(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) Definitions. For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
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. DeKalb County, Indiana.
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. Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, or joint tenant of the whole or a part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
PERSON. Individual, firm, limited liability company, corporation, association, fiduciary, or governmental entity. (I.C. 36-1-2-12)
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property except real property.
PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all chattels real.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines of the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for use of pedestrians.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of Indiana.
STREET. Except as provided in the traffic code, 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.
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.
TOWN, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, or MUNICIPALITY. The Town of Waterloo, Indiana.
TOWN COUNCIL. The Town Council of the Town of Waterloo.
WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed.
('92 Code, § 10.05)