[Adopted 8-19-2003 by Ord. No. 03-12]
[Amended 1-18-2011 by Ord. No. 11-04]
For the purpose of this Code, and in the interpretation and
application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require and except as such term
may be defined in another chapter of this Code, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Borough of Westwood, in the County of Bergen and State
of New Jersey.
The Governing Body of the Borough, constituted and elected
pursuant to law.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the Borough government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned
to such organizational unit by the Borough Council.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
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 equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as
if the words "of the Borough of Westwood" followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
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.
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 such building or land.
Any individual, natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures,
societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or
unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees, servants,
factors or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in
any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under
either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
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 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.
The next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public
ground, public square, public park or other public place within the
Borough.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
Includes any act or regulation of the Borough Council required
to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting
at which it is introduced.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes 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.
As applied to a building or land, includes any person who
occupies the whole or a part of such buildings or lands, either alone
or with others.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
