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.
[Ord. 8-20-68; New] |