[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Oldmans as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-3-1997 by Ord. No. 97-5]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Oldmans of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Oldmans, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
1 through
166, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Oldmans," hereinafter known and 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, including the 1978 Code, except such ordinances as are
hereinafter expressly saved from repeal or continued in force.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon passage and publication according to law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been
filed in the office of the Township 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 copy shall
be certified to by the Clerk of the Township of Oldmans by impressing
thereon the Seal of the Township, as provided by law, and such certified
copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Township,
to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during
all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements
to the Code, including those made to the 1978 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 Township of Oldmans"
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 Clerk of the Township of Oldmans, 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 Township. Sufficient copies of the Code shall be maintained in
the office of the Clerk for inspection by the public at all times
during regular office hours. The enactment and publication of this
Adopting Ordinance, coupled with 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 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 his or
her 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 Township Committee, which may also arrange, by
resolution, for procedures for the periodic supplementation 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 Township of Oldmans to be misrepresented
thereby. Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance
shall be subject, upon conviction, to one or more of the following:
a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more than 90
days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, in the
discretion of the Judge imposing the same.
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, including the 1978 Code, as amended, 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 §
1-12 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. Any ordinance adopted subsequent to February 7, 1997.
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 or 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, street, road, highway, park or other public place or any
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 Township's indebtedness.
H. Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or
transfer of property or any lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
I. The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges
or the approval of the municipal budget.
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.
L. Any ordinance adopting or amending the Zoning Map.
M. Any ordinance relating to or establishing a pension
plan or pension fund for municipal employees.
A. 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 were made in one or more
of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Township Committee
that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances
so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B. In addition, the following changes, amendments or
revisions are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective
date of this ordinance as set forth in Schedule A attached hereto
and made a part hereof (chapter and section number references are
to the ordinances as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code).
[Adopted 1-4-1978 by Ord. No. 78-1
as Sec. 1.08 of the 1978 Code, amended in its entirety 9-3-1997 by
Ord. No. 97-5]
A. Fines; terms of imprisonment and community service.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by the Code of the Township
of Oldmans for a particular provision, section, article or chapter,
any person violating any provision of this Code or any rule or regulation
adopted or issued in pursuance thereof or any provision of any code
adopted herein by reference shall, upon conviction, be subject to
a fine not exceeding $1,000, a term of imprisonment not exceeding
90 days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or
any combination thereof. The court before which any person is convicted
of such violation may impose any fine, any term of imprisonment or
period of community service not exceeding the maximums fixed herein.
B. Continuing violation. Each act of violation and every
day upon which a violation occurs or continues shall constitute a
separate offense.
C. Applicability. Unless another penalty is expressly
provided, the penalties provided by this section shall apply to the
amendments and supplements to any section of the Code or code adopted
by reference, whether or not such penalty is reenacted in the amendatory
or supplemental ordinance.
D. Reference to sections. Reference to any section of
this Code shall be understood to refer to and include the penalty
section relating thereto, unless otherwise expressly provided.
E. Failure of officers to perform duties. The failure
of any officer or employee of the Township of Oldmans to perform any
official duty imposed by this Code shall not subject such officer
or employee to the penalty imposed for violation of this Code, unless
a penalty is specifically provided.