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In the interpretation and construction of this code, the following definitions and rules of construction shall be observed, unless they are inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Trustees or the context clearly requires otherwise:
ACTION: Shall include suits, prosecutions and all judicial proceedings.
BOARD OR THE BOARD OR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES: The President and the six (6) Trustees of the Village of Oak Park, Illinois, acting together as a unit.
COUNTY OR THE COUNTY: Cook County in the state of Illinois.
COURT: Includes all courts of record.
GENDER: Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter.
IN THE VILLAGE OR WITHIN THE VILLAGE: Means and includes all territory over which the Village now has or shall hereafter acquire jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers, including extraterritorial land.
JOINT AUTHORITY: Words purporting to give a joint authority to three (3) or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or persons.
MONTH: A calendar month.
NUMBER: Words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things and words importing the plural may include the singular.
OATH; SWORN: The word "oath" shall be deemed to include an affirmation and the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word affirmed.
OCCUPANT OR TENANT: The words "occupant" or "tenant" applied to a building or land, mean any person who holds a written or an oral lease of or actually occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
OFFICER: Whenever the title of any Village officer is used, it shall be construed as if the words "of the Village of Oak Park" followed it.
OR; AND: "Or" may be read "and" and "and" may be read "or", if the sense requires it.
OWNER: The word "owner" applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant of the whole or a part or the holder of any beneficial interest of such building or land.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, state agency, or any other legal entity, or its legal representative, agent or assigns.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Includes every species of property except "real property" as defined by this section.
PRECEDING; FOLLOWING: The next before and next after, respectively.
PRESIDENT: The President of the Village of Oak Park.
PROPERTY: Includes real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY: Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and shall embrace all chattels real.
SEAL: The seal of the Village of Oak Park.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb lines (or the lateral lines of a roadway) and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE: The state of Illinois.
STREET: The entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular traffic.
TENSE: Words in the present tense include the future.
TIME, COMPUTATION OF: The time within which any act provided by law is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is Saturday or Sunday or is a holiday (as defined or fixed in any statute now or hereafter in force in this state), and then it shall also be excluded. If the day succeeding such Saturday or Sunday or holiday is also a holiday or a Saturday or Sunday then such succeeding day shall also be excluded.
VILLAGE: The Village of Oak Park in Cook County, state of Illinois, except as otherwise provided.
WRITTEN; IN WRITING: May include printing and any other mode of representing words and letters.
YEAR: A calendar year unless otherwise expressed. (1981 Code)
The catchlines of the several sections of this code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections, nor as any part of the section, nor unless expressly so provided shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted. (1981 Code)
Should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this code be declared invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs or sections of this code, since the same would have been enacted by the Board of Trustees without the incorporation in this code of any such invalid or unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. (1981 Code)
Whenever in this code (or in any ordinance of the Village) any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or whenever in such code (or ordinance) the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this code (or any ordinance) shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or less than twenty dollars ($20.00). Each day any violation of any provision of this code (or of any ordinance) shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. Any person failing to pay any such fine shall be punished as provided in the Illinois municipal code. (Ord. 2000-0-12, 3-20-2000)
All ordinances passed by the Board of Trustees shall be recorded by the Village Clerk in a proper book with indexes. The original shall be filed in the office of the Village Clerk, and due proof of publication of all ordinances requiring publication shall be procured by the Clerk, and such proof or affidavit of publication shall be attached to and filed away with the ordinances; and the Clerk shall also note in this book of ordinances, at the foot of the record of each ordinance, a memorandum of the date of the passage, and, if published or posted, of the date of the publication or posting of such ordinance. (1981 Code)
The provisions appearing in this code, so far as they are substantially the same as those of the municipal code of the Village of Oak Park of 1957 and those of all other ordinances existing at the time of the adoption of this code, shall be construed as a continuation thereof and not as new enactments. (1981 Code)
The corporate seal of the Village shall be circular in form and be so constructed as to impress upon paper the words "Village of Oak Park, Illinois. 1901" within a circle formed by a circular wreath of oak leaves and acorns, and the words "Organized, Village Seal", together with two (2) oak trees, an acorn surmounted by an eagle with spreading wings, and a sunburst in the center of the acorn, all enclosed within an inner circle. A facsimile of the seal showing the words and figures thereof is as follows:
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(1981 Code)
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