[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Linn 11-13-1995 [Ch. 1 and § 9.13(d)1 of the 1995 Code]. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This Code of Ordinances may be known and cited
as the "Linn Town Code."
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 1.01(b),
Amendments, (c), Numbering of Sections, and (d), Numbering Additions,
which appeared in this section, were deleted at time of adoption of
Code (see Code Adoption Ordinance).
A.
Terms used in this Code, unless specifically defined
in this Code, have the meanings prescribed by the Wisconsin Statutes
for the same terms.
B.
COUNTY
ORDINANCES
PERSON
STATE
THIS CODE
TOWN
TOWN BOARD
WISCONSIN STATUTES
Terms used in this Code have the following meanings:
Walworth County.
The ordinances of the Town of Linn and all amendments thereto,
including this Code.
Any natural individual, firm, partnership, trust, estate,
club, association or corporation. As applied to partnerships or associations,
the word includes the partners or members thereof, and as applied
to corporations, the word includes the officers, agents or employees
thereof, who are responsible for the act referred to. The singular
person includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter genders.
Wisconsin.
The Linn Town Code.
Town of Linn, Walworth County, Wisconsin.
The Town Board of the Town of Linn, and similarly the title
of any other official, board or commission shall refer to the Town
of Linn unless otherwise stated.
The Wisconsin Statutes as of the adoption of this Code, as
amended or renumbered from time to time.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Code Adoption Ordinance). Original § 1.03,
Repeal of Ordinances, which immediately followed this section, was
deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Code Adoption Ordinance).
Unless otherwise provided in this Code, this
Code applies to acts performed within the Town of Linn, Walworth County,
Wisconsin.
A.
Standard penalty. Except where a penalty is provided
elsewhere in the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Linn, any person,
including a juvenile, who shall violate any of the provisions thereof
shall, upon conviction of such violation, forfeit not less than $50
nor more than $1,000, together with the costs of prosecution, and
in default of payment of such forfeiture and costs may be imprisoned
in the county jail until such forfeiture and costs are paid, but not
exceeding six months.
B.
Continued violations. Each violation and each day
a violation continues or occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
Nothing in this Code shall preclude the Town from maintaining any
appropriate action to prevent or remove a violation of any provision
of this Code.
C.
Other remedies. The Town shall have any and all remedies
afforded by the Wisconsin Statutes in addition to the forfeiture and
costs of prosecution above.
D.
Applicability. The penalty provided by this section
or any section of this Code applies to the amendment of any section
of this Code or any Code adopted herein by reference to which the
penalty relates, whether or not such penalty is reenacted in the amendatory
ordinances, unless otherwise provided in the amendment.
E.
Reference to section. Reference to any section of
this Code shall be understood also to refer to and include the penalty
section relating thereto, unless expressly provided.
F.
Failure of officers to perform duties. The failure
of any officer or employee of the Town to perform any official duty
imposed by this Code shall not subject such officer or employee to
the penalty imposed for violation of this Code, unless a penalty is
specifically provided.
Every person concerned in the commission of
any act prohibited by this Code, whether he directly commits the act
or prosecutes, counsels, aids, or abets in its commission, may be
prosecuted and on conviction is punishable as if he had directly committed
such act.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 1.07,
Separability of Provisions, § 1.08, Effective Date, and
§ 1.09, Copies on File, which immediately followed this
section, were deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Code Adoption
Ordinance).
The Town of Linn Police Department, Town of
Linn Health Inspector and Town of Linn Building Inspector are hereby
authorized to use citations for enforcement of any violations of the
Town of Linn Code of Ordinances, including ordinances for which a
statutory counterpart exists.
