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 definitions shall apply:
The Administrator of the township duly appointed pursuant to law.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational unit by the Mayor.
[Amended 4-19-1999 by Ord. No. 99-07]
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
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."
See "tenant."
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words "of the Township of West Windsor" followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this Code, so long as it is adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains 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.
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies, as well as individuals, and shall also include all political subdivisions of this state or any agencies or instrumentalities thereof.
[Amended 4-19-1999 by Ord. No. 99-07]
Goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys 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 is created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and every thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject of ownership.
[Amended 4-19-1999 by Ord. No. 99-07]
Next before and next after, respectively.
Real and personal property.
Any and every public ground, public square, public park or other public place within the township.
Lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.
Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
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.
Any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
The Township of West Windsor in the County of Mercer and State of New Jersey.
The governing body of the township through June 30, 1993.
[Amended 4-19-1999 by Ord. No. 99-07]
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
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Editor's Note: The definitions of "food market area" and "food preparation area," which immediately preceded this definition, were deleted 4-19-1999 by Ord. No. 99-97.