In the
construction of this Code and of all ordinances of the City, the following
rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent
with the manifest intent of the Board of Aldermen or the context clearly
requires otherwise:
CERTIFIED MAIL or CERTIFIED MAIL WITH RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
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.
CITY
The words "the City" or "this City" shall be construed as
if followed by the words "of Grain Valley, Missouri."
CODE
The words "the Code" or "this Code" shall mean the "Code
of Ordinances, City of Grain Valley, Missouri."
COMPUTATION OF TIME
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed
by excluding the first day and including the last. If the last day
is Sunday it shall be excluded.
COUNTY
The words "the County" or "this County" shall mean the County
of Jackson.
DAY
Any period of twenty-four (24) hours.
DAYTIME, NIGHTTIME
"Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset.
"Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
Whenever a provision of this Code requires or authorizes
an officer or employee of the City to do some act or perform some
duty, it shall be construed to authorize the officer or employee to
designate, delegate and authorize subordinates to perform the act
or duty unless the terms of the provision shall designate otherwise.
GENDER
Words importing the masculine gender include the feminine
and neuter.
IN THE CITY
Shall mean and include all territory over which the City
now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise
of its Police powers or other regulatory powers.
JOINT AUTHORITY
Words importing joint authority to three (3) or more persons
shall be construed as authority to a majority of the persons, unless
otherwise declared in the law giving the authority.
NEWSPAPER
Whenever in this Code or other ordinance of the City it is
required that notice be published in the "official newspaper" or a
"newspaper of general circulation published in the City," and if there
is no such newspaper published within the City, the notice shall be
published in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, regardless
of its place of publication.
NOTICE
1.
Whenever any of the Statutes of this State require or imply
that a notice shall be given to any person concerning or affecting
any right, property, claim, duty, matter or thing of any character
or nature, unless the Statutes expressly direct a different method
of service, the delivery of a true copy of the notice to the person
intended to be notified, or the leaving of a copy at his/her usual
place of abode with some member of his/her family over the age of
fifteen (15) years, constitutes a valid and sufficient service of
the notice.
2.
The provisions of this rule shall not apply to those Chapters
of this Code wherein there is a separate definition of notice.
NUMBER
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural includes
the singular.
OATH
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 word "swear" or, "sworn" shall be
equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
OFFICERS, DEPARTMENTS, ETC.
Officers, departments, boards, commissions, committees and
employees referred to in this Code shall mean officers, departments,
boards, commissions, committees and employees of the City, unless
the context clearly indicates otherwise.
OFFICIAL TIME
Whenever certain hours are named in this Code, they shall
mean Central Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time, as may be in current
use in the City.
OWNER
Applied to a building or land, shall include any part-owner,
joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant
or tenant by the entirety of the whole or of a part of such building
or land.
PERSON
Includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership,
business trust, corporation or company and any other group acting
as a unit. 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 fine or penalty, 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.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING
When used by way of reference to any Section of the Statutes,
mean the Section next preceding or next following that in which the
reference is made, unless some other Section is expressly designated
in the reference.
PROCESS
Includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial
proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
PROPERTY
Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC WAY
Includes any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway,
sidewalk or other public thoroughfare.
REAL PROPERTY
The terms "real property," "premises," "real estate" or "lands"
shall be deemed to be coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SHALL; MAY
The word "shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION BY MARK
Where the written signature of any person is required, the
proper handwriting of such person or his/her mark shall be intended.
"Signature" or "subscription" includes a mark when the signer or subscriber
cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near
the mark by a witness who writes his/her own name near the signer's
or subscriber's name; but, a signature or subscription by mark can
be acknowledged or can serve as a signature or subscription to a sworn
statement only when two (2) witnesses so sign their own names thereto.
STATE
The words "the State" or "this State" or "State" shall mean
the State of Missouri.
STREET
Includes any public way, highway, street, avenue, boulevard,
parkway, alley or other public thoroughfare, and each of such words
shall include all of them.
TENANT or OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding
a written or an oral lease of, or who occupies the whole or a part
of such building or land, either alone or with others.
TENSES
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and
the future includes the present.
WEEK
A week consists of seven (7) consecutive days.
WRITTEN, IN WRITING and WRITING WORD FOR WORD
Includes printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing
words and letters, but in all cases where the signature of any person
is required, the proper handwriting of the person, or his/her mark,
is intended.
YEAR
Shall mean a calendar year.