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:
DEPARTMENT
An organizational unit of the Town government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the Town government assigned
to such organizational unit by the Board of Aldermen.
LICENSED
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
MONTH
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
OATH
Shall be construed to include 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."
OFFICER or OFFICIAL
Officer or official and the title of an officer or official
shall be construed as if the words "of the Town of Boonton" followed
it.
ORDINANCE
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted,
and including this Code, so long as it shall have been 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.
OWNER
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.
PERSON
Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization
or other entity, as well as an individual.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
SIDEWALK
Any man-made pedestrian walkway between the curbline or the
lateral line of a shoulder, or, if none, the lateral line of the roadway,
and the adjacent or abutting property line.
[Amended 2-18-2014 by Ord. No. 2-2014; 7-20-2015 by Ord. No. 10-2015]
STREET
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.
TENANT or OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person or
third-party entity that leases or occupies the whole or a part of
such building or land, whether alone or with others.
[Amended 2-18-2014 by Ord. No. 2-2014]
TOWN
The Town of Boonton, in the County of Morris and the State
of New Jersey.
YEAR
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.