Whenever any word in any section of this Code importing the
plural number is used in describing or referring to any matters, parties
or persons, any single matter, party or person shall be deemed to
be included, although distributive words may not have been used. When
any subject matter, party or person is referred to in this Code by
words importing the singular number only or the masculine gender,
several matters, parties or persons and females as well as males and
bodies corporate shall be deemed to be included, provided that these
rules of construction shall not be applied to any section of this
Code which contains any express provision excluding such construction
or where the subject matter or content may be repugnant thereto.
Whenever the following words or terms are used in this Code,
they shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them unless the context
makes such meaning repugnant thereto:
A person acting on behalf of another.
The Mayor and the Board of Trustees of the Village of Brownstown.
The "Revised Code of Ordinances of the Village of Brownstown."
The Village Board of Trustees.
The County of Fayette.[1]
A sum of money charged by the Village for the carrying on
of a business, profession or occupation.
The fiscal year for the Village shall begin on April 1 of
each year and end on March 31 of the following year.
Imports only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring
the act or omission within the provisions of this Code. It does not
require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of such act or omission.
The holidays as authorized and recognized by the Village
Board in the employee agreement.
The permission granted for the carrying on of a business,
profession or occupation.
The Village President or President of the Village Board of
Trustees.
Import a want of such attention to the nature of probable
consequences of the act of omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows
in acting in his own concern.
Anything offensive or obnoxious to the health and welfare
of the inhabitants of the Village or any act or thing repugnant to
or creating a hazard to or having a detrimental effect on the property
of another person or to the community.
As applied to a building or land shall include any person
who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land, whether
alone or with others.
Any act forbidden by any provision of this Code, or the omission
of any act required by the provisions of this Code.
Whenever reference is made in this Code to a Village Officer
or employee by title only, this shall be construed as though followed
by the words "of the Village" and shall be taken to mean the officer
or employee of this Village having the title mentioned or performing
the duties indicated. No provision of this Code designating the duties
of any officer or employee shall be so construed as to make such officer
or employee liable for any fine or penalty provided in this Code for
a failure to perform such duty, unless the intention of the Village
Board to impose such a fine or penalty on such officer or employee
is specifically and clearly expressed in the section creating the
duty.
Central standard time shall be the official time for the
transaction of Village business, except during applicable daylight
saving time set by national or state standards when the official time
shall be advanced one hour. All clocks and other timepieces in or
upon public buildings or other premises maintained by or at the expense
of the Village shall be set and run at the official time prescribed
by this definition.
The person who is in charge of any operation, business or
profession.
As applied to a building or land, shall include any part-owner,
joint-owner, tenant-in-common, joint-tenant or lessee of the whole
or of a part of such building or land.
Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association,
or corporation in his or its own capacity as administrator, conservator,
executor, trustee, receiver or other representative appointed by the
court. Whenever the word "person" is used in any section of this Code
prescribing a penalty or fine as applied to partnerships or any such
word as applied to corporations, it shall include the officers, agents,
or employees thereof who are responsible for any violation of said
section.
Includes every description of money, goods, chattels, effects,
evidence of rights in action and all written instruments by which
any pecuniary obligation, right or title to property is created, acknowledged,
transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished and every
right or interest therein.
Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood
to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in
small quantities direct to the consumer.
Unless otherwise indicated, shall mean the State of Illinois.
Includes alleys, lanes, courts, boulevards, public squares,
public places and sidewalks.
As applied to a building or land, shall include any person
who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land, whether
alone or with others.
Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood
to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles, or things in
quantity to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale.
When applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted,
implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act or make
the omission referred to. It does not require any intent to violate
law, or to injure another, or to acquire an advantage.
May include printing and any other mode of representing words
and letters, but when the written signature of any person is required
by law to any official or public writing or bond required by law,
it shall be in the proper handwriting of such person, or in case he
is unable to write, by his proper mark.
The catch lines of the several sections of this Code are intended
as mere catchwords to indicate the content of the section and shall
not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections, 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.
