[Adopted 12-31-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-37 (§§ 1-2,
1-3 and 1-6 of the 2001 Code)]
For the purpose of this Code, and in the interpretation
and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted,
except as the context may otherwise require, the following definitions
shall be used in the Code:
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant t law.
Includes appointed titles of Public Officer I and Public
Officer II, where the duties and responsibilities of the office of
Public Officer I shall include signing summonses to be issued to persons
found in violation of the Code, and the duties and responsibilities
of the office of Public Officer II shall include field investigations
and issuing of summonses to offenders.
[Added 2-12-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-6]
The County of Mercer.
The calendar days.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated
by ordinance or otherwise, together with any agency or instrumentality
of the government assigned to such organizational unit by the governing
body.
The governing body of the Township, constituted and elected
pursuant to law.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Includes 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."
Construed as if the words "of the Township of Robbinsville"
followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Code, 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.
When applied to a building or land shall include any part
owner, any corporation, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership,
joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part
of such building or land.
Any individual, natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures,
societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or
unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees, servants,
factors of any kind or personal representatives of any kind thereof
in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person,
under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Any and every public ground, public square, public park or
other public place within the Township.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes an 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. Street shall be considered to include a sidewalk or footpath,
unless the contrary is expressed or unless such construction is inconsistent
with the apparent intent.
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.
The Township of Robbinsville in the County of Mercer and
State of New Jersey.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances
heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise
require:
A.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses
and the future, the present.
B.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
C.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural
the singular.
D.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
E.
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 is a Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices
of the Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
F.
"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.
G.
"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as
"and," if the sense requires and indicates such meaning.
H.
Whenever a specific time is used in this Code, it
shall mean the prevailing and established time in effect in the State
of New Jersey during any day in any year.
I.
Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained
in this Code shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance
as amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
The provisions appearing in this Code, so far
as they are the same in substance as those of ordinances existing
at the time of the effective date of this Code, shall be considered
continuations thereof and not as new enactments.
