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 definitions contained in this section shall apply:

ADMINISTRATOR — Shall mean the administrator of the township duly appointed pursuant to law.

CLERK or TOWNSHIP CLERK — Shall mean the municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.

DEPARTMENT — Shall mean an organizational unit of the township government established or designated by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the township government assigned to such organizational unit by the township committee.

LICENSED — Shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this revision.

MONTH — Shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.

OATH shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be construed to be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."

OFFICER or OFFICIAL and the title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words "of the Township of Bernards" followed it.

ORDINANCE — Shall mean any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this revision, so long as it shall have been adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it shall remain in force and effect pursuant to law.

OWNER — Shall mean any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part of a building or land.

PERSON — Shall mean any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.

PERSONAL PROPERTY — Shall mean goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrances upon, property or any debt or financial obligation as created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and every thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject of ownership.

PRECEDING and FOLLOWING — Shall mean next before and next after, respectively.

PROPERTY — Shall mean real and personal property.

PUBLIC GROUNDS, PUBLIC SQUARES, PUBLIC PLACE or PUBLIC PLACES --- Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public park or other public place within the township.

REAL PROPERTY — Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.

RESOLUTION — Shall mean and include any act or regulation of the township committee required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.

SIDEWALK — Shall mean any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.

STREET shall include 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.

TENANT or OCCUPANT — Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.

TOWNSHIP — Shall mean the Township of Bernards in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey.

TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE or COMMITTEE — Shall mean the mayor and township committee, constituted and elected pursuant to law.

WEEK — Shall mean seven days.

YEAR — Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.