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, the following terms shall
have the meaning indicated:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Red Bank in the County of Monmouth and State
of New Jersey.
DEPARTMENT
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
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or Chapter
of this Code.
MONTH
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
OATH
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."
OFFICER or OFFICIAL
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as
if the words "of the Borough of Red Bank" followed it.
ORDINANCE
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Code, 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.
OWNER
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.
PERSON
Any individual, natural person, 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.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
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 as 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.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
RESOLUTION
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.
SIDEWALK
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
STREET
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.
TENANT or OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who
occupies the whole or a part of such buildings or lands, either alone
or with others.
YEAR
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.