Whenever the following words or terms are used in this code they shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them, unless the content makes such meaning repugnant thereto:
ACTION: Shall include suits, prosecutions and all judicial proceedings.
AGENT: A person acting on behalf of another.
BOARD OR THE BOARD: The board of trustees of the village of Posen, Illinois.
CODE: Unless otherwise specifically stated shall mean this village code.
COMPUTATION OF TIME: 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 Sunday or a legal holiday, and then it shall also be excluded. If the day succeeding such Sunday or holiday is also a holiday or a Sunday, then such succeeding day shall also be excluded.
CORPORATE AUTHORITIES: The mayor and board of trustees, collectively.
COUNTY: The words "county" or "the county" mean Cook County in the state of Illinois.
COURT: Includes all courts of record, and when applicable, the system of administrative adjudications set forth in this title.
EMPLOYEES: Whenever reference is made in this code to a village employee by title only, this shall be construed as though followed by the words "of the village of Posen".
FEE: A sum of money charged by the village for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation.
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.
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.
KNOWINGLY: Imports only a knowledge that the facts exist which brings the act or omission within the provisions of this code. It does not require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of such act or omission.
LICENSE: The permission granted for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation.
MEMBER: A village trustee.
MISDEMEANOR: Any offense deemed a violation of the provisions of this code which is a lesser offense than a felony as defined by state law.
MONTH: A calendar month.
NEGLIGENT: The word "negligent", as well as "neglect", "negligence", and "negligently" imports a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequences of the act or omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concern.
NUISANCE: Anything offensive or obnoxious to the health and welfare of the inhabitants of the village, or any act or thing repugnant to, or creating a hazard to, or having a detrimental effect on the property of another person or the community.
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: Shall be deemed to include an affirmation and the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed".
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.
OFFENSE: Any act forbidden by any provision of this code or the omission of any act required by the provisions of this code.
OFFICER: Whenever the title of any village officer is used, it shall be construed as if the words "of the village of Posen" followed it.
OPERATOR: The person who is in charge of any operation, business or profession.
OR, AND: "Or" may be read "and", and "and" may be read "or", if the sense requires it.
OWNER: Applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, joint owner, land trustee, beneficiary of a land trust, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant of the whole or any part of such building or land.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership of any kind (including, without limitation, any general partnership and/or limited liability partnership), association, organization of any kind, corporation of any kind (including, without limitation, any for profit corporation, not for profit corporation and/or limited liability corporation), estate, trust, joint stock association, any unit of government and/or any subdivision of any unit of government, and includes any executor, administrator, trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative of any of the persons or entities described in this definition.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Includes every species of property, except "real property" as defined in this section.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING: Next before and next after, respectively.
PRESIDENT: The president of the village of Posen.
PROPERTY: Shall include real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY: Shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and shall embrace all chattels real.
RETAILER: Unless otherwise specifically defined shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in small quantities direct to the consumer.
SEAL: The seal of the village of Posen.
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 OR THE 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 traffic.
TENSE: Words in the present tense include the future.
VILLAGE OR THE VILLAGE: The village of Posen in Cook County, state of Illinois, except as otherwise provided.
WHOLESALER, WHOLESALE DEALER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in quantity to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale.
WILFULLY: When applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted, implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act or make the omission referred to. It does not require any intent to violate law, or to injure another, or to acquire an advantage.
WRITTEN, IN WRITING: May include printing and any other mode of representing words and letters, but when the written signature of any person is required by law to any official or public writing or bond required by law, it shall be in the proper handwriting of such person, or in case he is unable to write, by his proper mark.
YEAR: A calendar year unless otherwise expressed. (1965 Code; amd. Ord. 2008-04, 2-12-2008)