For the purpose of this chapter and in the interpretation and application of all other ordinances and resolutions heretofore or hereafter adopted by the Town, except as the context may otherwise require, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACTING APPOINTMENT
One to whom there has been a delegation of the department head or authority during the absence of another due to emergency, medical, professional or other scheduled or unscheduled leave of absence. An acting appointee shall be so designated when it is contemplated that the department head or employee whose position he is filling shall be returning to his or her position.
ADMINISTRATOR
The Business Administrator appointed pursuant to the Charter.
CHARTER or TOWN CHARTER
The Mayor-Council Plan of N.J.S.A. 40:69A-31 through 40:69A-48, as amended and supplemented, and any and all general laws as therein defined which are or may be applicable to the Town.
CLERK or TOWN CLERK
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to the Charter.
CODE
The Administrative Code, 1992, and all amendments and supplements thereto.
COUNCIL
The members of the Town Council constituted pursuant to the Charter.
DEPARTMENT
An organizational unit or group of organizational units of the Town government or designated as a department by this chapter.
DIRECTOR
The individual placed in charge of a department's activities pursuant to the Charter.
ELECTION
The Mayor and Council shall be elected at a November General Election pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1.
GOVERNING BODY
The Council created and constituted pursuant to the Charter.
INTERIM APPOINTEE
One who has been appointed to fill a vacancy while a search is being conducted to fill a permanent position. Such interim appointment may not exceed 60 days, unless extended by the Council pursuant to applicable ordinance.
MAYOR
The individual serving as chief executive officer of the Town pursuant to the Charter.
MONTH
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
PERSON
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.
TOWN
The Town of Phillipsburg in the County of Warren, State of New Jersey, as governed by the provisions of the Charter.
YEAR
A calendar year, unless otherwise specifically provided.
This chapter shall be known and may be referred to as the "Administrative Code."
For the purposes of the Administrative 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. 
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and includes the last day, and if the last day is a Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
E. 
"Writing" and "written" include printing, typewriting, stencil duplicating, computer printout, magnetic media and any other visual mode of reproducing words or figures on paperlike material which is in general use.