Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-08-05

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| Ordinances the following rules shall
| control, excepting those inconsist-
ent with the manifest intent of
| Council as disclosed in a particular
provision, section or code:
(D CALENDAR = COMPUTA-
| TION OF TIME. The terms month"
and year" shall mean the calendar
month or year. The time expressed
in days within which an act is to
be done or a period is to expire
shall be computed by excluding the
| first and including the last day ex-
cept if the last be Sunday 1t shall
| be excluded. If time is expressed in
hours the whole of Sunday shall be
| excluded.
(2) CITY. The word city" means
the ea{ City yc0NJPfT Of P1Tt GlintoS TIoSs AND,
shall include "or" and "or" shall
include and" if the sense so re-
| quires.
(4) COUNCIL. The word "Coun-
cil' means the Council of the City
of Port Clinton.
(5) GENDER Words importing
the masculine shall extend and be
applied to the feminine and neuter
genders.
(6) GENERAL RULE. Excepting
| as otherwise provided in this sec
| ton, words and phrases shall be
| construed according to the common
| usage of language; provided, how
! ever, that technical words and
| phrases and such others as may
have acquired special meaning in
the law, shall be construed accord
ing to such technical or special
meaning.
Whenever in the Codified Ordi-
| nances authority is given to an of
ficer or an act is required to be
performed, such authority may be
exercised and such act may be per-
formed, at the instance of such Of
ficer, by a deputy or subordinate
unless contrary to law or to the
clear intent of any such particular
provision.
Cd JOINT AUTHORITY. Words
giving authority to Board. Com
| mission or to three or more City
officers or employees or other per-
| sons shall be construed as giving
authority to a majority thereof un-
less otherwise specifically provid-
ed
(s) NUMBER. Words in the
plural shall include the singular
and in the singular shall include the
plural number.
(9) OWNER. The word ''owner"
when applied to property shall in
clude any part-owner, joint owner
or tenant in common, of the whole
or any part of such property.
G0) PERSON. The word per
son" shall extend to and be applied
to associations, clubs, corporations,
firms and partnerships, as we'll as
to individuals.
01) PREMISES. The word pre-
misses" when used as applicable to
property shall extend to and in
clude land and buildings.
G2) PUBLIC AUTHORITY. The
term public authority" shall ex-
tend to and include the Board of
Education of the City, the City, the
County Commissioners, the State of
Ohio, the United States of America
and any duly authorized public Of
ficial.
G3) PROPERTY. The word
property" shall include real and
personal, and any mixed and lesser
estates or interests therein; the
words personal property" shall in
clude every kind of property except
real property; and the words real
property" shall include lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments.
G4) REASONABLE TIME. In
all cases where provision is made
for an act to be done or notice to
be given within a reasonable time,
it shall be deemed to mean such
time only as may be necessary for
the prompt performance OF Sucn act
or giving of such notice.
(15) STREET. The word street"
shall be construed to include alleys,
avenuesss boulevards, .laness roads,
streets, and other public ways in
the City.
The words tenant" or occupant"
as applied to a building or land
shall extend and be applied to any
person holding a written or oral
lease of or who occupies the whole
or any part of a. building or land,
alone or with others.
G7) TENSES. The use of any
verb in the present tense shall in
clude the future.
Sec 8. SEPARABILITY. Z C h
section and each part of each sec
tion of the Codified Ordinances is
hereby declared to be an independ-
ent section or part of section
and, Notwithstanding any other evil
dence of Legislative intent. II is
hereby declared to be the controll-
ing legislative intent If any such
section or part of a section, or any
provision thereof, or the applica
tion thereof to any person or cir
cumstances, is held to be invalid,
the remaining sections or parts of
sections and the application of such
provision to any other person or
circumstances. other than those as
to which it is held invalid, shall
not be affected thereby, and it is
hereby declared to be the legisla-
tive intent that the Codified Ordi-
nances would have been adopted
independently of such section, sec
tions or parts of section so held
to be invalid.
Sec TO- REPEAL OF PRIOR
ORDINANCES.
(a) All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in force on October l,
1855, and which are incorporated in
The COdified Ordinances of the City
of Port Clinton, Ohio, 1855, are here
by repealed as of the effective date
hereof, as follows:
Ordinance Date of
Number Passage
Unno 12-1780
Unno. 3-2S-16
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