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(B) All references to codes, titles, chapters, and sections are to such components of the code unless otherwise specified. Any component code may be referred to and cited by its name, such as the "traffic code." Sections may be referred to and cited by the designation "§" followed by the number, such as "§ 10.01." Headings and captions used in this code other than the title, chapter, and section numbers, are employed for reference purposes only and shall not be deemed a part of the text of any section.
For the purpose of this code the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"ACTION." Includes all proceedings in any court of this state.
"AND." May be read "OR," and "OR" may be read "AND," if the sense requires it.
"CITY." "MUNICIPAL CORPORATION," or "MUNICIPALITY." When used in this code shall denote the City of New Castle irrespective of its population or legal classification.
"CRUELTY." As applied to animals, includes every act or omission whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted.
"DOMESTIC ANIMAL." Any animal converted to domestic habitat.
"KEEPER" or "PROPRIETOR." Includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent, or employee.
"LAND" or "REAL ESTATE." Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest.
"MUNICIPALITY." The City of New Castle, Kentucky.
"PERSONAL PROPERTY." Includes all property except real.
"PREMISES." As applied to property, includes land and buildings.
"PROPERTY." Includes real, personal, mixed estates and interests.
"PUBLIC AUTHORITY." Includes boards of education; the municipal, county, state, or federal government, its officers or an agency thereof; or any duly authorized public official.
"PUBLIC PLACE." Includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or watercourse, public conveyance, or any other place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation, or amusement.
"REAL PROPERTY." Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
"SIDEWALK." That portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
"STATE." The State of Kentucky.
"STREET." Includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts, and all other public thoroughfares within the city.
"SUBCHAPTER." A division of a chapter, designated in this code by an underlined heading in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading. Not all chapters have subchapters.
"TENANT" or "OCCUPANT." As applied to premised, includes any person holding a written or oral lease, or who actually occupies the whole or any part of such premises, alone or with others.
§ 10.03 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
(A) Singular includes plural. 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.
(B) Masculine includes feminine. A word importing the masculine gender only may extend and be applied to females as well as males.
(C) Liberal construction. All sections of this code shall be liberally construed with a view to promote their objects and carry out the intent of City Commission.
(E) Technical terms. All words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of language, but technical words and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed according to such meaning.
§ 10.04 COMPUTATION OF TIME.
Sundays, and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
(B) When an ordinance, regulation, or order of court requires an act to be done either a certain time before an event or a certain time before the day on which an event occurs, the day of the event shall be excluded in computing the time. If the day thereby computed on which or by which the act is required to be done falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or a day on which the public office in which the act is required to be completed is actually and legally closed, the act may be done on the next day which is one of the days just mentioned.
(C) If any proceeding is directed by law to take place, or any act is directed to be done, on a particular day of a month and that day is Sunday, the proceeding shall take place, or the act shall be done, on the next day that is not a legal holiday.
(D) In all cases where the law requires any act to be done in a reasonable time or reasonable notice to be given, such reasonable time or notice shall mean the time only as may be necessary for the prompt performance of such duty or compliance with such notice.
§ 10.05 MAJORITY MAY ACT FOR ALL; AUTHORIZED AGENT.
(B) When the law requires an act to be done which may by law as well be done by an agent as by the principal, such requirement shall be construed to include such acts when done by an authorized agent.
§ 10.06 WRITINGS AND SIGNATURES.
(A) When this code requires any writing to be signed by a party thereto, it shall not be deemed to be signed unless the signature is subscribed at the end or close of the writing.
(B) Every writing contemplated by this code shall be in the English language.
(A) A repealed ordinance without a delayed effective date is revived when the ordinance that repealed it is repealed by another ordinance enacted at the same meeting of City Commission.
(B) A repealed ordinance with a delayed effective date is revived by the enactment of a repealer of the ordinance that repealed it at the same or any subsequent meeting of City Commission as long as it takes effect prior to the effective date of the original repealer.
