§ 1-2. 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:

CLERK OR TOWNSHIP CLERK

The municipal Clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.

COUNTY

The County of Gloucester.

DAYS

The calendar days.

DEPARTMENT

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

GOVERNING BODY

The Council created and constituted pursuant to the Charter.

LICENSED

Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or Chapter of this Revision.

MANAGER

The Township Manager or a designated Acting Manager appointed and serving pursuant to the Charter or Code.

MONTH

A calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.

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.

OCCUPANT

See tenant.

OFFICER OR OFFICIAL

And the title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words of the Township of Deptford followed it.

ORDINANCE

Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this Revision, 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.

OWNER

When applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, any corporation, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or part of such building or land.

PERSON

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.

PERSONAL PROPERTY

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.

PRECEDING AND FOLLOWING

Next before and next after, respectively.

PROPERTY

Real property.

PUBLIC GROUNDS, PUBLIC SQUARES, PUBLIC PLACE OR PUBLIC PLACES

Severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public park or other public place within the Township.

REAL PROPERTY

Includes 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

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.

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.

TOWNSHIP

The Township of Deptford in the County of Gloucester and State of New Jersey.

TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OR COUNCIL

The local legislative body of the Township, constituted and elected pursuant to the Charter.

WEEK

Seven days.

YEAR

A calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.

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