PART II
TUCSON CODE
TUCSON CODE
Sec. 1-1. How Code designated and cited.
Sec. 1-2. Definitions and rules of construction.
Sec. 1-3. Catchlines of sections.
Sec. 1-4. Effect of repealing ordinances.
Sec. 1-5. Severability of parts of Code.
Sec. 1-6. Provisions declared continuation of existing ordinances.
Sec. 1-7. Jurisdiction over areas owned or leased by city.
Sec. 1-8. General penalty; misdemeanors; civil infractions; continuing violations.
Sec. 1-9. Imprisonment to be in city or county jail.
Sec. 1-10. Labor required of prisoners; classification as regular or trusties.
Sec. 1-11. Persons deemed trusties.
Sec. 1-12. Designation of trusties; supervision of working prisoners.
Sec. 1-13. Credit on sentence for trusties.
Sec. 1-14. City not liable for acts of trusties.
Sec. 1-15. Escape of prisoners.
Sec. 1-16. Treatment of prisoners.
Sec. 1-17. Duty of chief of police to assure security of prisoners.
Sec. 1-18. Chief of police to prescribe additional prisoner regulations.
Sec. 1-19. Wards described.
Sec. 1-20. Additions to wards upon annexation.
Sec. 1-21. Vice mayor.
The following definitions and rules of construction shall be applied in constructing the provisions of this Code.
Sec. 1-2(1). And, or. "And" may be read "or," and "or" may be read "and" if the sense requires it.
Sec. 1-2(2). Bond. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing shall be sufficient.
Sec. 1-2(3). City means the City of Tucson, in the County of Pima and State of Arizona, except as otherwise provided.
Sec. 1-2(4). Code means the Tucson Code.
Sec. 1-2(5). Computation of time. The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; and if the last day be Sunday or a legal holiday, that shall be excluded.
Sec. 1-2(6). County means Pima County, Arizona.
Sec. 1-2(7). Gender. Words importing the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter.
Sec. 1-2(8). Joint authority. All words giving a joint authority to three (3) or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.
Sec. 1-2(9). Keeper and proprietor includes persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs and copartnerships, whether acting by themselves or through a servant, agent or employee.
Sec. 1-2(10). Mayor and council means the mayor and members of the city council of the city.
Sec. 1-2(11). Month means a calendar month.
Sec. 1-2(12). Number. Words used in the singular include the plural and the plural includes the singular number.
Sec. 1-2(13). Oath. The word "oath" includes an affirmation or declaration in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
Sec. 1-2(14). Or, and. "Or" may be read "and," and "and" may be read "or" if the sense requires it.
Sec. 1-2(15). Owner, applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or a part of such building or land.
Sec. 1-2(16). Person includes a corporation, company, partnership, association or society as well as a natural person.
Sec. 1-2(17). Personal property includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
Sec. 1-2(18). Preceding, following mean next before and next after, respectively.
Sec. 1-2(19). Property includes real and personal property.
Sec. 1-2(20). Public place includes any park, cemetery, schoolyard or open space adjacent thereto and any lake or stream.
Sec. 1-2(21). Real property includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Sec. 1-2(22). Sidewalk means any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
Sec. 1-2(23). Signature or subscription includes a mark when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as witness.
Sec. 1-2(24). State means the State of Arizona.
Sec. 1-2(25). Street means and includes any public way, road, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, viaduct, bridge and the approaches thereto within the city.
Sec. 1-2(26). Tenant, occupant, applied to a building or land, includes any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
Sec. 1-2(27). Tense. Words used in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past and present.
Sec. 1-2(28). Writing includes printing.
Sec. 1-2(29). Year means a calendar year.
(1953 Code, ch. 1, § 2)
State Law References: Definitions and construction of statutes generally, A.R.S. § 1-211 et seq.
The catchlines of the several sections of this Code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the sections and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections, nor as any part of such sections, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted.
(1953 Code, ch. 1, § 3)
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