For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions are adopted:
1. “City” means the City of Los Angeles.
2. “Board” means any board provided for in the Charter.
3. “Committee” means one or more examiners appointed by a board, under Section 217 of the Charter, to submit a report to such board.
4. “Chairman” means the examiner designated by a board to be the chairman of a committee.
5. “Proceeding” includes all the things done in connection with a matter which is referred to an examiner or committee.
6. “Person” includes a person, firm, corporation, and officer, board, or department of the City.
7. “Party” means a person upon whose appeal, protest or application, or against or directly affecting whom any action is proposed to be taken or withheld by a board after the submission of a report to such board by an examiner or committee.
8. “Interested person” means a person who, though not a party, is determined by the board or the examiner or chairman to have a special interest in a proceeding and to be privileged to appear therein. No person shall be deemed to be an interested person unless he is recognized as such by an order of the board or of the examiner or chairman.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 95,338.
Amended by: Definitions 2. And 3., Ord. No. 173,269, Eff. 6-25-00, Oper. 7-1-00.