[CC 1987 §100.010; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
The ordinances embraced in this and the following Chapters and
Sections shall constitute and be designated "The Municipal Code of
the City of Northwoods, Missouri" and may be so cited. Such ordinances
may also be cited as "The Northwoods Municipal Code".
[CC 1987 §§100.020, 115.010; Ord.
No. 460 §1, 12-8-1959; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances of the
City, the following definitions and rules of construction shall be
observed, unless it shall be otherwise expressly provided in any Section
or ordinance, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the
Board of Aldermen, or unless the context requires otherwise:
The Board of Aldermen of Northwoods.
Includes certified mail carried by the United States Postal
Service or any parcel or letter carried by an overnight, express or
ground delivery service that allows a sender or recipient to electronically
track its location and provides a record of the signature of the recipient.
The words "City" or "this City" shall mean the City of Northwoods, Missouri.
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed
by excluding the first (1st) and including the last day; and if the
last day is Sunday or a legal holiday, that shall be excluded.
The County of St. Louis.
When any subject matter, party or person is described or
referred to by words importing the masculine, females as well as males,
and associations and bodies corporate as well as individuals, shall
be deemed to be included.
The Health Officer of this City shall be the Commissioner
of Health of the County or his/her authorized representative.
Words denoting joint authority to three (3) or more persons
shall be construed as authority to a majority of such persons.
A calendar month.
When any subject matter, party or person is described or
referred to by words importing the singular number, the plural and
separate matters and persons and bodies corporate shall be deemed
to be included.
The word "oath" shall be construed 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".
The word "owner", applied to a building
or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common,
joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of
such building or land, and any person, firm or corporation, who alone,
jointly, or severally with others shall be in actual possession of
or have charge, care or control of any dwelling or owner, or as trustee
or guardian of the estate or person of the titleholder, and such person
shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this Code to the same
extent as the owner.
The word "person" shall include a corporation,
firm, partnership, association, organization, and any other group
acting as a unit as well as individuals. It shall also include an
executor, administrator, trustee, receiver, or other representative
appointed according to law. Whenever the word "person" is used in any Section of this Code prescribing a penalty or fine,
as to partnerships or associations, the word shall include the partners
or members thereof and, as to corporations, shall include the officers,
agents or members thereof who are responsible for any violation of
such Section.
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
The words "preceding" and "following" shall mean next before and next after, respectively.
Includes real and personal property.
Includes any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway,
sidewalk, or other public thoroughfare.
Is coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
The portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent
property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
Where the written signature of any person is required, the
proper handwriting of such person or his/her mark shall be intended.
The words "the State" or "this State" shall mean the State of Missouri.
Shall mean and include any public way, highway, street, avenue,
boulevard, parkway, alley, or other public thoroughfare, and each
of such words shall include all of them. It includes the area covered
by a curb or gutter.
The words "tenant" and "occupant", applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies
the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with
others.
The words "writing" and "written" shall include printing, lithographing or any other mode of representing
words and letters.
A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed, and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the words "year of
our Lord".
All general provisions, terms, phrases, and expressions contained
in this Code shall be liberally construed in order that the true intent
and meaning of the Board of Aldermen shall be fully carried out.
[CC 1987 §100.030; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
The catch lines of the several Sections of this Code printed
in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents
of the Section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such
Section, nor as any part of the Section, nor, unless expressly so
provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such Sections, including
the catch lines, are amended or reenacted.
[CC 1987 §100.040; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Aldermen
that the Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of
this Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph,
or Section of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid
by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and Sections of
this Code since the same would have been enacted by the Board of Aldermen
without the incorporation in this Code of any such unconstitutional
or invalid phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or Section.
[CC 1987 §100.050; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
Any ordinances containing additions or amendments to the Municipal
Code of Northwoods, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention
of the Board of Aldermen to make the same a part hereof, shall be
deemed to be incorporated in this Code so that reference to the Municipal
Code of Northwoods shall be understood as including them.
[CC 1987 §100.060; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
Whenever any ordinance or part of any ordinance shall be repealed
or modified, either expressly or by implication, by a subsequent ordinance,
the ordinance or part of an ordinance thus repealed or modified shall
continue in force until the ordinance repealing or modifying the same
shall go into effect, unless therein otherwise expressly provided,
but no suit, prosecution, proceeding, right, fine, or penalty instituted,
created, given, secured, or accrued under any ordinance previous to
its repeal shall in any ways be affected, released or discharged,
but may be prosecuted, enjoyed and recovered as fully as if such ordinance
or provision had continued in force, unless it shall be therein otherwise
expressly provided.
[CC 1987 §100.070; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
When an ordinance repealing a former ordinance, clause or provision
shall itself be repealed, such repeal shall not be construed to revive
such former ordinance, clause or provision unless it be expressly
so provided and such former ordinance, clause or provision is set
forth at length.
[CC 1987 §100.090; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
In case of the amendment of any Section of this Code or of any
ordinance containing provisions for which a penalty is provided in
another Section thereof, the penalty so provided in such other Section
shall be held to relate and apply to the Section so amended, whether
reenacted in the amendatory ordinance or not, unless otherwise specifically
provided therein.
[CC 1987 §100.100; Ord. No. 661 §1, 11-25-1969]
Every person who issues certificates of title to real estate
within the City shall state in such certificates either the effect
of the zoning ordinances of the City on such real estate or that such
property is subject to such zoning ordinance, or that such certificate
attempts to make no statement as to restrictions on property defined
in the zoning ordinance of the City.
