In the construction of this code and of all ordinances hereafter enacted, the following interpretations shall be placed on the words and phrases hereinafter mentioned, unless such construction or interpretation shall be manifestly inconsistent with the evident intent of the City Council or repugnant to the context or to the evident purport of any ordinance.
BOND. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing shall be sufficient.
CITY. The City of Bloomington in the County of Hennepin and State of Minnesota.
COUNCIL; CITY COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Bloomington.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. In which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; and if the last day be Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, that shall be excluded.
DEFINITIONS. Unless expressly otherwise provided, definitions given within a chapter, article or division apply only to words or phrases used in such chapter, article or division.
GENDER. Words used in the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OWNER. Applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
PERSON. Includes a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or any other group acting as a unit, as well as a natural person. Also it shall include an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or other representative appointed according to law.
PLURAL, SINGULAR. Words importing the singular shall include the plural, words importing the plural shall include the singular.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PUBLIC GROUNDS. Includes the parks and all public lands owned by the city, and those parts of public places which do not form traveled parts of streets or highways.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease of or who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
TIME. Words used in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past and present.
WAYS, STREETS, HIGHWAYS. Includes boulevards, avenues, courts, lanes, alleys, squares, places and sidewalks, and each of these words includes every other of them.
WORDS. Purporting to give a joint authority to three or more officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or persons, unless otherwise herein expressly provided.
WRITING. Includes printing.
(1958 Code, § 1.04) (Ord. 2017-3, passed 3-6-2017)