[HISTORY: Adopted by the Municipal Council of the Borough
of Hawthorne 4-6-2011 by Ord. No. 2035-11.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former Art.
II, General Penalty, adopted 8-7-1996 by Ord. No. 1649, as amended.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the various chapters and Articles of the Revised Ordinances, 1989 Code of the Borough of Hawthorne, and the other ordinances of the Borough of Hawthorne of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Borough of Hawthorne, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 540, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Borough of Hawthorne," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede the 1989 Code of
the Borough of Hawthorne, and all other general and permanent ordinances
enacted prior to the enactment of this Code, except such ordinances
as are hereinafter expressly saved from repeal or continued in force.
This ordinance shall take effect 20 days after final passage,
provided that notice of the same has been duly published, all as required
by law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the
office of the Borough 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 Borough of Hawthorne by impressing thereon the
Seal of the Borough, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Borough, 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,
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
Borough of Hawthorne" 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 Borough of Hawthorne, 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 Borough. 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 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 Municipal Council, 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 Borough of Hawthorne to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section or part of this ordinance shall be subject,
upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $2,000 or to imprisonment
for not more than 90 days, or both, 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 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
and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective
date of this Adopting Ordinance, except as hereinafter saved from
repeal.
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 January 1, 2011.
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 Borough's indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property,
or any lawful contract or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges.
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 Municipal Council 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:
Chapter and section number references are to the ordinances as they
have been renumbered and appear in the Code.
C.
Nomenclature throughout the Code has been changed with the following
terms updated as indicated:
A.
Except as
hereinafter provided, whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance
or resolution of the Borough or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated
pursuant to such Code or other ordinance of the Borough any act is
prohibited or made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or whenever
in such Code or in such other Borough ordinance, resolution, rule,
regulation or order the doing of any act is required or the failure
to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense, where no specific
penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision
of this Code or of any other ordinance or resolution of the Borough
or any rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant to such Code
or other Borough ordinance shall be punished by one or more of the
following:
B.
Whenever
any provision of the New Jersey Revised Statutes limits the authority
of the Borough to punish the violation of any particular provision
of this Code or other Borough ordinance or rule, regulation or order
promulgated pursuant thereto to a fine of less amount than that provided
in this section or imprisonment for a shorter term than that provided
in this section, then the violation of such particular provision of
this Code or other Borough ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation
or order shall be punished by the imposition of not more than the
maximum fine or imprisonment so authorized or by both such fine or
imprisonment.
C.
Each day
any violation of this Code or any other Borough ordinance, resolution,
rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto shall continue
shall constitute a separate offense, unless otherwise provided.
D.
Whenever
any such fine is imposed upon any corporation, such fine and costs
and charges incident thereto may be collected in an action of debt
or in such other manner as may be provided by law.
