Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly provided,
or unless there is something in the subject or context repugnant to
such construction, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent
of the Township Committee, the following words and phrases when used
in the Code of the Township of East Hanover or in any other ordinances
of the township shall have the meanings herein given:
GOVERNING BODY
The Mayor and Township Committee of the Township of East
Hanover, or such other duly authorized legislative body as shall be
charged with governing the township.
MUNICIPAL
Of or pertaining to the Township of East Hanover.
NEW JERSEY STATUTES ANNOTATED 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 Annotated,"
as amended and supplemented.
OWNER
Includes 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 of 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, 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 every
thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject
of 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 public 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 interests therein.
REVISED STATUTES OR N.J.S.A
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.
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 East Hanover, New Jersey.