[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township
of Washington as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-13-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-04]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Washington of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Washington, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code, and consisting of Chapters 480 through 495, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Washington," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general
and permanent ordinances enacted by the Board of Health prior to the
enactment of Part III 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/or Board of Health Secretary 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 and/or Board
of Health Secretary of the Township of Washington 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 and/or Board of Health
Secretary 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 Board of Health to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to
be incorporated into Part III of such Code so that reference to the
"Code of the Township of Washington" 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 Secretary of the Board of Health of the Township of Washington
shall cause this Adopting Ordinance to be published, in the manner
required, in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Sufficient
copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk
and/or Board of Health Secretary 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 and/or Board of Health Secretary
or someone authorized and directed by the Clerk and/or the Board of
Health Secretary 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, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Clerk and/or Board of Health Secretary, or an authorized
agent of the Clerk and/or Board of Health Secretary, upon the payment
of a fee authorized by the Township. The Clerk and/or Board of Health
Secretary shall also arrange for procedures for the periodic supplementation
of the Code.
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 Washington to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance shall
be subject, upon conviction, to penalties as provided by law.
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.
Except as provided in § 1-13, Ordinances saved from repeal, below, all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions contained in the Code adopted by this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall only be to the extent of such inconsistency, and any valid legislation of the Board of Health of the Township of Washington which is not in conflict with the provisions of the Code shall be deemed to remain in full force and effect.
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.Â
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to 8-1-1974.
B.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.
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 Board
of Health ordinances. It is the intention of the Board of Health 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.
