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(A) Singular includes plural. A word importing the singular number only may extend and be applied to several persons or things, as well as to one person or thing, and a word importing the plural number only may extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as to several persons or things.
(KRS 446.020(1))
(B) Masculine includes feminine. A word importing the masculine gender only may extend and be applied to females as well as males.
(KRS 446.020(2))
(C) Liberal construction. All sections of this code shall be liberally construed with a view to promote their objects and carry out the intent of Council.
(KRS 446.080(1))
(D) Retroactivity. No ordinance shall be construed to be retroactive unless expressly so declared.
(KRS 446.080(3))
(E) Technical terms. All words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of language, but technical words and phrases and such others, as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed according to the meaning.
(KRS 446.080(4))
(A) In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by order of court or by any applicable ordinance or regulation, the day of the act, event or default after which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period so computed is to be included unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday, a legal holiday or a day on which the public office in which a document is required to be filed is actually and legally closed, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not one of the days just mentioned. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
(B) When an ordinance, regulation or order of court requires an act to be done either a certain time before an event or a certain time before the day on which an event occurs, the day of the event shall be excluded in computing the time. If the day thereby computed on which or by which the act is required to be done falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or a day on which the public office in which the act is required to be completed is actually and legally closed, the act may be done on the next day which is none of the days just mentioned.
(C) If any proceeding is directed by law to take place or any act is directed to be done on a particular day of a month and that day is Sunday, the proceeding shall take place or the act shall be done on the next day that is not a legal holiday.
(KRS 446.030)
(D) In all cases where the law requires any act to be done in a reasonable time or reasonable notice to be given, the reasonable time or notice shall mean the time only as may be necessary for the prompt performance of the duty or compliance with the notice.
(A) Words giving authority to three or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving the authority to a majority of the officers or other persons.
(KRS 446.050)
(B) When the law requires an act to be done, which may, by law, as well be done by an agent as by the principal, the requirement shall be construed to include acts when done by an authorized agent.
(A) When this code requires any writing to be signed by a party thereto, it shall not be deemed to be signed unless the signature is subscribed at the end or close of the writing.
(B) Every writing contemplated by this code shall be in the English language.
(KRS 446.060)
It shall be considered that it is the intent of Council in enacting any ordinance that, if any part of the ordinance be held unconstitutional, the remaining parts shall remain in force, unless the ordinance provides otherwise or unless the remaining parts are so essentially and inseparably connected with and dependent upon the unconstitutional part that it is apparent that Council would not have enacted the remaining parts without the unconstitutional part, or unless the remaining parts, standing alone, are incomplete and incapable of being executed in accordance with the intent of Council.
(KRS 446.090)
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