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.