This book shall be known and may be cited as the "Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Bernards 1984" and is herein referred
to as the "revision".
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For the purpose of this revision and in the interpretation and
application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require, the definitions contained
in this section shall apply:
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ADMINISTRATOR — Shall mean the administrator of the township
duly appointed pursuant to law.
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CLERK or TOWNSHIP CLERK — Shall mean the municipal clerk
duly appointed pursuant to law.
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DEPARTMENT — Shall mean an organizational unit of the
township government established or designated by ordinance or this
revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality
of the township government assigned to such organizational unit by
the township committee.
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LICENSED — Shall mean licensed in accordance with the
appropriate section or chapter of this revision.
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MONTH — Shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically
provided.
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OATH shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words "swear" and
"sworn" shall be construed to be equivalent to the words "affirm"
and "affirmed."
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OFFICER or OFFICIAL and the title of an officer or official
shall be construed as if the words "of the Township of Bernards" followed
it.
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ORDINANCE — Shall mean 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.
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OWNER — Shall mean 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 a building or land.
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PERSON — Shall mean any corporation, firm, partnership,
association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.
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PERSONAL PROPERTY — Shall mean 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.
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PRECEDING and FOLLOWING — Shall mean next before and next
after, respectively.
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PROPERTY — Shall mean real and personal property.
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PUBLIC GROUNDS, PUBLIC SQUARES, PUBLIC PLACE or PUBLIC PLACES
--- Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public ground,
public square, public park or other public place within the township.
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REAL PROPERTY — Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments,
all rights thereto and interests therein.
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RESOLUTION — Shall mean and include any act or regulation
of the township committee required to be reduced to writing, but which
may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.
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SIDEWALK — Shall mean any portion of a street between
the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use
of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
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STREET shall include 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.
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TENANT or OCCUPANT — Applied to a building or land, shall
include any person who occupies the whole or part of such building
or land, whether alone or with others.
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TOWNSHIP — Shall mean the Township of Bernards in the
County of Somerset and State of New Jersey.
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TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE or COMMITTEE — Shall mean the mayor
and township committee, constituted and elected pursuant to law.
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WEEK — Shall mean seven days.
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YEAR — Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically
provided.
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For the purpose of this revision and any other ordinances heretofore
or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
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The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the
future, the present.
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The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
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The feminine gender includes the masculine and neuter.
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The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the
singular.
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"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
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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 be a Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
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"Writing" and "written" includes printing, typewriting and any
other mode of communication using paper or similar material which
is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
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"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and," if
the sense requires and indicates such meaning.
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Whenever a specific time is used in this revision, it shall
mean the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of
New Jersey during any day in any year.
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Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this
revision shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance
as amended, whether or not such designation is included in this citation.
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"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the revision,
identified by a Roman numeral, and divided by subject matter.
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"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
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"Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified
by a decimal number.
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"Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a subsection, identified
by an alphabetical letter and/or Arabic number.
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If any chapter, section, subsection or paragraph
of this revision shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid
or inoperative, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction,
such chapter, section, subsection or paragraph shall, to the extent
that it is not unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, remain in
full force and effect, and no such determination shall be deemed to
invalidate the remaining chapters, sections, subsections or paragraphs
of this revision.
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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 General Ordinances of the Township of Bernards,
1984" required to be filed in the office of the clerk for the use
of the public. All changes in the revision and all ordinances adopted
by the township committee subsequent to the adoption of the revision,
which the township committee shall adopt specifically as a part of
the revision, shall, when finally adopted, be included therein by
reference until such change or new ordinances are printed as supplements
to the General Ordinances, at which time such supplements shall be
inserted therein. [New]
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