Rockhill v. Township of Chesterfield

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

The issue here concerns the legal sufficiency of an ordinance of the defendant Township of Chesterfield adopted October 1, 1955, entitled “An ordinance regulating and restricting the location, the size and use of buildings and structures and the use of land in the Township of Chesterfield in the County of Burlington, providing for [its] administration and enforcement * * *, fixing penalties for the violation thereof and establishing a zoning board of adjustment.”

The regulation is denominated a “zoning ordinance”; and its “purpose” is declared…