The following words and phrases, whenever used in the ordinances of the city of Ashton, Idaho, 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:
CITY AND TOWN: The city of Ashton, Idaho, or the area within the territorial limits of the city of Ashton, Idaho, and such territory outside Ashton, over which the city of Ashton has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provision.
COUNCIL: The city council of the city of Ashton, Idaho. "All its members" or "all council members" means the total number of council members holding office.
COUNTY: The county of Fremont.
LAW: Denotes applicable federal law, the constitution and statutes of the state of Idaho, the ordinances of the city of Ashton, Idaho, and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations which may be promulgated thereunder.
MAY: Is permissive.
MONTH: A calendar month.
MUST AND SHALL: Are each mandatory.
OATH: Means and 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".
OWNER: Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant, 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 or any of them.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
PRECEDING AND FOLLOWING: Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY: Includes real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY: Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE: The state of Idaho.
STREET: Includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, 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 this state.
TENANT AND OCCUPANT: Applied to a building or land, mean and include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
WRITTEN: Includes printed, typewritten, mimeographed, multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible form.
YEAR: A calendar year. (Ord. 357 § 1, 1993)