CHAPTER 10: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section

   10.01   Title of code

   10.02   Acceptance of city code

   10.03   Interpretation

   10.04   Application to future ordinances

   10.05   Captions

   10.06   Definitions

   10.07   Rules of interpretation

   10.08   Severability

   10.09   Reference to other sections

   10.10   Reference to offices

   10.11   Errors and omissions

   10.12   Official time

   10.13   Reasonable time

   10.14   Effective time and date and ordinances repealed

   10.15   Ordinances unaffected

   10.16   Effective date of ordinances

   10.17   Repeal or modification of ordinance

   10.18   Ordinances which amend or supplement code

   10.19   Section histories; statutory references

   10.20   Public utility ordinances

   10.21   Court proceedings

   10.22   Judgement; penalty; recovery

   10.99   General penalty

§ 10.01 TITLE OF CODE.

   This codification of ordinances by and for the city of Kewanee shall be designated as the Code of Kewanee and may be so cited.

§ 10.02 ACCEPTANCE OF CITY CODE.

   This city code, as hereby presented in all courts and in all administrative tribunals of this state as the ordinances of the city of general and permanent effect.

('71 Code, § 1-1-2)

§ 10.03 INTERPRETATION.

   Unless otherwise provided herein, or by law or implication required, the same rules of construction, definition, and application shall govern the interpretation of this code as those governing the interpretation of state law.

§ 10.04 APPLICATION TO FUTURE ORDINANCES.

   All provisions of Title I compatible with future legislation, shall apply to ordinances hereafter adopted amending or supplementing this code unless otherwise specifically provided.

§ 10.05 CAPTIONS.

   Headings and captions used in this code other than the title, chapter, and section numbers are employed for reference purposes only and shall not be deemed a part of the text of any section.

§ 10.06 DEFINITIONS.

   (A)   General rule. Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual sense. However, technical words and phrases having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.

   (B)   For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION or MUNICIPALITY. The City of Kewanee, Illinois.

   CODE, THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. This municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.

   COUNTY. Henry County, Illinois.

   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 such 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 this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

   PERSON. Extends to and includes person, persons, firm, corporation, copartnership, trustee, lessee, or receiver. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the terms PERSON or WHOEVER as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers or agents thereof.

   PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.

   SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.

   SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.

   STATE. The State of Illinois.

   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.

   WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.

   YEAR. A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; equivalent to the words YEAR OF OUR LORD.