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Timestamp: 2017-09-25 08:04:58
Document Index: 196557826

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City of Brentwood, MO General Provisions
§ 100.040 Code a Continuation of Existing Ordinances.
§ 100.050 Repeal of Ordinance Not to Affect Liabilities, Etc.
§ 100.060 Repeal Not to Revive Former Ordinance.
§ 100.070 Severability.
§ 100.080 General Penalty.
Section 100.040 Code a Continuation of Existing Ordinances.
Section 100.050 Repeal of Ordinance Not to Affect Liabilities, Etc.
Section 100.060 Repeal Not to Revive Former Ordinance.
Section 100.070 Severability.
Section 100.080 General Penalty.
[R.O. 2009 §1-1; Code 1969 §1-1]
The ordinances embraced in this and the following Chapters and Sections shall constitute and be designated as the "Brentwood City Code".
[R.O. 2009 §1-2; Code 1969 §1-2]
The words "Board of Aldermen" or "the Board" shall mean the Board of Aldermen of Brentwood.
The words "the City" or "this City" shall mean the City of Brentwood, Missouri.
The Brentwood City Code as designated in Section 100.010.
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first (1st) and including the last day and if the last day is Sunday or a legal holiday, it shall be excluded.[2]
The words "the County" or "County" shall mean the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri.
When any subject matter, party or person is described or referred to by words importing the masculine, females as well as males and associations and bodies corporate as well as individuals shall be deemed to be included.[3]
Wherever in this Code or other ordinances it is provided as a part of punishment that one may be imprisoned, this shall be construed to mean "imprisonment in the City Jail or in the jail of St. Louis County".
The word "may" shall be construed as being permissive.
The words "may not" state a prohibition.
Shall be construed to mean and to stand in lieu of the words "a violation of ordinance".
A calendar month.[4]
Includes any affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath and in such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed".
The place where the family of any person permanently resides in this State, and the place where any person having no family generally lodges.
The terms "real property", "premises", "real estate" or "lands" is coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Shall be construed as being mandatory.
The words "the State" and "this State" shall mean the State of Missouri.
The words "tenant" and "occupant", applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
Words used in the past tense or present tense include the future tense.
A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord".
State Law Reference — Similar provisions, §1.020(9), RSMo.
State Law Reference — Similar provisions, §1.040, RSMo.
State Law Reference — Similar provisions, §1.030(2), RSMo.
[R.O. 2009 §1-3; Code 1969 §§1-3, 1-7]
[R.O. 2009 §1-4; Code 1969 §1-3]
The provisions appearing in this Code, so far as they are the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the adoption of "The Code of the City of Brentwood, Missouri", shall be considered as a continuation thereof and not as new enactments.
[R.O. 2009 §1-6; Code 1969 §1-5]
Whenever any ordinance or part of any ordinance shall be repealed or modified, either expressly or by implication, by a subsequent ordinance, the ordinance or part of an ordinance thus repealed or modified shall continue in force until the ordinance repealing or modifying the same shall go into effect unless therein otherwise expressly provided; but no suit, prosecution, proceeding, right, fine or penalty instituted, created, given, secured or accrued under any ordinance previous to its repeal shall in any way be affected, released or discharged but may be prosecuted, enjoyed and recovered as fully as if such ordinance or provisions had continued in force, unless it shall be therein otherwise expressly provided.
[R.O. 2009 §1-7; Code 1969 §1-6]
[R.O. 2009 §1-8; Code 1969 §1-4]
It is the intention of the Board of Aldermen that the Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Code are severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or Section of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and Sections of this Code since the same would have been enacted by the Board of Aldermen without the incorporation in this Code of any such unconstitutional or invalid phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or Section.
Whenever in this Code or any other ordinance of the City, or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority duly vested in him/her or it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor or ordinance violation or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor or ordinance violation, and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, upon conviction of a violation of any such provision of this Code or of any such ordinance, rule, regulation, notice or order, the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by a Statute of the State, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such offense, except that imprisonments may be in the City prison or workhouse instead of the County Jail.