CHAPTER 10: RULES OF CONSTRUCTION; GENERAL PENALTY
Section
   10.01   Title of code
   10.02   Rules of interpretation
   10.03   Application to future ordinances
   10.04   Captions
   10.05   Definitions
   10.06   Severability
   10.07   Reference to other sections
   10.08   Reference to offices
   10.09   Errors and omissions
   10.10   Official time
   10.11   Reasonable time
   10.12   Ordinances repealed
   10.13   Ordinances unaffected
   10.14   Effective date of ordinances
   10.15   Repeal or modification of ordinance
   10.16   Ordinances which amend or supplement code
   10.17   Preservation of penalties, offenses, rights and liabilities
   10.18   Copies of code
   10.19   Adoption of statutes and rules and supplements by reference
   10.20   Enforcement
 
   10.99   General penalty and enforcement
§ 10.01 TITLE OF CODE.
   (A)   All ordinances of a permanent and general nature of the city, as revised, codified, rearranged, renumbered and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections, shall be known and designated as the “Owatonna City Code”, for which designation “code of ordinances”, “codified ordinances” or “code” may be substituted. Code title, chapter and section headings do not constitute any part of the law as contained in the code.
   (B)   All references to codes, titles, chapters and sections are to the components of the code unless otherwise specified. Any component code may be referred to and cited by its name, such as the “Traffic Code”. Sections may be referred to and cited by the designation “§” followed by the number, such as “10.01". 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.
§ 10.02 RULES OF INTERPRETATION.
   (A)   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.
   (B)   Specific rules of interpretation. The construction of all ordinances of the 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:
      (1)   AND or OR. Either conjunction shall include the other as if written “and/or”, whenever the context requires.
      (2)   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.
      (3)   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.
      (4)   General term. A general term following specific enumeration of terms is not to be limited to the class enumerated unless expressly so limited.
§ 10.03 APPLICATION TO FUTURE ORDINANCES.
   All provisions of Title I compatible with future legislation shall apply to ordinances hereafter adopted which amend or supplement this code unless otherwise specifically provided.
§ 10.04 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.
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