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Fulton, KY Code of Ordinances
CITY OF FULTON, KENTUCKY CODE OF ORDINANCES
ADOPTING ORDINANCES
CHAPTERS
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3: RESERVED
CHAPTER 4: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 6: AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS
CHAPTER 7: RESERVED
CHAPTER 8: ANIMALS
CHAPTER 9: RESERVED
CHAPTER 10: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11: RESERVED
CHAPTER 12: BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 13: RESERVED
CHAPTER 14: CEMETERIES
CHAPTER 15: RESERVED
CHAPTER 16: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 17: RESERVED
CHAPTER 18: EMERGENCY SERVICES
CHAPTER 19: RESERVED
CHAPTER 20: ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 23: RESERVED
CHAPTER 24: FLOOD CONTROL
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: HUMAN RELATIONS
CHAPTER 27: RESERVED
CHAPTER 28: LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 29: RESERVED
CHAPTER 30: LIBRARY
CHAPTER 31: RESERVED
CHAPTER 32: OFFENSES
CHAPTER 33: RESERVED
CHAPTER 34: PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
CHAPTER 35: RESERVED
CHAPTER 36: PLANNING
CHAPTER 37: RESERVED
CHAPTER 38: SECONDHAND GOODS
CHAPTER 39: RESERVED
CHAPTER 40: SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 41: RESERVED
CHAPTER 42: STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
CHAPTER 43: RESERVED
CHAPTER 44: TAXATION
CHAPTER 45: RESERVED
CHAPTER 46: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER 47: RESERVED
CHAPTER 48: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 49: TRANSIENT MERCHANTS AND BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 50: UTILITIES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
CHAPTERS
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
   1-1   How code designated and cited
   1-2   Definitions and rules of construction
   1-3   Catchlines, titles, headings and notes
   1-4   Effect of repeal of ordinances
   1-5   Miscellaneous ordinances not affected by code
   1-6   Code does not affect prior offenses, rights and the like
   1-7   Severability of parts of code
   1-8   Amendments to code; effect of new ordinances; amendatory language
   1-9   Altering code
   1-10   General penalty; continuing violations
   1-11   Conflicts with state law
   1-12   Supplementation of code
§ 1-1 HOW CODE DESIGNATED AND CITED.
   The ordinances embraced in the following chapters and sections shall constitute and be designated the “Code of Ordinances, City of Fulton, Kentucky” and may be so cited.
(1977 Code, § 1-1)
Statutory reference:
   Authority to adopt codifications of ordinances by reference, see KRS 83A.060(5)
§ 1-2 DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
   In the construction of this code of ordinances, the following rules shall be observed, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
   BOARD and BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Fulton, Kentucky.
   CITY. The words THE CITY and THIS CITY shall be construed as if the words OF FULTON, FULTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, followed them and shall extend to its several officers, agents and employees.
   CITY OFFICERS AND DEPARTMENTS. Whenever reference is made to an OFFICER or a DEPARTMENT, by title, the same shall be construed as if followed by the words of the CITY OF FULTON, KENTUCKY.
   CODE. The words THE CODE and THIS CODE shall mean the CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF FULTON, KENTUCKY, as designated in § 1-1.
   COMPUTATION OF TIME. Whenever a notice is required to be given or an act to be done, the rules for computation of time as set forth in KRS 446.030 shall apply.
   COUNTY. The County of Fulton in the State of Kentucky.
   GENDER. A word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to females and to firms, partnership and corporations as well as to males.
   KRS. Refers to and means Kentucky Revised Statutes, as amended.
   NUMBER. A word importing the singular number only may extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as to one person and thing.
   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”.
   OR, AND. The term “or” may be read “and” and the term “and” may be read “or,” if the sense requires it.
   OWNER. Applied to real property, 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.
   PERSON. Associations, clubs, societies, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals.
   PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes every species of property, except real property.
   PRECEDING and FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
   PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
   PUBLIC PLACE. Any street, park, cemetery, school yard or open space adjacent thereto and any river or stream.
   REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
   SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
   SIGNATURE and SUBSCRIPTION. A mark when the person cannot write.
   STATE. The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
   STREET. Embraces streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts and all other public highways in the city and it shall also be construed to include a sidewalk or footpath, unless the contrary is expressed or unless the construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Commissioners.
   TENANT and OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease of, or who occupies, the whole or a part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
   TENSE. Words used in the present or past tense include the future as well as the present and past.
   WORDS AND PHRASES. All words and phrases shall be construed and understood according to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words and phrases and others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed and understood according to the peculiar and appropriate meaning.
   WRITTEN and IN WRITING. Includes any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
(1977 Code, § 1-2)
Statutory reference:
   Definitions for statutes generally, see KRS 446.010
§ 1-3 CATCHLINES, TITLES, HEADINGS AND NOTES.
   The catchlines of the several sections of this code printed in boldface type, titles, headings, chapter heads, section and subsection heads or titles, editor’s notes, history notes, cross-references and state law references, unless set out in the body of the section itself, contained in this code, shall not constitute any part of the law, and are intended merely to indicate, explain, supplement or clarify the contents of a section.
(1977 Code, § 1-3)
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