[New]
This book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Borough of Cliffside Park, 1973" and is herein referred
to as the "Revision."[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Revised General Ordinances were republished
with amendments codified through Ordinance No. 2011-07, adopted April
5, 2011.
[New]
For the purpose of the revision, and in the interpretation and
application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereinafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require:
Shall mean the municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to
law.
Shall mean the County of Bergen.
Shall mean an organizational unit of the borough government
established or designed 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 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.
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 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 Cliffside Park in the County of
Bergen 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.
Applied to a building or land shall include any person who
occupied the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone
or with others.
[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 is 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 other modes 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 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.
[Ord. No. 1-8]
The seal heretofore provided and used by and for the borough
is hereby established and continued as the seal of the borough.
