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Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
TITLE ONE - General Provisions
CHAPTER 101 Codified Ordinances
101.01 DESIGNATION; CITATION; HEADINGS.
101.02 GENERAL DEFINITIONS.
101.03 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
101.04 REVIVOR; EFFECT OF AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.
101.05 CONSTRUCTION OF SECTION REFERENCES.
101.06 CONFLICTING PROVISIONS.
101.07 DETERMINATION OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
101.08 SEVERABILITY.
101.99 GENERAL PENALTY.
CHAPTER 103 Official Standards
CHAPTER 105 Wards and Boundaries
TITLE THREE - Legislative
TITLE FIVE - Administrative
TITLE SEVEN - Judicial
TITLE NINE - Taxation
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
101.02 GENERAL DEFINITIONS.
CHAPTER 101 Codified Ordinances
CHAPTER 101
Codified Ordinances
101.01   Designation; citation; headings.
101.02   General definitions.
101.03   Rules of construction.
101.04   Revivor; effect of amendment or repeal.   
101.05   Construction of section references.
101.06   Conflicting provisions.
101.07   Determination of legislative intent.
101.08   Severability.
101.99   General penalty.
 
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Statute of limitations on prosecutions - see Ohio R.C. 718.06; GEN. OFF. 501.06
Codification in book form - see Ohio R.C. 731.23
Imprisonment until fine and costs are paid - see Ohio R.C. 1905.30, 2947.14
Citation issuance for minor misdemeanors - see Ohio R.C. 2935.26 et seq.
Ordinances and resolutions - see ADM. Ch. 123
Rules of construction for offenses and penalties - see GEN. OFF. 501.04
 
 
101.01 DESIGNATION; CITATION; HEADINGS.
   (a)   All ordinances of a permanent and general nature of the Municipality as revised, codified, rearranged, renumbered and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections shall be known and designated as the Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, 1984, for which designation "Codified Ordinances" may be substituted. Code, title, chapter and section headings do not constitute any part of the law as contained in the Codified Ordinances.
(ORC 1.01)
   (b)   All references to codes, titles, chapters and sections are to such components of the Codified Ordinances unless otherwise specified. Any component code may be referred to and cited by its name, such as the "Traffic Code". Sections may be referred to and cited by the designation "Section" followed by the number, such as "Section 101.01".
101.02 GENERAL DEFINITIONS.
   As used in the Codified Ordinances, unless another definition is provided or the context otherwise requires:
   (a)   "And" may be read "or", and "or" may be read "and", if the sense requires it.
      (ORC 1.02(F))
   (b)   "Another" when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property.
      (ORC 1.02(B))
   (c)   "Bond" includes an undertaking and "undertaking" includes a bond.
      (ORC 1.02(D), (E))
   (d)   "Council" means the legislative authority of the Municipality.
   (e)   "County" means Lorain County, Ohio.
   (f)   “Hard surface” as used in the Codified Ordinances unless specifically defined otherwise shall be defined as follows; concrete, asphaltic concrete, or at least 4" of #57 limestone aggregate or larger additionally choked with fines.
      (Ord. 49-96. Passed 6-11-96.)
   (g)   "Keeper" or "proprietor" includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent or employee.
   (h)   "Land" or "real estate" includes rights and easements of an incorporeal nature.
      (ORC 701.01(F))
   (i)   "Municipality" or “City” means the City of Sheffield Lake, Ohio.
   (j)   "Oath" includes affirmation and "swear" includes affirm. (ORC 1.59(B))
   (k)   "Owner", when applied to property, includes any part owner, joint owner or tenant in common of the whole or part of such property.
   (l)   "Person" includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership and association. (ORC 1.59(C))
   (m)   "Premises", as applied to property, includes land and buildings.
   (n)   "Property" means real and personal property. (ORC 1.59(E))
      "Personal property" includes all property except real.
      "Real property" includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
   (o)   "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.
   (p)   "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.
   (q)   "Registered mail" includes certified mail and "certified mail" includes registered mail. (ORC 1.02(G))
   (r)   "Rule" includes regulation. (ORC 1.59(F))
   (s)   "Sidewalk" means that portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
   (t)   "This State" or "the State" means the State of Ohio. (ORC 1.59(G))
   (u)   "Street" includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts and all other public thoroughfares within the Municipality.
