N.J.S.A. 40:49-1. "Ordinance" and "resolution" defined.
The term "ordinance" when used in this subtitle means and includes any act or regulation of the governing body of any municipality required to be reduced to writing and read at more than one meeting thereof and published.
The term "resolution" when used in this subtitle means and includes any act or regulation of the governing body of any municipality required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.
This book shall be known and may be cited as the "Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Point Pleasant Beach in the County of Ocean (1968) " and is herein referred to as the "revision".
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:
BOROUGH
The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach in the County of Ocean and State of New Jersey.
BOROUGH COUNCIL OR COUNCIL
The six Council members elected at large in the Borough. The Borough Council shall be the legislative body of the Borough.[1]
CLERK OR BOROUGH CLERK
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
DEPARTMENT
An organizational unit of the Borough government established or designated by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned to such organizational unit by the Borough Council.
GOVERNING BODY
The Mayor and members of the Borough Council.
MAYOR
The chief executive of the borough government.[2]
MONTH
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
ORDINANCE
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this revision, 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.
PERSON
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.
YEAR
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
[1]
Source: N.J.S.A. 40A:60-6 (L. 1987, c. 379, s.1; amended 1988, c. 185, s.1.)
[2]
Source: N.J.S.A. 40A:60-5 (Added by P.L. 1987, c. 379, effective January 8, 1988.)
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.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
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 or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
"Writing" and "written" includes printing, typewriting, and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the revision, identified by a Roman numeral, and divided by subject matter.
"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
'Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified by a decimal number.
"Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a subsection, identified by an alphabetical letter and/or Arabic number.
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.