[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City
of Meriden as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
STATUTORY REFERENCES
Oaths generally — See C.G.S.
§§ 1-22 to 1-25.
[Adopted 10-7-1963 as Ch. 1 of the 1963 Code[1]]
A.
CITY
COUNCIL
COUNTY
GENERAL STATUTES
IN THE CITY
MONTH
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING
SIDEWALK
STATE
STREET
YEAR
Definitions. In the construction of this Code and
of all other ordinances of the City, the following definitions shall
be observed, unless they are inconsistent with the manifest intent
of the City Council or the context clearly requires otherwise:
The City of Meriden, in the County of New Haven, in the State
of Connecticut.
The City Council of the City of Meriden, Connecticut.
The County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut.
The General Statutes of the State of Connecticut and any
amendments thereof or additions thereto.
Includes any territorial jurisdiction of which for the exercise
of its regulatory power has been conferred upon the City by public
or private law.
A calendar month.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Any portion of the street, usually lying on either side thereof,
between the curb and the adjacent property line, intended for the
use of pedestrians.
The State of Connecticut.
Includes avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes,
viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto, and all other public
thoroughfares in the City, and means all that part thereof between
the property lines of the premises abutting thereon.
A calendar year.
B.
Word usage. In the construction of this Code and of
all other ordinances of the City, the following rules of construction
shall be observed, unless they are inconsistent with the manifest
intent of the City Council or the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1)
Bond. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing
shall be sufficient.
(2)
Computation of time. The time within which an act
is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including
the last day, and if the last day is Sunday or a legal holiday, that
day shall be excluded.
(3)
Enforcement official. Wherever there is reference
to some action by a City official, whether such reference is general
or specific, it shall be construed to mean that official or the person
he shall designate.
[Added 9-15-1980]
(4)
Gender. Words importing the masculine gender include
the feminine and neuter.
(5)
Joint authority. All words giving a joint authority
to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving
such authority to a majority of such persons or officers unless otherwise
specifically provided.
(6)
Number. A word importing the singular number only
may extend and be applied to several persons or things, and a word
importing the plural number may apply to one person or thing.
(7)
Oath. The word "oath" includes 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."
(8)
Owner. The word "owner," applied to a building or
land, includes any part owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership
or joint tenant, with or without right of survivorship, of part of
such building or land.
(9)
Person. The word "person" shall extend and be applied
to associations, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate
as well as individuals.
(10)
Shall. The word "shall" is mandatory.
(11)
Signature or subscription. The word "signature" or
"subscription" includes a mark when the person cannot write.
(12)
Tenant or occupant. The words "tenant" and "occupant,"
applied to a building or land, mean any person who occupies the whole
or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others,
with or without a lease, oral or written.
(13)
Time. Words used in the past or present tense include
the future.
(14)
Written or in writing. The words "written" or "in
writing" include any representation of words, letters or figures,
whether by printing or otherwise.
C.
All general provisions, terms, phrases and expressions
shall be liberally construed in order that the true intent and meaning
of the City Council may be fully carried out.
All officers and employees of the City shall
enforce obedience to state statutes, provisions of this Code, ordinances
and resolutions and rules, regulations and orders issued thereunder
as may relate to their regular duties and any other statutes, Code
provisions, ordinances and resolutions and rules, regulations and
orders issued thereunder with whose enforcement they are properly
chargeable, by any measures provided therein, by the proper report
of any violation thereof and by instituting such proceedings as may
be necessary to such enforcement.
The violation of any rule, regulation or order
promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority vested
in him or it by law, ordinance or resolution or under the provisions
of this Code shall be unlawful.
Wherever in this Code, or in any ordinance or
resolution, or rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer
or agency of the City under authority vested in him or it by law,
ordinance or resolution, any act is prohibited or is declared to be
unlawful or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do
any act is declared to be unlawful and no specific penalty is provided
for the violation thereof, the violator of any such provision of this
Code or any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment
for not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the trial
judge. Each day any violation of this Code or any such ordinance,
resolution, rule, regulation or order continues shall constitute a
separate offense.
All fines imposed for the violation of any ordinance,
resolution, order, rule or regulation, as provided in the preceding
section, shall inure to the use of the City, unless otherwise provided
by the Council or by the General Statutes.[1]
A.
Any violation of this Code by any officer, agent or
other person acting for or employed by any corporation, firm or association,
while acting within the scope of his office or employment, shall in
every case also be deemed to be a violation by such corporation, firm
or association.
B.
Any officer, agent or other person acting for or employed
by any corporation, firm or association shall be subject and liable
to punishment, as well as such corporation, firm or association, for
the violation by it of any provision of this Code where such violation
was the act or omission or the result of the act, omission or order
of any such person.
No new ordinance or resolution shall be construed
to repeal a former ordinance or resolution as to any offense committed
against the former ordinance or resolution, or as to any act done
or penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or as to any right accrued
or claim arising under the former ordinance or resolution, or in any
way whatever to affect any such offense or act committed or done,
penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred, right accrued or claim
arising before the new ordinance or resolution takes effect, save
only that the proceedings thereafter shall conform, so far as practicable,
to the ordinance or resolution in force at the time of such proceeding.
When an ordinance or resolution which has repealed
another shall itself be repealed, the previous ordinance or resolution
shall not be revived without express words to that effect.[1]
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[An ordinance adopting the Code of the City of Meriden is presently proposed before the City Council. Upon final adoption, it will be included here as Article II of this chapter.]
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