[New]
This book shall be known and may be cited as the "Revised General
Ordinances of the Borough of Peapack and Gladstone, 1996" and is herein
referred to as the "Revision" or the "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 definitions contained
in this section shall apply:
Shall mean the Administrator of the Borough duly appointed
pursuant to law.
Shall mean the Borough of Peapack and Gladstone in the County
of Somerset, State of New Jersey.
Shall mean the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Peapack
and Gladstone.
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 the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Peapack
and Gladstone.
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 affirmative 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."
Shall be construed as if the words "of the Borough of Peapack
and Gladstone" followed it.
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 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.
Shall mean any corporation, firm, partnership, association,
organization or other entity, as well as an individual.
Shall mean next before and next after, respectively.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public
ground, public square, public parks, other public place or bodies
of water within the Borough.
Shall mean and include any act or regulation of the Borough
Council required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally
passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.
Shall mean that portion of a street between the curb line
and the adjacent property line which has been paved with concrete
or other approved material and is intended for the use of pedestrians.
Shall include a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway,
boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, and crosswalk, and every
class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the
general public.
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 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 feminine gender includes the masculine 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.
"And" may be construed and 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 this citation.
[New]
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Revision,
identified by an Arabic 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.
[1]
Editor's Note: Penalty provision taken from N.J.S.A.
40:49.5.
[New; Ord. No. 883 § 1]
For violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance
of the Borough of Peapack and Gladstone, 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. Provided, however, that as to any
violations by a property owner of housing or zoning codes, a violation
shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand two hundred
fifty ($1,250.00) dollars, unless the property owner has been provided
with a notice stating that the property owner has a thirty (30) day
period in which to cure or abate the condition, and that the property
owner may seek a hearing before a Court of competent jurisdiction
for an independent determination concerning the violation. In the
event that the aforementioned notice has been given, subsequent to
the expiration of the thirty (30) day period, a fine not exceeding
two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars may be imposed if a Court has not
determined otherwise, or upon reinspection of the property, it is
determined that the cure or abatement has not been substantially completed.
[New]
The Borough 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 Borough Council or Municipal Court chooses not to impose
an additional fine upon a person for a repeated violation of any municipal
ordinance, in its discretion, the Council or Court does not have to
impose the additional fine.
[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 Borough, for any term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or be
required to perform community service for a period not exceeding ninety
(90) days.
[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 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.
[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]
It shall be the duty of the Borough Clerk or someone authorized
and directed by the Borough Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified
copy of the book containing "The Revised General Ordinances of the
Borough of Peapack and Gladstone, 1996" required to be filed in the
office of the Clerk for the use of the public. All changes in the
Revision and all ordinances adopted by the Borough Council subsequent
to the adoption of the Revision, which the Borough Council shall adopt
specifically as a part of the Revision, shall, when finally adopted,
be included herein by reference until such change or new ordinances
are printed as supplements to the Revised General Ordinances, at which
time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
