[Adopted 11-4-2021 by Ord. No. 21-20-2021]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Kingwood of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Kingwood, as revised and codified and consisting of Chapters
1 through
132, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the Code of the Township of Kingwood, hereinafter referred to as the "Code." The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of the ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and not as new enactments. This ordinance and the Code adopted hereby shall supersede and replace the 1979 Code of the Township of Kingwood, as amended and supplemented.
The Clerk of the Township of Kingwood shall cause notice of the passage of this ordinance to be given in the manner required by law. The notice of passage of this ordinance coupled with filing of the Code in the office of the Township Clerk as provided in §
1-2 shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Each section of this ordinance and 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 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and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective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 ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in §
1-5 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 May 6, 2021.
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 of grade, changing of 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, agreement or obligation.
I. The levy
or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges or the approval of
the municipal budget.
J. The dedication
of property or approval of preliminary or final subdivision plats.
K. All currently
effective ordinances pertaining to the rate and manner of payment
of salaries and compensation of officers and employees.
L. Any ordinance
adopting or amending the Zoning Map.
M. Any ordinance
relating to or establishing a pension plan or pension fund for municipal
employees.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to change, alter or tamper with
the Code in any manner which will cause the laws of the Township of
Kingwood to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating this section
shall be subject, upon conviction, to one or more of the following
penalties: a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more
than 90 days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days,
in the discretion of the Judge imposing the same.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon final passage
and publication as provided by law.
[Adopted 5-19-1997 by Ord. No. 9-3-97]