Unless otherwise expressly provided or unless there
is something in the subject or content repugnant to such construction
or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Health,
the following words and phrases, when used in this Part III of the
Code or in any other ordinances of the Board of Health, shall have
the meanings herein given:
CODE
Part III of the Code of the Township of Bloomfield.
GOVERNING BODY
The Mayor and Council members of the Township of Bloomfield
or such other duly authorized legislative body as shall be charged
with governing the Township of Bloomfield.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer appointed by the local Board of Health.
MUNICIPAL
Pertains to the Township of Bloomfield.
NEW JERSEY STATUTES or N.J.S.A.
That body of statutory law containing revisions of the Revised
Statutes of New Jersey and known as the "New Jersey statutes," as
amended and supplemented.
OATH
Includes "affirmation," "swear" and "sworn," including "affirm"
and "affirmed."
OWNER
Includes the sole owner and any part owner, joint owner,
tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by
the entirety of the whole or part of a building or land and personal
property.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, societies, firms, partnerships,
associations, organizations and any other group or entity acting as
a unit, as well as an individual.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and
effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written instruments
by which any right to, interest in or lien or encumbrance upon property
or any debt or financial obligation is created, acknowledged, evidenced,
transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything,
except real property as herein defined, which may be subject to ownership.
PROPERTY
Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC GROUND, PUBLIC SQUARE or PUBLIC PLACE
Any and every public ground, public square, public park or
other place within the Township which is within the jurisdiction and
control of the Township and which is or may be in general use by all
citizens and in which all have an equal right of passage and repassage
at will.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interest therein.
REVISED STATUTES or R.S.
That body of statutory law known as the Revised Statutes
of New Jersey (1937), containing the general and permanent laws of
the state adopted on December 20, 1937, as amended and supplemented.
SIDEWALK
Any portion of a street or highway between the curbline or
the lateral line of a shoulder or, if none, the lateral line of the
roadway and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE
The State of New Jersey.
STATE SANITARY CODE
Those regulations adopted by the Public Health Council pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 26:1A-7 and which have the force and effect of law and
which can be found in Title 8 of the New Jersey Administrative Code.
STREET
Includes highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, courts, public
lanes, alleys, sidewalks, footpaths and all other public highways
for vehicular or pedestrian travel.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Bloomfield, New Jersey.