[1974 Code § 1-1; New]
The book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Woodbridge, 1996" and may also be cited
as the "Code" or the "Revision."
[1974 Code § 1-3; New]
For the purpose of this Code, 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 Code:
Shall mean the provisions of the Optional Municipal Charter
Law, L. 1950, c. 210, as amended (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1 et seq.) applicable
to that form of government provided therein known as "Mayor-Council
Plan F."
Shall mean the Municipal Council of the Township of Woodbridge.
Shall mean the County of Middlesex, New Jersey.
Shall mean any law or provision of law, not inconsistent
with the Optional Municipal Charter Law heretofore or hereafter enacted
which is by its terms applicable or available to all municipalities,
and the following additional laws whether or not such additional laws
are so applicable or available to all municipalities; legislation
relating to taxation, local courts, education, health, public authorities
serving more than one (1) municipality, and municipalities in unsound
financial condition.
Shall mean the Municipal Council of the Township of Woodbridge,
duly elected as provided by law, or such other duly authorized body
as shall be charged by law with governing the Township.
See Street, infra.
Shall mean a person under eighteen (18) years of age.
Shall mean a calendar month.
See Governing body, supra.
Shall mean the Township of Woodbridge.
Shall mean the official instrument of the State for codification
of its rules.
Shall mean that body of statutory law containing revisions
of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey and known as the New Jersey
Statutes Annotated, as amended and supplemented.
Includes "affirmation"; and "swear" and "sworn" include "affirm"
and "affirmed."
See Tenant, infra.
Shall be construed as if the words "of the Township of Woodbridge"
followed it.
Shall mean sole owner and any part owner, joint owner, tenant
in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety,
of the whole or of a part of a building or land, and personal property.
Shall mean and include corporations, companies, societies,
firms, partnerships, associations, organizations and any other group
or entity acting as a unit, as well as an individual.
Shall mean and include goods and chattels, rights and credits,
moneys and effects, evidences of debt, choses in action and all written
instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrance
upon, property or any debt of financial obligation is created, acknowledged,
evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated in whole or in part,
and every thing, except real property as herein defined, which may
be the subject of ownership.
Shall mean next before and next after, respectively.
Shall mean real and personal property.
Shall mean any and every public ground, public square, public
park or other public place within the Township which is within the
jurisdiction and control of the Township, and which is or may be in
general use by all citizens, and in which all have an equal right
of passage and repassage at will.[1]
Shall mean lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights
thereto and interests therein.
Shall mean the Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Shall mean that body of statutory law known as the Revised
Statutes of New Jersey (1937) containing the general and permanent
laws of the state adopted on December 20, 1937, as amended and supplemented.
Shall mean any portion of a street or highway between the
curbline or the lateral line of a shoulder, or, if none, the lateral
line of the roadway, and the adjacent property line, intended for
the use of pedestrians.
Shall mean the State of New Jersey.
Shall include highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, courts,
public lanes, alleys, sidewalks, foot paths and all other public highways
for vehicular or pedestrian travel.
Shall mean any person who occupies the whole or part of a
building or land, whether alone or with others.
Shall mean the Township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex.
Shall mean the governing body of the Township of Woodbridge.
Shall mean seven (7) days.
Shall mean a calendar year.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Pamoplas v. Marinos, 98 N.J. L. 665, 121
A. 727 (Sup. Ct. 1923); State v. Gross, 96 N.J.L. 401, 115 A. 743
(Sup. Ct. 1921).
[1974 Code § 1-2; New]
For the purposes of this Code 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.
Words used in the singular number include the plural, and words
used in the plural include the singular number.
"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 Code, 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
Code shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as
amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
Technical words and phrases, and words and phrases having a
special or accepted meaning in the law, shall be construed in accordance
with such technical or special and accepted meaning.
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Code
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.
[1974 Code § 1-10]
If any chapter, section, subsection or paragraph of this Code
shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative,
in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such chapter,
section, subsection, paragraph or part 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, paragraphs or parts
of this Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: Penalty provision taken from N.J.S.A. 40:49.5.
