[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Tilton as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[An ordinance to adopt the updated Code of the Village of Tilton will be considered for adoption by the Board of Trustees. Upon adoption, the ordinance will be included as Article I of this chapter.]
[Adopted as Ch. 1.04 of the Village Code]
A.
BOARD
COMPUTATION OF TIME
COUNTY
LAW
MAY
MONTH
MUST AND SHALL
OATH
ORDINANCE
OWNER
PERSON
PERSONAL PROPERTY
PRECEDING AND FOLLOWING
PROPERTY
REAL PROPERTY
SIDEWALK
STATE
STREET
TENANT AND OCCUPANT
TITLE OF OFFICE
VILLAGE
WRITTEN
YEAR
Whenever used in the Code of the Village of Tilton, Illinois, the
following words and phrases shall be construed as defined in this
section unless from the context a different meaning is intended or
unless a different meaning is specifically defined and more particularly
directed to the use of such words or phrases:
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Tilton, Illinois.
"All its members" or "all Trustees" means the total number of Trustees
provided by general laws of the State of Illinois.
The time within which an act is to be done. It shall be computed
by excluding the first day and including the last day. If the last
day is a Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
The County of Vermilion, Illinois.
Denotes applicable federal law, the Constitution and Statutes
of the State of Illinois, the ordinances of the Village of Tilton
and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations which may
be promulgated thereunder.
Is permissive.
A calendar month.
Are mandatory.
Shall be construed to include an affirmation or declaration
in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for
an oath. In such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent
to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
A law of the Village, provided that a temporary or special
law, administrative action, order or directive may be in the form
of a resolution.
As applied to a building or land includes any part owner,
joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety,
of the whole or a part of such building or land.
A natural person, joint venture, joint stock company, partnership,
association, club, company, corporation, business, trust, organization,
or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee of any
of them.
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Includes real and personal property.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
The State of Illinois.
Includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts,
places, squares, curbs or other public ways in this Village 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.
As applied to a building or land, includes any person who
occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone
or with others.
Use of the title of any officer, employee, department, board
or commission means that officer, employee, department, board or commission
of the Village of Tilton, Illinois.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Village of Tilton, Illinois, or the area within the territorial
limits of the Village of Tilton, Illinois, and such territory outside
of the Village over which the Village has jurisdiction or control
by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provision.
Includes printed, typewritten, mimeographed and multigraphed.
A calendar year, unless otherwise specifically designated.
B.
All words and phrases shall be construed and understood according
to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words
and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate
meaning in the law shall be construed and understood according to
such peculiar and appropriate meaning.
When an act is required by an ordinance, the same being such
that it may be done as well by an agent as by the principal, such
requirement shall be construed to include all such acts performed
by an authorized agent.
The following grammatical rules shall apply in the ordinances
of the Village:
A.
Gender. Designation in the form of any gender includes the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
B.
Singular and plural. The singular number includes the plural and
the plural includes the singular.
C.
Tenses. Words used in the present tense include the past and the
future tenses and vice versa, unless manifestly inapplicable.
D.
Use of words and phrases. Words and phrases not specifically defined
shall be construed according to the context and approved usage of
the language.
Whenever in the ordinances of the Village any act or omission
is made unlawful, it shall include causing, allowing, permitting,
aiding, abetting, suffering or concealing the fact of such act or
omission.
The provisions of the ordinances of the Village and all proceedings
under them are to be construed with a view to effecting their objects
and to promoting justice.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not repeal the repealing clause
of such ordinance or revive any ordinance which has been repealed
thereby.
