[Derived from § 1-2 of the 1971 Code]
[Amended 7-23-2019 by Ord. No. 2332-19]
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 definitions
shall be used in the Code:
The pertinent provisions of the Optional Charter Law of the
State of New Jersey governing Council-Manager Plan A (Article 9)[1] under which this Township government is constituted.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
The Township Council of the Township of Lawrence.
The County of Mercer.
The calendar days.
An organized unit of the government established or designated
by this Code as a department.
The head of an administrative department of the Township
government.
The Municipal Council as constituted by the Township Charter.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
The Township of Lawrence in the County of Mercer.
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as
if the words "of the Township of Lawrence" followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Code, 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.
As applied to a building or land, shall mean and include
any part owner, any corporation, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant
in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole
or of a part of such building or land.
Move and extend and be applied to associations, firms, partnerships
and bodies politic and corporate, as well as individuals.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Severally be construed to mean any and every public ground,
public square, public park or other public place within the Township.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes an 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. Street shall be considered to include a sidewalk or footpath,
unless the contrary is expressed or unless such construction is inconsistent
with the apparent intent.
The Township of Lawrence in the County of Mercer and State
of New Jersey.
The Township Clerk, Chief of Police or such other Township
Officer or Department, respectively, of the Township of Lawrence,
New Jersey.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
[1]
Editor’s Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:69A-81 et seq.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
In the construction of this Code and of all other ordinances,
the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would
be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Township Council:
A.
Committee. Whenever in this Code any committee is mentioned
by name or title, such committee shall be understood to be the committee
of the Township Council designated by such name or title, unless otherwise
indicated.
B.
Computation of time. In computing any period of time,
the day of the act or event after which the designated period begins
to run shall not be included. The last day of the period so computed
shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday,
in which event the period shall run until the end of the next day
which is neither a Saturday, Sunday nor a holiday. When a period of
time prescribed or allowed is less than seven days, intermediate Saturdays,
Sundays and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
C.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future,
the present.
D.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
E.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
F.
Shall is mandatory and may is permissive.
G.
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.
H.
And may be construed as meaning or, and or as and, if the sense requires and indicates
such meaning.
I.
Whenever a specific time is used in this Code, it shall mean the
prevailing and established time in effect in the State of New Jersey
during any day in any year.
J.
Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this Code
shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as amended,
whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
K.
Chapter shall mean one of the major divisions of this
Code identified by an Arabic numeral and divided by subject matter.
L.
Section shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
M.
Subsection shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified
by a decimal number.
N.
Paragraph shall mean a subdivision under a subsection,
identified by an alphabetical letter or Arabic number.
