[New]
This book shall be known and may be cited as the "Code of the
Town of Brooklyn, 2009," and is herein referred to as the "Code."
[New]
For the purpose of this Code and in the interpretation and application
of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as
the context may otherwise require, the definitions contained in this
section shall apply:
Shall mean the executive authority of the Town of Brooklyn
and the First Selectman shall be the chief executive and shall be
an ex officio member without vote of all Town boards, commissions
and committees.
Shall mean the Municipal Clerk of the Town of Brooklyn.
Shall refer to the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut
(Revision of 1958).
Shall mean County of Windham.
Shall mean an organizational unit of the Town government
established or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department,
together with any agency or instrumentality of the Town government
assigned to such organizational unit by the Board of Selectmen.
Shall mean the Town Meeting of the Town of Brooklyn.
Shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section
or chapter of this Code.
Shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically
provided.
Shall mean the Town of Brooklyn, County of Windham, State
of Connecticut.
Shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words "swear" and
"sworn" shall be construed to be equivalent to the words "affirm"
and "affirmed."
And the title of an officer or official shall be construed
as if the words "of the Town of Brooklyn" followed it.
Shall mean any act of local legislation previously or hereafter
adopted, and including this Code, so long as it shall have been adopted
by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so
long as it shall remain in force and effect pursuant to law and all
amendments thereto.
Shall mean 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 a building or land and shall include other
property or other personal property.
Shall mean any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership,
association, corporation or any other legal entity. Whenever the word
"person" is used in any section of this Code prescribing a penalty
or fine, as applied to partnerships or associations, corporation or
any other legal entity the word includes officers, managers, agents
or employees thereof who are responsible for any violations of this
section.
Shall mean next before and next after, respectively.
Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public
ground, public square, public parks, other public place or bodies
of water within the Town.
Shall mean that portion of a street between the curb line
and the adjacent property line which has been paved with concrete
or other approved material and is intended for the use of pedestrians.
Shall mean the State of Connecticut.
Shall include any public street, avenue, road, alley, lane,
highway, boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, and crosswalk, and
every class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used
by the general public.
Shall mean seven days.
Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically
provided.
[New]
For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances previously
or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the
future, the present.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
The feminine gender includes the masculine and neuter.
The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the
singular.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed
by excluding the first and including the last day, and if the last
day be a Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
"Writing" and "written" includes printing, typewriting and any
other mode of communication using paper or similar material which
is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
"And" may be construed as meaning "or," and "or" as "and," if
the sense requires and indicates such meaning.
Whenever a specific time is used in this Code, it shall mean
the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of Connecticut
during any day in any year.
Any citation of a statute, law or ordinance contained in this
Code shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law or ordinance as
amended, whether or not such designation is included in this citation.
[New]
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Code,
identified by an Arabic numeral, and divided by subject matter.
"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
"Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified
by a decimal number.
"Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a subsection, identified
by an alphabetical letter and/or Arabic number.
[New]
Each section of the Code and every part of a section shall be
considered an independent section, subsection or paragraph. If any
chapter, section, subsection or paragraph of this Code shall be declared
to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, in whole or in part,
by a court of competent jurisdiction, such chapter, section, subsection
or paragraph shall, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional,
invalid or inoperative, remain in full force and effect, and no such
determination shall be deemed to invalidate the remaining chapters,
sections, subsections or paragraphs of this Code.
[New]
It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk or someone authorized
and directed by the Town Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy
of the book containing the "Code of the Town of Brooklyn, 2009" required
to be filed in the Office of the Clerk for the use of the public.
All changes in the Code and all ordinances adopted by the Board of
Selectmen and the legislative body subsequent to the adoption of the
Code, which the Board of Selectmen and the legislative body shall
adopt specifically as a part of the Code, shall, when finally adopted,
be included herein by reference until such change or new ordinances
are printed as supplements to the Code, at which time such supplements
shall be inserted therein.
[New]
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the "Code
of the Town of Brooklyn, 2009", when passed and adopted in such form
as to indicate the intention of the Board of Selectmen and the legislative
body for them to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated
into such Code, so that reference to the "Code of the Town of Brooklyn,
2009" shall be understood and intended to include such additions and
amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments or supplements to
the Code of the Town of Brooklyn shall be adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf
book containing the Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
[New]
Copies of the "Code of the Town of Brooklyn, 2009," may be purchased
from the Town Clerk upon the payment of a fee, to be set by the Board
of Selectmen, which may also arrange for procedures for the periodic
supplementation thereof.
[New]
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change, amend
or alter this Code, without authorization as provided by law, for
the purpose of causing the law of the Town of Brooklyn to be misrepresented
by such action.
