Unless the context otherwise clearly requires,
the following terms used in this Charter shall have the following
meanings:
(a)
"Board" means any board, commission or agency of the
Town.
(b)
The "Charter" means this Charter, as the same may
be supplemented or amended from time to time.
(c)
"General Statutes" means the General Statutes of Connecticut,
Revision of 1958, and reference thereto, or to any provision or provisions
thereof, shall mean and include any supplements or amendments thereto.
(d)
"Home Rule Law" means Chapter 99 of the General Statutes.
(e)
"Meeting" of any body includes any adjourned session
thereof.
(f)
"Meeting of the Town Meeting" means the same thing
as "town meeting" as used in the General Statutes.
(g)
"The Town" means the Town of Woodbridge.
In computing the period of time of any notice
under this Charter, the day on which the notice is given shall be
excluded and the day on which the matter noticed is to occur shall
be included. The same principle shall govern other computations of
time for purposes hereof.
All elected and appointed officers and members
of boards, agencies or commissions of the Town shall swear or affirm
the faithful performance of their duties.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed
by the General Statutes.
(a)
This Charter is intended to avail, make use of and
exercise the full home rule powers of the Town under the Home Rule
Law, and any other statute now in effect or hereafter enacted and
any other home rule powers thereof under the Constitution of the State
of Connecticut, under its reserved power status as a Town antedating
the Constitution of the United States, under the common law, or otherwise.
(b)
Nothing herein shall be construed as intended to conflict
with or be inconsistent with, any general statute of the State of
Connecticut expressing any substantial public policy of the state.
It shall be construed as an assertion of the Town's full power and
authority to prescribe its organic law for the administration of its
local affairs.
(c)
If any provision of this Charter shall be held invalid
by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect
the remainder of this Charter nor the context in which such provision
so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section
may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with the provision
to which such holding shall directly apply.
