DEFINITIONS.

For the purpose of this revision, and in the interpretation and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require, the definitions contained in this section shall apply:

BOROUGH

The Borough of Ramsey in the County of Bergen and, State of New Jersey.

BOROUGH COUNCIL

The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Ramsey, who may also be referred to as the governing body or the Council.

CLERK or BOROUGH CLERK

The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.

DEPARTMENT

An organizational unit of the Borough government established or designated by ordinance or this Revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the Borough government assigned to such organizational unit by the Borough Council.

LICENSED

Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this revision.

MONTH

A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.

NEW JERSEY STATUTES ANNOTATED (N.J.S.A.)

The official statute law of the State of New Jersey, as amended and supplemented.

OATH

Shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be construed to be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."

OFFICER or OFFICIAL

And the title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words "of the Borough of Ramsey" followed it.

ORDINANCE

Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this Revision, so long as it shall have been adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it shall remain in force and effect pursuant to law.

OWNER

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.

PERSON

Any corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or other entity, as well as an individual.

PRECEDING and FOLLOWING

Next before and next after, respectively.

PROPERTY

Real and personal property.

PUBLIC GROUNDS, PUBLIC SQUARES, PUBLIC PLACE or PUBLIC PLACES

Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public parks, other public place or bodies of water within the Borough.

REAL PROPERTY

Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.

SIDEWALK

Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.

STREET

Shall include a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, and crosswalk, and every class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the general public.

TENANT or OCCUPANT

Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.

WEEK

Seven days.

YEAR

A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.

1972 Code § 1.001; Ord. No. 1268 § 5