[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.
CODE
COUNCIL
OWNER
PERSON
PERSONAL PROPERTY
PROPERTY
PUBLIC PLACE
REAL PROPERTY
STATE
STATE LAW, GENERAL LAW, GENERAL STATUTES
STREET
TENANT, OCCUPANT
TOWN
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
The "Revised Charter and Municipal Code" of the Town of Wethersfield,
Connecticut.
The Town Council of the Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut.
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.
Extends and is applied to associations, firms, partnerships
and bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Every species of property except real property, as herein
defined.
Includes real and personal property.
Any park, cemetery, school yard or open space adjacent thereto
and any pond or stream within the jurisdiction of the Town.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
The words "the state" or "this state" shall be construed
to mean the State of Connecticut.
Refer to the General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision of
1958, as amended, and may be abbreviated herein as C.G.S.
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.
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.
The Town of Wethersfield, in the County of Hartford and State
of Connecticut.
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.
