[Adopted as Secs. 1-2 and 1-3 of the 1973
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:
Mayor-Council Plan E of the Optional Municipal Charter Law (N.J. Laws of 1950, Ch. 210, as amended).
[Amended 1-9-2006 by Ord. No. 38-2005]
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the Township government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the Township government not
allocated or assigned to such organizational unit.
Statutes which are not inconsistent with the charter and
either are by their terms applicable or available to all municipalities
or relate to taxation, local courts, education, health, public authorities
serving more than one municipality, and municipalities in an unsound
financial condition.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.[1]
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
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 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.
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.
The governing body of the Township.
The Township of Old Bridge in the County of Middlesex and
State of New Jersey.
[Amended 1-9-2006 by Ord. No. 38-2005]
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
[1]
Editor's Note: Original definition of “Manager,”
which previously followed this definition, was deleted 1-9-2006 by
Ord. No. 38-2005.
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 singular number includes the plural, and the plural,
the singular.
C.
"Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive.
D.
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 Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
E.
"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.
F.
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.
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.
