The ordinances embraced in the following chapters and sections
shall constitute and be designed "The Code of the Town of Little Compton,
Rhode Island, 1981," and may be so cited.
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:
Shall mean the municipal clerk duly elected pursuant to law.
Shall mean the "Town Council of the Town of Little Compton".
Shall mean Newport County, Rhode Island.
Shall mean an organizational unit of the government established
or designated by ordinance or this Code as a department, together
with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such
organizational unit by the Town Council.
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 any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter
adopted, and including this Code, so long as it is adopted by the
procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as
it remains in force and effect pursuant to law.
Shall mean any individual, natural persons, partnerships,
joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts,
corporations or unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees,
servants, factors or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof
in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person,
under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
Whenever reference is made to the "General Laws" or "Gen.
Laws", this shall mean the General Laws of Rhode Island, 1956, as
amended. Whenever reference is made to "Public Laws" or "P.L.", this
shall mean the Public Laws of Rhode Island.
Shall mean the State of Rhode Island.
Shall include a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway,
boulevard, concourse, driveway, thoroughfare, culvert, sidewalk, and
crosswalk, and every class of road, square, place or municipal parking
field used by the general public.
Shall mean the Town of Little Compton in the County of Newport
and State of Rhode Island.
Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically
provided.
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All words giving joint authority to three or more officers or
other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority
of such officers or persons.
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For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances heretofore
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 singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
"Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the Code
identified by an Arabic number and divided by subject matter.
"Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a subsection, identified
by an alphabetical letter or Arabic number.
"Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.
"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, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of
the town are closed, that day shall be excluded.
"Writing" and "written" shall include printing, typewriting
and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material
which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.
Whenever a specific time is used in this Code, it shall mean
the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of Rhode
Island 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 ordinances as
amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.
"Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified
by a decimal number.
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.
Except where otherwise provided in this Code, whenever in this
Code or in any ordinance of the town any act is prohibited or is made
or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or whenever in this Code
or ordinance 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
therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any
ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $20 and cost of
prosecution or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 days or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
Except as otherwise provided, every day in which a violation
of any provision of this Code or any other ordinance of the town exists
shall constitute a separate offense.
The penalty stated in this section is not intended to state
an appropriate penalty for every violation. Any lesser penalty, including
a nominal penalty or no penalty at all, may be appropriate for a particular
case or violation.
[Ord. 1/23/08; Ord. 5/7/09; 2-15-2018]
The Comprehensive Plan of the Town of Little Compton, as duly
updated and adopted from time to time, and as most recently updated
February 15, 2018, is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
This section shall take effect for the purpose of conforming
municipal land use decisions and for the purpose of being transmitted
to the Rhode Island Director of Administration for State review upon
public hearing and passage.
The section shall not become effective for the purposes of guiding
State agency actions until it is approved by the State of Rhode Island
pursuant to Chapter 45-22.2 of the General Laws of Rhode Island a/k/a
of the Rhode Island Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Act.
