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.
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.
MAYOR
The chief executive of the borough government.
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.
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.