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This book shall be known and may be cited as the "Code of the Township of Wayne, 2014" and is herein referred to as the Township Code or the Code.
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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 definitions contained in this section shall apply:
The pertinent provisions of the Optional Municipal Charter Law of the State of New Jersey governing the Mayor-Council Plan F (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1 et seq.) under which the Township government is constituted.
The Township Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
The governing body of the Township of Wayne.
The County of Passaic, State of New Jersey.
Calendar days.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department.
The head of an administrative department of the Township government.
A basic organizational unit under a Department.
Any law or provision of law, not inconsistent with the Optional Municipal Charter Law, heretofore or hereafter enacted which is by its terms applicable or available to all municipalities and the following additional laws whether or not such additional laws are so applicable or available to all municipalities: legislation relating to taxation, local courts, education, health, public authorities serving more than one municipality and municipalities in unsound financial condition.
The Township Council as constituted by the Township Charter.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
The Township of Wayne, County of Passaic, State of New Jersey.
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."
As applied to a building or land shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of a building or land, whether alone or with others.
And the title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words "of the Township of Wayne" 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 a building or land.
Any natural individual, person, firm, trust, partnership, association, corporation or any other legal entity. Whenever the word "person" is used in any provision of this Code prescribing a penalty or fine, as applied to partnerships or associations, corporation or any other legal entity, the word shall include officers, managers, agents or employees thereof who are responsible for any violations of the provision.
Goods and chattels, rights and credits, monies and effects, evidences of debt, and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrances upon, property or any debt or financial obligation as created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and every thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be subject of ownership.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public parks, other public place or bodies of water within the Township.
Means and includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.
Means and includes any act or regulation of the Governing Body on a matter of special or temporary interest, required to be reduced to writing and which may be finally passed at the meeting at which it is introduced.
That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line which has been paved with concrete or other approved material and is intended for the use of pedestrians.
The State of New Jersey.
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.
As 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 Wayne in the County of Passaic, State of New Jersey.
Seven (7) days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
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For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
The feminine gender includes the masculine and neuter.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
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.
"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.
"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and," if the sense requires and indicates such meaning.
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.
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.
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"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Code, identified by an Arabic number, and divided by subject matter.
"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
"Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified by a decimal number.
"Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a section, identified by an alphabetical letter and/or Arabic number.