(A) General rule. Words and phrases which are not specifically defined shall be construed according to the common and accepted usage of the language, but technical words and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be construed and understood according to such meaning.
(B) Definitions. For the purpose of this code, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES or TOWN BOARD. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Calera.
CODE, THE/THIS CODE, or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. This municipal code as modified by amendment, revision and adoption of new titles, chapters or sections.
COUNTY or THE/THIS COUNTY. The County of Bryan, Oklahoma.
JOINT AUTHORITY. All words giving JOINT AUTHORITY to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving authority to a majority of the persons or officers.
LAW. Includes applicable federal law, provisions of the state constitution and state statutes, the ordinances of the town and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MAYOR. The Mayor of the town.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. Shall be construed to include an affirmation 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.
OTHER OFFICIALS or OFFICERS AND THE LIKE. Whenever reference is made to officers, agencies or departments by title only, such as “Clerk-Treasurer,” “Town Clerk-Treasurer,” “Town Attorney,” “Fire Chief,” “Police Chief” and the like, they shall mean the officers, agencies or departments of the town.
PERSON. Shall extend and be applied to an actual person or any persons, to associations, clubs, societies, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate and to the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them, unless a contrary intention plainly appears.
PRECEDING; FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Shall include real and personal property.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE or THE/THIS STATE. Shall be construed to mean the State of Oklahoma.
STATUTORY REFERENCES. References to the statutes of the State of Oklahoma as they now are or as they may be amended to be.
STREET. Shall be construed to embrace a street, avenue, boulevard, road, alley, lane, viaduct, highway, court, place, square, curb or any other public way in the town which is dedicated and open to public use.
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a heading in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading. Not all chapters have SUBCHAPTERS.
TOWN, THE/THIS TOWN, or MUNICIPALITY. The Town of Calera, Oklahoma.
WEEK. Seven days.
WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(Prior Code, § 1-102)