Unless otherwise expressly stated, whenever used in the Code of the City of Mount Vernon, the following words and terms are defined as follows:
The Charter of the City of Mount Vernon.
The City of Mount Vernon.
The City Clerk of the City of Mount Vernon.
The City Council of the City of Mount Vernon.
The Comptroller of the City of Mount Vernon.
The Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon.
Includes public parks and parkways.
Natural person, corporation, association, unincorporated association, joint-stock association, firm or copartnership. Whenever a penalty or fine is prescribed as applying to partners or associations, the word shall include the partners or members thereof, and such word as applied to corporations shall include the officers, agents or employees thereof who are responsible for any violation of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon.
Any property rights or interests owned by the City or the School District of Mount Vernon, as well as all "streets," "parks," "public places" and "waters" belonging to the City or the School District of Mount Vernon.
Any lands under water, waterfront property, water of any pond or stream; all easements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal; and every estate, interest and right, legal and equitable, in lands or water; and any right, interest, privilege, easement and franchise relating to the same, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage assignment or otherwise.
A sewer, drainage canal, drain and sewage disposal work.
That portion of a public highway other than the street or roadway, used or set aside for the use of pedestrians, including all flagged sidewalks.
Street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, parkway, driveway, bridge, plaza, culvert, sidewalk and crosswalk, and every class of public road, square and place.