The book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Southampton, and is herein referred
to as the "revision."
For the purpose of this revision, and in the interpretation
and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require:
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
The County of Burlington.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated
by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency
or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational
unit by the Township Committee.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this revision.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this revision, so long as it is adopted by the procedure
required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains
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.
The State of New Jersey.
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 Southampton in the County of Burlington and
State of New Jersey.
The Mayor and committee of the township.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
For the purpose of this revision and any other ordinances heretofore
or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the
future, the present.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
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.
"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.
Whenever a specific time is used in this revision, it shall
mean the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of
New Jersey during any day in any year.
Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this
revision shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance
as amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the revisions
identified by a Roman numeral and divided by subject matter.
"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
"Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified
by a decimal number.
"Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a subsection, identified
by an alphabetical letter or Arabic number.
If any chapter, section, subsection or paragraph of this revision
shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative,
in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such chapter,
section, subsection or paragraph shall, to the extent that it is not
unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, remain in full force and
effect, and no such determination shall be deemed to invalidate the
remaining chapters, sections, subsections or paragraphs of this revision.
All ordinances heretofore adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Southampton, of a general nature and relating to
the subject matter herein contained, are repealed. The provisions
of this code, so far as they are the same in substance as those of
heretofore existing ordinances shall be considered continuations of
such ordinances and not new enactments. Any act done, offense committed
or right accruing, accrued or acquired or liability, penalty, forfeiture
or punishment incurred prior to the time of such repeal are not affected
by such repeal, but may be enjoyed, asserted, enforced, prosecuted
or inflicted as fully and to the same extent as if such repeal had
not been effected.
No ordinance or part of any ordinances heretofore repealed shall
be considered reordained or reenacted by virtue of this code, unless
specifically reenacted. The repeal of any curative or validating ordinances
does not impair or affect any cure of validation already effected
thereby.
Unless otherwise provided in this code, this code shall apply
to all acts performed within the corporate limits of the Township
of Southampton. Provisions of this code shall also apply to acts performed
outside the corporate limits and up to the limits provided by law,
where the law confers power on the Township to regulate such particular
acts outside the corporate limits.
