[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Eagleswood as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-27-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-11]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Eagleswood of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Eagleswood, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 295, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Eagleswood," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede 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 immediately upon passage and
publication according to law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the
office of the Township 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 Township of Eagleswood by impressing thereon the
Seal of the Township as provided by law, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Township, 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
Township of Eagleswood" 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 Township of Eagleswood, pursuant to law, shall
cause this Adopting Ordinance to be published, in the manner required,
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. 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 or her 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, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Clerk, or an authorized agent of the Clerk, upon
the payment of a fee authorized by the Township. The Clerk shall also
arrange for procedures for the periodic supplementation of the Code.
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 Township of Eagleswood to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance shall
be subject, upon conviction, to one or more of the following: a fine
of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more than 90 days or
a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, 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 a 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 provided. The
1977 Code of Ordinances, adopted March 2, 1977 by Ord. No. 5-77, is
specifically repealed.
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 April 27, 2015.
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 Township of Eagleswood's indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property
or any lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges or the approval
of the municipal budget.
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 Township Committee 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.
Nomenclature. The following terms have been changed where they appeared
in the prior Code:
C.
In addition, the changes, amendments or revisions as set forth in
Schedule A attached hereto and made a part hereof 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.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: In accordance with § 1-14C, the chapters, parts or sections that were added, amended, adopted or deleted by this ordinance are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. During routine supplementation, said footnotes will be replaced with the following history: [Amended (added, deleted) 7-27-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-11]. Schedule A, which contains a complete description of the changes, is on file in the Township offices.
[Adopted 3-28-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-04]
Whenever, in the Code of the Township of Eagleswood or in any
other ordinance of the Township or in any rule, regulation or order
promulgated by any officer or agency of the Township under authority
duly vested in him/her or it, any act is prohibited or is made or
declared to be unlawful or an offense or the doing of any act is required
or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no
specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provisions
of the Code or of any other ordinance of the Township or of any rule,
regulation or order, as aforesaid, shall be punishable by one or more
of the following: imprisonment in the county jail or in any place
provided by the municipality for the detention of prisoners for any
term not exceeding 90 days; or by a fine not exceeding $2,000; or
by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days; provided,
however, that where the penalty for any particular offense is limited
by state statute, then such limitation shall be applicable to the
provisions of the Code and other ordinances of the Township or any
rule, order or regulation, as aforesaid, notwithstanding the provisions
of this section.
A.
Each day
any violation of the Code or of any other ordinance of the Township
of Eagleswood, or any rule, regulation or order, as aforesaid, shall
continue shall constitute a separate offense.
B.
Each separate
act committed in violation of any provision of the Code or any other
ordinance of the Township, or any rule, regulation or order, as aforesaid,
shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such
separate offense.
