[Adopted 4-14-1970 (Secs. 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8 and 1-9
of the 1970 Revised Ordinances)]
In the construction of the Code of the Borough
of Dumont, and of all other ordinances of the Borough, words and phrases
shall be read and construed with their context, and shall, unless
inconsistent with the manifest intent of the council or unless another
or different meaning is expressly indicated, be given their generally
accepted meaning, according to the approved usage of the language.
Technical words and phrases, and words and phrases having a special
or accepted meaning in the law, shall be construed in accordance with
such technical or special and accepted meaning.
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 Borough Council,
the following words and phrases when used in the Code of the Borough
of Dumont or in any other ordinances of the Borough, shall have the
meanings herein given:
"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and,"
if the sense requires it.
The Borough of Dumont in the County of Bergen.
The Clerk of the Borough of Dumont.
The governing body of the Borough of Dumont.
The collector of taxes of the Borough of Dumont, and shall
also be deemed to mean the person acting as treasurer of the Borough
as provided in N.J.S.A. 40:87-46[1], and shall also mean the Chief Financial Officer of the
Borough.
The County of Bergen.
Words importing the masculine gender shall apply to females
as well as to males, and to partnerships, limited partnerships, associations,
bodies corporate, and other artificial persons.
The Mayor and councilmen of the Borough of Dumont, or such
other duly authorized legislative body as shall be charged with governing
the Borough.
See "street."
The phrase "Mayor and Council" means the governing body of
the Borough of Dumont. See the definition of "governing body."
A calendar month.
Pertaining to the Borough of Dumont.
The Borough of Dumont.
That body of statutory law containing revisions of the Revised
Statutes of New Jersey and known as the New Jersey Statutes, as amended
and supplemented. See also "Revised Statutes."
Words used in the singular number include the plural, and
words used in the plural include the singular number.
Includes "affirmation"; and "swear" and "sworn" include "affirm"
and "affirmed."
See "tenant."
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as
if the words "of the Borough of Dumont" followed it.
See "and."
Includes 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.
Includes corporations, companies, societies, firms, partnerships,
associations, organizations and any other group or entity acting as
a unit, as well as an individual.
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, lien or encumbrance 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.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Includes real and personal property.
Any and every public ground, public square, public park or
other public place within the Borough which is within the jurisdiction
and control of the Borough, 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.[2]
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto
and interests therein.
The Code of the Borough of Dumont, New Jersey.
That body of statutory law known as the Revised Statutes
of New Jersey (1937) containing the general and permanent laws of
the state adopted on December 20, 1937, as amended and supplemented.
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.
The State of New Jersey.
Includes highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, courts, public
lanes, alleys, sidewalks, footpaths and all other public highways
for vehicular or pedestrian travel.
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.
Except as to signatures, "writing" and "written" include
printing and any other mode of representing words, letters and figures.
A calendar year.
In the construction of the Code of the Borough
of Dumont or any part thereof, no analysis of any chapter or part
thereof, no cross-reference or cross-reference note, no indication
of a source by parenthetical material after a section, no note, no
footnote, and no section heading shall be deemed to be part of the
Code.
Whenever an ordinance that repeals an earlier
ordinance or part thereof is itself repealed, such repeal shall not
revive the former ordinance or part thereof, unless specific provision
is made therefor.
The Seal heretofore provided and used by and
for the Borough is hereby established and continued as the Seal of
the Borough.
If any chapter, article or section of the Code
of the Borough of Dumont or of any other ordinance of the Borough,
or any part thereof, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances,
shall be declared to be invalid or inoperative by a court of competent
jurisdiction, such chapter, article or section, to the extent that
it is not invalid or inoperative, shall not be affected thereby, and
shall be enforced and effectuated. No such determination shall invalidate
the remaining chapters, articles or sections.
