For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACTION. Includes all proceedings in any court of this state.
(KRS 446.010(1))
AND. May be read OR, and OR may be read AND, if the sense requires it.
ANIMAL. Includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being.
(KRS 446.010(2))
CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, or MUNICIPALITY. When used in this code, shall denote the City of Indian Hills, irrespective of its population or legal classification.
COMMONWEALTH. The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
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 Indian Hills. ALL ITS MEMBERS or ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS means the total number of Council members holding office.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
COUNTY. Jefferson County, Kentucky.
CRUELTY. As applied to animals, includes every act or omission whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted.
(KRS 446.010(12))
DIRECTORS. When applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees.
(KRS 446.010(13))
DOMESTIC. When applied to corporations, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state.
(KRS 446.010(14))
DOMESTIC ANIMAL. Any animal converted to domestic habitat.
(KRS 446.010(15))
EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. The Mayor.
(KRS 83A.010(6))
FEDERAL. Refers to the United States.
(KRS 446.010(17))
FOLLOWING. Next after. (See PRECEDING.)
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
FOREIGN. When applied to corporations, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state.
(KRS 446.010(18))
KAR. Kentucky Administrative Regulations.
KEEPER or PROPRIETOR. Includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent, or employee.
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))
LAW. Denotes applicable federal law, the Constitution, and statutes of the State of Kentucky, the ordinances of the city, and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations which may be promulgated thereunder.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
LEGISLATIVE BODY. The City Council.
(KRS 91A.010(8))
LEGISLATIVE BODY MEMBER. A City Council member.
(KRS 83A.010(8))
LIVESTOCK. Includes horse, mule, ass, cow, ox, sheep, hog, or goat of any age or sex.
(KRS 446.010(25))
MAY. The act referred to is permissive. (See SHALL.)
(KRS 446.010(26))
MONTH. Calendar month.
(KRS 446.010(27))
MUNICIPALITY. The City of Indian Hills, Kentucky.
MUST. The act referred to is mandatory. (See SHALL.)
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
OATH. Includes an AFFIRMATION or declaration 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.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
OWNER. Applied to a building or land, means and includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant, tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of such building or land.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
PEACE OFFICER. Includes sheriffs, constables, 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. Includes a natural person, joint venture, joint stock company, partnership, association, club, company, corporation, business, trust, organization, or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer, or employee of any of them.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
PRECEDING. Next before. (See FOLLOWING.)
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
PREMISES. As applied to property, includes land and buildings.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
PUBLIC AUTHORITY. Includes boards of education; the municipal, county, state, or federal government, its officers or an agency thereof; or any duly authorized public official.
PUBLIC PLACE. Includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or watercourse, public conveyance, or any other place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation, or amusement.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
REGULAR ELECTION. The election in even numbered years at which members of Congress are elected and the election in odd numbered years at which state officers are elected.
(KRS 446.010(37))
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory. (See MAY.)
(KRS 446.010(39))
SIDEWALK. The portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
STATE. The State of Kentucky.
STREET. Includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, or other public ways in the city which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of the state.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a 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))
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land, means and includes any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
VACANCY IN OFFICE. Such as exists when there is an unexpired part of a term of office without a lawful incumbent therein, or when the person elected or appointed to an office fails to qualify according to law, or when there has been no election to fill the office at the time appointed by law; it applies whether the VACANCY is occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the state, county, city, or district, or otherwise.
(KRS 446.010(46))
VIOLATE. Includes failure to comply with.
(KRS 446.010(47))
WRITTEN. Includes printed, typewritten, mimeographed, multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible form.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)
YEAR. Calendar year.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.010)