[1974 Code § 1-9; Ord. #84-49 § 1; New;
Ord. #05-12; Ord. #09-55]
For violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance
of the Township of Woodbridge unless a specific penalty is otherwise
provided in connection with the provision violated, the maximum penalty
upon conviction of the violation shall be by one (1) or more of the
following: imprisonment in the County Jail or in any place provided
by the municipality for the detention of prisoners, for any term not
exceeding ninety (90) days; or by a fine not exceeding two thousand
($2,000.00) dollars; or by a period of community service not exceeding
ninety (90) days.
Any municipality that chooses to impose a fine in an amount
greater than one thousand two hundred fifty ($1,250.00) dollars upon
an owner for violations of housing or zoning codes shall provide a
30-day period in which the owner shall be afforded the opportunity
to cure or abate the condition and shall also be afforded an opportunity
for a hearing before a court of competent jurisdiction for an independent
determination concerning the violation. Subsequent to the expiration
of the 30-day period, a fine greater than one thousand two hundred
fifty ($1,250.00) dollars may be imposed if a court has not determined
otherwise or, upon reinspection of the property, it is determined
that the abatement has not been substantially completed.
[1974 Code § 1-9; 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.
[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 Municipal Council chooses not to impose an additional
fine upon a person for a repeat violation of any municipal ordinance,
the Council may waive the additional fine by ordinance or resolution.
[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 was convicted, and in default of the payment of any fine imposed
therefor, 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.
[1974 Code § 1-9; Ord. #84-49 § 1]
Except as otherwise provided, each and every day in which a
violation of any provision of this Code or any other ordinance of
the Borough 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.
[1974 Code § 1-9; Ord. #84-49 § 1; New]
The imposition of a fine or imprisonment as punishment for a
violation of these Revised Ordinances or of any other ordinances of
the Township shall not be deemed to be in lieu of any other provision
therein providing for revocation or suspension of any license or permit
issued thereunder.
[New; Ord. #00-55 § 1]
a.
Unless otherwise specifically set forth in the Code, any Township
official or sworn law enforcement official, whether employed by the
Township or not, can enforce any or all of the provisions of this
Code.
b.
Any initial notice period that may be required by law before which
a summons may be issued for a violation of any ordinance contained
in this Code, shall not apply to repeat violators. The repeat violators
shall be subject to immediate action by the appropriate Township official
and may immediately be issued a summons for a violation of this Code.
For the purposes of this Code, repeat violator(s) shall mean a person
or persons who has previously been served with a notice of violation
within the last two (2) years for a substantially similar violation
of this Code.
[1974 Code § 1-4]
The provisions of the "Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Woodbridge 1996" not inconsistent with prior ordinances in effect
at the adoption of the "Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Woodbridge 1996" shall be construed as a continuation thereof,
rather than as new enactments.
[1974 Code § 1-5]
All references in the "Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Woodbridge, 1996" to chapters or sections are to chapters or sections
of the "Revised General Ordinances of the Township of Woodbridge,
1996." Such references to chapters shall be construed to refer to
all the sections within the chapters to which such references are
made.
[1974 Code § 1-6]
In the construction of the "Revised General Ordinances of the
Township of Woodbridge, 1996" or of any part thereof, cross-references
or cross-reference notes, sources indicated by parenthetical material
after a section, notes, footnotes and section headings shall not be
deemed to be part of the "Revised General Ordinances of the Township
of Woodbridge, 1996."
[1974 Code § 1-7]
Whenever an ordinance that repeals an earlier ordinance or part
thereof is itself repealed, such repeal shall not revive the former
ordinance or part thereof, unless specific provision is made therefor.
[1974 Code § 1-8]
The Official Seal of the Township of Woodbridge designated and
established as the Official Seal of the Township, as provided in the
ordinance of March 7, 1967, is hereby continued as the Official Seal
of the Township.
