For the purpose of this code the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AND or OR. AND may be read OR and OR may be AND if the sense requires it.
CITY. The City of Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana.
THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. The municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
COUNCIL. The Common Council of Frankfort, Indiana.
COUNTY. Clinton County, Indiana.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. An affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in those cases the words SWEAR and SWORN shall be equivalent to the words AFFIRM and AFFIRMED.
OFFICER, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, COMMISSION, or DEPARTMENT. An officer, office, employee, commission, or department of the city unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
OWNER. When applied to a building or land, OWNER shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part of the building or land.
OCCUPANT. See TENANT or OCCUPANT.
PERSON. Includes a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, trustee, or any other group acting as a unit, as well as a natural person.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property except real property.
PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any street or highway, sidewalk, park, cemetery,
school yard, or open space adjacent thereto and any lake or stream.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all chattels real.
REASONABLE TIME. In all cases where any provision shall require any act to be done in a REASONABLE TIME or REASONABLE NOTICE is to be given to any person, the reasonable time or notice shall be deemed to mean that time only as may be necessary in the prompt execution of the duty, or compliance with the notice.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines of the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. State of Indiana.
STREET. Streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, viaducts, and all other public highways in the city.
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by an underlined 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. Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease, or who occupies the whole or a part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year.
('75 Code, § 1.04)