(C) An amended ordinance without a delayed effective date remains unchanged with respect to an amendment which is repealed at the same meeting of City Commission which enacted the amendment.
(D) An amended ordinance with a delayed effective date remains unchanged with respect to that amendment if the ordinance making the amendment is repealed at the same or at a subsequent meeting of City Commission as long as the repealing ordinance takes effect prior to the effective date of the original amendment.
§ 10.09 RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES ACCRUING BEFORE REPEAL OF ORDINANCE.
§ 10.10 CONSTRUCTION OF SECTION REFERENCES.
(A) Wherever in a penalty section reference is made to a violation of a section or an inclusive group of section, such reference shall be construed to mean a violation of any provision of the section or sections included in the reference.
(B) References in the code to action taken or authorized under designated sections of the code include, in every case, action taken or authorized under the applicable legislative provision which is superseded by this code.
(C) Whenever in one section reference is made to another section hereof, the reference shall extend and apply to the section renumbered, unless the subject matter be changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
This code, from and after its effective date, shall contain all of the provisions of a general nature pertaining to the subjects herein enumerated and embraced. All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated by this code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this code of ordinances.
All ordinances of a temporary or special nature and all other ordinances pertaining to subjects not enumerated and embraced in this code or ordinances, shall remain in full force and effect unless herein repealed expressly or by necessary implication.
City Commission, or a certain city officer or employee, to make additional ordinances or regulations for the purpose of carrying out the intent of the ordinance, all ordinances and regulations of a similar nature serving such purpose effected prior to the codification and not inconsistent thereto, shall remain in effect and are saved.
§ 10.14 AMENDMENTS TO CODE; AMENDATORY LANGUAGE.
(A) Any chapter, section, or division amended or added to this code by ordinances passed subsequent to this code may be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this code and printed for inclusion herein. Any chapter, section, or division repealed by subsequent ordinances may be excluded from this code by omission from reprinted pages. Subsequent ordinances as printed or omitted shall be prima facie evidence of such subsequent ordinances until City Commission shall adopt a new code of ordinances.
(B) The method of amendment set forth in 30.82 should be used by the city to amend, add, or repeal a chapter, section, or division of this code of ordinances.
If the provisions of different codes, chapters, or sections of the codified ordinances conflict with or contravene each other, the provisions bearing the latest passage date shall prevail. If the conflicting provisions bear the same passage date, the conflict shall be so construed as to be consistent with the meaning or legal effect of the questions of the subject matter taken as a whole.
§ 10.16 REFERENCE TO OFFICES.
Reference to a public office, officer, position of employment or employee shall be deemed to apply to any office, officer, position of employment or employee of the city exercising the powers, duties, or functions contemplated in the provisions of any ordinance, resolution, order, or policy of the city, irrespective of any transfer of functions or change in the official title of such officer of employee.
§ 10.17 ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.
If a manifest error be discovered consisting of the misspelling of any word or words, the omission of any word or words necessary to express the intention of the provisions affected, the use of a word or words to which no meaning can be attached, or the use of a word or words when another word or words was clearly intended to express the intention, the spelling shall be corrected, and the word or words supplied, omitted, or substituted as will conform with the manifest intention , and the provision shall have the same effect as though the correct words were contained in the text as originally published. No alteration shall be made or permitted if any question exists regarding the nature or extent of such error.
§ 10.18 HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY REFERENCES.
(B) If a KRS cite is included in the history, this indicates that the text of the section reads word-for-word the same as the statute. Example: (KRS 83A.090) (Ord. 10, passed 1-17-80; Am. Ord. 20, passed 1-1-85). If a KRS cite is set forth as a "statutory reference" following the text of the section, this indicates that the reader should refer to that statute for further information.
The executive authority of the city shall be vested in and exercised by the Mayor.
Where an act or omission is prohibited or declared unlawful in this code of ordinances, and no penalty of fine or imprisonment is otherwise provided, the offender shall be fined not more than $500 for each offense or violation.

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