This chapter shall be known and may be referred to and cited as the "Administrative Code (1970)" and is herein referred to as the "code."
For the purpose of this chapter, and in the interpretation and application of all other ordinances and resolutions heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Business Administrator duly appointed pursuant to the Charter and Administrative Code, or any Assistant or Acting Administrator in place of the Business Administrator pursuant to the Charter or ordinance.
CHARTER
Mayor-Council Plan E of Chapter 210 of New Jersey Laws of 1950 (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1 et seq.), as amended and supplemented, and any and all general laws, as therein defined, which are or may be applicable to the municipality.
CLERK or TOWNSHIP CLERK
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to the Charter or ordinance.
COUNCIL
The local legislative body of the municipality constituted and elected pursuant to the Charter.
DEPARTMENT
An organizational unit or group of organizational units of the municipal government established or designated by or pursuant to the Administrative Code as a department.
DIRECTOR
The administrative head of a department.
GOVERNING BODY
The Municipal Council as constituted under the Charter.
MONTH
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
MUNICIPALITY
The Township of Washington, in the County of Bergen, State of New Jersey, and any corporate successor thereof.
ORDINANCE
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted so long as it remains in force and effect pursuant to law.
PERSON
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity as well as an individual.
YEAR
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
For the purposes of the Administrative 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. 
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.
E. 
The words "writing" and "written" include printing, typewriting and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
Any function, office or employment not reconstituted or continued by this chapter shall be deemed abolished.