A. “Director ” shall mean the director of the public works department.
B. “Legislative body” means the council.
C. “Lot,” “portion of lot,” “land,” “piece,” or “parcel of land,” whether used singly or in combination, may, in the discretion of the director for the purpose of this chapter, include any contiguous real property under the same ownership as appears on the last equalized assessment roll used for assessing entity in which the property is situated, whether consisting of unsubdivided land or land subdivided into blocks or lots and blocks.
D. “Owner” means the person owning the fee or the person in whose name the legal title to the property appears by deed duly recorded in the county recorder's office of the county in which the property is situated, or the person in possession of the property or buildings under claim of or exercising acts of ownership over the same as owner or as executor, administrator, or guardian of the owner. If the property is leased, the possession of the tenant or lessee holding and occupying such property shall be deemed to be the possession of the owner.
E. Sidewalk. As used in this chapter, “sidewalk” includes a park or parking strip maintained in the area between the property line and the street line, and also includes curbing, bulkheads, driveway approaches, retaining walls or other works for the protection of any sidewalk or any such parking strip.
(Prior code § 23.72 (Ord. 593 §2, Ord. 1111 §46, Ord. 1133 §8, Ord. 2268, Ord. 2364 §140), Ord. 2439 §89)