[Adopted 10-2-1974 (Ch. I, Secs. 1-2 and 1-3, of the 1974 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 meanings indicated:
The City of Estell Manor in the County of Atlantic and State
of New Jersey.
The governing body of the City.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the City government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the City government assigned
to such organizational unit by the City Council.
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.
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.
Wherever
necessary or appropriate in this Code, one gender shall be deemed
to include and mean either of the other two, and the singular number
shall include the plural and vice versa.[1]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. III)]
C.
"Shall"
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
D.
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 City are closed,
that day shall be excluded.
E.
"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.
