As used in this Code, unless a different meaning is apparent from the context or is specified elsewhere in the Code:
A. “Calendar Year” shall mean from January 1 through December 31 of any given year.
B. “City” shall mean the City of Adelanto.
C. “City Manager” shall mean the appointed official of the City who occupies the position as chief administrative officer of the City or his/her designee.
D. “Council” shall mean the City Council of the City of Adelanto.
E. “Councilmember” shall mean a person duly elected to the Council.
F. “County” shall mean the County of San Bernardino, California, or the area within the limits of San Bernardino County, and such territory outside of San Bernardino County over which the County has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provisions.
G. “Fiscal Year” shall mean from July 1 of any given year through June 30 of the following year.
H. “Gender” shall mean the masculine, the feminine and neuter genders.
I. “Goods” shall mean and include wares and merchandise.
J. “May” shall be permissive.
K. “Month” shall mean a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed.
L. “Number” - The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural number shall include the singular.
M. “Oath” shall include affirmation.
N. “Official Time Standard” - Wherever certain hours are named in this Code, they shall mean Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the City.
O. “Operate” shall mean and include carrying on, keeping, conducting or maintaining.
P. “Owner,” applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant, tenant in common or joint tenant of the whole or a part of such building or land.
Q. “Person” shall include any natural person, firm, company, corporation, club, trust or similar organization, partnership, association, public corporation, political subdivision, City (except the City of Adelanto), the County of San Bernardino, any district in the County of San Bernardino, the State of California or the United States of America, or any department or agency or any employee, manager, officer, agent, lessee or servant of any thereof, unless this Code expressly provides otherwise.
R. “Personal Property” shall include money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
S. “Police,” “Police Chief” or “Chief of Police” shall mean the agency which performs the appropriate law enforcement function for the City and the head of the agency or division thereof which at the time involved has responsibility for performing the police function for, or within, the City.
T. “Property” shall include real and personal property.
U. “Quarterly,” where used to designate a period of time, shall mean the first three (3) calendar months of any given year or any succeeding period of three (3) calendar months.
V. “Real Property” shall include land, tenements and hereditaments.
W. “Sale” shall include any sale, exchange, barter or offer for sale.
X. “Shall” shall be mandatory.
Y. “State” shall mean the State of California.
Z. “Street” shall include all streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs or other public ways in the City which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of the State.
AA. “Tenant” or “Occupant” applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
BB. “Tense” - The present tense shall include the past and future tense, and the future tense shall include the present tense.
Words and phrases not defined in this Code are construed according to the approved usage of the language, or, when appropriate, by reference to definitions contained in state or federal law.