(A) General rule. Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual sense. However, technical words and phrases having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.
(B) For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, MUNICIPALITY. The City of Rising Sun, Indiana.
CODE, THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. This municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
COUNTY. Ohio County, Indiana.
JOINT AUTHORITY. All words giving joint authority to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving that authority to a majority of those persons or officers.
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MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. An affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words SWEAR and SWORN shall be equivalent to the words AFFIRM and AFFIRMED.
OFFICER, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, COMMISSION, or DEPARTMENT. An officer, office, employee, commission, or department of this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
OWNER. The term includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part of the building or land.
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PERSON. Extends to and includes person, persons, firm, corporation, copartnership, trustee, lessee, or receiver. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the terms PERSON or WHOEVER as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers or agents thereof.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any street or highway, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard or open space adjacent thereto, and any lake or stream.
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PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. The term includes real and personal property. PERSONAL PROPERTY includes every species of property except real property, as herein defined; REAL PROPERTY includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
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SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
(Ord. 90- , passed 5-1-90)
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of Indiana.
STREET. The term includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, viaducts and all other public highways in the city.
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SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a heading in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading. Not all chapters have subchapters.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. When applied to a building or land, the terms include any person holding a written or oral lease of or who occupies, the whole or part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
(Ord. 90- , passed 5-1-90)
WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; equivalent to the words YEAR OF OUR LORD.