AGENT: | A person acting on behalf of another with authority conferred, either expressly or by implication. |
CHIEF OF POLICE OR POLICE CHIEF: | The chief of police or the police officer in charge of the police force of the city. |
CITY: | The city of Elgin, county of Comanche, state of Oklahoma. This term shall be construed as if the words "of Elgin, Oklahoma" followed them. |
CITY COUNCIL: | The city council of the city of Elgin. |
CLEET: | Council on law enforcement and education training. |
CODE: | The city code of the city of Elgin. |
COMPUTATION OF TIME: | Whenever a notice is required to be given or an act to be done a certain length of time before any proceeding shall be had, the day on which the notice is given or the act is done shall be counted in computing the time but the day on which the proceeding is to be had shall not be counted. |
COUNTY: | The county of Comanche, state of Oklahoma. |
COURT OR MUNICIPAL COURT: | The municipal court of the city. |
EMPLOYEES: | Whenever reference is made in this code to a city employee by title only, this shall be construed as though followed by the words "of the city of Elgin". |
GENDER: | A word importing one gender only shall extend and be applied to other genders and to firms, partnerships, and corporations as well. |
HEALTH OFFICER OR HEALTH DEPARTMENT: | The county sanitarian or county health department, unless specific reference is made to the appointed health officer of the city. |
HIGHWAY: | Shall include any street, alley, highway, avenue, public place, square, bridge, underpass or overpass in the city, dedicated or devoted to public use. |
JOINT AUTHORITY: | All words giving "joint authority" to three (3) or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers, unless it is otherwise declared. |
JUDGE: | The judge of the municipal court of the city, including the acting judge and/or alternate judge thereof, as provided by Oklahoma Statutes and this code. |
JUDICIAL DISTRICT: | The district court judicial district of the state of Oklahoma, wherein the situs of government of the city is situated. |
LAW: | Includes applicable federal law, provisions of the constitution and statutes of the state of Oklahoma, the ordinances of the city, and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
MAY: | The word "may" is permissive; the word "shall" is mandatory. |
MAYOR: | The chief executive officer of the city. |
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". |
OFFICERS, DEPARTMENTS: | Whenever reference is made to officers, agencies or departments by title only, i.e., "clerk-treasurer", "city clerk-treasurer", "city attorney", "fire chief", "chief of police", etc., they shall mean the officers, agencies or departments of the city of Elgin. |
OS: | Oklahoma Statutes. |
OWNER: | As 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: | Shall extend, and be applied, to associations, corporations, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. Whenever used with respect to any penalty, the word "person", as applied to partnerships or associations, shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof. |
PERSONAL PROPERTY: | Shall include every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidence of rights in action and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, right or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished and every right or interest therein. |
POLICE OFFICER: | The chief of police or any police officer of the city. |
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING: | Next before and next after, respectively. |
PROPERTY: | Shall include real and personal property. |
ROADWAY: | That portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic. |
SIDEWALK: | Any portion of the street right of way between the curb (or lateral line of the roadway) and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians. |
SIGNATURE OR SUBSCRIPTION: | Includes a mark when a person cannot write. |
STATE or THIS STATE: | The state of Oklahoma. |
STATUTORY REFERENCES: | References to statutes of the state of Oklahoma means the statutes as they now are or as they may be amended to be. |
STREET: | Shall include any highway, alley, street, avenue, public place, underpass or overpass in the city, dedicated or devoted to public use. |
WEEK: | Seven (7) days. |
WRITTEN OR IN WRITING: | Shall be construed to include any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise. |
YEAR: | Unless otherwise designated, a calendar year. (1991 Code § 8-1; amd. 2013 Code; Ord. 22-28, 8-9-2022) |