The book shall be known and may be cited as “The Revised
General Ordinances of the Borough of Harvey Cedars, 1975,” and
is herein referred to as the “revision”.
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:
“Clerk” or “borough clerk” shall mean
the municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
“Department” 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 borough board
of commissioners.
“Ordinance” 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.
“Person” 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.
“Borough” shall mean the Borough of Harvey Cedars
in the County of Ocean and State of New Jersey.
“Board” or “commissioners” shall mean
the governing body of the borough constituted and elected pursuant
to law.
“Street” 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.
“Month” shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise
specifically provided.
“Year” shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise
specifically provided.
“Licensed” shall mean licensed in accordance with
the appropriate section or chapter of this revision.
For the purpose 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 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 borough 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.
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 a Roman numeral 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.
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.