The purpose of this chapter is to provide rules
and regulations for the use, control and protection of and conduct
in the parks and recreation areas of the Borough of Hopatcong to ensure
their orderly and safe use, to help assure their preservation, to
promote minimum inconvenience to those people bordering them and to
provide penalties for violators.
This chapter shall apply in all parks and recreation
areas under the jurisdiction of the Board of Recreation Commissioners
of the Borough of Hopatcong, hereinafter called "Commissioners," or
the governing body of the Borough of Hopatcong, hereinafter called
"Borough," unless expressly exempted. For the issuance of permits,
temporary designations, authorizations, granting of approval and other
actions, the approving governing agency shall be the Board of Recreation
Commissioners or its designee for lands under the jurisdiction of
the Commissioners and shall be the Borough governing body or its designee
for lands under the jurisdiction of the Borough.
In the interpretation of this and all succeeding
park and recreation area ordinances, the provisions shall be construed
as follows:
A. Any term in the singular shall include the plural.
B. Any term in the masculine shall include the feminine
and neuter.
C. Any requirement or prohibition of any act shall respectively
extend to and include the causing and procuring, directly or indirectly,
of such act.
D. No provision hereof shall make unlawful any act necessarily
performed by any officer or employee of the Commission or Borough
in the line of duty or work as such or by any person, his agent or
employees in the proper and necessary execution of the terms of any
agreement with the Commission or Borough.
E. Any act otherwise prohibited by law or local ordinance
shall be lawful if performed under, by virtue of and strictly within
the provisions of a permit so to do and to the extent authorized thereby.