Whenever the following words or terms are used in this code, they shall have such meanings herein ascribed to them, unless the context makes such meaning repugnant thereto:
ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS: Written orders which are issued by approval of the mayor of the city.
AGENT: A person acting on behalf of another with authority conferred, either expressly or by implication.
BOND: An obligation in writing, binding the signatory to pay a sum certain upon the happening or failure of an event.
BUILDING: Any structure intended to have walls and a roof.
BUILDING INSPECTOR: The person appointed by the mayor and designated as the city building inspector.
BUSINESS: Any profession, trade, occupation and any other commercial enterprise conducted for monetary reward.
CITY: The city of Catoosa, in the counties of Rogers and Wagoner, and state of Oklahoma.
CITY LIMITS: Within the city, and includes not only the corporate limits of the city but also any property which it owns or which is under its jurisdiction 1 .
CODE: The city code of the city of Catoosa, Oklahoma.
COUNCIL: The governing body of the city; the city council.
COUNTY: Rogers County, Oklahoma; Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
DESIGNEE: Following an official of the city, means the authorized agent, employee or representative of such official.
HEALTH OFFICER: Administrator of the cooperative department of the county and the city.
KEEPER: One in possession of or who has the care, custody or superintendence of a thing, place or business, whether or not the owner or proprietor, and includes any person, firm, association, corporation, club and copartnership, whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent or employee.
LICENSE: The permission granted for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation.
MAYOR: The mayor of the city.
MONTH: A calendar month.
OS: Oklahoma Statutes, as amended.
OATH: Any form of attestation by which a person signifies that he is bound in conscience to perform an act or to speak faithfully and truthfully, and includes an affirmation or declaration in cases where, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
OCCUPANT: As applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
OFFENSE: The unlawful act of doing, or failing to do, some particular act or thing construed therein to be detrimental to the general welfare, morals, peace, health or safety of the inhabitants of the city.
OPERATE: Carry on, keep, conduct, maintain, manage, direct or superintend.
OPERATOR: The person who is in charge of any operation, business or profession.
ORDINANCES: The ordinances of the city and all amendments and supplements thereto.
OWNER: One who has complete dominion over particular property and who is the one in whom legal or equitable title rests; when applied to a building or land, "owner" means any part owner, joint owner, owner of a community or partnership interest, life tenant, tenant in common, or joint tenant, of the whole or part of such building or land.
PERSON: Any individual, natural person, joint stock company, partnership, voluntary association, club, firm, company, corporation, business trust, organization, or any other bodies corporate or politic or group acting as a unit, or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, partner, member, director, officer or employee of any of them, including an executor, clerk, trustee, receiver, or other representative appointed according to law, unless a contrary intention plainly appears.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Any money, goods, movable chattels, things in action, evidence of debt, all objects and rights which are capable of ownership, and every other species of property except real property.
PRECEDING; FOLLOWING: Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPRIETOR: An owner of the property or premises, including any person, firm, association, corporation, club, partnership or other group acting as a unit, whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent or employee.
PUBLIC PLACE: Means and includes any public street, road or highway, alley, lane, sidewalk, crosswalk, or other public way, or any public resort, place of amusement, stadium, athletic field, park, playground, public building or grounds appurtenant thereto, school building or school grounds, public parking lot or any vacant lot, the elevator, lobby, halls, corridors and areas open to the public of any store, office, or apartment building, or any other place commonly open to the public.
REAL PROPERTY: Land, together with all things attached to the land so as to become a part thereof.
RETAILER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things direct to the consumer.
SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property along the margin of a street or other highway, designed, constructed and intended for the use of pedestrians to the exclusion of vehicles.
SIGNATURE AND SUBSCRIPTION: The name of a person, mark or symbol appended by him to a writing with intent to authenticate the instrument as one made or put into effect by him.
STATE: The state of Oklahoma.
STATUTES: The Oklahoma Statutes as they are now or as they may be amended.
STREET: All streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, roads, lanes, viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto, docks built on the public streets, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, sidewalks, recreation and park lands used for vehicular traffic, or other public ways or thoroughfares in the city over which it has jurisdiction, 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.
TENANT: Any person occupying the premises, building or land of another in subordination to such other person's title and with his express or implied consent, whether he occupies the whole or a part of those premises, building or land, whether alone or with others.
TIME: The hour of the day according to the official time.
TIME OF PERFORMANCE: The time within which an act is to be done as provided in any section of this code or any order issued pursuant to any section of this code, when expressed in days, and is computed by excluding the first and including the last day. If the last day is a Sunday or legal holiday, that day shall not be counted in the computation. When the time is expressed in hours, the whole of Sunday or a legal holiday from midnight to midnight is excluded.
WATERCOURSE: Any drain, ditch and stream, flowing in a definite direction or course, in a bed with banks.
WEEK: Seven (7) days.
WHOLESALER, WHOLESALE DEALER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale.
WRITING AND WRITTEN: Any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise, capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means.
YEAR: A calendar year. (1992 Code §§ 1-102, 10-103; amd. 2006 Code)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See section 1-1-5 of this title. |