Chapter I, Section II - General Provisions

Sec. 1-2-1.    Definitions.

The following words and phrases, whenever used in the ordinances of the Town of Eaton, State of Colorado, 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 or phrases:

• Capital improvement means a public improvement of a permanent nature and may include land and equipment necessary for the functioning of a building or other capital improvement.
• County means the County of Weld.
• Law denotes applicable federal law, the Constitution and statutes of the State of Colorado, the ordinances of the Town of Eaton, and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations which may be promulgated thereunder.
• Local improvement means public improvement specifically beneficial to the property affected and also includes the abatement of such unsafe, unhealthful or unsanitary conditions as the Town Board shall determine to be a public nuisance.
• May is permissive.
• Month means a calendar month.
• Must and shall are each mandatory.
• Oath 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.
• Office.  The use of the title of any officer, employee or any office or ordinance shall mean such officer, employee, office or ordinance of the Town of Eaton, Colorado, unless otherwise specifically designated.
• Ordinance means a law of the Town of Eaton, Colorado.
• Owner, 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.
• Person 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.
• Personal property includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
• Preceding and following mean next before and next after, respectively.
• Property includes real and personal property.
• Public improvement means improvements to or in connection with streets, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, buildings, sewer systems, water systems, power systems and any other real property or appurtenances thereof of the Town used by the public.
• Public utility includes all common carriers in the public streets, water, sewer disposal, electrical light, central heating, gas, electric power, telephone and telegraph lines and systems, and such other and different enterprises as the law or the Town Board may determine.
• Real property includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
• Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
• State means the State of Colorado.
• Street includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs or other public ways in this Town 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.
• Tenant and occupant, 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.
• Town means the Town of Eaton, Colorado, or the area within the territorial limits of the Town of Eaton, Colorado, and such territory outside the Town's boundaries over which the Town has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provision.
• Town Board means the Town Board of Trustees of the Town of Eaton.
• Written includes printed, typewritten, mimeographed, multigraphed or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible form.
• Year means a calendar year.