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 meaning indicated:
The Borough of Highland Park in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey.
The governing body of the Borough, constituted and elected pursuant to law.
The municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the Borough government established or designated by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned to such organizational unit by the Borough Council.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. In such cases, the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
And the title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words "of the Borough of Highland Park" followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this revision, so long as it shall have been adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it shall remain in force and effect pursuant to law.
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 person, 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.
Goods and chattels, 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 every thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject of ownership.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public park or other public place within the Borough.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.
Includes any act or regulation of the Borough Council required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.
Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
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, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such buildings or lands, either alone or with others.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.