Definitions. Definitions given within
a chapter or article apply only to words or phrases used in such chapter
or article unless otherwise provided.
BOND
An obligation in writing, binding the signatory to pay a
sum certain upon the happening or failure of an event.
BUSINESS
Any profession, trade, occupation and any other commercial
enterprise conducted for monetary reward.
CHARTER
The Charter of the Town of Winslow.
COUNCIL
The governing body of the Town, the Town Council.
COUNCIL CHAIR
The Chair of the Town Council of Winslow.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
COUNCILOR
Any member of the governing body of the Town, the Winslow
Town Council.
COUNTY
Kennebec County, Maine.
DESIGNEE
Following an official of the Town, means the authorized agent,
employee or representative of such official.
DIRECTOR
The chief executive officer of the office or department to
which the particular division, bureau, board, agency or subordinate
municipal administrative body has been assigned by the Council.
HEALTH OFFICER
The head of the health department or any person designated
by the Council to perform the Town health functions and duties.
OATH
Any form of attestation by which a person signifies that
he is bound in conscience to perform an act or to speak faithfully
and truthfully, and includes an affirmation or declaration in cases
where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
OCCUPANT
Tenant or person in actual possession.
OPERATE
Carry on, keep, conduct, maintain, manage, direct or superintend.
ORDINANCES
The ordinances of the Town of Winslow and all amendments
and supplements thereto.
OWNER
One who has complete dominion over particular property and
who is the one in whom legal or equitable title rests; when applied
to a building or land, owner means any part owner, joint owner, owner
of a community or partnership interest, life tenant, tenant in common,
or joint tenant, of the whole or part of such building or land.
PERSON
Any individual, natural person, joint stock company, partnership,
voluntary association, society, club, firm, company, corporation,
business trust, organization, or any other group acting as a unit,
or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, partner, member, director,
officer or employee of any of them including an executor, administrator,
trustee, receiver, or other representative appointed according to
law.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Any money, goods, movable chattels, things in action, evidence
of debt, all objects and rights which are capable of ownership, and
every other species of property except real property.
PROPRIETOR
An owner of the property or premises including any person,
firm, association, corporation, club partnership or other group acting
as a unit whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent or employee.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any park, lake, stream, stadium, athletic field; playground,
school yard, street, avenue, plaza, square, bus train or railroad
depot, station, terminal, cemetery, open space adjacent thereto or
any other place commonly open to the public.
REAL PROPERTY
Land, together with all things attached to the land so as
to become a part thereof.
SIDEWALK
That portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent
property along the margin of a street or other highway, designed,
constructed and intended for the use of pedestrians to the exclusion
of vehicles.
SIGNATURE and SUBSCRIPTION
The name of a person, mark or symbol appended by him to a
writing with intent to authenticate the instrument as one made or
put into effect by him.
STATE
The State of Maine.
STREET
All street, highways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, roads,
lanes, viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto, docks built on
the public street, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, sidewalks,
recreation and park lands used for vehicular traffic, or other public
ways or thoroughfares in this Town, over which it has jurisdiction,
which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use,
or such other public property so designated in any law of this state.
TENANT
Any person occupying the premises, building or land of another
in subordination to such other person's title and with his express
or implied assent, whether he occupies the whole or a part of those
premises, building or land, whether alone or with others.
TIME
An hour of the day according to the official time of the
Town.
TIME OF PERFORMANCE
The time within which an act is to be done as provided in
any section or any order issued pursuant to any section, when expressed
in days, and is computed by excluding the first and including the
last day. If the last day is Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall
not be counted in the computation. When the time is expressed in hours,
the whole of Sunday or a legal holiday from midnight to midnight is
excluded.
TOWN
The Town of Winslow, in the County of Kennebec and State
of Maine.
TOWN LIMITS
Within the Town and includes not only the corporate limits
of the Town, but also any property which it owns or which is under
its jurisdiction.
WATERCOURSE
Any drain, ditch and stream, flowing in a definite direction
or course in a bed with banks.
WRITING and WRITTEN
Any representation of words, letters or figures, whether
by printing or otherwise, capable of comprehension by ordinary visual
means.