This chapter shall be known as the "North Brunswick Administrative Code."
For the purpose of this code and any other ordinances or resolutions 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 is a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
F. 
"Writing" and "written" mean any visual mode of reproducing words or numbers on paper or similar material that is in general use.
G. 
"Charter" shall mean the Mayor-Council-Administrator Plan pursuant to statute N.J.S.A. 40:69A-149.1 et seq. of the Optional Municipal Charter Law, N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1, and all applicable provisions of the general law.
A. 
It is the intent of the Council in enacting this code to exercise fully the powers delegated by the Charter to organize and regulate its internal affairs, and the provisions of the code shall be construed liberally to that end.
B. 
The code shall be interpreted and administered so as to maintain the separation of legislative and administrative powers as provided in the Charter.