[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Town Council of the Town
of Hancock as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 5-10-2006 as
Ch. 1, Art. II, §§ 1 and 3; Art III; Art. IV; and Art.
V, of the 2006 Code of Ordinances]
Titles or titling of the sections of this Code printed in boldface
type are intended only as references and description to summarize
the contents or indicate the contents of the chapter, article, or
section, and shall not be deemed or interpreted to be a part of any
section, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed
when any section, including its titling, is amended or reenacted.
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances, the
following rules shall be observed unless such construction would be
inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Mayor and Council or
not consistent with the laws of the State of Maryland in legislative
interpretation.
When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing shall
be sufficient.
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 Sunday or a legal holiday, that shall be excluded.
Washington County, Maryland, and/or the Board of County Commissioners
of Washington County, Maryland. All three terms are to be considered
as synonymous.
Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine
and neuter.
All words giving a joint authority to three or more persons
or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority
of such persons or officers.
Includes persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs
and copartnerships, whether acting by themselves or as a servant,
agent or employee of same.
Document recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Washington County, Maryland, among the acts, ordinances
and resolutions for incorporated towns.
The Mayor and Council of the Town of Hancock as the duly
constituted legislative body of the Town. If used as the corporate
name of the Town, same shall have the applicable meaning.
A calendar month.
Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural
includes the singular number.
Shall be construed to include an affirmation or declaration
in all cases in which, by law, and 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."
Or may be read "and," and "and" may be read "or," if the
sense requires it.
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 of a part of such building or land.[1]
Includes a corporation, company, partnership, association
or society as well as a natural person, or any legal entity of whatsoever
nature or kind.
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
Next before and next after, respectively.
"Property" shall include real and personal property.
"Real property" shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments.
That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
line intended for the use of pedestrians.
Includes a mark when the person cannot write, his name being
written near it and witnessed by a person who writes his own name
as witness.
Shall be construed to mean the State of Maryland.
Includes any public ways, roads, highways, avenues, alleys
and lanes within the Town.
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.
Words used in the past or present tense include the future
as well as the past and present.
The Town of Hancock, a municipal corporation, and shall include
the Mayor and Council if used in a corporate or legislative sense,
in the County of Washington and State of Maryland, except as otherwise
provided.
Includes printing.
A calendar year.
[1]
Editor's Note: It is to be noted that the Liber and folio
recording information contained in the various chapters of this, the
Code of Ordinances of Hancock, Maryland, have been determined from
various sources when such information is available, and, as such,
no certification is made as to the accuracy thereof.
A.
Any
violation of the provisions of the Code of The Town of Hancock, as
adopted, and any other subsequent amendments or ordinances shall be
considered and hereby declared unlawful. Said violation(s) shall be
and are hereby considered misdemeanors unless declared by the Mayor
and Council of Hancock to be a municipal infraction pursuant to the
provisions of the Local Government Article of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, § 1-101 et seq.
B.
Whenever
in such Code or ordinance the doing of any act is required or the
failure to do an act is declared to be unlawful as set forth in each
and every ordinance referred to and as set forth in these provisions,
and where no specific penalties are provided therefor, the violator
of any such provision of this Code or any ordinance shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment for six months, or
both, in the discretion of the court, pursuant to the provisions of
the Local Government Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, § 6-101
et seq., Violations of Ordinances and Resolutions, as it now exists,
or as may be amended from time to time.
C.
Each
day any violation of any provision of this Code or of any ordinance
shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Town of Hancock
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and words of this
Code are severable, and if any word, clause, sentence, paragraph,
or section of this Code shall be declared to be unconstitutional or
invalid by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity will not affect
any of the remaining words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections
of this Code.
A.
The
provisions of this Code are in addition to and not in derogation of
any federal, state or county acts, ordinances, statutes or regulations
that may be applicable within the corporate limits of the Town of
Hancock.
B.
In
the event that there is any inconsistency in the application of any
of the ordinances contained in this Code, then the ordinance providing
for the strictest procedures or practices to be followed shall be
applicable and take precedence over the more lenient.
[An ordinance adopting the Code of the Town of Hancock and making certain substantive changes to existing ordinances of the Town is presently proposed before the Mayor and Council. Upon final adoption, it will be included here as Article II of this chapter.]
