[Adopted 12-1-1976 as Secs. 1-2, 1-3, 1-10 and 1-11 of
the 1976 Revised Ordinances (Ch. 275, Art. II, of the 1987 Code)]
In the construction of this Part III of the
Township Code and all other ordinances of the Board of Health, words
and phrases shall be read and construed with their content and shall,
unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Health
or unless other or different meanings are expressly indicated, be
given their generally accepted meanings according to the approved
usage of the language. Technical words and phrases and words and phrases
having special or accepted meanings in the law shall be construed
in accordance with such technical or special and accepted meanings.
A.Â
BOARD OF HEALTH or BOARD
CODE
COUNCIL or TOWNSHIP COUNCIL
COUNTY
GOVERNING BODY
HEALTH OFFICER
MONTH
MUNICIPAL
MUNICIPALITY
NEW JERSEY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE or N.J.A.C.
NEW JERSEY STATUTES or N.J.S.A.
OATH
OCCUPANT
OWNER
PERSON
PERSONAL PROPERTY
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING
PROPERTY
PUBLIC GROUND, PUBLIC SQUARE or PUBLIC PLACE
REAL PROPERTY
REVISED STATUTES or R.S.
SIDEWALK
STATE
STATE SANITARY CODE
STREET
TENANT or OCCUPANT (as applied to a building or land)
TOWNSHIP
WEEK
WRITING (EXCEPT AS SIGNATURES) AND WRITTEN
YEAR
Unless otherwise expressly provided or unless there
is something in the subject or content repugnant to such construction
or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Health,
the following words and phrases, when used in this Part III of the
Code or in any other ordinances of the Board of Health, shall have
the meanings herein given:
The local Board of Health of the Township of Bloomfield.
Part III of the Code of the Township of Bloomfield.
The governing body of the Township of Bloomfield.
The County of Essex.
The Mayor and Council members of the Township of Bloomfield
or such other duly authorized legislative body as shall be charged
with governing the Township of Bloomfield.
The Health Officer appointed by the local Board of Health.
A calendar month.
Pertains to the Township of Bloomfield.
The Township of Bloomfield.
The official instrument of the state for codification of
its rules.
That body of statutory law containing revisions of the Revised
Statutes of New Jersey and known as the "New Jersey statutes," as
amended and supplemented.
Includes "affirmation," "swear" and "sworn," including "affirm"
and "affirmed."
See "tenant."
Includes the sole owner and any part owner, joint owner,
tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by
the entirety of the whole or part of a building or land and personal
property.[1]
Includes corporations, companies, societies, firms, partnerships,
associations, organizations and any other group or entity acting as
a unit, as well as an individual.
Includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and
effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments
by which any right to, interest in or lien or encumbrance upon property
or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced,
transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything,
except real property as herein defined, which may be subject to ownership.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Includes real and personal property.
Any and every public ground, public square, public park or
other place within the Township which is within the jurisdiction and
control of the Township and which is or may be in general use by all
citizens and in which all have an equal right of passage and repassage
at will.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interest therein.
That body of statutory law known as the Revised Statutes
of New Jersey (1937), containing the general and permanent laws of
the state adopted on December 20, 1937, as amended and supplemented.
Any portion of a street or highway between the curbline or
the lateral line of a shoulder or, if none, the lateral line of the
roadway and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
The State of New Jersey.
Those regulations adopted by the Public Health Council pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 26:1A-7 and which have the force and effect of law and
which can be found in Title 8 of the New Jersey Administrative Code.
Includes highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, courts, public
lanes, alleys, sidewalks, footpaths and all other public highways
for vehicular or pedestrian travel.
Includes any person who occupies the whole or part of such
building or land, whether alone or with others.
The Township of Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Seven days.
Include printing and any other mode of representing words,
letters and figures.
A calendar year.
B.Â
Word usage.
(1)Â
And; or. "And" may be construed as meaning "or" and
"or" as meaning "and" if the sense requires it.
(2)Â
Gender. Words importing the masculine gender shall
apply to females as well as to males and to partnerships, limited
partnerships, associations, bodies corporate and other artificial
persons.
(3)Â
Number. Words used in the singular include the plural,
and words in the plural include the singular number.
(4)Â
"Officer" or "official," and the title of an officer
or official, shall be construed as if the words "of the Township of
Bloomfield" followed it.
In any case where a provision of this Code is
in conflict with a provision of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code,
the provision of the State Sanitary Code shall prevail and govern;
except, however, that, if any provision of this Code is more restrictive
than a provision of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code, then the more
restrictive provision, being the higher standard for the promotion
and protection of the health and safety of the inhabitants of the
Township, shall prevail, govern and be enforced.
A Seal, a copy of which is on file in the office
of the Secretary of the Board of Health, is hereby adopted as the
Official Seal of the Board.
