For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES. The Board of Trustees of the Town of Wister, Oklahoma.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. Whenever a notice is required to be given or an act to be done a certain length of time before any proceeding shall be had, the day on which the notice is given or the act is done shall be counted in computing the time but the day on which the proceeding is to be had shall not be counted.
COUNTY or THIS COUNTY. The County of LeFlore County.
GENDER. A word importing one gender only shall extend and be applied to other genders and to firms, partnerships and corporations as well.
JOINT AUTHORITY. All words giving “joint authority” to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.
LAW. Includes applicable federal law, provisions of the Constitution and statutes of the State of Oklahoma, the ordinances of the town, and, when appropriate, any and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
MAYOR. The Mayor of the town.
MONTH. A calendar month.
NONTECHNICAL AND TECHNICAL WORDS. Words and phrases which are not specifically defined shall be construed according to the common and accepted usage of the language; but technical words and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be construed and understood according to such meaning.
NUMBER. A word importing the singular number only may extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as to one person and thing. Words used in the plural number may also include the singular unless a contrary intention plainly appears.
OATH. Includes an affirmation 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.”
OR, AND. OR may be read AND, and AND may be read OR, if the sense requires it.
OTHER OFFICIALS OR OFFICERS AND THE LIKE. Whenever reference is made to officers, agencies or departments by title only, i.e. “Clerk,” “Town Clerk,” “Town Attorney,” “Fire Chief,” “Chief of Police” and the like, they shall mean the officers, agencies or departments of the town.
PERSON. Shall extend and be applied to an actual person, any persons and to associations, clubs, societies, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate, or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them, unless a contrary intention plainly appears.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Includes real and personal property.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when a person cannot write.
STATE or THIS STATE. The State of Oklahoma.
STATUTORY REFERENCES. References to statutes of the State of Oklahoma as they now are or as they may be amended to be.
STREET. Streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts, highways, courts, places, squares, curbs and all other public ways in the town which are dedicated and open to public use.
TENSE. Words used in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past and present.
TOWN. The Town of Wister.
WEEK. Seven days.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(Prior Code, § 1-102)