[Adopted by Ord. No. 1987-8 (Secs. 1-2 and 1-3 of the 1987 Revised General Ordinances)]
For the purpose of this Code, and in the interpretation and
application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require, the following terms shall
have the meaning indicated:
The Borough of Red Bank in the County of Monmouth and State
of New Jersey.
The governing body of the Borough, constituted and elected
pursuant to law.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the Borough government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned
to such organizational unit by the Borough Council.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or Chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath. In such cases, the words "swear" and
"sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as
if the words "of the Borough of Red Bank" followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Code, 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.
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 such building or land.
Any individual, natural person, partnerships, joint ventures,
societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or
unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees, servants,
factors or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in
any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under
either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
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.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Severally be construed to mean any and every public ground,
public square, public park or other public place within the Borough.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
Includes any act or regulation of the Borough Council required
to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting
at which it is introduced.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes 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.
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who
occupies the whole or a part of such buildings or lands, either alone
or with others.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
A.Â
For
the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances heretofore or hereafter
adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
(1)Â
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future,
the present.
(2)Â
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
(3)Â
The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
(4)Â
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
(5)Â
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding
the first and including the last day and if the last day be a Sunday,
or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
(6)Â
"Writing" and "written" shall include printing, typewriting and any
other mode of communication using paper or similar material which
is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The definitions of "chapter," "section," "subsection"
and "paragraph," which previously followed this subsection, were deleted
12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-23.
B.Â
Whenever
a specific time is used in this Code, it shall mean the prevailing
and established time in effect in the State of New Jersey during any
day in any year.
C.Â
Any
citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this Code shall
be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as amended, whether
or not such designation is included in the citation.