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:
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.
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.