For the purposes of this code, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. The Board of Supervisors of San Benito County.
CODE. The Code of San Benito County, California.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, unless the last day is a holiday and then it is also excluded.
COUNTY. The County of San Benito.
DAY. A period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
DAYTIME, NIGHTTIME. DAYTIME is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. NIGHTTIME is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
GENDER. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
HIGHWAYS. The whole of all public ways, roads, alleys, courts and streets and sidewalks between the property lines forming the exterior lateral boundaries thereof, and those parts of public squares and places which form traveled parts of highways.
IN THE COUNTY. All territory over which the county now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.
JOINT AUTHORITY. All words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the act giving the authority.
MONTH. A calendar month, unless otherwise expressed.
NUMBER. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
OATH. Affirmation.
OFFICERS, DEPARTMENTS AND THE LIKE. Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees referred to shall mean officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the County of San Benito unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
OFFICIAL TIME. Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean Pacific Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the county.
OWNER. Applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of the building or land.
PERSON. Any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property, except real property, as herein defined.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROCESS. Includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SHALL, MAY. SHALL is mandatory and MAY is permissive.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION BY MARK. Includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his or her own name near the signer’s or subscriber’s name; but a SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION BY MARK can be acknowledged or can serve as a signature or subscription to a sworn statement only when two witnesses so sign their own names thereto.
STATE. The State of California.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or an oral lease of or who occupies, the whole or a part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
TENSES. The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future includes the present.
WEEK. A week consists of seven consecutive days.
WRITING. Any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement or record is required or authorized by this code, it shall be made in writing in the English language unless it is expressly provided otherwise.
YEAR. A period of 365 days; “half year,” 182 days; “quarter of a year,” 91 days. The added day of a leap year, and the day immediately preceding, if they occur in any such period, shall be reckoned together as one day.
(1966 Code, § 1-2)
Statutory reference:
“Computation of time”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 6800
“Day”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 6806
“Daytime”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 6807
“Gender”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 12
“Joint authority”, see Cal. Civil Code § 12
“Month”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 6804
“Number”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 13
“Oath”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 15
“Person”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 17
“Personal property”, see Cal. Civil Code §§ 14, 663
“Process”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 22
“Property”, see Cal. Civil Code § 14
“Real property”, see Cal. Civil Code §§ 14, 658
“Shall, may”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 14
“Signature, subscription by mark”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 16
“Tenses”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 11
“Week”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 6805
“Writing”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 8
“Year”, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 6803