[Adopted as Secs. 1-2 and 1-3 of the 1997
Revised General Ordinances]
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 terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
The City of Cape May in the County of Cape May and State
of New Jersey.
The members of Council of the City of Cape May, one of whom
is the Mayor.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
The County of Cape May.
An organizational unit of the City government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the City government assigned
to such organizational unit by the City Council.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath. In such cases, the words "swear" and
"sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
Construed as if the words "of the City of Cape May" followed
it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Code, 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 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 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.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Construed to mean any and every public ground, public square,
public park or other public place within the City.
Includes any act or regulation of the City Council required
to be reduced to writing, but which may be finally passed at the meeting
at which it is introduced.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes 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.
Applied to a building or land, includes any person who occupies
the whole or a part of such buildings or lands, either alone or with
others.
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 be a Sunday, or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
F.
"Writing" and "written" includes printing, typewriting
and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material
which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
G.
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.
H.
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.
