[Adopted as Ch. 1 of the 1975 Code]
The ordinances embraced in this and the following
chapters and sections shall constitute and be designated the "Code
of the County of Warren, Virginia," and may be so cited. These ordinances
may also be cited as the "Warren County Code."
In the Interpretation and construction of this
Code and of all ordinances of the county, the following definitions
and rules of construction shall be observed, unless they are inconsistent
with the manifest intent of the Board of Supervisors or the context
clearly requires otherwise.
A.Â
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COMMONWEALTH; STATE
COUNTY
HEALTH OFFICER; COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER
MONTH
OATH
OCCUPANT
OWNER
PERSON
POLICE OFFICER
PROPERTY
PUBLIC GROUND
ROAD; HIGHWAY
SIDEWALK
STATE
STREET
YEAR
Definitions.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Warren.
The Commonwealth of Virginia.
The County of Warren in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The public health officer of the county or representative
of the State Board of Health serving this county.
A calendar month.
Includes an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an
affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
Applied to a building or land, any person who holds a written
or oral lease of or actually occupies the whole or a part of such
building or land, either alone or with others.
Applied to any property, shall include any part owner, joint
owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of
the whole or a part of such property.
Includes a firm, partnership, association of persons, corporation,
body politic, organization or any other group acting as a unit, as
well as an individual.
Includes the Sheriff and his deputies, state police officers,
United States marshals and their deputies, and all other law enforcement
officers having authority to make arrests, but shall not include private
citizens who may make arrests under the common law for felonies and
breaches of the peace committed in their presence.
Real, personal or mixed property.
The parks and all public lands owned by the county and those
parts of public places which do not form traveled parts of streets
as defined in this section.
"Street," as such word is defined in this subsection.
Any portion of a street between the curbline, or the lateral
lines of a roadway where there is no curb, and the adjacent property
line intended for the use of pedestrians.
See "commonwealth; state."
Includes avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes,
viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto and all other public
thoroughfares in the county, and shall mean the entire width thereof
between abutting property lines.
A calendar year.
B.Â
Rules of construction.
(1)Â
Computation of time. The time within which an act
is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including
the last day; and if the last day is Sunday or legal holiday, that
day shall be excluded.
(2)Â
Following. The word "following," when used by way
of reference to any section or sections in the Code, shall be construed
to mean next following that in which such reference is made.
(3)Â
Gender. A word importing the masculine gender only
may extend and be applied to females and to corporations as well as
to males.
(4)Â
Number. A word importing the singular number only
may extend and be applied to several persons or things, as well as
to one person or thing; and a word importing the plural number only
may extend and be applied to one person or thing, as well as to several
persons or things.
(5)Â
Or; and. "Or" may read as "and" and "and" may be read
as "or" if the sense so requires.
(6)Â
Preceding. The word "preceding," when used by way
of reference to any section or sections in this Code, shall be construed
to mean next preceding that in which such reference is made.
(7)Â
Shall. The word "shall" shall be mandatory.
(8)Â
Swear; sworn. The word "swear" or "sworn" shall be
equivalent to the word "affirm" or "affirmed" in all cases in which,
by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
(9)Â
Written; in writing. The words "written" and "in writing"
shall include typewriting, printing on paper and any other mode of
representing words, letters and figures.
The catchlines of the sections of this Code
are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the sections
and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections nor
as any part of any section nor, unless expressly so provided, shall
they be so deemed when any section, including its catchline, is amended
or reenacted.
The provisions appearing in this Code, so far
as they are substantially the same in substance as those of the ordinances
included herein, shall be considered as continuations thereof and
not as new enactments.
When an ordinance which has repealed another
shall itself be repealed, the previous ordinance shall not be revived
without express words to that effect.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Sec. 1-6, Severability
of parts of Code, was deleted 6-18-1990.
[Amended 6-18-1990; 12-15-1998]
Wherever in this Code or in any ordinance or
resolution of the county or in any rule, regulation, notice or order
promulgated by any officer or agency of the county under authority
duly vested in him or it any act is prohibited or is declared to be
unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor or the doing of any act is
required or the failure, neglect or refusal to do any act is declared
to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor and no specific penalty
is provided for the violation thereof, the violation of any such provision
of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation,
notice or order shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,500
or by imprisonment for a period of not more than 12 months in jail,
or by either or both such fine and imprisonment. Each day any violation
of this Code or any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, notice
or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense except
as otherwise provided.
