[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Cranbury
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 4-28-1980]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Cranbury of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Cranbury, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of Chapters 1 through 152, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Cranbury," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This article and the Code shall supersede all other general and permanent
ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code, except such ordinances
as are hereinafter expressly saved from repeal or continued in force and effect
hereinafter.
This article shall take effect immediately upon passage and publication
according to law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the office of
the Township Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination by the public
until final action is taken on this article; and, if this article shall be
adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Clerk of the Township of Cranbury
by impressing thereon the Seal of the Township, as provided by law; and such
certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Township,
to be made available to persons desiring to examine same during all times
while the said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed
and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of the governing body to
make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code
so that reference to the "Code of the Township of Cranbury" shall be understood
and intended to include such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions,
amendments or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Township of Cranbury, pursuant to law, shall cause
to be published, in the manner required, a copy of this Adopting Ordinance
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Sufficient copies of
the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk for inspection by
the public at all times during regular office hours. The enactment and publication
of this Adopting Ordinance, coupled with availability of copies of the Code
for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due
and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk, or someone authorized and directed
by the Clerk, to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing
the Code required to be filed in the office of the Clerk for use by the public.
All changes in said Code and all ordinances adopted subsequent to the effective
date of this codification which shall be adopted specifically as part of the
Code shall, when finally adopted, be included therein by reference until such
changes or new ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code book, at
which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code may be purchased from the
Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Township Committee,
which may also arrange, by resolution, for procedures for the periodic supplementation
thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions
or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter or tamper with such
Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the Township of
Cranbury to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating this section or part
of this article shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not more than
$500 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both, in the discretion
of the Judge imposing the same.
Each section of the Code and every part of each section is an independent
section or part of a section, and the holding of any section or a part thereof
to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed
to affect the validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts
thereof.
Each section of this article is an independent section, and the holding
of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other sections or parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature
adopted and in force on the date of the adoption of this article and not contained
in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this Adopting
Ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-12 of this article shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any ordinances adopted subsequent to May 21, 1979.
B.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provisions prior to the effective date of this article
or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right or liability.
C.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this article in violation of any legislative provision or any penalty,
punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding
pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective date of this article,
brought pursuant to any legislative provision.
E.
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred.
F.
Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening,
altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing of grade, change
of name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement,
street, road, highway, park or other public place or any portion thereof.
G.
Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or transferring
funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the issuance
and delivery of any bond or other instruments or evidence of the borough's
indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer
of property or any lawful contract or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges.
J.
The dedication of property or approval of preliminary
or final subdivision plats.
K.
All currently effective ordinances pertaining to the
rate and manner of payment of salaries and compensation of officers and employees
of the Township of Cranbury.
L.
All ordinances of the Township providing for the preparation
and use of Tax Maps.
M.
All ordinances of the Township regulating and providing
for vehicles and traffic.
N.
All ordinances of the Township creating and establishing
officers or employees, boards, commissions or other agencies and all ordinances
providing for appointments to various positions in the Township.
O.
All ordinances of the Township regulating zoning in the
Township.
A.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption
and revision as part of the Code pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, certain grammatical
changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances.
It is the intention of the Township Committee that all such changes be adopted
as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally
amended to read as such.
B.
In addition, the following changes, amendments or revisions
are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this article.
(Chapter and section number references are to the ordinances as they have
been renumbered and appear in the Code.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Pursuant to § 1-14B, the following Code sections and chapters were amended, added or revised: §§ 11-8, 33-5, 33-7, 33-8A, 33-5G, 48-3, 51-1, 51-5, 51-16, 64-2, 64-9, 84-6G, 87-5, 87-6, 87-11, 87-13, 136-4 and 136-12 and Ch. 16. Original Section 3 of Article V of an ordinance adopted 12-20-1976, concerning the continuance of certain ordinances pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law; original Section 8(b) of an ordinance adopted 4-27-1964, concerning appointed nonresident officers; and original Section 10 of an ordinance adopted 10-24-1966, concerning animals running at large, were deleted. A complete description of these changes is on file in the office of the Township Clerk.
[Amended 12-6-2004 by Ord. No. 11-04-29]
A.
Except as hereinafter provided, whenever in this Code or in any
other ordinance of the Township or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated
pursuant to such Code or other ordinance of the Township, any act is prohibited
or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or whenever in such Code
or such other Township ordinance, rule, regulation or order the doing of any
act is required or the failure to do an act is decked to be unlawful, where
no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violator of any such provision
of this Code or any ordinance of the Township or any rule, regulation or order
promulgated pursuant to such Code or other Township ordinance shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $1,250, by imprisonment for a period not exceeding
90 days, or shall be required to perform community service for a period not
exceeding 90 days or by a combination of such fine, imprisonment and/or community
service. In addition, any person who is convicted of violating an ordinance
within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same ordinance
and who was fined for the previous violation, may, in the discretion of the
Court, be sentenced by the Court to an additional fine as a repeat offender
pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:49-5.
B.
Whenever any provision of state statute limits the authority
of the Township to punish the violation of this Code or other Township ordinance,
rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto to a fine of less amount
than that provided in this section or imprisonment for a shorter period than
that provided in this section, then the violation of such particular provision
of this Code or other Township ordinance, rule regulation or order shall be
punished by the imposition of not more than the maximum fine or imprisonment
so authorized or by both such fine or imprisonment.
C.
Each day any violation of this Code or other Township ordinance,
rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto shall continue shall
constitute a separate offense, unless otherwise provided.
D.
Whenever any fine is imposed upon any corporation, such fine
and any costs and charges incident thereto may be collected in an action of
debt or in such other manner as may be provided by law.
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[During the process of codification, certain complete new ordinances were adopted by the Township Committee for inclusion in the Code of the Township of Cranbury. Such new ordinances are noted in the histories of individual chapters as "Adopted . . . during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II." During the course of normal supplementation, specific dates of adoption will be inserted where pertinent in the text of the various chapters. The enumeration appearing below lists each chapter adopted during codification.]
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Chapter
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Date of Adoption
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41
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12-15-1980
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90
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12-15-1980
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113
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12-15-1980
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130
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2-23-1981
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