For the purpose of this code of ordinances, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACTION. Includes all proceedings in any court of the state or City Council, boards or commissions.
(KRS 446.010(1))
ANIMAL. Includes every warm-blooded living creature, except a human being.
(KRS 446.010(2))
CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION or MUNICIPALITY. When used in this code, shall denote the City of Elizabethtown, irrespective of its population or legal classification.
COMPANY and CORPORATIONS. May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company or association.
(KRS 446.010(9); KRS 446.010(10))
COUNCIL. The city legislative body.
(KRS 83A.010(5))
COUNTY. Hardin County, Kentucky.
DIRECTORS. When applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees.
(KRS 446.010(13))
DOMESTIC. When applied to corporations, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of the state.
(KRS 446.010(14))
DOMESTIC ANIMAL. Any animal converted to domestic habitat.
(KRS 446.010(15))
EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. The Mayor.
(KRS 83A.010(6))
EXECUTIVE ORDER. An order issued by the Mayor which is binding upon the officers and employees of the city and any governmental agency over which the city has jurisdiction.
(KRS 83A.010(7))
FEDERAL. Refers to the United States.
(KRS 446.010(17))
FOREIGN. When applied to corporations, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state.
(KRS 446.010(18))
KAR. Kentucky Administrative Regulations.
KEEPER or PROPRIETOR. Includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent or employee.
KRS. Kentucky Revised Statutes.
LAND or REAL ESTATE. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest.
(KRS 446.010(23))
LEGISLATIVE BODY. The City Council.
(KRS 91A.010(8))
LEGISLATIVE BODY MEMBER. A City Council member.
(KRS 83A.010(8))
LIVESTOCK. Cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine or camelid species.
(KRS 446.010(25))
MISDEMEANOR. An offense for which the criminal fine cannot exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(a), or a term of imprisonment not to exceed the periods set forth in KRS 532.090(1), or both.
(KRS 83A.065)
MUNICIPAL ORDER. An official act of the City Council which is binding upon the officers and employees of the city and any governmental agency over which the city has jurisdiction.
(KRS 83A.010(9))
MUNICIPALITY. The City of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
OATH. Includes AFFIRMATION in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
(KRS 446.010(28))
OFFICER. Any person elected to a position by the voters or any person appointed to a position which:
(1) Is created by the Constitution, the General Assembly or a city;
(2) Possesses a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power of government;
(3) Has powers and duties to be discharged which are conferred directly or by implication by the city;
(4) Has duties performed independently and without control of a superior power other than the law;
(5) Has some permanency;
(6) Requires an official oath;
(7) Is assigned by a commission or other written authority; and
(8) Provides for an official bond if required by proper authority.
(KRS 83A.010(10))
ORDINANCE. An official action of a city legislative body, which is a regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law or is an appropriation of money.
(KRS 83A.010(11))
PEACE OFFICER. Includes sheriffs, constables, coroners, jailers, metropolitan and urban-county government correctional officers, marshals, police officers and other persons with similar authority to make arrests.
(KRS 446.010(31))
PERSON. May extend and be applied to bodies-politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, registered limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies and limited liability companies.
(KRS 446.010(33))
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes all property, except real.
PREMISES. As applied to property, includes land and buildings.
PROPERTY. Includes real, personal, mixed estates and interests.
PUBLIC AUTHORITY. Includes boards of education; the municipal, county, state or federal government, its officers or an agency thereof; or any duly authorized public official.
PUBLIC PLACE. Includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or watercourse, public conveyance or any other place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation or amusement.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
REGULAR ELECTION. The election in even numbered years at which members of Congress are elected and the election in odd-numbered years at which state officers are elected.
(KRS 446.010(37))
SWORN. Includes AFFIRMED in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
(KRS 446.010(43))
STATE. The State of Kentucky.
STREET. Includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts and all other public thoroughfares within the city.
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a heading in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading. Not all chapters have SUBCHAPTERS.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. As applied to premises, includes any person holding a written or oral lease, or who actually occupies the whole or any part of such premises, alone or with others.
VACANCY IN OFFICE. Such as exists when there is an unexpired part of a term of office without a lawful incumbent therein, or when the person elected or appointed to an office fails to qualify according to law, or when there has been no election to fill the office at the time appointed by law; it applies whether the vacancy is occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the state, county, city or district, or otherwise.
(KRS 446.010(46))
VIOLATE. Includes failure to comply with.
(KRS 446.010(47))
VIOLATION. An offense for which the criminal fine cannot exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(c).
(KRS 83A.065)
YEAR. Calendar year.
(KRS 446.010(49))
(Prior Code, § 10.02)