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| Unless otherwise provided herein, or by law or implication required, the same rules of construction, definition, and application shall govern the interpretation of this code as those governing the interpretation of the Indiana Code. |
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| Where a section of this code is followed by a reference to the Indiana Code, the reference indicates that the section is analogous or similar to the cited sections in the Indiana Code. Footnotes, cross-references, and other comments are by way of explanation only and should not be deemed a part of the text of any section. |
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| All provisions of this code are limited in application to the territorial boundaries of the municipal corporation although the provisions may not be so limited specifically. |
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| Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain or ordinary and usual sense. But technical words and phrases which have a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.
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| For the purposes of this code, unless otherwise specifically provided, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively. |
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| CITY , MUNICIPAL CORPORATION or MUNICIPALITY
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| The City of Auburn, Indiana.
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| THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES
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| The Municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
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| COUNCIL
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| The Common Council of Auburn, Indiana.
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| MAY
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| The act referred to is permissive.
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| MONTH
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| A calendar month.
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| OWNER
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| Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, or joint tenant of the whole or a part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
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| PERSON
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| Extends to and includes person, persons, firm, corporation, copartnership, trustee, lessee, or receiver. Whenever used in any clause which prescribes and imposes a penalty, the terms "PERSON" or "WHOEVER" as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
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| PERSONAL PROPERTY
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| Every species of property except real property.
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| POPULATION
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| Refers to the population according to the most recent federal special or decennial census. This definition applies even if the reference is to the most recent federal decennial census.
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| PROPERTY
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| Real and personal property.
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| REAL PROPERTY
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| Lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all chattels real.
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| SHALL
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| The act referred to is mandatory.
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| SIDEWALK
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| That portion of a street between the curb lines of the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
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| State of Indiana.
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| STREET
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| Except as provided in the traffic code, the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right.
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| YEAR
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| A calendar year unless otherwise expressed; equivalent to the words "YEAR OF OUR LORD."
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| "AND" or "OR" | |
| Either conjunction shall include the other as if written "and/or," if the sense requires it.
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| When a statute requires an act to be done which, by law, an agent or deputy as well may do as the principal, the requisition shall be satisfied by the performance of the act by an authorized agent or deputy. (IC 1-1-4-1)
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| Gender; singular and plural; tenses |
| Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders; words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the plural shall include the singular (IC 1-1-4-1); the use of a verb in the present tense shall include the future, if applicable.
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| General term |
| A general term following specific enumeration of terms is not to be limited to the class enumerated unless expressly so limited.
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| Joint authority |
| Words importing joint authority to three or more persons shall be construed as authority to a majority of these persons, unless otherwise declared in the law giving the authority.
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| 10.07 SEVERABILITY
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| If any provision of this code as now or later amended or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
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| 10.08 REFERENCE TO OTHER SECTIONS
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| Whenever in one section reference is made to another section hereof, the reference shall extend and apply to the section referred to as subsequently amended, revised, re-codified, or renumbered unless the subject matter is changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
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| 10.09 REFERENCE TO OFFICES
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| Reference to a public office or officer shall be deemed to apply to any office, officer, or employee of the municipality exercising the powers, duties, or functions contemplated in the provision, irrespective of any transfer of functions or change in the official title of the functionary.
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| 10.10 ERRORS AND OMMISSIONS
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| If a manifest error is discovered consisting of the misspelling of any 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 this intent, the spelling shall be corrected and such word or words supplied, omitted, or substituted as will conform with the manifest intention, and the provisions 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 the error.
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| 10.11 OFFICIAL TIME
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| The official time, as established by applicable state and federal law, shall be the official time within the city for the transaction of all city business.
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| 10.12 REASONABLE TIME
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