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:
AGENT: A person acting on behalf of another.
CALENDAR YEAR: From January 1 through December 31 of any given year.
CITY: The city of Lemoore.
CODE: The municipal code of Lemoore, California, and amendments thereto.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT: The community and economic department.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: The city manager or his/her designee.
COUNCIL: The city council of the city of Lemoore.
COUNTY: The county of Kings, state of California.
FISCAL YEAR: From July 1 of any given year through June 30 of the following year.
LICENSE: The permission granted for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation.
MAY: Shall be permissive.
MISDEMEANOR: As defined in state law 1 .
MONTH: A calendar month unless otherwise expressed.
NUISANCE: Anything offensive or obnoxious to the health, welfare and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the city; or any act or thing repugnant to, or creating a hazard to, or having a detrimental effect on the property of another person or to the community.
OATH: Shall include affirmation.
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.
OFFICE, OFFICER, EMPLOYEE, ORDINANCE: The use of the title of any officer, employee, office or ordinance shall mean such officer, employee, office or ordinance of this city unless otherwise specified.
Whenever reference is made in this code to a city officer or employee by title only, this shall be construed as though followed by the words "of the city of Lemoore".
OPERATOR: The person who is in charge of any operation, business or profession.
OWNER: As applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or lessee of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
PERSON: Shall include any person, firm, company, corporation, partnership, association, any public corporation, political subdivision or city (except the city of Lemoore).
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Shall include money, goods, chattels, effects, rights in action, 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.
PROPERTY: Shall include both real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY: Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments.
RETAIL: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in small quantities directly to the consumer.
SECTION, SUBSECTION: "Section" shall mean a section of this code, unless some other source is specifically mentioned; "subsection" shall mean a subsection of the section in which the term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned.
SHALL: Shall be mandatory.
STATE: The state of California.
STREET: Shall include all streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, alleys, courts, places, squares 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 this state.
TENANT OR OCCUPANT: Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
WHOLESALE: The term "wholesale" as used in this code, unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in quantity to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale.
WRITTEN, IN WRITING: May include printing and any other mode of representing words, numbers, symbols and letters, but when the written signature of any person is required by law to any official or public writing or bond required by law, it shall be in the proper handwriting of such person, or in case he is unable to write, by his proper mark.
Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement or record is required or authorized by this code, it shall be made in writing in the English language unless it is expressly provided otherwise. (1975 Code §§0-3.05, 0-3.08, 0-3.13; amd. 1989 Code; Ord. 2000-03, 3-7-2000; Ord. 2004-4, 9-21-2004)
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| 1 | 1. West's Ann.Cal.Pen.C. § 17. |