[R.O. 2010 §100.010; CC 1970 §1-1]
The ordinances embraced in this and the following Chapters and
Sections shall constitute and be designated "The Code of the City
of Glendale, Missouri" and may be so cited. Such ordinances may also
be cited as "Glendale City Code".
[R.O. 2010 §100.020; CC 1970 §1-2]
In the construction of this Code and of all other 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 clearly requires otherwise:
The words "Board of Aldermen" or "the Board" shall mean the Board of Aldermen of Glendale.
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 "the City" or "this City" shall mean the City of Glendale, Missouri.
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.
The words "the County" shall mean the County
of St. Louis, State of Missouri.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When used by way of reference to any Section of this Code,
shall 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.
Shall include real and personal property.
Shall include any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway,
sidewalk or other public thoroughfare.
The terms "real property", "premises", "real estate" or "lands" shall be deemed to be co-extensive with
lands, tenements and hereditaments.
The word "shall" is mandatory, and the word "may" is permissive.
Shall mean that portion of the street between the curb line
and the adjacent property line which is 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.
The words "tenant" or "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.
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.
The word "year" shall mean a calendar year,
unless otherwise expressed, and the word "year" shall
be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord".
[R.O. 2010 §100.030; CC 1970 §1-3]
A.
The
catchlines 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 catchlines,
are amended or re-enacted.
B.
The
provisions appearing in this Code, so far as they are the same as
those of ordinances existing at the time of the adoption of "The Code
of the City of Glendale, Missouri", shall be considered as a continuation
thereof and not as new enactments.
[R.O. 2010 §100.040; CC 1970 §1-4]
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 otherwise
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.
[R.O. 2010 §100.050; CC 1970 §1-5]
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 wise be affected, released or discharged but
may be prosecuted, enjoyed and recovered as fully as if such ordinance
or provisions had continued in force, unless it shall be therein otherwise
expressly provided.
[R.O. 2010 §100.060; CC 1970 §1-6]
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.
[R.O. 2010 §100.070; CC 1970 §1-7; Ord. No. 12-71 §1, 12-14-1971; Ord. No. 17-89 §1, 8-21-1989; Ord. No. 13-02 §1, 9-16-2002; Ord. No. 10-08 §1, 5-19-2008]
A.
Except
as hereinafter provided, whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance
of the City or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant
to such Code or other ordinance of the City any act is prohibited
or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor,
or whenever in such Code or in such other City ordinance, rule, regulation
or order the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any
act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided
therefore, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any
other ordinance of the City or of any rule, regulation or order promulgated
pursuant to such Code or other City ordinance shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment
for a period of not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
B.
Parking violations as defined in Chapter 355 of the Glendale Municipal Code (except for those violations of Schedule XII to Title III, "Blocking Fire Lane", and Sections 355.100 "Physically Disabled Parking Spaces" and 360.030 "Curb Loading Zones") shall be punishable by a ten dollar ($10.00) fine for each parking violation. If the fine for each parking violation is not paid within five (5) days of the violation, the fine is increased to twenty dollars ($20.00) for each violation. Parking violations as defined in Schedule XII to Title III, and Sections 355.100 and 360.030 of the Glendale Municipal Code shall be punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each violation. If the fine for five (5) accumulated parking violations (except for violations of Schedule XII to Title III, and Sections 355.100 and 360.030) are not paid within thirty (30) days of the last charged violation, or if any parking violation of Schedule XII to Title III, and Sections 355.100 or 360.030 is not paid within thirty (30) days, a summons shall be issued to the party or parties identified by the Department of Revenue as the owner or owners of the vehicle or vehicles which are the subject of the issued tickets, requiring a court appearance, and upon a finding of guilty shall be subject to the general penalties of Section 100.070 of the Glendale Municipal Code.
C.
Whenever
any provision of the Revised Statutes of Missouri or other Statute
of the State limits the authority of the City to punish the violation
of any particular provision of this Code or other City ordinance or
rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto to a fine of
less amount than that provided in this Section or imprisonment for
a shorter term than that provided in this Section, then the violation
of such particular provision of this Code, or other City ordinance,
rule, regulation or order shall be punished by the imposition of not
more than the maximum fine or imprisonment so authorized by both such
fine or imprisonment.
D.
Each
day any violation of this Code or any other City ordinance or rule,
regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto shall continue shall
constitute a separate offense, unless otherwise provided.
E.
The
term "misdemeanor" wherever the same may be found
in this Code or other ordinances shall be construed to mean and to
stand in lieu of the words, "a violation of ordinance".
F.
Wherever
in this Code or other ordinances it is provided as a part of punishment
that one may be "imprisoned", this shall be construed
to mean "imprisonment in the City Jail or in the Jail of St. Louis
County".
[R.O. 2010 §100.080; CC 1970 §1-8; Ord. No. 1477 §1, 12-15-1969]
In the event that any person shall make a request of the Board
of Aldermen or of any administrative official or Board of the City,
which under the applicable ordinance of the City shall require a public
hearing be held and that notice of such public hearing be published
in a newspaper of general circulation, such person shall pay to the
City one hundred dollars ($100.00) to reimburse the City for its costs
and expenses in connection with the holding of such public hearing.
No portion of this charge shall be refundable. No public hearing shall
be called unless the charge has been paid plus any other out of pocket
cost incurred by the City.
[R.O. 2010 §100.090; C.O. 1948 c. 12 §§7-3
— 7-4; CC 1970 §1-9]
A.
In
all ordinances, resolutions or orders of the Board of Aldermen and
in all official notices, advertisements or documents of the City and
in all contracts to which the City is a party relating to the time
of performance of any act by any officer or department of the City
or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine
or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person,
it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the official
time of the City.
B.
All
clocks or other time-pieces in or upon public buildings or other premises
maintained at the expense of the City shall be set and run according
to the official time. It is hereby made the duty of the officer or
other person having control and charge of such building or buildings
and premises to see that such clocks or other time pieces are set
and run in accordance with official time.
[R.O. 2010 §100.100; CC 1970 §2-1; Ord. No. 1189, 10-9-1959; Ord. No. 2-83 §1, 1-25-1983]
A.
The
following newspapers which are papers of general circulation in the
County and accredited newspapers for the publication of legal notices
under the laws of the State are hereby selected and designated as
authorized legal publications for the publication of any notice of
the City, which the City desires to publish or is required to publish
by law. It is hereby ordained that publication of any such notice
in any one of the newspapers shall be notice to the world and of the
facts therein contained, and shall be in compliance with the requirements
of law:
