[Ord. No. 1983]
The book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General
Ordinances of the Township of Belleville, 1974," and is herein referred
to as the "revision".
[Ord. No. 1983; Ord. No. 2523]
Shall mean Council-Manager plan of the Optional Municipal
Charter Laws, N.J.S. 40:69A-81 et seq., and all applicable provisions
of the General Law.
Shall mean the Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to
law.
Shall mean the elected council members, including the Mayor
and Deputy Mayor of the Township of Belleville.
Shall mean an organization unit of the government established
or designated by this ordinance as a department, and any agency or
instrumentality of the government not allocated or assigned to such
an organization unit.
Shall mean statutes which are not inconsistent with the Charter
and either (1) are by their terms applicable or available to all municipalities,
or (2) relate to taxation, local courts, education, health, public
authorities serving more than one municipality, and municipalities
in an unsound financial condition.
Shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section
or chapter of this revision.
Shall mean the Township Manager appointed pursuant to the
Charter, or any Deputy Manager or Acting Manager temporarily serving
in place of a Manager, pursuant to Charter or ordinance.
Shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically
provided.
Shall refer to the Township of Belleville in the County of
Essex.
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 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 the Township of Belleville in the County of Essex
and State of New Jersey.
Shall mean any visual mode of reproducing words or numbers
on paper or similar material that is in general use.
Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically
provided.
For the purpose of this revision and 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, 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 other mode 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 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.
[Ord. No. 1983]
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 section.
[Ord. No. 2523]
a.Â
It
is the intent of the council in enacting this Code to exercise fully
the powers delegated by the Charter to organize and regulate its internal
affairs; and the provisions of the Code shall be construed liberally
to that end.
b.Â
The
Code shall be interpreted and administered as to maintain the separation
of legislative and administrative powers, as provided in the Charter.
c.Â
The penalty provisions of certain ordinances of the Township of Belleville as set forth in Chapter 3 shall be amended to provide for penalties of a maximum fine of $500 or a maximum period of imprisonment of 90 days, or both, and where applicable that each day such violation is continued or which is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense. Where the ordinance does not provide for a penalty, the ordinance shall be amended to add a penalty provision as follows:
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction hereto, be subject to a fine not exceeding $500, and/or
imprisonment of a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.
