This book shall be known and may be cited as the "Revised General Ordinances of the Township of Ocean in the County of Monmouth (1965)" 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:
CLERK OR TOWNSHIP CLERK
Shall mean the municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
DEPARTMENT
Shall mean an organization unit of the township government established or designated by ordinance or this Revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the township government assigned to such organization unit by the township council.
MONTH
Shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
ORDINANCE
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.
PERSON
Shall mean any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.
TOWNSHIP
Shall mean the Township of Ocean in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey.
TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OR COUNCIL
Shall mean the governing body of the township, constituted and elected pursuant to law.
YEAR
Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
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 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.
"Chapter" shall mean one of the 28 major divisions of the Revision, identified by Arabic numbers, 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.