[Adopted 3-21-1967 by Ord.
No. 1971]
The ordinances of the Borough of Rutherford, in the County of Bergen,
New Jersey, of a general and permanent nature, as codified, are ordained as
general ordinances and are adopted as the "Code of the Borough of Rutherford,
New Jersey," hereinafter referred to as the "Code."
All the provisions of the Code shall be in force and effect on and after
the effective date of this ordinance.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Council and in force on the 21st day of March 1967 and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided in §
1-4.
The repeal provided for in §
1-3 of this ordinance shall not affect:
A. Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or
forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before
the effective date of this ordinance.
B. Any ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing
the payment of money by or for the borough or authorizing the issuing of bonds
of the borough or evidence of the borough's indebtedness or any contract or
obligation assumed by the borough.
C. The administrative ordinances or resolutions of the borough
not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of the Code.
D. Any right of franchise conferred by the borough.
E. The annual budget appropriation ordinances or resolutions.
F. Any ordinance or resolution of the borough fixing the
compensation or salaries of the members of the Mayor and Council, or of the
borough officials and employees, or the pay or compensation of positions and
clerical employments in the borough not provided for in this Code.
G. Any ordinance of the borough creating employments, positions
or offices and fixing duties therefor not provided for in this Code.
H. Any prosecution, action, suit or other proceeding pending
or any judgment rendered on or prior to the effective date of this ordinance.
I. Any ordinance of the borough providing for laying out,
opening, altering, widening, relocating, straightening, acceptance or vacation
of any street, road or highway within the borough.
J. Any right, right-of-way or easement acquired or established
in any road return.
K. Any ordinance of the borough adopted upon final passage
after the seventh day of March 1967.
Any and all additions or amendments to said Code, when passed in such
form as to indicate the intention of the Borough Council to make the same
a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in said Code so that reference
to the Code of the Borough of Rutherford shall be understood and intended
to include such additions and amendments.
A certified copy of said Code shall be kept on file in the office of
the Borough Clerk. It shall be the duty of the Borough Clerk, or someone designated
by the Clerk, to insert in the designated places all amendments or ordinances
which indicate the intention of the Borough Council to make the same a part
of said Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and
to extract from said Code all provisions which may be from time to time repealed
by the Borough Council. This copy of said Code shall be available for all
persons desiring to examine the same and shall be considered the official
Code of the Borough of Rutherford.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to change or
amend by additions or deletions any part or portion of said Code, or to insert
or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with said Code
in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the Borough of Rutherford
to be misrepresented thereby.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the
extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Each section of said Code and every part of each section is an independent
section or part of a section, and the holding of any section or part thereof
to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause does not affect
the validity or constitutionality of any other section or part thereof.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately after final passage and
publication according to law.
[Adopted 12-5-1978 by Ord.
No. 2243-78]
Chapter
126 of the Code, entitled "Vehicles and Traffic," as adopted by Ordinance No. 2140-74 and as subsequently amended, supplemented and revised by Ordinance Nos. 2147-74, 2156-74, 2165-75, 2166-75, 2179-75, 2182-75, 2196-76, 2199-76, 2200-76, 2218-77 and 2227-78, all as printed in the Code of the Borough of Rutherford as of October 25, 1978, as Chapter
126, is hereby adopted and deemed to be the Vehicles and Traffic Ordinance of the Borough of Rutherford. Any vehicle and traffic legislation not included therein is hereby deemed repealed.