[Adopted 8-9-1993 by Ord.
No. 15-1993 as §§ 1-2 and 1-3 of
the Revised General Ordinances]
For the purpose of the Code of the Borough of Spring Lake 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 Administrator of the Borough duly appointed pursuant
to law.
The Borough of Spring Lake in the County of Monmouth, State
of New Jersey.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Spring Lake.
The Municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the Borough government established
or designated by ordinance or the Code as a department, together with
any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned to
such organizational unit by the Borough Council.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Spring Lake.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter
of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
Includes 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."
Construed as if the words "of the Borough of Spring Lake"
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 corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization
or other entity, as well as an individual.
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.
Any and every public ground, public square, public parks,
other public place or bodies of water within the Borough.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
Includes any act or regulation of the Borough Council required
to be reduced to writing, but 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.
Includes a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard,
concourse, driveway, culvert, 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 part of such building or land, whether alone or with
others.
Seven days.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
For the purpose of the Code of the Borough of Spring Lake 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
feminine gender includes the masculine and neuter.
D.
The
singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
E.
"Shall"
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
F.
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.
G.
"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.
H.
"And"
may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and," if the sense
requires and indicates such meaning.
I.
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.
J.
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.
