[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Plainville as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
A. 
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
COUNCIL
The Town Council of the Town of Plainville.
COUNTY
The County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut.
KEEPER and PROPRIETOR
Includes persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs and copartnerships, whether acting by themselves or through a servant, agent or employee.
OWNER
Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
PARK
Includes a park, reservation, playground, play field, building, swimming pool, beach, recreation center and any other area in the Town owned, leased, controlled or administered by the Town and used for or devoted to active or passive recreation.
PERSON
Shall extend and be applied to associations, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Includes every species of property except real property, as herein defined.
PROPERTY
Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, highways and boulevards, alleys or other publicly owned or controlled ways and any and all publicly owned or controlled parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
REAL PROPERTY
Lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SIDEWALK
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
STATE
The State of Connecticut.
STATE LAW, GENERAL LAW or GENERAL STATUTES
The General Statutes of Connecticut, as amended.
STREET
Streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts and all other public ways.
TENANT; OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, includes any person holding a written or oral lease of, or who occupies, the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
TOWN
The Town of Plainville in the County of Hartford and the State of Connecticut.
B. 
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances, the following rules shall be observed, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) 
Gender. The use of any gender shall include the other genders. A word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to females and to firms, partnerships and corporations as well as to males.
(2) 
Number. The use of the singular shall include the plural, and the use of the plural shall include the singular. A word importing the singular number only may extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as to one person and thing.
(3) 
Tense. Words used in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past and present.
(4) 
Delegation of authority. Whenever a provision appears requiring the head of a department or an officer of the Town to do some act or make certain inspections, it is to be construed to authorize the head of the department or officer to designate, delegate and authorize subordinates to perform the required act or make the required inspections unless the terms of the provision or section designate otherwise.
(5) 
Officers and employees. The title of any officer or employee used herein shall be construed as if the words "of the Town" followed it and shall include his duly authorized representative.
The catchlines of the several sections of this Code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords 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 the sections, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted.
All ordinances passed subsequent to this Code of Ordinances which amend, repeal or in any way affect this Code of Ordinances may be numbered sequentially and shall make reference to the portion of this Code intended to be affected and shall be printed for inclusion herein. In the case of chapters, parts, articles, sections and subsections, or any part thereof, repealed by subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages affected thereby.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinance in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect, unless expressly stated. The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
Whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance, rule or regulation promulgated by any officer or agency of the Town under authority vested in him or it by law or ordinance any act is prohibited or 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 therefor either by this Code or state law, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any other ordinance, rule or regulation shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $250. Each day any violation of any provision of this Code or any other ordinance, rule or regulation of the Town continues shall constitute a separate offense. The imposition of any punishment hereunder shall not prevent the enforced abatement of any unlawful condition by the Town.
[Adopted 7-25-2016]
The compilation of the ordinances of the Town of Plainville, codified and consolidated into chapters, articles and sections in the form attached hereto and made a part hereof, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 374, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Plainville, Connecticut," hereinafter called the "Code." All provisions contained in the compilation provided for herein and known as the "Code of the Town of Plainville" shall be in force and effect on and after the effective date of this ordinance.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Town.
A. 
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the Town of Plainville of a general and permanent nature in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance which are inconsistent with any provisions of the Code are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance.
B. 
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in Subsection A of this section shall not affect the Town Zoning and Subdivision Regulations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal.
C. 
The following ordinances are specifically repealed:
(1) 
Ordinance No. 4, adopted January 24, 1956: Bylaws Prohibiting the Throwing or Placing of Waste Materials in the Highways of the Town of Plainville, Regulating the Disposal of the Same, and Providing a Penalty for Violating Thereof.
(2) 
Ordinance No. 9, adopted September 26, 1960: Ordinance Regarding Town of Plainville Participation in Regional Planning.
(3) 
Ordinance No. 10, adopted July 10, 1961: Ordinance Regarding Pollution of Water in the Town of Plainville.
(4) 
Ordinance No. 11, adopted July 16, 1962: Ordinance Regarding the Department of Public Works.
(5) 
Ordinance No. 12, adopted October 15, 1962: An Ordinance Relating to the Obstruction or Pollution of Any River, Stream, Brook or Watercourse in the Town of Plainville.
(6) 
Ordinance No. 21, adopted July 7, 1969: Specifications for Street Construction Within the Town of Plainville.
(7) 
Ordinance No. 33, adopted June 2, 1975: Ordinance Relating to Installation, Repair and Maintenance of Sidewalks.
(8) 
Ordinance No. 36, adopted June 21, 1976: Ordinance Establishing the Youth Commission.
(9) 
Ordinance No. 37, adopted May 16, 1977: An Ordinance Concerning Property Tax Exemption for Solar Energy Systems.
(10) 
Ordinance No. 42, adopted October 6, 1980: An Ordinance Concerning Property Tax Exemption for Buildings Equipped With A Passive Solar System.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article or part of this ordinance or of any ordinance appearing in the Code or included in this Code through supplementation, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof or the application thereof to other persons and circumstances but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article or part thereof and the persons and circumstances directly involved in the controversy in which judgment shall have been rendered.
A copy of the Code has been filed in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Plainville and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and, if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Town Clerk of the Town of Plainville, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said Town Clerk to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect. The enactment and publication of this ordinance, coupled with the availability of a copy of the Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of the ordinances in the Code of the Town of Plainville, or any new ordinances, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention that they be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements.
It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the Code of the Town of Plainville required to be filed in the office of the Town Clerk for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all ordinances adopted by the Town subsequent to the enactment of this ordinance in such form as to indicate the intention that they be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes until such changes are included as supplements to said Code book.
Copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may be purchased from the Town Clerk of the Town of Plainville or an authorized agent of the Town Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by the Town Council. The Town Clerk may also arrange for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Town Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code of the Town of Plainville, or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the Town of Plainville to be misrepresented thereby, or who violates any other provision of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine as provided in § 1-5 of the Code.
A. 
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for publication as the Code of the Town of Plainville, no changes in the meaning or intent of such ordinances have been made, except as provided in Subsections B and C of this section. Certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Town Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B. 
The following changes are made throughout the Code: the term "Chairman" is amended to "Chairperson"; the title "Director of Public Safety" is amended to "Director of Safety": the title "Finance Director" is amended to "Director of Finance"; and the title "Tax Collector" is amended to "Revenue Collector."
C. 
The amendments as set forth in Schedule A[1] attached hereto and made a part hereof are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this ordinance. (Chapter and section number references are to the ordinances as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code.)
[1]
Editor’s Note: In accordance with § 1-15C, the chapters, parts and sections which were added, amended, adopted or repealed by this ordinance are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II. During routine supplementation, footnotes indicating amendments, additions or deletions will be replaced with the following history: “Amended (added, repealed) 7-25-2016.” Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the Town offices.
This ordinance shall take effect upon passage and publication as required by law.