(A) In the construction of this code and of all ordinances of the city, the following definitions and rules of construction shall be observed, unless they are inconsistent with the intent of the Council or the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) The expressions
THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES shall mean the Forest Park Code as adopted by this ordinance and as hereinafter modified by amendment, revision and by the adoption of new titles, chapters or sections.
(2) The nouns
CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION or MUNICIPALITY when used in this code shall denote the municipality of Forest Park irrespective of its population or legal classification.
(3) Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders.
(4) Words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the plural shall include the singular.
(5) The word
PERSON and its derivatives and the word WHOEVER shall include a natural person, partnership or a corporate body or any body of persons corporate or incorporate.
(6) 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.
(7) A general term following a specific enumeration of terms is not to be limited to the class enumerated unless expressly so limited.
(8)
AND may be read OR and OR may be read AND if the sense requires it.
(9) The word
MONTH shall mean a calendar month.
(10) The word
COUNCIL shall mean the Council of the City of Forest Park.
(11) The word
PROPERTY shall include real and personal property.
(12)
PERSONAL PROPERTY includes every species of property except real property.
(13)
REAL PROPERTY includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and shall embrace all chattels real.
(14) The word
OWNER applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant of the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
(15) Except as provided in the traffic code, the word
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, and the word SIDEWALK means that portion of a street between the curb lines of this lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
(16) Whenever the word
SHALL appears in this code it shall be considered mandatory and not directory, except as otherwise provided.
(17) The letters
R.C. or phrase REVISED CODE refer to the Revised Code of Ohio.