Whenever the following words or terms are used in this Code, they shall have such meanings herein ascribed to them unless the context makes such meaning repugnant thereto:
ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION: The execution of Municipal laws, ordinances, rules, regulations or public policy.
AGENT: A person acting on behalf of another with authority conferred, either expressly or by implication.
BUSINESS: Includes all activities engaged in within the City carried on for the purpose of gain or economic profit, except that the acts of employees rendering service to employers shall not be included in the term business, unless otherwise specifically provided.
CHIEF OF POLICE OR CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: The Davis County Sheriff or any Deputy of the Davis County Sheriff's Office assigned to act as Chief of Police or chief law enforcement officer by the Davis County Sheriff.
CITY: The City of South Weber, Davis County, Utah.
CITY COUNCIL: The City Council of the City of South Weber, Utah.
CITY RECORDER: The individual appointed to act as the City Recorder of the City.
CODE: The City Code of the City of South Weber, Utah.
COUNTY: Davis County, Utah.
FEE: A sum of money charged by the City for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation.
HIGHWAY OR ROAD: Includes public bridges and may be equivalent to the words "county way", "county road", "common road", and "State road".
LEGISLATIVE DECISION: The creation, amending or altering of Municipal laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, or public policy.
LICENSE: The permission granted for the carrying on of a business, profession or occupation and includes any certificate, permit or license issued by the City.
NUISANCE: Anything offensive to the sensibilities of reasonable persons, or any act or activity creating a hazard which threatens the health and welfare of inhabitants of the City, or any activity which by its perpetuation can reasonably be said to have a detrimental effect on the property of a person or persons within the community.
OCCUPANT: As applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land whether alone or with others.
OFFENSE: Any act forbidden by any provision of this Code or the omission of any act required by the provisions of this Code.
OFFICERS OR OFFICIALS: Any elected or appointed person employed by the City, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
OPERATOR: The person who is in charge of any operation, business, or profession.
OWNER: As applied to a building or land, shall include 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: Any public or private corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, government, or any other group acting as a unit, as well as a natural person.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Shall include every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidence of rights in action and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, right, or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged, or diminished, and every right or interest therein.
PROPERTY: Includes both real and personal property.
REASONABLE TIME: In all cases where any ordinance requires that an act be done in a reasonable time or that reasonable notice be given, such reasonable time for such notice shall be deemed to mean such time as may be necessary for the expeditious performance of such duty or compliance with such notice.
RETAILER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things direct to the consumer.
RIGHT-OF-WAY: The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway or other property.
STATE: The State of Utah.
STREET: Includes alleys, lanes, courts, boulevards, public ways, public squares, sidewalks, gutters and culverts, crosswalks, and intersections.
TENANT: As applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
TIME COMPUTED: The time within which an act is to be done as provided in any ordinance or in any resolution or order of the City, when expressed in days, shall be determined by excluding the first day and including the last day, except if the last day be a Sunday or a legal holiday, then the last day shall be the day next following such Sunday or legal holiday which is not a Sunday or legal holiday. When time is expressed in hours, Sunday and all legal holidays shall be excluded.
WEEK: Shall be construed to mean any seven-day period.
WHOLESALER OR WHOLESALE DEALER: Unless otherwise specifically defined, relates to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles, or things to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale.
WRITTEN OR IN WRITING: May include printing and any other mode of representing words and letters, but when the written signature of any person is required by law to any official or public writing or bond, it shall be in the proper handwriting of such person, or in case such person is unable to write, by such person's proper mark. (Ord. 17-01, 2-28-2017)