[1996 Code]
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, the definitions contained
in this section shall apply:
The Administrator of the Borough duly appointed pursuant
to law.
The Borough of Hightstown in the County of Mercer, State
of New Jersey.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Hightstown.
The municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
The Attorney for the Borough of Hightstown.
An organizational unit of the Borough government established
or designated by ordinance or this Revision as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned
to such organizational unit by the Borough Council.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Hightstown.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Revision.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
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."
Shall be construed as if the words "of the Borough of Hightstown"
followed it.
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.
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.
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization
or other entity, as well as an individual.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public
ground, public square, public parks, other public place or bodies
of water within the Borough.
Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights
thereto and interests therein.
Shall mean and include any act or regulation of the Borough
Council required to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally
passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.
That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line which has been paved with concrete or other approved
material and is intended for the use of pedestrians.
Shall include a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway,
boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, and crosswalk, and every
class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the
general public.
As 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.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
