Editor's Note: Refer to Title 1 of the New Jersey
Revised Statutes for other definitions.
This book shall be known and may be cited as the Revised General
Ordinances of the Borough of Little Silver, 1973, 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:
shall mean the municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to
law.
shall mean 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.
shall mean 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.
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 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.
shall mean the Borough of Little Silver in the County of
Monmouth and State of New Jersey.
shall mean the mayor and councilmen of the borough.
shall include 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.
shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically
provided.
shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically
provided.
shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section
or chapter of this revision.
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 borough 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.
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 the year.
"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.
