(a) Words used in the present tense include the future tense.
(b) Words used in the singular number include the plural and words used in the plural include the singular.
(c) The word “person” includes an owner, firm, joint venture, association, organization, partnership, corporation, trust and company, as well as an individual.
(d) The word “owner” when applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by entirety of the whole or part of such building or land.
(e) The word “lot” includes the words “plot” or “parcel.”
(f) The word “building” includes the word “structure.”
(g) The word “shall” is always mandatory and not merely directory.
(h) The words “located,” “used,” or “occupied” as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words “intended, arranged or designed to be located, used or occupied.”
(i) The word “residence” shall mean the place adopted by a person as his or her place of habitation and to which, whenever he or she is absent, he or she has the intention of returning. When a person eats at one place and sleeps at another, the place where such person sleeps shall be deemed his or her residence.
(Ord. passed 4-1-1993)