Sec. 1-18. - Strict construction rule not applicable.

The rule that a penal ordinance is to be strictly construed shall not apply to this Code, any of its provisions or other ordinances of the town. All provisions of this Code and offenses defined by it shall be construed according to the fair import of their terms to promote justice and to affect the objects of the law and general purposes of section 1-16.

(Code 1981, § 1-114)