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The book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Scotch Plains, 1978" and is herein referred
to as the "revision."
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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:
Shall mean the municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to
law.
Shall mean an organizational unit of the government established
or designated by ordinance or this revision as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such
organizational unit by the Township council.
Shall mean Township 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 or any kind of 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 Township of Scotch Plains, in the County of
Union and State of New Jersey.
Shall mean the council of the Township of Scotch Plains.
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 seven days.
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.
Shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words "swear" and
"sworn" - shall be construed to be equivalent to the words "affirm"
and "affirmed."
See "tenant."
And the title of an officer or official shall be construed
as if the words "of the Township of Scotch Plains " followed it.
Shall mean any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common,
tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety, of
the whole or of a part of a building or land.
Shall mean goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys
and effects, evidences of debt, and all written instruments by which
any right to interest in, or lien or encumbrances upon, property or
any debt or financial obligation as created, acknowledged, evidenced,
transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and every
thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject
of ownership.
Shall mean next before and next after, respectively.
Shall mean real and personal property.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public
ground, public square, public park or other public place within the
Township.
Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights
thereto and interests therein.
Shall mean any portion of a street between the curbline and
the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding
parkways.
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who
occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone
or with others.
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For the purposes 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 the future tenses and
the future includes 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, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of
the Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
"Writing" and "written" shall include printing, typewriting
and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material
which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and," if
the sense requires and indicates such meaning .
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 revisions
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 or Arabic number.
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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.
