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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 22:03:56+00:00

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§ 1-4 Adoption of Code.
§ 1-5 Code supersedes prior ordinances.
§ 1-7 Copy of Code on file.
§ 1-10 Code book to be kept up-to-date.
§ 1-11 Sale of Code book.
§ 1-12 Altering or tampering with Code; penalties for violation.
§ 1-13 Severability of Code provisions.
§ 1-14 Severability of ordinance provisions.
§ 1-16 Ordinances saved from repeal.
§ 1-17 Changes in previously adopted ordinances.
The Municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
An organizational unit of the government established or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational unit by the Township Council.
The laws of the State of New Jersey.
Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this Code.
A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.
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."
Construed as if the words "of the Township of Mine Hill" followed it.
Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this Code, so long as it is adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains in force and effect pursuant to law.
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.
Any individual, natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees, servants, factors or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
Any goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrances upon property or any debt or financial obligation as 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.
Severally, shall be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public park or other public place within the Township.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
Includes a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, sidewalk, and crosswalk, and every class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the general public.
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.
The Code of the Township of Mine Hill, New Jersey.
The Township of Mine Hill in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey.
The Mayor and Council of the Township.
A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future, the present.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
"Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive.
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 be a Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of the Township are closed, that day shall be excluded.
"Writing" and "written" shall include printing, typewriting and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and," if the sense requires and indicates such meaning.
Whenever a specific time is used in this Code, it shall mean the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of New Jersey during any day in any year.
Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this Code shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
Maximum penalty. The maximum penalty for a violation of any provision of this chapter, any other chapter of this Code, or any other ordinance of the Township where no specific penalty is provided for, upon conviction, shall be a fine not exceeding $2,000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 days, or any combination of the foregoing.
Minimum penalty. For the violation of any particular section of this Code or any particular ordinance of the Township for which no other minimum penalty is provided, a minimum penalty shall be imposed which shall consist of a fine of $100.
Repeat offender. Any person who is convicted of violating an ordinance within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same ordinance, and who was fined for the previous violation, shall be sentenced by the court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by the court upon a person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation of the ordinance, but shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation of the ordinance.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, the ordinances of the Township of Mine Hill of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township Council of the Township of Mine Hill, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 533, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Mine Hill," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code, including provisions of the 1986 Revised General Ordinances and the 2001 Township of Mine Hill Municipal Code, except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly saved from repeal or continued in force.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the office of the Township Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and, if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Clerk of the Township of Mine Hill by impressing thereon the Seal of the Township, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the Township, to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the "Code of the Township of Mine Hill" shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Township of Mine Hill, pursuant to law, shall cause this Adopting Ordinance to be published, in the manner required, in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Sufficient copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours. The enactment and publication of this Adopting Ordinance, coupled with availability of copies of the Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may be purchased from the Clerk, or an authorized agent of the Clerk, upon the payment of a fee authorized by the Township. The Clerk shall also arrange for procedures for the periodic supplementation of the Code.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the Township of Mine Hill to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction, to one or more of the following: a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, in the discretion of the Judge imposing the same.
The 1986 Revised General Ordinances of the Township of Mine Hill, as amended, and the 2001 Township of Mine Hill Municipal Code, as amended and supplemented, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this Adopting Ordinance.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to December 17, 2015.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending or any judgment rendered, prior to the effective date of this ordinance, brought pursuant to any legislative provision.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption and revision as part of the Code pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:49-4, certain grammatical changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Township Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such.
Editor's Note: Schedule A is on file in the Township offices.
"Treasurer" is revised to read "Chief Financial Officer."
"Department of Health and Welfare" is revised to read "Department of Health."
"Director of Health and Welfare" is revised to read "Director of Health."
"Animal Control Warden," "Animal Warden" and "Dog Warden" are revised to read "Animal Control Officer."
In accordance with Ordinance No. 23A-14, adopted November 13, 2014, references to "Second Street" throughout Chapter 520, Vehicles and Traffic, are revised to read "Baker Street."

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