[Adopted as Ch. 1.04 of the 1978 Code]
A.
BOARD
COUNTY
LAW
MONTH
OATH
OWNER
PERSON
PERSONAL PROPERTY
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING
PROPERTY
REAL PROPERTY
SIDEWALK
STATE
STREET
TENANT and OCCUPANT
WRITTEN
YEAR
The following words and phrases, whenever used in
the ordinances of the County of Pierce, shall be construed as defined
in this section unless from the context a different meaning is intended
or unless a different meaning is specifically defined and more particularly
directed to the use of such words and phrases:
The Pierce County Board of Supervisors. "All its members"
or "all Supervisors" means the total number of Supervisors holding
office.
The County of Pierce.
Denotes applicable federal law, the Constitution and statutes
of the State of Wisconsin, the ordinances of the County of Pierce
and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations which may
be promulgated thereunder.
A calendar month.
Includes an affirmation or declaration 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."
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 a part of such building or land.
Includes a natural person, joint venture, joint-stock company,
partnership, association, club, company, corporation, business, trust,
organization or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee
of any of them.
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
Next before and next after, respectively.
Includes real and personal property.
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
The State of Wisconsin.
Includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts,
places, squares, curbs or other public ways in this county which have
been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use or such
other public property so designated in any law of this state.
Applied to a building or land, include any person who occupies
the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with
others.
Includes printed, typewritten, mimeographed, multigraphed
or otherwise reproduced in a permanent visible form.
A calendar year.
B.
"May" is permissive. "Must" and "shall" are each mandatory.
Use of the title of any officer, employee, department,
board or commission means that officer, employee, department, board
or commission of the county.
All words and phrases shall be construed according
to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words
and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate
meaning in the law shall be construed and understood according to
such peculiar and appropriate meaning.
The following grammatical rules shall apply
in the ordinances of the county, unless it is apparent from the context
that a different construction is intended:
A.
Gender. Each gender includes the masculine, feminine
and neuter genders.
B.
Singular and plural. The singular number includes
the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
C.
Tenses. Words used in the present tense include the
past and the future tenses and vice versa, unless manifestly inapplicable.
When an act is required by an ordinance, the
same being such that it may be done as well by an agent as by the
principal, such requirement shall be construed to include all such
acts performed by an authorized agent.
Whenever in the ordinances of the county any
act or omission is made unlawful, it shall include causing, allowing,
permitting, aiding, abetting, suffering or concealing the fact of
such act or omission.
Except when otherwise provided, the time within
which an act is required to be done shall be computed by excluding
the first day and including the last day, unless the last day is Sunday
or a holiday, in which case it shall also be excluded.
The provisions of the ordinances of the county,
and all proceedings under them, are to be construed with a view to
effect their objects and to promote justice.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not repeal
the repealing clause of an ordinance or revive any ordinance which
has been repealed thereby.
