[Amended 10-20-1992 by Ord. No. 643-92]
This chapter shall be known and may be referred to as the "Administrative Code (1992)."
For the purposes of this chapter and in the interpretation and application of all other ordinances and resolutions heretofore or hereafter adopted by the city, except as the context may otherwise require, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CHARTER
Mayor-Council Plan B of Chapter 210 of New Jersey Laws of 1950, as amended and supplemented,[1] and any and all general laws as therein defined which are or may be applicable to the city.
CITY
The City of Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey, as governed by the provisions of the charter.
CLERK or CITY CLERK
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to the charter.
CODE
This chapter and any amendment thereof.
DEPARTMENT
An organizational unit or group of organizational units of the city government established or designated as a department by the code.
GOVERNING BODY
The Council created and constituted pursuant to the charter.
MONTH
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
PERSON
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.
YEAR
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
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Editor's Note: The application form is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
For the purposes of this chapter and any other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
A. 
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
B. 
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders.
C. 
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
D. 
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, and if the last day should be a Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
E. 
"Writing" and "written" include printing, typewriting, stencil duplicating and any other visual mode of reproducing words or figures on paper or paper-like material which is in general use.
All ordinances and resolutions heretofore adopted by the city and in force and effect on July 1,1972 shall remain in full force and effect to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the Charter or code.
In addition to such other sanctions as may be provided by law, a violation of any ordinance for which no penal sanction is otherwise provided shall be punishable as provided by N.J.S.A. 40:49-5.
A. 
All ordinances and parts of ordinances heretofore enacted which are inconsistent with any provision of the Charter or of this chapter are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed.
B. 
The repeal of any ordinance or part thereof by this chapter or by any other ordinance shall not revive any former ordinance or part thereof which may have been repealed by such repealed ordinance or part thereof.
If any article, section or part of this chapter shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such article, section 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 articles, sections or parts of this chapter.