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(1) How cited. This code of ordinances shall be known as the Lino Lakes City Code and may be so cited.
(2) Additions. New ordinances proposing amendments or additions to the code shall be assigned appropriate code numbers and shall be incorporated into the code as of their effective date. Reference or citation to the code shall be deemed to include amendments and additions. When an ordinance is integrated into the code, there may be omitted from the ordinance the title, enacting clause, section numbers, definitions of items identical to those contained in this chapter, the clause indicating date of adoption, and validating signatures and dates. In integrating ordinances into the code, the City Administrator, in cooperation with the city attorney, may correct obvious grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors; change reference numbers to conform with sections, articles and chapters; substitute figures for written words and vice versa; substitute dates for the words "the effective date of this ordinance"; and perform like actions to ensure a uniform code of ordinances without, however, altering the meaning of the ordinances enacted.
(3) Numbering. Each section number of this code consists of two component parts separated by a decimal. The first digit of the number refers to the chapter number and the digits after the period refer to the position of the section within the chapter. If the chapter is divided into parts, the figure immediately to the left of the decimal corresponds to the part number.
(4) Title headings; cross references. Chapter, part, section, division and other titles shall not be considered part of the subject matter of this code but are intended for convenience only and not necessarily as comprehensive titles.
(5) Copies. Copies of this code shall be kept in the office of the City Clerk for public inspection or sale for a reasonable charge, as determined by the Council in the annual fee schedule.
(1) Generally. 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.
(2) Specific rules of interpretation. The construction of all ordinances of this city shall be by the following rules, unless that construction is plainly repugnant to the intent of the legislative body or of the context of the same ordinance:
(a) Acts by assistants. When a statute, code provisions or ordinance requires an act to be done which, by law, an agent or deputy as well may do as the principal, that requisition shall be satisfied by the performance of the act by an authorized agent or deputy.
(b) Gender; singular and plural; tenses. Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders; words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the plural shall include the singular; the use of a verb in the present tense shall include the future, if applicable.
Cross-reference:
City fee schedule, see § 218.01
(1) 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.
(2) Definitions. For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. "City" means the City of Lino Lakes The area within the corporate boundaries of the city as presently established or as amended by ordinance, annexation or other legal actions at a future time. The term CITY when used in this code may also be used to refer to the City Council and its authorized representatives.
CITY ADMINISTRATOR. The City Administrator of the City of Lino Lakes.
CITY CLERK. The City Clerk of the City of Lino Lakes.
CODE. The Lino Lakes City Code as modified by amendment, revision and adoption of new titles, chapters or sections.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
PERSON. Any natural individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation or trustee. As applied to partnerships or associations, the term includes the partners or members thereof; as applied to corporations the term includes the officers, agents or employees.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
STATE. The State of Minnesota.
Whenever in one section reference is made to another section hereof, that reference shall extend and apply to the section referred to as subsequently amended, revised, recodified or renumbered unless the subject matter is changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
(1) In all cases where an ordinance requires an act to be done in a reasonable time or requires reasonable notice to be given, reasonable time or notice shall be deemed to mean the time which is necessary for a prompt performance of the act or the giving of the notice.
(2) The time within which an act is to be done, as herein provided, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last. If the last day is a legal holiday or a Sunday, it shall be excluded.
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