Unless otherwise expressly provided, or unless there
is something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction,
or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Council, the
following words and phrases, when used in the Code of the City of
Clifton, or in any other ordinances of the City, shall have the meanings
herein given:
CITY
The City of Clifton in the County of Passaic.
CODE
The Code of the City of Clifton.
COUNTY
The County of Passaic, New Jersey.
GOVERNING BODY
The Municipal Council of the City of Clifton, or such other
duly authorized body as shall be charged by law with governing the
City.
MUNICIPAL MANAGER or CITY MANAGER
The person appointed by the governing body as Municipal or
City Manager of the City of Clifton or the person appointed by the
governing body to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the
office during the absence or disability of the Municipal Manager.
OATH
Includes "affirmation."
OWNER
Includes the sole owner and 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, and
personal property.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, societies, firms, partnerships,
associations, organizations and any other group or entity acting as
a unit, as well as an individual.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Includes goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and
effects, evidences of debt, choses in action 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.
PROPERTY
Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC GROUND, PUBLIC SQUARE or PUBLIC PLACE
Severally, any and every public ground, public square, public
park or other public place within the City which is within the jurisdiction
and control of the City, and which is or may be in general use by
all citizens, and in which all have an equal right of passage and
repassage at will.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
SIDEWALK
Any portion of a street or highway between the curbline or
the lateral line of a shoulder or, if none, the lateral line of the
roadway and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE
The State of New Jersey.
STREET
Includes highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, courts, public
lanes, alleys, sidewalks, footpaths and all other public highways
for vehicular or pedestrian travel.
TENANT or OCCUPANT
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.
WRITING and WRITTEN
Except as to signatures, includes printing and any other
mode of representing words, letters and figures.