[Code 1983; CC 2000 §1-101]
The Chapters, Articles and Sections herein shall constitute
and may be designated as the Code of the City of Mission, Kansas,
and may be so cited.
[Code 1987; CC 2000 §1-102]
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances of the
City, the following definitions and rules shall be observed, unless
such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of
the Governing Body or the context clearly requires otherwise:
The City of Mission, Kansas.
"The Code of the City of Mission, Kansas".
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 be a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, that day shall be
excluded.
The County of Johnson in the State of Kansas.
Whenever a provision appears requiring or authorizing the
head of a department or officer of the City to do some act or perform
some duty, it shall be construed to authorize such department head
or officer to designate, delegate and authorize subordinates to do
the required act or perform the required duty unless the terms of
the provision designate otherwise.
Words importing the masculine gender only may be extended
to females.
The Mayor and City Council of the City, or those persons
appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of Mayor or the City Council
as provided in this Code.
Includes all territory over which the City now has, or shall
hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its Police powers
or other regulatory powers.
All words giving a joint authority to three (3) or more public
officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority
to a majority of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the act
giving the authority.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights
to them and interest in them, equitable, as well as legal.
A calendar month.
Words importing the singular number only may be extended
to several persons or things, and words importing the plural number
only may be applied to one (1) person or thing.
Includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes
affirm.
Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees
referred to in this Code shall mean officers, departments, boards,
commissions and employees of the City, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise.
Applied to a building or land, shall include not only the
owner of the whole but any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common
or joint tenant of the whole or a part of such building or land.
May be extended to bodies politic and corporate.
Includes personal and real property.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights
thereto and interest therein, equitable as well as legal.
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent
property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
Includes a mark when the person cannot write, when his/her
name is written near such mark and is witnessed by a person who writes
his/her own name as a witness.
The State of Kansas.
Includes public streets, avenues, boulevards, highways, roads,
alleys, lanes, viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto and all
other public thoroughfares in the City.
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding
a written or oral lease of or who occupies the whole or a part of
such building or land, whether alone or with others.
Words used in the past or present tense include the future,
as well as the past and present.
Includes printing, engraving, lithography and any other mode
of representing words and letters, except those cases where the written
signature or the mark of any person is required by law.
A calendar year, except where otherwise provided.
[Code 1983; CC 2000 §1-103]
The matter in parenthesis at the ends of Sections is for information
only and is not a part of the Code. Citations to ordinances indicate
only the source and the text may or may not be changed by this Code.
This Code is a new enactment under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-3014
and 12-3015. Reference matter not in parenthesis is for information
only and is not a part of this Code.
[Code 1983; CC 2000 §1-104]
The catchlines or headings of the Sections of this Code are
intended as mere words to indicate the contents of the Sections and
shall not be deemed or taken to be Titles of such Sections, nor as
any part of any Section nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they
be so deemed when any Section, including its catchline, is amended
or re-enacted.
[Code 1983; CC 2000 §1-105]
Any portion of this Code may be amended by specific reference
to the Section number as follows: "That Section __________ of the
Code of the City of Mission is hereby amended to read as follows:
(The Section as amended shall then be set out in full)." A new Section
not heretofore existing in the Code may be added as follows: "That
the Code of the City of Mission is hereby amended by adding a Section
(or Article or Chapter) which reads as follows: (The new Section shall
be set out in full). . ." All Sections or Articles or Chapters to
be repealed shall be repealed by specific reference as follows: Section
(or Article or Chapter) __________ of the Code of the City of Mission
is hereby repealed.
[Code 1983; CC 2000 §1-114]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
change, amend by additions or deletions any part or portion of this
Code, or to insert or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter
or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the law of the City of Mission to be misrepresented thereby. This
restriction shall not apply to amendments or revisions of this Code
authorized by ordinance duly adopted by the Governing Body.
