202.01 Designation; citation; headings.
202.02 General definitions.
202.03 Rules of construction.
202.04 Revivor; effect of re-enactment, amendment or repeal.
202.05 Construction of section references.
202.06 Conflicts of laws.
202.07 Determination of legislative intent.
202.08 Separability.
202.99 General penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
See section histories for similar State law
Codification in book form - see Ohio R.C. 731.23
Imprisonment until fine paid - see Ohio R.C. 1905.30, 2947.14
Ordinances and resolutions - see ADM. Ch. Ch. 222
Statute of limitations on prosecutions - see GEN. OFF. 606.06
This volume consists of all ordinances and resolutions of a general and permanent nature of the Municipality, as revised, codified, arranged, numbered and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections, and as such shall be known and may be designated as the Codified Ordinances of Norton, Ohio, for which designation "Codified Ordinances" may be substituted. Code, title, chapter and section headings do not constitute any part of the law as contained in these Codified Ordinances.
(ORC 1.01)
As used in these Codified Ordinances, unless otherwise expressly provided or the context otherwise requires:
(a) "And" may be read "or", and "or" may be read "and", if the sense requires it.
(b) "Another," when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property.
(c) "Bond" includes an undertaking.
(d) "Child" includes child by adoption.
(e) "Council" means the legislative authority of the Municipality.
(f) "County" means Summit County, Ohio.
(g) "Fire Chief" shall include the Chief of the Fire Department if such Fire Department has been established in the Municipality, and shall include the Fire Prevention Officer if no Fire Department has been established in the Municipality.
(h) "Imprisoned" shall have the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 1.05.
(i) "Internet" means the international computer network of both federal and non-federal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web.
(j) "Keeper" or "proprietor" includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent, or employee.
(k) "Land" or "real estate" includes rights and easements of incorporeal nature.
(l) "Legislative authority" means the legislative authority of the Municipality.
(m) "May" is permissive.
(n) "Municipality" or "City," means the City of Norton, Ohio.
(o) "OAC" refers to the Ohio Administrative Code.
(p) "Oath" includes affirmation; and "swear" includes affirm.
(q) “Of unsound mind.” The person lacks the relevant mental capacity.
(r) “Ohio R.C.,” “ORC” or “Revised Code” refers to the Ohio Revised Code.
(s) “Owner,” when applied to property, includes any part owner, joint owner, or tenant in common of the whole or part of such property.
(t) “Person” includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association.
(u) “Personal property” includes all property except real property.
(v) “Plan of sewerage,” “system of sewerage,” “sewer,” and “sewers” includes sewers, sewage disposal works and treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, together with facilities and appurtenances necessary and proper therefor.
(w) “Premises,” as applied to property, includes land and buildings.
(x) “Property” includes real, personal, mixed estates, and interests.
(y) “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.
(z) “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.
(aa) “Real property” includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
(bb) “Registered mail” includes certified mail; and “certified mail” includes registered mail.
(cc) “Shall” is mandatory.
(dd) “Sidewalk” means that portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
(ee) “State” means the State of Ohio.
(ff) “Street” includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts, and all other public thoroughfares within the Municipality.
(gg) “Tenant” or “occupant,” as applied to premises, includes any person holding a written or oral lease, or who actually occupies the whole or any part of such premises, alone or with others.
(hh) “Undertaking” includes a bond.
(ii) “Week” means seven consecutive days.
(jj) “Whoever”includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private.
(kk) “Writing” includes printing.
(ll) “Written” or in “writing” include any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures.
(mm) “Year” means twelve consecutive months.
(R.C. §§ 1.02, 1.05, 1.44, 1.59, 701.01)
(a) Common and Technical Use. Words and phrases in these Codified Ordinances shall be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage. Words and phrases that have acquired a technical or particular meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be construed accordingly.
(ORC 1.42)
(b) Singular and Plural; Gender; Tense.
(1) The singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
(2) Words of one gender include the other genders.
(3) Words in the present tense include the future.
(ORC 1.43)
(c) Computation of Time.
(1) The time within which an act is required by law to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; except that when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, then the act may be done on the next succeeding day that is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.
(2) When a public office, in which an act required by law is to be performed, is closed to the public for the entire day that constitutes the last day for doing the act or before its usual closing time on that day, the act may be performed on the next succeeding day that is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.
(3) “Legal holiday,” as used in divisions (c)(1) and (c)(2) of this section, means the following days:
A. The first day of January, known as New Year’s day;
B. The third Monday in January, known as Martin Luther King day;
C. The third Monday in February, known as Washington-Lincoln day;
D. The nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth day;
E. The day designated in the “Act of June 28, 1968,” 82 Stat. 250, 5 U.S.C. 6103, as amended, for the commemoration of Memorial day;
F. The fourth day of July, known as Independence day;
G. The first Monday in September, known as Labor day;
H. The second Monday in October, known as Columbus day;
I. The eleventh day of November, known as Veteran’s day;
J. The fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day;
K. The twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day;
L. Any day appointed and recommended by the Governor of this State or the President of the United States as a holiday.
(4) If any day designated in this section as a legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the next succeeding day is a legal holiday.
(ORC 1.14)
(5) When an act is to take effect or become operative from and after a day named, no part of that day shall be included. If priority of legal rights depends upon the order of events on the same day, such priority shall be determined by the times in the day at which they respectively occurred.
(ORC 1.15)
(6) If a number of months is to be computed by counting the months from a particular day, the period ends on the same numerical day in the concluding month as the day of the month from which the computation is begun, unless there are not that many days in the concluding month, in which case the period ends on the last day of that month.
(ORC 1.45)
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