Rules of Construction; General Penalty

"AND" or "OR."  Includes the other as if written "AND/OR."

"ANIMAL."  Includes every warm‑blooded living creature except a human being.  (KRS 446.010 (2))

"CATTLE."  Includes horse, mule, ass, cow, ox, sheep, hog, or goat of any age or sex.  (KRS 446.010 (6))

"CITY," "MUNICIPAL CORPORATION" or "MUNICIPALITY."  The municipality of Bardstown irrespective of its population or legal classification.

"CODE" or "CODE OF ORDINANCES".  The city code as adopted by this ordinance, and as hereinafter modified by amendment, revision, and by the adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.

"COMPANY."  May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association.  (KRS 446.010 (7))

"CORPORATION."  May extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association.
(KRS 446.010 (8))

"COUNCIL" or "CITY COUNCIL."  The council of the city of Bardstown.

"COUNTY."  Nelson County, Kentucky.

"CRUELTY."  As applied to animals, includes every act or omission whereby unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted.  (KRS 446.010 (9))

"DIRECTORS."  When applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees.  (KRS 446.010 (10))

"DOMESTIC."  When applied to corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, or limited liability companies, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state.
(KRS 446.010 (11))

"DOMESTIC ANIMAL."  Any animal converted to domestic habitat.  (KRS 446.010 (12))

"EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY."  The Mayor.  (KRS 83A.010 (6))

"EXECUTIVE ORDER."  An order issued by the mayor which is binding upon the officers and employees of the city and any governmental agency over which the city has jurisdiction.  (KRS 83A.010 (7))

"FEDERAL."  Refers to the United States.  (KRS 446.010 (13))

"FOREIGN."  When applied to corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, or limited liability companies includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. 
(KRS 446.010 (14))

"KEEPER" or "PROPRIETOR."  Includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent, or employee.

"KRS."  Kentucky Revised Statutes.

"LAND"  or "REAL ESTATE."  Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest.  (KRS 446.010 (18))

"LEGISLATIVE BODY."  The City Council.  (KRS 91A.010 (8))

"LEGISLATIVE BODY MEMBER."  A City Councilman.  (KRS 83A.010(8))

"MAY."  Is permissive.

"MISDEMEANOR."  An offense for which the criminal fine can not exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(a), or a term of imprisonment not to exceed the periods set forth in KRS 532.090(1) or both.  (KRS 83A.065)

"MONTH."  A calendar month.

"MUNICIPALITY."  The City of Bardstown, Kentucky.

"MUNICIPAL ORDER."  An official act of the city council which is binding upon the officers and employees of the city and any governmental agency over which the municipality has jurisdiction.  (KRS 83A.010(9))

"OATH."  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."  (KRS 446.020 (22))

"OFFICER."  Any person elected to a position by the voters or any person appointed to a position which:

(a)     Is created by the Constitution, the General Assembly, or a city;

(b)     Possesses a  delegation  of a portion of the sovereign power of Government;

(c)     Has powers and duties to be discharged which are conferred directly or by implication by the city;

(d)     Has duties performed independently and without control of a superior power other than the law;

(e)     Has some permanency;

(f)      Requires an official oath;

(g)     Is  assigned  by a commission  or  other written authority; and

(h)     Provides for an official bond if required by proper authority. (KRS 83A.010(10))

"ORDINANCE."  An official act of a city legislative body, which is a regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law or is an appropriation of money. (KRS 83A.010 (11))

"OWNER."  Applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant of the whole or a part of such building, or land, either alone or with others.

“PARTNERSHIP.”  Includes both general and limited partnerships. (KRS 446.010(24))

"PEACE OFFICER."  Includes sheriffs, constables, coroners, jailers, metropolitan or urban‑county government correctional officers, marshals, policemen, and other persons with similar authority to make arrests. (KRS 446.010 (25))

"PERSON."  May extend and be applied to bodies‑politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, registered limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies, and limited liability companies.  (KRS 446.010(27))

"PERSONAL PROPERTY."  Includes all property except real.

"PREMISES."  As applied to property, includes land and buildings.

"PROPERTY."  Includes real, personal, mixed estates and interests.

"PUBLIC AUTHORITY."  Includes boards of education; the municipal, county, state, or federal government, its officers or an agency thereof; or any duly authorized public official.

"PUBLIC PLACE."  Includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or watercourse, public conveyance, or any other place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation, or amusement.

"REAL PROPERTY."  Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.

"REGULAR ELECTION."  The election in even numbered years at which members of Congress are elected and the election in odd numbered years at which state officers are elected.
(KRS 446.010 (29))

"RESOLUTION."         An expression of the opinion, will or policy of the legislative body on some matter of ministerial business which has come before the body.  (While an ordinance, and to a large extent a municipal order, involves a distinctly legislative act, a resolution is a less formal mechanism for dealing with matters of a special or temporary character.)

"REVISED STATUTES" or "KRS."  Refers to the Revised Statutes of Kentucky.

"SHALL."  Is mandatory.

"SIDEWALK."  That portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.

"STATE."  The Commonwealth of Kentucky.

"STREET."  Includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts, and all other public thoroughfares within the city.

"SUBCHAPTER."  A division of a chapter, designated in this code by an underlined heading  in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the  body of the chapter setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading.  Not all chapters have subchapters.

"SWORN."  Includes "AFFIRMED" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.  (KRS 446.010(33))

"TENANT" OR "OCCUPANT."  As applied to premises, includes any person holding a written or oral lease, or who actually occupies the whole or any part of such premises, alone or with others.

"VACANCY IN OFFICE."  Such as exists wherein there is an unexpired part of a term of office without a lawful incumbent therein, or when the person elected or appointed to an office fails to qualify according to law, or when there has been no election to fill the office at the time appointed by law; it applies whether the vacancy is occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the state, county, or district, or otherwise.  (KRS 446.010 (35))

"VIOLATE."  Includes failure to comply with.  (KRS 446.010 (36))

"VIOLATION."  An offense for which the criminal fine can not exceed the amount set forth in KRS 534.040(2)(c).  (KRS 83A.065)