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Borough of Bound Brook, NJ General Provisions
§ 1-5.8 Applications.
§ 1-6.1 Maintenance of Code by Municipal Clerk.
§ 1-6.2 Sale of Code books.
§ 1-7 ALTERING OR TAMPERING WITH CODE.
1-1 SHORT TITLE.
1-2 DEFINITIONS.
1-3 CONSTRUCTION.
1-4 SEVERABILITY.
1-5.2 Minimum penalty.
1-5.3 Powers of the Court.
1-5.4 Additional fine for repeat offenders.
1-5.5 Default of payment of fine.
1-5.6 Violations of housing or zoning codes; time permitted to abate condition; hearing.
1-5.7 Separate violations.
1-5.8 Applications.
1-6 MAINTENANCE AND SALE OF CODE.
1-6.1 Maintenance of Code by Municipal Clerk.
1-6.2 Sale of Code books.
1-7 ALTERING OR TAMPERING WITH CODE.
[1967 Code § 1-1; Ord. No. 07-03]
This book shall be known and may be cited as "The Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Bound Brook, 2006," and is herein referred to as the "Revision" or "Code."
1-2 DEFINITIONS. [1]
[1967 Code § 1-2; Ord. No. 07-03]
The Administrator of the Borough of Bound Brook duly appointed pursuant to law.
The Borough of Bound Brook in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey.
BOROUGH CLERK or CLERK
BOROUGH COUNCIL or COUNCIL or MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
The duly elected Council members of the Borough of Bound Brook.
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.
The Mayor and Borough Council of the Borough of Bound Brook.
The title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words "of the Borough of Bound Brook" followed it.
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.
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.
Next before and next after respectively.
An action expressing the sense or will of the Municipal Council on a matter of special or temporary interest. It shall be written and may be adopted at the meeting at which it is introduced, without publication or public hearing.
That portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line which has been paved with concrete or other approved material and is intended for the use of pedestrians.
Editor's Note: Title 1 of the New Jersey Statutes contains definitions and rules of construction for terms used in the New Jersey Statutes.
[1967 Code § 1-3; Ord. No. 07-03]
Writing and written includes printing, typewriting and any other modes of communication using paper or similar material which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
Subsection shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified by a decimal number following the section number.
[1967 Code § 1-4]
1-5 GENERAL PENALTY. [1]
Editor's Note: Penalty provisions are in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:49-5.
For violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance of the Borough of Bound Brook, unless a specific penalty is otherwise provided in connection with the provision violated, the maximum penalty upon conviction of the violation shall be by one or more of the following: imprisonment in the County Jail or in any place provided by the Borough for the detention of prisoners, for any term not exceeding 90 days; or by a fine not exceeding $2,000; or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days.
Unlawful solid waste disposal. The Governing Body may prescribe that for the violation of an ordinance or Code provision pertaining to unlawful solid waste disposal at least a minimum penalty shall be imposed which shall consist of a fine which may be fixed at an amount not exceeding $2,500 or a maximum penalty by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
The Borough of Bound Brook may prescribe that for the violation of any particular provision of this Code or of any particular ordinance at least a minimum penalty shall be imposed which shall consist of a fine which may be fixed at an amount not exceeding $100.
Any municipality that chooses not to impose and additional fine upon a person for a repeated violation of any municipal ordinance or Code provision may waive the additional fine by ordinance or resolution.
Any person convicted of the violation of any provision of this Code or any ordinance may, in the discretion of the court by which he was convicted, and in default of the payment of any fine imposed therefore, be imprisoned in the County Jail or place of detention provided by the municipality, for any term not exceeding 90 days, or be required to perform community service for a period not exceeding 90 days.
Any municipality that chooses to impose a fine in an amount greater than $1,250 upon an owner for violations of housing or zoning codes shall provide a thirty-day period in which the owner shall be afforded the opportunity to cure or abate the condition and shall also be afforded an opportunity for a hearing before a court of competent jurisdiction for an independent determination concerning the violation. Subsequent to the expiration of the thirty-day period, a fine greater than $1,250 may be imposed if a court has not determined otherwise or, upon reinspection of the property, it is determined that the abatement has not been substantially completed.
If provided by specific ordinance, each and every day in which a violation of any provision of this Code or any other ordinance of the Borough of Bound Brook exists shall constitute a separate violation.
It shall be the duty of the Municipal Clerk or someone authorized and directed by the Municipal Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing "The Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Bound Brook, 2006" required to be filed in the office of the Clerk for the use of the public. All changes in the Revision and all ordinances adopted by the Borough Council subsequent to the adoption of the Revision, which the Borough Council shall adopt specifically as a part of this Revision, shall, when finally adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes or new ordinances are printed as supplements to the Revised General Ordinances, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the "Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Bound Brook, 2006" may be purchased from the Municipal Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Municipal Council, who may also arrange, by resolution, for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
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 Borough of Bound Brook to be misrepresented thereby.