For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AND. May be read OR, and OR may be read AND, if the sense requires it.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(8))
AVIS. The automated vehicle information system established and maintained by the Transportation Cabinet to collect titling and registration information on vehicles and boats and information on holders of motor vehicle operator’s licenses and personal identification cards.
(KRS 446.010(55))
CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION or MUNICIPALITY. When used in this code shall denote the City of Erlanger irrespective of its population or legal classification.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(2))
COMPANY. May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company or association.
(KRS 446.010(9))
CORPORATION. May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company or association.
(KRS 446.010(10))
COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Erlanger.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(10))
COUNTY. Kenton County, Kentucky.
DIRECTORS. When applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees.
(KRS 446.010(13))
DOMESTIC. When applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state.
(KRS 446.010(14))
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))
FOREIGN. When applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state.
(KRS 446.010(18))
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))
LIVESTOCK. Cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, procine, caprine, equine or camelid species.
(KRS 446.010(24))
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
(KRS 446.010(26))
MISDEMEANOR. An offense for which the criminal fine can not 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)
MONTH. A calendar month.
(KRS 446.010(27)) (1969 Code, § 1.04(9))
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 municipality has jurisdiction.
(KRS 83A.010(9))
OATH. An affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words SWEAR and SWORN shall be equivalent to the words AFFIRM and AFFIRMED.
(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 act 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))
OWNER. When applied to property, includes any part owner, joint owner or tenant in common of the whole or part of such property. When applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal.
(KRS 446.010(29)) (1969 Code, § 1.04(14))
PARTNERSHIP. Includes both general and limited partnerships.
(KRS 446.010(30))
PEACE OFFICER. Includes sheriffs, constables granted police powers, 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 or WHOEVER.
(1) May extend and be applied to bodies-politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, joint stock companies and limited liability companies.
(KRS 446.010(33))
(2) Includes a natural person, partnership or a corporate body or any body of persons corporate or incorporate.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(5))
(3) Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the term PERSON or WHOEVER as applied to any unincorporated entity, shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(6))
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes all property except real.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(12))
PREMISES. As applied to property, includes land and buildings.
PROPERTY. Includes real, personal, mixed estates and interests.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(11))
REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(13))
RESOLUTION. An expression of the opinion, will or policy of the legislative body on some matter of ministerial business which has come before the body. (While an ordinance, and to a large extent a municipal order, involve a distinctly legislative act, a RESOLUTION is a less formal mechanism for dealing with matter of a special or temporary character.)
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
(KRS 446.010(39)) (1969 Code, § 1.04(16))
SIDEWALK. That portion of the street between the curb lines of the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(15))
STATE. The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
STREET. Except as provided in the traffic code, STREET means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(15))
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by an italicized 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.
SWORN. Includes AFFIRMED in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
(KRS 446.010(43))
THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. The city code as adopted by this ordinance, and as hereinafter modified by amendment, revision and by the adoption of new titles, chapters or sections.
(1969 Code, § 1.04(1))
VIOLATION. An offense for which the criminal fine can not exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(c).
(KRS 83A.065)
YEAR. Calendar year.
(KRS 446.010(49))
(1996 Code, § 10.02)