[Adopted 6-5-1972 (Ch. I, Secs. 1-2 and 1-3, of the 1972 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 municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the Township government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the Township government assigned
to such organizational unit by the Township committee.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
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 individual, natural persons, 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.
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.
The Township of Fredon in the County of Sussex and State
of New Jersey.
The governing body of the Township.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances heretofore
or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
A.
The
present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future,
the present.
B.
The
masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
C.
The
singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
D.
"Shall"
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
E.
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,
a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of the Township are
closed, that day shall be excluded.
F.
"Writing"
and "written" includes printing, typewriting and any other mode of
communication using paper or similar material which is in general
use, as well as legible handwriting.
G.
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.
H.
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.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The definitions of "chapter," "section," "subsection,"
and "paragraph," which immediately followed this subsection, were
deleted 11-28-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-12..
