[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Wallington as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-18-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-15]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Borough of Wallington of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Mayor and Borough Council of the Borough of Wallington, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 400, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as Parts I and II of the Code of the Borough of Wallington, hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general
and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code,
including the 1992 Code, except such ordinances as are hereinafter
expressly saved from repeal or continued in force.
This ordinance 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 Borough Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination
by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and,
if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to
by the Clerk of the Borough of Wallington by impressing thereon the
Seal of the Borough, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Borough, to be made
available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times
while 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
Borough of Wallington" 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 Borough of Wallington, pursuant to law, shall
cause this Adopting Ordinance to be published, in the manner required,
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. 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 his or her office
for the use of 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, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Clerk, or an authorized agent of the Clerk, upon
the payment of a fee authorized by the Borough. The Clerk shall also
arrange for procedures for the periodic supplementation of the Code.
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 Borough of Wallington to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance shall
be subject, upon conviction, to one or more of the following: a fine
of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more than 90 days or
a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, 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 ordinance 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.
A.
Repeal of inconsistent ordinances. Except as provided in § 1-13, Ordinances saved from repeal, below, all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions contained in the Code adopted by this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall only be to the extent of such inconsistency, and any valid legislation of the Borough of Wallington which is not in conflict with the provisions of the Code shall be deemed to remain in full force and effect.
B.
Repeal of specific ordinances. The Mayor and Borough Council of the
Borough of Wallington has determined that the following ordinances
are no longer in effect and hereby specifically repeals the following
legislation:
(1)
Ordinance No. 83-2, Use of Borough Garbage and Dump Trucks, former Chapter 7, Article I, of the 1992 Code.
(2)
Former Chapter 11, Buildings and Grounds, Department of, of the 1992
Code.
(3)
Former Chapter 45, Health and Environment, Department of, of the
1992 Code.
(4)
Former Chapter 63, Local Assistance Board, of the 1992 Code.
(6)
Former Chapter 85, Public Safety, Department of, of the 1992 Code.
(7)
Former Chapter 115, Welfare and Aging, Department of, of the 1992
Code.
(9)
Former Chapter 209, Housing, Article I, Low-Income Housing for Senior
Citizens, of the 1992 Code.
(10)
Former Chapter 235, Article I, General Rules and Regulations for Parks and Recreational Areas, of the 1992 Code.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-12 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to 10-14-2013.
B.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any
legislative provision prior to the effective date of this ordinance
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 ordinance in violation of any legislative provision or any penalty,
punishment or forfeiture which may result therefor.
D.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending
or any judgment rendered, prior to the effective date of this ordinance,
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, changing 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, agreement or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges or the approval
of the municipal budget.
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.
L.
Any ordinance adopting or amending the Zoning Map.
M.
Any ordinance relating to or establishing a pension plan or pension
fund for municipal employees.
N.
Ordinance No. 2004-10, adopted September 30, 2004, which contains
fines for violations returnable in Municipal Court.
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 Mayor and Borough Council 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.
Nomenclature. The following terms have been updated throughout the
Code as follows: "Municipal Coordinator" to "Administrator"; "Department
of Health" (or "Department of Health and Environment") to "Board of
Health"; "Code Enforcement Official" to "Code Enforcement Officer";
and "Soil Conservation Service (SCS)" of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
to "Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)."
C.
General penalty. The following penalty sections have been added or amended to reference the general penalty in Chapter 1, Article II, of the Code: §§ 150-3, 157-13, 157-16, 157-19 and 157-23A, 160-6 and 160-16A, 164-13, 178-8B, 189-5 and 189-11, 209-6A; 212-12, 215-2, 224-5A, 227-14, 234-4A, 236-6, 238-2, 238-5 and 238-14, 241-5, 245-6, 250-12A and 250-17, 256-11, 264-2, 268-7 and 268-10, 272-12 and 272-22, 276-20, 279-3, 283-12, 286-7B, 289-5, 292-7, 296-8 and 296-15, 310-16, 313-6, 313-15, 313-21, 313-26, 313-31, 313-37 and 313-46, 317-5, 317-11, 317-17 and 317-23, 320-11A, 325-5, 325-8A and 325-23, 330-79, 336-18, 340-44A, 344-3A, 349-7, 355-22 and 365-94.
D.
In addition, the changes, amendments or revisions as set forth in
Schedule A attached hereto and made a part hereof are made herewith,
to become effective upon the effective date of this ordinance. (Chapter
and section number references are to the ordinances as they have been
renumbered and appear in the Code.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: In accordance with § 1-14C, the chapters, parts and sections that were added, amended, adopted or deleted by this ordinance are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article I. During routine supplementation, footnotes indicating amendments, additions or deletions will be replaced with the following history: [Amended (added, deleted) 12-18-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-15]. Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the Borough offices.
[Adopted 12-18-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-15]
If a chapter or article of the Code does not contain a penalty,
then the following penalty provisions shall apply:
A.
Maximum
penalty. For violation of any provisions of this chapter, any other
chapter of this Code or any other ordinance of the Township, the maximum
penalty, upon conviction, shall be one or more of the following: imprisonment
in the county jail or in any place provided by the municipality for
the detention of prisoners for any term not exceeding 90 days; or
by a fine not exceeding $2,000; or by a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days.
B.
A minimum
penalty not exceeding $100 shall apply for any and all violations
of any section of the Code of the Borough of Wallington.
C.
The court
shall have the power to impose any fine, term of imprisonment, or
period of community service not less than the minimum and not exceeding
the maximum set forth in this section upon any person convicted of
violating any section of the within Code or ordinances of the Borough
of Wallington.
D.
Any person
convicted of violating an ordinance and/or a section of this Code
within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same ordinance
and/or a section of this Code, and who was fined for the previous
violation, shall be sentenced by the court to an additional fine as
a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by the court upon a
person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum or
exceed the maximum fine established in this section but shall be calculated
separately from the fine imposed for the violation of the ordinance
and/or section of this Code.
E.
The Borough
of Wallington may waive the additional fine by ordinance or resolution
for a repeated violation of any ordinance and/or section of the Code.
Any person convicted of the violation of any ordinance and/or section
of the Code, in the discretion of the court and in default of the
payment of any fine imposed therefor, shall be imprisoned in the county
jail or place of detention provided by the municipality for any term
not exceeding 90 days, or be required to perform community service
for a period not exceeding 90 days.
