(A) Tense. Words used in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past and present.
(B) Gender. A word importing the masculine gender only may extend and be
applied to females as well as males. (KRS 446.020(2))
(C) Singular/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))
(D) Retroactivity. No ordinance shall be construed to be retroactive, unless expressly so declared. (KRS 446.080(3))
(E) Terms/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 such meaning.
(KRS 446.080(4))
(F) Officers/Agents of City. All officers, agents, employees and other persons, together with all things and places referred to in this code, unless a different intention appears, shall be construed to mean the officers, agents, employees and other persons, things and places situated in the city or employed by or pertaining to the city.
(G) Acts Prohibited. All acts prohibited or punishable under this code or under any particular ordinance codified here, unless otherwise indicated, shall be construed to refer to those acts when committed or occurring within the city limits or in other places over which the city police may have jurisdiction or authority by state law.
(H) Computation of Time.
(1) In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by order of court, or by any applicable statute 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 (1) of the days just mentioned. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven (7) days intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
(2) When a statute, regulation, or order of court requires an act to be done either 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.
(3) 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)