[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Madison
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-14-1976 by Ord. No. 15-76]
A. Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Borough of Madison, of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Madison, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
1 through 200, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Borough of Madison, Parts I and II," which, together with the Board of Health ordinances adopted as the "Code of the Borough of Madison, Part III," and an Appendix, shall hereinafter be known and referred to as the "Code."
B. Insofar as the provisions contained in Parts I and II
of this Code are substantially the same as provisions contained in the "Revised
Ordinances of Madison, New Jersey - 1970," as adopted May 11, 1970, by Ordinance
No. 9-70, this revision, codification and consolidation shall be deemed a
recodification of the Revised Ordinances of Madison, New Jersey - 1970 and
is intended as a continuation of the provisions contained in said Revised
Ordinances.
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general and permanent
ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code, including the Revised
Ordinances of Madison, New Jersey - 1970, except such ordinances as are hereinafter
expressly saved from repeal or continued in force.
All provisions of this ordinance and the Code shall be in full force
and effect on and after July 4, 1976.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the office of
the Borough Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination by the public
until final action is taken on this ordinance; and, if this ordinance shall
be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Clerk of the Borough of
Madison by impressing thereon the seal of the Borough, as provided by law,
and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of
the Borough to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during
all times while the said Code is in effect.
The Clerk of the Borough of Madison, pursuant to law, shall cause to
be published in the manner required a copy of this adopting ordinance in a
newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. Sufficient copies of the
Code shall be maintained in the office of the Borough Clerk for inspection
by the public at all times during regular office hours. The enactment and
application of this adopting ordinance, coupled with availability of copies
of the Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered
to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed
and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of the governing body to
make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code
so that reference to the "Code of the Borough of Madison" shall be understood
and intended to include such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions,
amendments or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
the said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted subsequent to the date given in §
1-14A and/or prior to the date of adoption of this ordinance are hereby deemed to be a part of the Code and shall, upon being printed, be included therein. Attested copies of all such legislation shall be temporarily placed in the Code until printed supplements are included.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk, or someone authorized and directed
by him, to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing the Code
required to be filed in his office for the use of the public. All changes
in said Code and all ordinances adopted subsequent to the effective date of
this codification which shall be adopted specifically as part of the Code
shall, when finally adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes
or new ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which time
such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code may be purchased from the
Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by ordinance of the Mayor and Council,
who may also arrange, by resolution, for procedures for the periodic supplementation
thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code, or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever, which will cause the law of the Borough of Madison to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating this section of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction, to the penalties provided in §
1-15 of this ordinance.
Each section 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 a part thereof,
to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed
to affect the validity or constitutionality of any other section or part thereof.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent 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
adopting ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in §
1-13 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 March 8, 1976 (Ordinance
No. 4-76).
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 grade, changing
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 Borough'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.
J. The dedication of property or approval of preliminary
or final subdivision plats.
K. Any ordinance creating positions of employment with the
Borough and/or establishing the amount and manner of payment of salaries or
compensation of officers and employees. Ordinance No. 550, adopted January
22, 1951, as amended, is hereby specifically saved from repeal.
L. Any ordinance making any change or revision in the Zoning
Map adopted December 9, 1968, by Ordinance No. 26-68.
M. An ordinance relating to the paving, curbing, grading,
relaying and repairing of sidewalks and gutters, adopted February 14, 1906,
as Ordinance No. 55.
N. Any ordinance providing for the naming of streets or
the numbering of buildings.
A. Unless a specific penalty is provided elsewhere in Parts
I and II of this Code, in state law or in other ordinances of the Mayor and
Council for a particular violation, any person, firm, partnership, association
of persons, club, corporation or other organization, including any agent,
servant or employee thereof, found guilty of violating any provision of Part
I or II of this Code, or any supplement thereto, or who shall engage in or
exercise any business or occupation or do anything for which a license or
permit is required thereby without having a valid license or permit therefor
as required, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by one or more
of the following: a fine of not to exceed $2,000; by imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days; or by a period of community service not exceeding 90
days. In the event that a fine is imposed, pursuant to this section, such
fine shall be no less than $100.
[Amended 8-14-2000 by Ord. No. 35-2000; 5-8-2006
by Ord. No. 19-2006]
B. The continuation of such violation for each successive
day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing
or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided
above for each separate offense.
A. In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption
and revision as part of the Code pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, certain grammatical
changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances.
It is the intention of the Mayor and Council that all such changes be adopted
as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally
amended to read as such.
B. The following changes, in the form of deletions, revisions
or additions to the original ordinances, have been made in the preparation
of this revision and codification. (Chapter and section number references
are to the ordinances as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code.
References to former sections and Articles generally relate to the Revised
Ordinances of Madison, New Jersey - 1970.)
(1) In accordance with the revision of the statutory provisions
concerning local municipal courts, the term "Recorder" or "Magistrate" or
"Municipal Magistrate" or other similar title is changed to "Judge" or "Judge
of the Municipal Court" wherever it may appear in the Code of the Borough
of Madison.