(A) General rule. Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual sense. However, technical words and phrases having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.
(B) Definitions. For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, or MUNICIPALITY. The City of Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
CODE, THIS CODE, THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY CODE, or MT. PLEASANT CITY CODE. This municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
COUNTY. Isabella County, Michigan.
COURT or COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION. Generally, the trial and appellate courts of the State of Michigan, except when otherwise required by the Zoning and Land Use Agreement, the Law Enforcement Agreement, or the Local Regulation Agreement between the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and the city, entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Northern Division, Case No. 05-10296-BC, on December 17, 2010, in which case COURT or COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION shall mean the appropriate tribal court of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.
HARBOR. The act of owning, maintaining, or keeping an animal on a person’s premises while providing food and shelter to that animal.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. 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.
OFFICER, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, COMMISSION, or DEPARTMENT. An officer, office, employee, commission, or department of this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise, including in appropriate circumstances a law enforcement, code enforcement or ordinance enforcement officer of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan upon whom the City Manager has conferred authority.
PERSON. Extends to and includes person, persons, firm, corporation, copartnership, trustee, lessee, or receiver. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the terms PERSON or WHOEVER as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the partners or members of the entity, and as applied to corporations, the officers or agents of the corporation.
PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of Michigan.
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a heading in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading. Not all chapters have subchapters.
WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed.
(Am. Ord. 963, passed 3-24-11; Am. Ord. 1069, passed 7-12-21)