The following words and phrases, whenever used in the ordinances of the City of Creede and/or any codification of the same, shall be construed as defined in this Section, unless a different meaning is expressly provided in any section of this Code or unless such definition is inconsistent with the manifest intent of the specific ordinance:
Board of Trustees means the City Council of the City of Creede.
City means the City of Creede, Colorado, or the area within the territorial limits of the City of Creede, Colorado, and such territory outside of the City over which the City has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provision.
Code means the Creede Municipal Code as published and subsequently amended, unless the context requires otherwise.
County means the County of Mineral, Colorado.
C.R.S. means the Colorado Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto.
Day means the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
Daytime means the period of time between sunrise and sunset.
In the City means all territory over which the City has, or shall hereafter acquire, the jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.
Law denotes applicable federal law, the Constitution and statutes of the State of Colorado, the ordinances of the City and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations which may be promulgated thereunder.
May is permissive.
Misdemeanor means and is to be construed as meaning violation and is not intended to mean crime or criminal conduct.
Month means a calendar month.
Nighttime means the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
Oath shall be construed to include an affirmation or declaration in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation or declaration may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words swear and sworn shall be equivalent to the words affirm and affirmed.
Ordinance means a law of the City; provided that a temporary or special law, administrative action, orders or directive may be in the form of a resolution.
Owner, applied to a building, land, motorized vehicle, animal or other real or personal property, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant, tenant by the entirety or any other person with a possessory interest in the whole or a part of said building, land, motor vehicle, animal or other real or personal property.
Person means a natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint venture, joint stock company, club, company, business, trust or other organization acting as a group or unit, or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them.
Personal property includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
Preceding and following mean next before and next after, respectively.
Property includes real property and tangible and intangible personal property.
Public way includes any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway, sidewalk, trail, right-of-way or other public thoroughfare.
Real property includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Shall and must are both mandatory.
Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
State means the State of Colorado.
Street includes any public way, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, court, place, square, curb or other public thoroughfare in the City which has been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of this State, and each of such words shall include all of them.
Tenant and occupant, applied to a building or land, includes any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
Written includes printed, typewritten, photocopied, mimeographed, multigraphed or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible form.
Year means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed.
(Prior code 1-1-2; Ord. 347 §1, 2008)