[New]
This book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Cherry Hill, 1995", and is herein referred
to as the "Revision" or "Code".
[New]
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 following definitions
shall be used in the Revision:
Shall mean the Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to
law.
Shall mean the Council of the Township of Cherry Hill elected
pursuant to the Charter.
Shall mean the County of Camden.
Shall mean calendar days.
Shall mean an organizational unit of the government established
or designated by ordinance or otherwise, together with any agency
or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational
unit by the Township Council.
Shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section
or chapter of this Revision.
Shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically
provided.
Shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words swear and
sworn shall be construed to be equivalent to the words affirm and
affirmed.
See tenant.
Shall be construed as if the words of the Township of Cherry
Hill followed it.
Shall mean 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.
When applied to a building or land shall include any part
owner, any corporation, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership,
joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part
of such building or land.
Shall mean any individual, natural persons, partnerships,
joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts,
corporations or unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees,
servants, factors of any kind or personal representatives of any kind
thereof in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other
person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
Shall mean next before and next after, respectively.
Shall mean real and personal property.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public
ground, public square, public park or other public place within the
Township.
Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights
thereto and interests therein.
Shall mean any portion of a street between the curbline and
the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding
parkways.
Shall include an 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. Street shall be considered to include a sidewalk or footpath,
unless the contrary is expressed or unless such construction is inconsistent
with the apparent intent.
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who
occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone
or with others.
Shall mean the Township of Cherry Hill in the County of Camden
and State of New Jersey.
Shall mean seven (7) days.
Shall mean 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.
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, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of
the Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
"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.
"And" may be construed as meaning or, and or as and, if the
sense requires and indicates such meaning.
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.
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.
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Revision
identified by an Arabic number 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 or Arabic number.
[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.
[New; Ord. #2006-10; 3-13-06]
Any person who shall violate any provision of "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Cherry Hill" or other ordinance of the
Township, where no specific penalty is provided regarding the section
violated, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by one or
more of the following: a fine not exceeding two thousand ($2,000.00)
dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days
or a period of community service not exceeding ninety (90) days at
the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Whenever a fine is to be imposed in an
amount greater than one thousand two hundred fifty ($1,250.00) dollars
for violations of housing or zoning codes the owner shall be provided
a thirty (30) day period during which the owner shall be afforded
the opportunity to cure or abate the condition and shall be afforded
the opportunity for a hearing before the Court for an independent
determination concerning the violation. Subsequent to the expiration
of the thirty (30) day period, a fine greater than one thousand two
hundred fifty ($1,250.00) dollars may be imposed if the Court has
determined that the abatement has not been substantially completed.
(N.J.S.A. 40:49-5)
[New]
The Township Council may prescribe that for the violation of
any particular provision of the Code or of any particular ordinance
at least a minimum penalty shall be imposed which shall consist of
a fine which may be fixed at an amount not exceeding one hundred ($100.00)
dollars. The Court before which any person is convicted of violating
any ordinance or Code provision shall have power to impose any fine,
term of punishment, or period of community service not less than the
minimum and not exceeding the maximum fixed in the Code or such ordinance.
(N.J.S.A. 40:49-5)
[New]
Any person who is convicted of violating this Code or an ordinance
within one (1) year of the date of a previous violation of the same
provision of this Code or of the same ordinance and who was fined
for the previous violation, shall be sentenced by a court to an additional
fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by the Court
upon a person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum
or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation of the ordinance
or Code provision, but shall be calculated separately from the fine
imposed for the violation of the ordinance or Code provision.
If the Township Council chooses not to impose an additional
fine upon a person for a repeated violation of any municipal ordinance,
the Township Council may waive the additional fine by ordinance or
resolution. (N.J.S.A. 40:49-5)
[New]
Any person convicted of the violation of any provision of this
Code or any ordinance may, in the discretion of the Court by which
he/she was convicted, and in default of the payment of any fine imposed
therefore, be imprisoned in the County jail or place of detention
provided by the Township for any term not exceeding ninety (90) days,
or be required to perform community service for a period not exceeding
ninety (90) days. (N.J.S.A. 40:49-5)
[New]
Except as otherwise provided, each and every day in which a
violation of any provision of this Code or any other ordinance of
the Township exists shall constitute a separate violation.
[New]
The maximum penalty stated, in this section is not intended
to state an appropriate penalty for each and every violation. At the
discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court, any lesser penalty,
including a nominal penalty or no penalty at all, may be appropriate
for a particular case or violation.
[New]
It shall be the duty of the Township Clerk or someone authorized
and directed by the Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy of
the book containing "The Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Cherry Hill, 1995" required to be filed in the office of the Township
Clerk for the use of the public. All changes in the Revision and all
ordinances adopted by the Township Council subsequent to the adoption
of the Revision, which the Township Council shall adopt specifically
as a part of the Revision, shall, when finally adopted, be included
therein by reference until such change or new ordinances are printed
as supplements to the Revision, at which time such supplements shall
be inserted therein.