   (v)   "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.
   (w)   "Whoever" includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents and employees; and all officials, public or private. (ORC 1.02(A))
   (x)   "Written" or "in writing" includes any representation of words, letters, symbols or figures. This provision does not affect any law relating to signatures.
      (ORC 1.59(J))
101.03 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
   (a)   Common and Technical Usage. Words and phrases shall be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage. Words and phrases that have acquired a technical or particular meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be construed accordingly. (ORC 1.42)
   (b)   Singular and Plural; Gender; Tense. As used in the Codified Ordinances, unless the context otherwise requires:
      (1)   The singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
      (2)   Words of one gender include the other genders.
      (3)   Words in the present tense include the future. (ORC 1.43)
   (c)   Calendar; Computation of Time.
      (1)   Definitions.
         A.   "Week" means seven consecutive days.
         B.   "Year" means twelve consecutive months. (ORC 1.44)
      (2)   If a number of months is to be computed by counting the months from a particular day, the period ends on the same numerical day in the concluding month as the day of the month from which the computation is begun, unless there are not that many days in the concluding month, in which case the period ends on the last day of that month. (ORC 1.45)
      (3)   A.   The time within which an act is required by law to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; except that when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, then the act may be done on the next succeeding day that is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.
         B.   When a public office, in which an act required by law is to be performed, is closed to the public for the entire day that constitutes the last day for doing the act or before its usual closing time on that day, the act may be performed on the next succeeding day that is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.
         C.   As used in subsections (c)(1) and (c)(2) of this section, legal holiday means the following days:
            1.   The first day of January, known as New Year’s Day;
            2.   The third Monday in January, known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day;
            3.   The third Monday in February, known as Washington-Lincoln Day;
            4.   The day designated in the “Act of June 28, 1968”, 82 Stat. 250, 5 U.S.C. § 6103, as amended, for the commemoration of Memorial Day;
            5.   The nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth day;
            6.   The fourth day of July, known as Independence Day;
            7.   The first Monday in September, known as Labor Day;
            8.   The second Monday in October, known as Columbus Day;
            9.   The eleventh day of November, known as Veteran’s Day;
            10.   The fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving Day;
            11.   The twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas Day; and
            12.   Any day appointed and recommended by the Governor of this state or the President of the United States as a holiday.
         D.   If any day designated in this section as a legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the next succeeding day is a legal holiday.
            (ORC 1.14)
      (4)   When legislation is to take effect or become operative from and after a day named, no part of that day shall be included. (ORC 1.15)
      (5)   In all cases where the law shall require any act to be done in a reasonable time or reasonable notice to be given, such reasonable time or notice shall mean such time only as may be necessary for the prompt performance of such duty or compliance with such notice.
   (d)   Authority. When the law requires an act to be done which may by law as well be done by an agent as by the principal, such requirement shall be construed to include all such acts when done by an authorized agent.
   (e)   Joint Authority. All words purporting to give joint authority to three or more municipal officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority or inconsistent with State statute or Charter provisions.
   (f)   Exceptions. The rules of construction shall not apply to any law which shall contain any express provision excluding such construction, or when the subject matter or context of such law may be repugnant thereto.
101.04 REVIVOR; EFFECT OF AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.
   (a)   The repeal of a repealing ordinance does not revive the ordinance originally repealed nor impair the effect of any saving clause therein. (ORC 1.57)
   (b)   An ordinance which is re-enacted or amended is intended to be a continuation of the prior ordinance and not a new enactment, so far as it is the same as the prior ordinance.
(ORC 1.54)
   (c)   The re-enactment, amendment or repeal of an ordinance does not, except as provided in subsection (d) hereof:
      (1)   Affect the prior operation of the ordinance or any prior action taken thereunder;
      (2)   Affect any validation, cure, right, privilege, obligation or liability previously acquired, accrued, accorded or incurred thereunder;
      (3)   Affect any violation thereof or penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect thereto, prior to the amendment or repeal;
      (4)   Affect any investigation, proceeding or remedy in respect of any such privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment; and the investigation, proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and the penalty, forfeiture or punishment imposed, as if the ordinance had not been repealed or amended.
