(A) In the construction of this code and of all ordinances of the town, 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 Hamden 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", "this town", "the town", "village", "municipal corporation" or "municipality" when used in this code shall denote the Town of Hamden 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, firm, 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) Either conjunction "and", "or" shall include the other as if written "and/or."
(9) The word "month" shall mean a calendar month.
(10) The word "council" shall mean the legislative council of Hamden, Connecticut.
(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 the 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 the 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) "This state" when used in this code shall mean the State of Connecticut.
(18) When the abbreviation "Conn. Gen. Stat." appears it shall mean Connecticut General Statutes.