[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Bordentown: Art I, 8-8-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-11;
Art. II, 12-24-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-5. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-8-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-11]
A. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of any chapter or Article of the Code of the City of
Bordentown or who aids, abets or assists in the violation of any provision
of any chapter or Article of the Code of the City of Bordentown or
who shall fail to comply with the provisions of any chapter or Article
of the Code of the City of Bordentown or who shall engage in or exercise
any business or occupation or do anything for which a license or permit
is required thereby without having a valid license or permit as may
be required by any chapter or Article of the Code of the City of Bordentown,
unless another penalty is specifically provided, shall, upon conviction,
be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment in the county
jail, or in any place provided by the City of Bordentown for the detention
of prisoners, for a term not exceeding 90 days or by a period of community
service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof, in the
discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court.
B. The continuation of any violation for successive days shall constitute a separate and distinct offense for each day, and the person, firm or corporation allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided in Subsection
A for each and every separate and distinct offense.
C. This Article shall not apply to a violation of any
chapter or Article for which a specific penalty is provided for the
violation of that chapter or Article nor shall this Article preclude
any chapter or Article from containing a mandatory minimum penalty
for the violation of that chapter or Article.
[Adopted 12-24-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-5]
The Board of Commissioners of the City of Bordentown do ordain Article
II entitled "Adoption of Code" shall state as follows:
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the City of Bordentown of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the governing body or any predecessor body, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of Chapters
1 through 305, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the Code of the City of Bordentown, hereinafter referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede
all other general and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment
of this Code, except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly
saved from repeal or continued in force.
All provisions of this ordinance and the Code
shall be in full force and effect in accordance with the applicable
provisions provided by law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been
filed in the office of the City Clerk and shall remain there for use
and examination by the public until final action is taken on this
ordinance, and if this ordinance shall be adopted, such a copy shall
be certified by the City Clerk of the City of Bordentown by impressing
thereon the Seal of the City as provided by law, and such certified
copy shall remain on file in the office of the City Clerk to be made
available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times
when said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements
to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the
intent of the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be
deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the
Code of the City of Bordentown shall be understood and intended to
include such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments
or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf
book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
The City Clerk of the City of Bordentown, pursuant
to law, shall cause to be published, in the manner required, a copy
of this adopting ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in
the city. Sufficient copies of the Code shall be maintained in the
office of the City Clerk for inspection by the public at all times
during regular office hours. The enactment and publication of this
adopting ordinance, coupled with the availability of copies of the
Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered
to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for
all purposes.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk or someone
authorized and directed by the Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified
copy of the book containing the Code required to be filed in the Clerk's
office for the use of the public. All changes in said Code and all
ordinances adopted subsequent to the effective date of this codification
which shall be adopted specifically as part of the Code shall, when
finally adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes
or new ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code book, at
which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code
may be purchased from the Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set
by resolution of the governing body, which may also arrange, by resolution,
for procedures for the periodic supplements thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter or tamper with such code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City of Bordentown to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating this section of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction, to the penalties contained in §
1-1.
Each section of the Code and every part of each
section is an independent section or part of a section, and the holding
of any section or a part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other sections or parts thereof.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent
section, and the holding of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional,
void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the
validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general
and permanent nature adopted and in force on the date of the adoption
of this ordinance and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed
as of the effective date of this adopting ordinance, except as hereinafter
provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in §
1-13 of this ordinance shall not effect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. Any ordinance adopted subsequent to January 1, 1990.
B. Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision prior to the effective date of this
ordinance or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement
of such right of liability.
C. Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision or
any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D. Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other
proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective
date of this ordinance brought pursuant to any legislative provision.
E. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred.
F. Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening,
altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing of grade,
changing of name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way,
easement, road, highway, park or other public place or portion thereof.
G. Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or
transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money
or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond or other instruments
or evidence of the city's indebtedness.
H. Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or
transfer of property or any lawful contract or obligation.
I. The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges.
J. The dedication of property or approval of preliminary
or final subdivision plats.
K. All currently effective ordinances pertaining to the
rate and manner of payment of salaries and compensation of officers
and employees.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for
adoption and revision as part of the Code pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4,
certain grammatical changes and other minor changes may have been
made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the
governing body that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code
as if the ordinances so changed have been previously formally amended
to read as such.
A. The Code as printed contains a number of provisions
for which revisions or deletions are necessary due to changes occurring
during the time the codification was in process.
B. It is the intention of the governing body that the following changes or amendments be adopted herewith to become effective on the effective date of this ordinance: Ordinance No. 1989-12 as it amends Chapter
250, Taxicabs, herein.
C. Compiled ordinances identified. All chapters not identified
are reserved for future use.
Chapter Number
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Title
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1
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General Provisions
|
7
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Attorney, Prosecutor and Public Defender
|
11
|
Bills and Claims, Payment of
|
17
|
Clerk, Deputy
|
21
|
Court, Municipal
|
27
|
Election Districts
|
31
|
Engineer, City
|
35
|
Escrow
|
36
|
Ethics, Code of
|
39
|
Fire Department
|
45
|
Indemnification of Employees
|
47
|
Interlocal Services Agreements
|
51
|
Land Use Procedures
|
55
|
Local Assistance Board
|
66
|
Police Department
|
74
|
Sewerage Authority
|
78
|
Sewer Rebate Program
|
82
|
Tax Collector
|
96
|
Alarm Systems
|
100
|
Alcoholic Beverages
|
104
|
Amusement Devices and Arcades
|
112
|
Bingo and Raffles
|
116
|
Boats
|
120
|
Bowling Alleys and Billiard Rooms
|
124
|
Buildings, Change in Ownership or Occupancy
|
130
|
Buildings, Unsafe
|
138
|
Construction Codes, Uniform
|
142
|
Curfew
|
148
|
Dogs and Other Animals
|
152
|
Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
|
162
|
Fire Safety
|
166
|
Flood Damage Prevention
|
174
|
Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
|
180
|
Historic Preservation
|
190
|
Littering
|
198
|
Newspaper Vending Boxes
|
206
|
Parks and Recreation
|
210
|
Peace and Good Order
|
216
|
Property maintenance
|
220
|
Property, Numbering of
|
228
|
Retail Food Establishments
|
240
|
Streets and Sidewalks
|
244
|
Subdivision of Land and Site Plan Approval
|
250
|
Taxicabs
|
258
|
Vehicles and Traffic
|
264
|
Water
|
300
|
Zoning
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