[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Phillipsburg as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-6-2006 by Ord. No. O:2006-24]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Town of Phillipsburg of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Phillipsburg, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 625, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Phillipsburg," 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, 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 Town 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 Town of Phillipsburg by impressing thereon the Seal of the Town, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Town, 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 Town of Phillipsburg" 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 Town of Phillipsburg, pursuant to law, shall cause this Adopting Ordinance to be published, in the manner required, in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. 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 to be set by the Town Council. The Clerk may 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 Town of Phillipsburg 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 he unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted and in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this Adopting Ordinance, except as hereinafter provided. This ordinance specifically repeals the former Code of the Town of Phillipsburg, adopted 6-19-1969 by Ordinance No. 998, as amended and supplemented.
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 4-4-2006.
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 therefrom.
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 Town'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.
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 Town 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. 
In addition, the changes, amendments or revisions as set forth in Schedule A[1] 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]
Editor’s Note: In accordance with § 1-14B, the chapters, parts and sections which were added, amended, adopted or repealed 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, repealed) 6-6-2006 by Ord. No. O:2006-24." Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the Town offices.
[Adopted 6-5-1984 by Ord. No. O:84-18 (§ 1-14 of the 1969 Code)]
[Amended 6-6-2006 by Ord. No. O:2006-24]
Whenever, in the revision and codification or in any other ordinance of the Town or rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the Town under authority duly vested in him or it, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provisions of the revision and codification or of any other ordinance of the Town or any rule, regulation or order, as aforesaid, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 90 days or by 90 days of community service, or any combination thereof; provided, however, that where the penalty for any particular offense is limited by state statute, then such limitation shall be applicable to the provisions of the revision and codification and other ordinances of the Town or rule, order or regulation, as aforesaid, notwithstanding the provisions of this section. Each day that any violation of the revision or codification or any other ordinance of the Town or any rule, regulation or order, as aforesaid, shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. Whenever any such fine shall be imposed upon any corporation, such fine and costs and charges incident thereto may be collected by an action of debt or in such other manner as may be provided by law.
[Added 4-16-1991 by Ord. No. O:91-14; amended 8-20-2013 by Ord. No. O:2013-14]
A. 
In the event that any check tendered for the payment of municipal fee for any permit, license or other application is returned to any agency or department of the Town of Phillipsburg for insufficient funds, or is dishonored by the bank upon which it is drawn, there shall be assessed to the payor a service charge in the amount of $20.
B. 
Subsequent payments may be required to be made in cash, certified check or cashier's check for all future payments by that agency or department.
C. 
In the event that any recipient of a check issued by the Town of Phillipsburg requests the Town to stop payment of the check due to, among other things, loss or destruction of the check, there shall be assessed to the recipient a stop-payment fee in the amount of $25.