[Adopted 8-27-1974 as §§ 1-2 to 1-5 and
2-138 of the 1974 Code]
A.
COUNCIL
COUNTY
DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
KEEPER AND PROPRIETOR
OFFICERS; EMPLOYEES
OWNER
PARK
PERSON
PERSONAL PROPERTY
PROPERTY
PUBLIC PLACE
REAL PROPERTY
SIDEWALK
STATE
STATE LAW, GENERAL LAW or GENERAL STATUTES
STREET
TENANT; OCCUPANT
TOWN
In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances,
the following rules shall be observed, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise:
The Town Council of the Town of Newington.
The County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut.
Whenever a provision appears requiring the head of a department
or an officer of the Town to do some act or make certain inspections,
it is to be construed to authorize the head of the department or officer
to designate, delegate and authorize subordinates to perform the required
act or make the required inspections unless the terms of the provision
or section designate otherwise.
Includes persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs
and copartnerships, whether acting by themselves or through a servant,
agent or employee.
The title of any officer or employee used herein shall be
construed as if the words "of the Town" followed it and shall include
his duly authorized representative.
Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint
owner, tenant in common, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety of
the whole or of a part of such building or land.
Includes a park, reservation, playground, playfield, building,
swimming pool, beach, recreation center and any other area in the
Town owned, leased, controlled or administered by the Town and used
for or devoted to active or passive recreation.
Shall extend and be applied to associations, firms, partnerships
and bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Includes every species of property except real property,
as herein defined.
Includes real and personal property.
Any and all streets, highways and boulevards, alleys or other
publicly owned or controlled ways and any and all publicly owned or
controlled parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
Lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
The State of Connecticut.
The General Statutes of Connecticut, as amended.
Streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts
and all other public ways.
Applied to a building or land, includes any person holding
a written or oral lease of, or who occupies, the whole or a part of
such building or land, either alone or with others.
The Town of Newington in the County of Hartford and the State
of Connecticut.
B.
Word usage.
(1)
Gender. A word importing the masculine gender only
shall extend and be applied to females and to firms, partnerships
and corporations as well as to males.
(2)
Number. A word importing the singular number only
may extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as
to one person and thing.
(3)
Tense. Words used in the past or present tense include
the future as well as the past and present.
The catchlines of the several sections of this
Code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate
the contents of the sections and shall not be deemed or taken to be
titles of such sections, nor as any part of the sections, nor, unless
expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections,
including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted.
All ordinances passed subsequent to this Code
of Ordinances which amend, repeal or in any way affect this Code of
Ordinances may be numbered sequentially and shall make reference to
the portion of this Code intended to be affected and shall be printed
for inclusion herein. In the case of repealed chapters, articles,
divisions, sections and subsections, or any part thereof, by subsequent
ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by
omission from reprinted pages affected thereby.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive
any ordinance in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed
took effect, unless expressly stated. The repeal of an ordinance shall
not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took
effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time
of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.[1]
In construing this Code, feminine or neuter
pronouns shall be substituted for those of masculine form and vice
versa, and the plural of the singular and singular of the plural shall
be substituted in any case in which the context may require.