[Adopted as Secs. 1-1-1 through 1-1-7 of the Code of 1972]
The Charter, special acts and ordinances embraced in Parts I, II and III hereof shall constitute and be designated the "Revised Charter and Municipal Code of the Town of Wethersfield" and may be so cited. Parts I and II hereof may be cited as the "Code of Ordinances."
A. 
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
CODE
The "Revised Charter and Municipal Code" of the Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut.
COUNCIL
The Town Council of the Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut.
OWNER
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.
PERSON
Extends and is applied to associations, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Every species of property except real property, as herein defined.
PROPERTY
Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any park, cemetery, school yard or open space adjacent thereto and any pond or stream within the jurisdiction of the Town.
REAL PROPERTY
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
STATE
The words "the state" or "this state" shall be construed to mean the State of Connecticut.
STATE LAW, GENERAL LAW, GENERAL STATUTES
Refer to the General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision of 1958, as amended, and may be abbreviated herein as C.G.S.
STREET
Embraces streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts and all other public ways in the Town; and may include private ways over which the Town exercises jurisdiction.
TENANT, OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease of or who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
TOWN
The Town of Wethersfield, in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut.
B. 
Gender. A word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to females and to firms, partnerships and corporations as well as to males, except as is otherwise provided in the Code of Ordinances or the Town Council Rules of Procedure.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Appendix Ch. A180.
C. 
Number. A word importing the singular number only may extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as to one person and thing.
D. 
Tense. Words used in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past and present.
The catchlines of the several sections of Parts I and II of this Code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections nor as any part of the section nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted.
A. 
All ordinances passed subsequent to this Code, which may amend, repeal or in any way affect this Code, may be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for inclusion herein. In the case of repealed chapters, sections and subsections or any part thereof by subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages affected thereby.
B. 
Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code shall be made by amending such provisions by specific reference to the Part and section number of this Code in substantially the following language: "That Section
of Part
of the Revised Charter and Municipal Code of the Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut, is hereby amended to read as follows:
." The new provisions shall then be set out in full as desired.
C. 
In the event a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language should be used: "That Part
of the Revised Charter and Municipal Code of the Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut, is hereby amended by adding a section to be numbered
, which said section reads as follows:
."
D. 
Failure to follow this procedure shall in no way affect the validity of any ordinance.
E. 
All sections, articles, chapters or provisions desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed by section, article or chapter number, as the case may be.
A. 
The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect.
B. 
The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
If any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of Part I or II of this Code shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining provisions of this Code.
A. 
Whenever in Part I or II of this Code or in any ordinance of the Town any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor or public nuisance or whenever in such 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 $100, unless a different penalty is prescribed by law. Each day any violation of any provision of this Code or of any ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
B. 
The imposition of any punishment hereunder shall not prevent the enforced abatement of any unlawful condition by the Town.