Whenever the following words or terms are used in this code, they shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them, unless the context makes such meaning repugnant thereto:
AGENT: A person acting on behalf of another with authority conferred, either expressly or by implication.
BOARD, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, VILLAGE BOARD: Unless otherwise indicated, the village board of trustees of the village of Waterman.
CIRCUIT COURT: The circuit court of the sixteenth judicial circuit, DeKalb County, Illinois.
CODE: The village code of the village of Waterman.
CORPORATE LIMITS, VILLAGE LIMITS: The legal boundaries of the village of Waterman.
COUNTY: The county of Dekalb, state of Illinois.
FISCAL AND MUNICIPAL YEAR: The fiscal and municipal year of the village shall commence on May 1 of each year and end on April 30 of the next year.
LICENSE: The permission granted for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation.
MONTH: Calendar month.
NUISANCE: Anything offensive to the sensibilities of reasonable persons, or any act or activity creating a hazard which threatens the health and welfare of inhabitants of the village, or any activity which, by its perpetuation, can reasonably be said to have a detrimental effect on the property of a person or persons within the community.
OATH: To include 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".
OCCUPANT: As applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease or who 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.
OPERATOR: The person who is in charge of any operation, business or profession.
OWNER: As applied to a building or land, shall include 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 such building or land.
PERSON: Any natural individual, firm, partnership, trust, estate, club, association or corporation. As applied to partnerships or associations, the word includes the partners or members thereof; as applied to corporations, it includes the officers, agents or employees thereof who are responsible for the act referred to.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Shall include every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidence of rights in action and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, right or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished and every right or interest therein.
RETAILER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things direct to the consumer.
RIGHT OF WAY: The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway or other property.
STATE: The state of Illinois.
STREET: Shall include streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts and all other public ways in the village and shall include all areas thereof embraced between the property lines and dedicated to the public use.
TENANT: As applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease or who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
VILLAGE: The village of Waterman, county of DeKalb, state of Illinois.
WHOLESALER AND WHOLESALE DEALER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood and held to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale, as distinguished from a retail dealer who sells in smaller quantities directly to the consumer.
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 on any official or public writing or bond, it shall be in the proper handwriting of such person or, in case such person is unable to write, by such person's proper mark.
YEAR: A calendar year. (1999 Code §§ 1.02, 2.09; amd. 2005 Code)