[New]
The book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Greenwich, 1978," and is herein referred
to as the "Revision."
[New; Ord. No. 2000-7]
For the purpose of this Revision, and in the interpretation
and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require:
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated
by ordinance or this Revision as a department, together with any agency
or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational
unit by the Township Committee.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Revision.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Revision, so long as it is adopted by the procedure
required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains
in force and effect pursuant to law.
Any individual, natural persons, partnerships, limited 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.
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.
The Township of Greenwich in the County of Warren and State
of New Jersey.
The Mayor and Township Committee of the Township of Greenwich.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
[New]
For the purpose of this Revision and any other ordinances heretofore
or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the
future, the present.
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The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
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The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
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Shall is mandatory and may is permissive.
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The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed
by excluding the first and including the last day and if the last
day be a Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of
the Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
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Writing and written shall include printing, typewriting and
any other mode of communication using paper or similar material which
is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
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Whenever a specific time is used in this Revision, it shall
mean the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of
New Jersey during any day in any year.
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Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this
Revision shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance
as amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
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Chapter shall mean one of the major divisions of the Revisions
identified by a Roman numeral and divided by subject matter.
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Section shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
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Subsection shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified
by a decimal number.
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Paragraph shall mean a subdivision under a subsection identified
by an alphabetical letter or Arabic number.
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[New]
If any chapter, section, subsection or paragraph of this Revision
shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative,
in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such chapter,
section, subsection or paragraph shall, to the extent that it is not
unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, remain in full force and
effect, and no such determination shall be deemed to invalidate the
remaining chapters, sections, subsections or paragraphs of this Revision.