record Checks
- Ch 33 Fire Department
- Ch 33A Firefighter Auxiliary Program, Junior
- Ch 34 Filming
- Ch 34A Fire Safety
- Ch 35 Fire Lanes or Zones
- Ch 36 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 36A Food Establishments
- Ch 36B Food Handlers Training
- Ch 37 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 39 Games of Chance
- Ch 39A Garage Sales and Lawn Sales
- Ch 40 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 41 Graffiti
- Ch 43 Grease Traps
- Ch 44 (Reserved)
- Ch 45 Heliport
- Ch 46 Housing Authority
- Ch 46A (Reserved)
- Ch 47 Housing Code
- Ch 48 Insurance
- Ch 50 Land Subdivision and Site Plan Regulations
- Ch 51 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 51A Length of Service Award Program
- Ch 52 Library Property and Books
- Ch 53 Littering
- Ch 54 Loitering
- Ch 54A Marriage and Civil Union Ceremonies
- Ch 55 Massage and Bodywork Therapies
- Ch 56 Materials, Deposit and Removal of
- Ch 57 Merchants and Rutherford Business District Licenses
- Ch 59 (Reserved)
- Ch 60 Municipal Court
- Ch 61 Municipal Property and Grounds
- Ch 61A Municipal Property, Sale of
- Ch 62 Newsracks
- Ch 63 Noise Control
- Ch 63A Numbering of Buildings and Lots
- Ch 64 Nuisance Code
- Ch 64A Obscene Materials
- Ch 65 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 66 Parking Area Lighting Regulations
- Ch 66A Parking Yards and Places
- Ch 66B (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Payment of Pensions to Dependents of Volunteer Fire Fighters
- Ch 68 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 69 Permanent Cosmetics Establishments
- Ch 70 Personnel Policies and Practices
- Ch 72 (Reserved)
- Ch 73 Playgrounds, Parks, Open Spaces and Recreation Areas
- Ch 74 Plumbing Code
- Ch 76 Police Department
- Ch 77 Poolrooms, Billiard Parlors and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 77A Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 78 Property Maintenance
- Ch 79 Public Amusement Structures
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Purchasing
- Ch 82 Purchasing, Cooperative
- Ch 82A Recycling
- Ch 82B Registration of Landscapers and Landscaping Services
- Ch 83 Recreation Department
- Ch 83A Rent Control
- Ch 84 (Reserved)
- Ch 87 Salary Schedules
- Ch 89 Sanitary Code
- Ch 91 Sanitary Sewers
- Ch 91A Service Stations and Motor Vehicle Repair Facilities
- Ch 92 Sewage Disposal Code
- Ch 93 Sewers: Disposal of Industrial Waste
- Ch 94 Sewers and Wastewater Disposal
- Ch 95 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 96 Shopping Carts
- Ch 96A Short-Term Rental Property
- Ch 97 Signs
- Ch 98 Skateboards, Bicycles, Roller Skates and Scooters
- Ch 99 Smoke Control
- Ch 100 Snow Removal
- Ch 102 Soil Removal
- Ch 104 Solicitations for Charitable Purposes
- Ch 105 Solicitors, Peddlers and Canvassers
- Ch 105A (Reserved)
- Ch 106 Special Sale Regulations
- Ch 106A Sports Equipment Prohibition in Roadways
- Ch 107A Stormwater Management Control, State
- Ch 107B Stormwater Management, Borough
- Ch 107C Stormwater Management Control: Feeding of Wildlife
- Ch 107D Stormwater Management, Miscellaneous
- Ch 108 Streets and School Safety
- Ch 109 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 110 Street Closings
- Ch 111 Swimming Pools
- Ch 112 Taxes
- Ch 113 Taxicabs
- Ch 114 Telephone Booths
- Ch 116 Tent Caterpillar Control
- Ch 116A Tobacco Products
- Ch 117 Towing
- Ch 119 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 123 Unfit Dwellings
- Ch 124 Vacant and Abandoned Properties
- Ch 125 Vehicles, Abandoned or Junked
- Ch 126 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 127 Volunteer Organizations
- Ch 129 Water Pollution
- Ch 131 Zoning
- Ch 131 Art XII Interpretation; Severability; Repealer; Title
- § 131-55 Interpretation.
- § 131-56 Severability.
- § 131-57 Repealer.
- § 131-58 Title.
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
Interpretation of standards. The provisions of this
chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements. Where this chapter
imposes a greater restriction than is imposed or required by other
provisions of law or by other rules or resolutions, the provisions
of this chapter shall control. Where other laws, rules, regulations
or resolutions require greater restrictions than are imposed or required
by this chapter, the provisions of such other laws, rules, regulations
or restrictions shall control.
B.
Prohibited uses. All uses not expressly permitted
in this chapter are prohibited.
C.
Time of compliance. All requirements shall be met
at the time of the erection, enlargement, alteration, moving or change
in use of the principal use and shall apply to the entire structure
or structures, whether or not the entire structure or structures were
involved in the erection, enlargement, alteration, moving or change
in use.
If any section, subsection, paragraph, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase or provision of this chapter shall for any
reason be held unconstitutional or invalid, such adjudication shall
apply only to the affected portion so adjudged, and the remainder
of this chapter shall be deemed valid and effective.
This chapter is a revision of Chapter 131[1] of the Code of the Borough of Rutherford, as amended through
Ordinance No. 2134-73, and shall supersede said Zoning Ordinance and
the amendments and supplements thereto, which are hereby repealed.
The repeal of such ordinance or parts of such ordinance shall not
affect any act done, offense committed or liability, penalty, forfeiture
or punishment incurred prior to the time such repeal takes effect,
and the same may be enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and
to the same extent as if such repeal has not been effected.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Ch. 131, Zoning, was
adopted 12-19-1978 by Ord. No. 2246-78.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Borough of Rutherford Zoning Ordinance."
