[CC 1989 §1-1]
The ordinances embraced in this and the following Chapters and
Sections shall constitute and be designated "The Code of the City
of Webb City, Missouri" and may be so cited. Such ordinances may also
be cited as "Webb City Code".
[CC 1989 §1-2]
In the construction of this Code and all other ordinances of
the City, the following definitions and rules of construction shall
be observed, unless it shall be otherwise expressly provided in any
Section or ordinance, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent
of the City Council, or unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
The word "and" shall be interpreted to mean "or" where the context so indicates, and vice versa.
The words "the City" or "this City" shall mean the City of Webb City, Missouri.
The words "City Council" or "the
Council" shall mean the City Council of Webb City.
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, that shall be excluded.
The words "the County" or "this
County" shall mean the County of Jasper, State of Missouri.
When any subject matter, party or person is described or
referred to by words importing the masculine or feminine, the words
shall be deemed to include both males and females, associations and
bodies corporate, as well as individuals, unless the context clearly
requires otherwise.
All general provisions, terms, phrases and expressions contained
in this Code shall be liberally construed in order that the true intent
and meaning of the City Council may be fully carried out.
The Governor of the State of Missouri.
Words importing joint authority to three (3) or more persons
shall be construed as authority to a majority of such persons.
The Mayor of Webb City, Missouri.
A calendar month.
When any subject matter, party or person is described or
referred to by words importing the singular number, the plural and
separate matters and persons and bodies corporate shall be deemed
to be included.
Includes an 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 word "owner", applied to a building
or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common,
joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of such
building or land.
May extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate,
and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations.
When used by way of reference to any section of the Statutes,
mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the
reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated
in the reference.
Includes real and personal property.
Includes any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway,
sidewalk or other public thoroughfare.
The terms "real property", "premises", "real estate" or "lands" shall
be deemed to be co-extensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
The word "shall" is mandatory, and the word "may" is permissive.
That portion of the street between the curb line and the
adjacent property line which is intended for the use of pedestrians.
Where the written signature of any person is required, the
proper handwriting of such person or his/her mark shall be intended.
The words "the State" or "this State" shall mean the State of Missouri.
Includes any public way, highway, street, avenue, boulevard,
parkway, alley or other public thoroughfare, and each of such words
shall include all of them.
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
The words "tenant" or "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.
"Written" and "in writing" and "writing word for word" includes printing,
lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters, but
in all cases where the signature of any person is required, the proper
handwriting of the person, or his/her mark, is intended.
A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed, and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the words "year of
our Lord".
[CC 1989 §1-3]
A.
The catchlines
of the several Sections of this Code printed in boldface type are
intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the Section
and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such Section, nor
as any part of the Section, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall
they be so deemed when any of such Sections, including the catchlines,
are amended or re-enacted.
B.
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 Webb
City, Missouri", shall be considered as a continuation thereof and
not as new enactments.
[CC 1989 §1-4]
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council
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 City Council
without the incorporation in this Code of any such unconstitutional
or invalid phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or Section.
No offense committed and no fine, penalty or forfeiture incurred,
or prosecution commenced or pending previous to or at the time when
any statutory provision is repealed or amended, shall be affected
by the repeal or amendment, but the trial and punishment of all such
offenses, and the recovery of the fines, penalties or forfeitures
shall be had, in all respects, as if the provision had not been repealed
or amended, except that all such proceedings shall be conducted according
to existing procedural laws.
When a law repealing a former law, clause or provision is itself
repealed, it does not revive the former law, clause or provision,
unless it is otherwise expressly provided; nor shall any law repealing
any former law, clause or provision abate, annul or in any wise affect
any proceedings had or commenced under or by virtue of the law so
repealed, but the same is as effectual and shall be proceeded on to
final judgment and termination as if the repealing law had not passed,
unless it is otherwise expressly provided.
