A. Rules Of Construction: In the construction of this code and all ordinances amendatory thereof, the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislative body or repugnant to the context of the ordinance.
B. Interpretation Of Language:
1. The singular number includes the plural.
2. Words used in the present tense include the future.
3. Words used in the masculine gender comprehend, as well, the feminine and neuter.
C. Definitions:
BRIBE: Means and signifies any money, goods, rights in action, property, thing of value, or advantage, present or prospective, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given, or accepted, with a corrupt intent to influence unlawfully the person to whom it is given in his action, vote, or opinion in any public or official capacity.
CITY: The city of Salt Lake City, Utah.
CORRUPTLY: Means and imports a wrongful design to acquire or cause some pecuniary or other advantage to the person guilty of the act or omission referred to, or to some other person.
HIGHWAY AND ROAD: Means and includes public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way", "county road", "common road" and "state road".
KNOWINGLY: Imports only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. It does not require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of such act or omission.
LAND, REAL ESTATE AND REAL PROPERTY: Means and includes land, tenements, hereditaments, water rights, possessory rights and claims.
MALICE AND MALICIOUSLY: Means and imports a wish to vex, annoy or injure another person, or an intent to do a wrongful act, established either by proof or by presumption of law.
MAYOR: The duly elected or appointed mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and shall include any person or persons designated by the mayor to act in his/her stead, unless the context clearly indicates that the mayor, as an individual person, is intended.
MONTH: A calendar month unless otherwise expressed, and the word "year" or the abbreviation "A.D." is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord".
NEGLECT, NEGLIGENCE, NEGLIGENT AND NEGLIGENTLY: Means and imports a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequences of the act of omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concern.
OATH: Means and includes "affirmation", and the word "swear" includes the word "affirm". Every mode of oral statement under oath or affirmation is embraced in the term "testify" and every written one in the term "dispose".
OFFICER: Means and includes officers and boards in charge of departments and the members of such boards.
OWNER: Applied to a building or land means and includes 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: Means and includes bodies politic and corporate, partnerships, associations and companies.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Means and includes every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidences of rights in action, and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, rights or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished, and every right or interest therein.
PROPERTY: Means and includes both real and personal property.
SIGNATURE: Means and includes any name, mark or sign written with the intent to authenticate any instrument or writing.
STATE: The state of Utah.
STREET: Means and includes alleys, lanes, courts, boulevards, public ways, public squares, public places and sidewalks.
TENANT OR OCCUPANT: Applied to a building or land, means and includes any person who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land either alone or with others.
WILFULLY: When applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted, means and implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act or make the omission referred to. It does not require any intent to violate law, or to injure another, or to require any advantage.
WRITING: Means and includes printing, writing and typewriting. (Amended during 1/88 supplement; prior code § 26-1-3)