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 Township Committee, the following
words and phrases, when used in the Code of the Township of Middletown
or in any other ordinances of the Township, shall have the meanings
herein given:
AND; OR
May be construed as meaning "or" if the sense requires it.
CHARTER
Refers to Laws of 1971, Chapter 237, "A Special Act Relating
to the Government and Administration of the Township of Middletown
in the County of Monmouth," also known as "Middletown Charter, 1971."
(See Charter.)
COUNTY
The County of Monmouth.
GOVERNING BODY
The Mayor and Township Committee of the Township of Middletown
or such other duly authorized legislative body as shall be charged
with governing the Township.
MUNICIPAL
Of or pertaining to the Township of Middletown.
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.
OATH
Includes "affirmation"; and "swear" and "sworn" include "affirm"
and "affirmed."
OR
May be construed as meaning "and" if the sense requires it.
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 of a part of a building or land and 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 everything,
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 or
other public place within the Township which is within the jurisdiction
and control of the Township, and which is or may be in general use
by all citizens, and in which all have an equal right of passage and
repassage at will.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
REVISED STATUTES or N.J.S.A.
That body of statutory law known as the "Revised Statutes
of New Jersey (1937)" containing the general and permanent laws of
the state adopted on December 20, 1937, as amended and supplemented.
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.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Middletown, New Jersey.
WRITING
Except as to signatures, "writing" and "written" include
printing and any other mode of representing words, letters and figures.