   (d)   If the penalty, forfeiture or punishment for any offense is reduced by a re-enactment or amendment of an ordinance, the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment, if not already imposed, shall be imposed according to the ordinance as amended. (ORC 1.58)
101.05 CONSTRUCTION OF SECTION REFERENCES.
   (a)   A reference to any portion of the Codified Ordinances applies to all re-enactments or amendments thereof. (ORC 1.55)
   (b)   If a section refers to a series of numbers or letters, the first and the last numbers or letters are included. (ORC 1.56)
   (c)   Wherever in a penalty section reference is made to a violation of a series of sections or of subsections of a section, such reference shall be construed to mean a violation of any section or subsection included in such reference.
   References in the Codified Ordinances to action taken or authorized under designated sections of the Codified Ordinances include, in every case, action taken or authorized under the applicable legislative provision which is superseded by the Codified Ordinances.
(ORC 1.23)
101.06 CONFLICTING PROVISIONS.
   (a)   If there is a conflict between figures and words in expressing a number, the words govern. (ORC 1.46)
   (b)   If a general provision conflicts with a special or local provision, they shall be construed, if possible, so that effect is given to both. If the conflict between the provisions is irreconcilable, the special or local provision prevails as an exception to the general provision, unless the general provision is the later adoption and the manifest intent is that the general provision prevail. (ORC 1.51)
   (c)   (1)   If ordinances enacted at different meetings of Council are irreconcilable, the ordinance latest in date of enactment prevails.
      (2)   If amendments to the same ordinance are enacted at different meetings of Council, one amendment without reference to another, the amendments are to be harmonized, if possible, so that effect may be given to each. If the amendments are substantively irreconcilable, the latest in date of enactment prevails. The fact that a later amendment restates language deleted by an earlier amendment, or fails to include language inserted by an earlier amendment, does not of itself make the amendments irreconcilable. Amendments are irreconcilable only when changes made by each cannot reasonably be put into simultaneous operation. (ORC 1.52)

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• Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
• ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
• ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
• ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
• Ordinances
• Ordinances and resolutions - see ADM
• ordinances of a permanent and general nature of the Municipality as revised, codified, rearranged, renumbered and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections shall be k
• Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, 1984, for which designation "Codified Ordinances" may be substituted
• Ordinances unless otherwise specified
• Ordinances, unless another definition is provided or the context otherwise requires:
• Ordinances unless specifically defined otherwise shall be defined as follows; concrete, asphaltic concrete, or at least 4" of #57 limestone aggregate or larger additionally choked with fine
• Ord. 49-96
• ords, letters, symbols or figures
• ords and phrases shall be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage
• ords and phrases that have acquired a technical or particular meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be construed accordingly
• Ordinances, unless the context otherwise requires:
• ords of one gender include the other genders
• ords in the present tense include the future
• amended, for the commemoration of Memorial Day;
• ords purporting to give joint authority to three or more municipal officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other person
• ordinance does not revive the ordinance originally repealed nor impair the effect of any saving clause therein
• ordinance which is re-enacted or amended is intended to be a continuation of the prior ordinance and not a new enactment, so far as it is the same as the prior ordinance
• ordinance does not, except as provided in subsection (d) hereof:
• ordinance or any prior action taken thereunder;
• orded or incurred thereunder;
• ordinance had not been repealed or amended
• ordinance, the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment, if not already imposed, shall be imposed according to the ordinance as amended
• Ordinances applies to all re-enactments or amendments thereof
• Ordinances to action taken or authorized under designated sections of the Codified Ordinances include, in every case, action taken or authorized under the applicable legislative provision w
• ords in expressing a number, the words govern
• ordinances enacted at different meetings of Council are irreconcilable, the ordinance latest in date of enactment prevails
• ordinance are enacted at different meetings of Council, one amendment without reference to another, the amendments are to be harmonized, if possible, so that effect may be given to each
• Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
• Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
• Ordinances or other documents posted on this site, please contact the Municipality directly or contact American Legal Publishing toll-free at 800-445-5588

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