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 ordinance, the following
words and phrases when used in the Code of the City of Englewood or
in any other ordinance of the City, shall have the meaning herein
given:
CITY
The City of Englewood.
CITY JAIL
A place provided by the City of Englewood for detention of
prisoners.
COUNCIL
The City Council of the City of Englewood.
LEGAL HOLIDAY
The day in each year designated by the State of New Jersey
as public holidays pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 36:1-1,
including New Year's Day, the birthday of Martin Luther King,
Jr., Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Good Friday,
Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, General Election
Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, but excluding
Saturdays and Sundays generally.
[Added 12-3-1985 by Ord. No. 85-51]
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.
[Amended 4-24-2012 by Ord. No. 12-14]
OATH
Includes "affirmation"; and "swear" and "sworn" include "affirm"
and "affirmed."
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 part of a building or land, or 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,
public street, public sidewalk and public thoroughfare of any kind
and every other public place within the City which is within the jurisdiction
and control of the City.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interest therein.
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.
TENANT or OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, includes any person who occupies
the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with
others.
WRITING and WRITTEN
Except as to signatures, includes printing and any other
mode of representing words, letters and figures.