As used in this Code, the following words and phrases shall be defined as follows, unless it is clearly apparent from the context that another meaning is intended or is specified elsewhere in the Code.
(a) “Calendar year” shall mean from January 1 through December 31 of any given year.
(b) “City Manager” shall mean the appointed official of the City who occupies the position as chief administrative officer of the City.
(c) “Council” shall mean the City Council of the City of Canyon Lake.
(d) “Councilmember” shall mean a person duly elected to the Council.
(e) “County” shall mean the County of Riverside, California, or the area within the limits of Riverside County, and such territory outside of Riverside County over which the County has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provisions.
(f) “Day” shall mean calendar day.
(g) “Fiscal year” shall mean from July 1 of any given year through June 30 of the following year.
(h) “Gender.” The masculine gender shall include 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.” Whenever 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 Canyon Lake), the County of Riverside, any district in the County of Riverside, 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 calendar months of any given year or any succeeding period of three 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.
(ab) “Tense.” The present tense shall include the past and future tense, and the future tense shall include the present tense.
(ac) “City” shall include City and shall mean the City of Canyon Lake.
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.
(3-12/90 § 1.01.170)