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§ 10.02 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this code the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   "ACTION." Includes all proceedings in any court of this state.
(KRS 446.010(1))
   "AND." May be read "OR," and "OR" may be read "AND," if the sense requires it.
   "ANIMAL." Includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. (KRS 446.010(2))
   "AVIS." The automated vehicle information system established and maintained by the Transportation Cabinet to collect titling and registration information on vehicles and boats and information on holders of motor vehicle operator’s licenses and personal identification cards. (KRS 446.010(55))
   "CITY," "MUNICIPAL CORPORATION," OR "MUNICIPALITY." When used in this code shall denote the City of West Buechel irrespective of its population or legal classification.
   "COMPANY." May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. (KRS 446.010(9))
   "CORPORATION." May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association.
(KRS 446.010(10))
   "COUNCIL." The city legislative body. (KRS. 83A.010(5))
   "COUNTY." Jefferson County, Kentucky.
   "CRUELTY." As applied to animals, includes every act or omission whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted. (KRS 446.010(12))
   "DIRECTORS." When applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. (KRS 446.010(13))
   "DOMESTIC." When applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. (KRS 446.010(14))
   "DOMESTIC ANIMAL." Any animal converted to domestic habitat. (KRS 446.010(15))
   "EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY." The Mayor. (KRS 83A.010(6))
   "EXECUTIVE ORDER." An order issued by the mayor which is binding upon the officers and employees of the city and any governmental agency over which the city has jurisdiction. (KRS 83A.010(7))
   "FEDERAL." Refers to the United States. (KRS 446.010(17))
   "FOREIGN." When applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state.
   "KEEPER" or "PROPRIETOR." Includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent, or employee.
   "KRS." Kentucky Revised Statutes.
   "LAND" OR "REAL ESTATE." Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. (KRS 446.010(23))
   "LEGISLATIVE BODY." The City Council. (KRS 91A.010(8))
   "LEGISLATIVE BODY MEMBER." A City Councilman. (KRS 83A.010(8))
   "LIVESTOCK." cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. (KRS 446.010(25))
   "MAY." The act referred to is permissive. (KRS 446.010(26))
   "MISDEMEANOR." An offense for which the criminal fine can not exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(a), or a term of imprisonment not to exceed the periods set forth in KRS 532.090(1) or both. (KRS 83A.065)
   "MONTH." Calendar month. (KRS 446.010(27))
   "MUNICIPAL ORDER." An official act of the City Council which is binding upon the officers and employees of the city and any governmental agency over which the municipality has jurisdiction. (KRS 83A.010(9))
   "MUNICIPALITY." The City of West Buechel, Kentucky.
   "OATH." Includes "AFFIRMATION" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. (KRS 446.010(28))
   "OFFICER." Any person elected to a position by the voters or any person appointed to a position which:
      (a)   Is created by the Constitution, the General Assembly, or a city;
      (b)   Possesses a delegation of a portion of the sovereign power of government;
      (c)   Has powers and duties to be discharged which are conferred directly or by implication of the city;
      (d)   Has duties performed independently and without control of a superior power other than the law;
      (e)   Has some permanency;
      (f)   Requires an official oath;
      (g)   Is assigned by a commission or other written authority; and
      (h)   Provides for an official bond if required by proper authority. (KRS 83A.010(10))
   "ORDINANCE." An official act of a city legislative body, which is a regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law or is an appropriation of money. (KRS 83A.010(11))
   "PARTNERSHIP." Includes both general and limited partnerships. (KRS 446.010(30))
   “PEACE OFFICER.” Includes sheriffs, constables granted police powers, coroners, jailers, metropolitan and urban county government correctional officers, marshals, policemen, and other persons with similar authority to make arrests. (KRS 446.010(31))
   "PERSON." May extend and be applied to bodies-politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, joint stock companies, and limited liability companies. (KRS 446.010(33))
   "PERSONAL PROPERTY." Includes all property except real.
   "PREMISES." As applied to property, includes land and buildings.
   "PROPERTY." Includes real, personal, mixed estates and interests.
   "PUBLIC AUTHORITY." Includes boards of education; the municipal, county, state, or federal government, its officers or an agency thereof; or any duly authorized public official.
   "PUBLIC PLACE." Includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or watercourse, public conveyance, or any other place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation, or amusement.
