[Adopted 7-7-1980 as Sec. 1-2 of
Ch. I of the Revised General Ordinances]
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 terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
See Chapter 3.
[1]The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
The Township Council of the Township of Mount Holly elected
pursuant to the Charter Act.
The County of Burlington.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated
by ordinance or this Code as a department, together with any agency
or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational
unit by the Township Committee.
The director of the department to which the division, bureau,
board or other agency is assigned.
See Chapter 3.
The Township Council of the Township of Mount Holly or such
other duly authorized legislative body charged with governing the
Township.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
The Township Manager of Mount Holly Township appointed by
Council pursuant to the provisions of the Charter Act.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Includes an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an
affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases, the
words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm"
and "affirmed."
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 and so long as it is not inconsistent
with the Charter Act.
Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, 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.
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.
Includes goods and chattel, rights and credits, moneys and
effects, evidences of debt and all written instruments by which any
right to, interest in or lien or encumbrances upon property or any
debt or financial obligation as created, acknowledged, evidenced,
transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything
except real property as herein defined which may be subject of ownership.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Includes real and personal property.
Severally, any and every public ground, public square, public
park or other public place within the Township.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights
thereto and interests therein.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
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.
Applied to a building or land, includes any person who occupies
the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with
others.
The Township of Mount Holly in the County of Burlington and
State of New Jersey.
The Mayor and Council of the Township.
Construed as if the words "of Mount Holly" followed it.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
[1]
Editor's Note: See also N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1
et seq.
For the purpose of this 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.
"Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive.
E.
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 is a Sunday, a legal holiday or a day on which the offices
of the Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
F.
"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.
G.
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.
H.
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.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The definitions of "chapter,"
"section," "subsection" and "paragraph," which referred to the prior
Revised General Ordinances, have been deleted. See the Preface of
the Code.
