[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the Township of Monroe
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Be it ordained by the Council of the Township of Monroe, in
the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, as follows:
[Adopted 10-6-75 by Ord.
No. 276[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance was not signed or returned by
the Mayor within the required 10-day period and thus took effect as
if it had been signed.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Monroe of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Council; its predecessor body, the Township Committee; and the previously existing Board of Health of the Township of Monroe, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 130, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Monroe," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general
and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code,
except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly saved from repeal
or continued in force.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage and
publication according to law.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the
office of the Township Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination
by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and,
if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to
by the Clerk of the Township of Monroe by impressing thereon the seal
of the Township, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Township, to be made
available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times
while the said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code,
when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of
the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to
be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the "Code of the
Township of Monroe" shall be understood and intended to include such
additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments or supplements
to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and,
as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
the said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Township of Monroe, pursuant to law, shall
cause to be published, in the manner required, a copy of this adopting
ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Sufficient
copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk
for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours.
The enactment and publication of this adopting ordinance, coupled
with availability of copies of the Code for inspection by the public,
shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication
of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk, or someone authorized and
directed by him, to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book
containing the Code required to be filed in his office for the use
of the public. All changes in said Code and all ordinances adopted
subsequent to the effective date of this codification which shall
be adopted specifically as part of the Code shall, when finally adopted,
be included therein by reference until such changes or new ordinances
are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which time such supplements
shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code may be purchased
from the Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of
the Council, which may also arrange, by resolution, for procedures
for the periodic supplementation thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend,
by addition or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter
or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the law of the Township of Monroe to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone
violating this section or part of this ordinance shall be subject,
upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for
not more than 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge imposing
the same.
Each section of the Code, and every part of each section, is
an independent section or part of a section, and the holding of any
section or a part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other sections or parts thereof.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent section, and
the holding of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional,
void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the
validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent
nature, adopted and in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance
and not contained in the Code, are hereby repealed as of the effective
date of this adopting ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-12 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to February 3, 1975 (Ordinance No.
267).
B.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any
legislative provision prior to the effective date of this ordinance,
or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right
or liability.
C.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective date of
this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision, or any penalty,
punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending,
or any judgment rendered, prior to the effective date of this ordinance,
brought pursuant to any legislative provision.
E.
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted
or conferred.
F.
Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening,
relocating, straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement,
acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road,
highway, park or other public place, or any portion thereof.
G.
Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or transferring funds,
promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the
issuance and delivery of any bond or other instruments or evidence
of the Township's indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property,
or any lawful contract or obligation (including Ordinance No. 121
adopted June 3, 1963, and amended July 1, 1968, by Ordinance No. 171,
and Ordinance No. 209 adopted February 28, 1972).
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges.
J.
The dedication of property or approval of preliminary or final subdivision
plats.
K.
Any ordinance regulating traffic or parking, including Ordinance
No. 43 adopted August 1, 1938; Ordinance No. 93 adopted September
4, 1956; Ordinance No. 206 adopted November 3, 1971; Ordinance No.
215 adopted May 1, 1972; Ordinance No. 221 adopted September 6, 1972;
Ordinance No. 225 adopted November 8, 1972; Ordinance No. 240 adopted
September 5, 1973; and Ordinance No. 266 adopted February 3, 1975.
L.
An ordinance adopted April 17, 1972, as Ordinance No. 214, and entitled
"An Ordinance Fixing the Salaries and Wages for Various Officials
and Employees of the Township of Monroe, Providing for the Manner
of Payment Thereof and Ratifying Salaries and Payments to Employees
and Officials Previously Paid," as amended in its entirety May 21,
1973, by Ordinance No. 234, and any subsequent amendments or supplements
thereto.
A.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption and revision
as part of the Code pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, certain grammatical
changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances.
It is the intention of the Council that all such changes be adopted
as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously
formally amended to read as such.
B.
In addition, the following changes, amendments or revisions are made
herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this ordinance.
Chapter and section number references are to the ordinances as they
have been renumbered and appear in the Code.[1]
(1)
In accordance with the statutory provisions concerning local municipal
courts, the term "Recorder" or "Magistrate" or "Municipal Magistrate"
or other similar title is changed to "Judge" or "Judge of the Municipal
Court" wherever it may appear in the Code of the Township of Monroe.
(2)
Throughout the Code, the term "Township Committee" has been changed
to "Township Council," "Council" or similar designation in accordance
with the current form of Township government.
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Editor's Note: The following sections of the Code were added or amended pursuant to § 1-14B: §§ 3-70, 3-75, 3-80A(l), 8-4, 8-12, 20-5, 22-2, 22-3, 22-16, 33-8, 37-2, 37-3, 37-4, 41-2, 46-2, 46-3, 46-4, 54-1, 5-4-2B, 54-5, 54-6, 54-7, 58-2, 58-4, 58-7A, 61-1, 70-1, 70-2, 70-3, 89-2, 89-3, 89-4, 89-5, 89-6, 89-7, 89-8, 101-2, 105-1A, 105-10, 108-5C(3), 108-71, 125-2, 125-3, 125-4, 125-5, 125-6, 125-7 and 130-1. A complete description of these additions and amendments is on file in the office of the Township Clerk.
