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§ 11.07 OFFICERS MAY ELECT REMEDIES FROM WHICH TO PROCEED.
   When any fine or penalty shall be provided by different ordinances, or by different sections or clauses of the ordinances of the village, for the same offense, the officer or person prosecuting may elect under which ordinance or section to proceed; but not more than one recovery shall be had against the same person for the same offense.
(Prior Code, § 11.007)
§ 11.08 PRESIDENT AND ACTING PRESIDENT.
   When any duty shall be required of, or power vested in, the President, the same shall be deemed to extend to and embrace and may be exercised by the Acting President also.
(Prior Code, § 11.009)
§ 11.09 ORDINANCES, HOW CONSTRUED.
   When the provisions of different ordinances, or of the different portions of any ordinances, conflict with or contravene each other, the provisions and requirements of each ordinance or chapter shall prevail as to all subjects, matters and questions arising out of or embraced within the subject matter thereof. But, if different or conflicting provisions be found in different sections of the same ordinance, the provisions of the section which is last in numerical order shall prevail, unless the construction would be repugnant to or inconsistent with the meaning of the ordinance or chapter.
(Prior Code, § 11.010)
§ 11.10 GENERAL TERMS AND THE LIKE TO BE LIBERALLY CONSTRUED.
   All general provisions, terms, phrases and expressions, used in this or any ordinance hereafter passed, shall be liberally construed, in order that the true intent and meaning of the President and Board of Trustees may be carried out.
(Prior Code, § 11.011)
§ 11.11 PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES.
   All ordinances of the village imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture, or making any appropriation, shall, within ten days after they are passed, be published by the Village Clerk once, in a secular newspaper of general circulation published in the village, or by publication in book or pamphlet form by authority of the village officials in accordance with the state statutes, and the ordinances shall take effect ten days after they are so published. All other ordinances, resolutions and orders shall take effect and be in force from and after their passage and approval, unless by statute or therein otherwise provided.
(Prior Code, § 11.012) (Ord. 75-005, passed 4-1-1975)