For the purposes of this Code, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this Code are defined as follows:
(a) “Calendar year” shall mean from January 1 through December 31 of any given year.
(b) “City” shall mean the City of Ontario.
(c) “Council” shall mean the City Council of the City of Ontario.
(d) “County” shall mean the County of San Bernardino.
(e) “Fiscal year” shall mean from July 1 of any given year through June 30 of the following year.
(f) “Gender.” The masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders.
(g) “May” shall be permissive.
(h) “Month” shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise expressed.
(i) “Number.” The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural number shall include the singular.
(j) “Oath” shall include affirmation.
(k) “Office.” 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.
(l) “Official time standard.” Wherever certain hours are named in this Code, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current us in the City.
(m) “Owner” applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant, tenant in common, or joint tenant of the whole or a part of such building or land.
(n) “Person” shall include any person, firm, company, corporation, partnership, association, any public corporation, political subdivision, city (excepting the City of Ontario), the County of San Bernardino, district in the County of San Bernardino, the State of California or the United States of America, or any department or agency of any thereof, unless this Code expressly provides otherwise.
(o) “Personal property” shall include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt.
(p) “Property” shall include both real and personal property.
(q) “Quarterly,” where used to designate a period of time, shall mean the first three (3) calendar months of any given year or any succeeding period of three (3) calendar months.
(r) “Real property” shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
(s) “Shall” is mandatory except in reference to acts or omissions of the City of Ontario or any officer or employee of the City of Ontario, in which cases “shall” is directory only.
(t) “State” shall mean the State of California.
(u) “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.
(v) “Tenant or occupant,” applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
(w) “Tenses.” The present tense shall include the past and future tenses, and the future tense shall include the present tense.
(§ 1, Ord. 2266, eff. January 19, 1984)