   "REAL PROPERTY." Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
   "REGULAR ELECTION." The election in even numbered years at which members of Congress are elected and the election in odd numbered years at which state officers are elected. (KRS 446.010(37))
   "RESOLUTION." A resolution is a less formal mechanism for dealing with matters of a special or temporary character. While an ordinance, and to a larger extent a municipal order, involves a distinctly legislative act, a resolution is simply an expression of the opinion, will or policy of the legislative body on some matter of ministerial business which has come before the body.
   "SHALL." The act referred to is mandatory. (KRS 446.010(39))
   "SIDEWALK." That portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
   "STATE." The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
   "STREET." Includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts, and all other public thoroughfares within the city.
   "SUBCHAPTER." A division of a chapter, designated in this code by an underlined 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.
   "SWORN." Includes "AFFIRMED" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. (KRS 446.010(43))
   "TENANT" OR "OCCUPANT." As applied to premises, includes any person holding a written or oral lease, or who actually occupies the whole or any part of such premises, alone or with others.
   "VACANCY IN OFFICE." Such as exists wheren there is an unexpired part of a term of office without a lawful incumbent therein, or when the person elected or appointed to an office fails to qualify according to law, or when there has been no election to fill the office at the time appointed by law; it applies whether the vacancy is occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the state, county, or district, or otherwise. (KRS 446.010(46))
   "VIOLATE." Includes failure to comply with. (KRS 446.010(47))
   "VIOLATION." An offense for which the criminal fine can not exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(c). (KRS 83A.065)
   "YEAR." Calendar year. (KRS 446.010(49))
§ 10.03 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
   (A)   Singular includes plural. A word importing the singular number only may extend and be applied to several persons or things, as well as to one person or thing, and a word importing the plural number only may extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as to several persons or things. (KRS 446.020(1))
   (B)   Masculine includes feminine. A word importing the masculine gender only may extend and be applied to females as well as males.
(KRS 446.020(2))
   (C)   Liberal construction. All sections of this code shall be liberally construed with a view to promote their objects and carry out the intent of Council. (KRS 446.080(1))
   (D)   Retroactivity. No ordinance shall be construed to be retroactive, unless expressly so declared. (KRS 446.080(3))
   (E)   Technical terms. All words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of language, but technical words and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed according to such meaning. (KRS 446.080(4))
§ 10.04 COMPUTATION OF TIME.
   (A) In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by order of court, or by any applicable ordinance or regulation, the day of the act, event, or default after which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period so computed is to be included, unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which the public office in which a document is required to be filed is actually and legally closed, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not one of the days just mentioned. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
   (B) When an ordinance, regulation, or order of court requires an act to be done either a certain time before an event or a certain time before the day on which an event occurs, the day of the event shall be excluded in computing the time. If the day thereby computed on which or by which the act is required to be done falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or a day on which the public office in which the act is required to be completed is actually and legally closed, the act may be done on the next day which is none of the days just mentioned.
   (C) If any proceeding is directed by law to take place, or any act is directed to be done, on a particular day of a month and that day is Sunday, the proceeding shall take place, or the act shall be done, on the next day that is not a legal holiday.
(KRS 446.030)
   (D) In all cases where the law requires any act to be done in a reasonable time or reasonable notice to be given, such reasonable time or notice shall mean the time only as may be necessary for the prompt performance of such duty or compliance with such notice.
§ 10.05 MAJORITY MAY ACT FOR ALL; AUTHORIZED AGENT.
   (A) Words giving authority to three or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons. (KRS 446.050)
   (B) When the law requires an act to be done which may by law as well be done by an agent as by the principal, such requirement shall be construed to include such acts when done by an authorized agent.
§ 10.06 WRITINGS AND SIGNATURES.
   (A) When this code requires any writing to be signed by a party thereto, it shall not be deemed to be signed unless the signature is subscribed at the end or close of the writing.
   (B) Every writing contemplated by this code shall be in the English language.
(KRS 446.060)
§ 10.07 SEVERABILITY.
   It shall be considered that it is the intent of Council in enacting any ordinance, that if any part of the ordinance be held unconstitutional the remaining parts shall remain in force, unless the ordinance provides otherwise, or unless the remaining parts are so essentially and inseparably connected with and dependent upon the unconstitutional part that it is apparent that Council would not have enacted the remaining parts without the unconstitutional part, or unless the remaining parts, standing alone, are incomplete and incapable of being executed in accordance with the intent of Council.
(KRS 446.090)
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