1.05.030 Definitions.
(A) For the purpose of this Code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ACTS BY AGENTS. When an ordinance requires an act to be done which may by law be done by an agent as well as by the principal, the requirement shall be construed to include all the acts when done by an authorized agent.
CITY. City of San Luis, Arizona.
CODE, THE CODE or THIS CODE. Code of ordinances of the City.
COUNCIL. City Council of San Luis, Arizona.
COUNTY. Yuma County, Arizona.
DAY. Period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
DAYTIME. Period of time between sunrise and sunset.
DEPARTMENT, BOARD, COMMISSION, OFFICE, OFFICER or EMPLOYEE. Department, board, commission, office, officer or employee of the City.
IN THE CITY or WITHIN THE CITY. All territory over which the City now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.
MAY. Permissive.
MONTH. Calendar month.
NIGHTTIME. Period of time between sunset and sunrise.
OATH. Affirmation or declaration.
PERSON. Firms, corporations or voluntary associations, as well as individuals, unless plainly inapplicable.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property, except real property as defined in this section.
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SHALL. Mandatory.
SHALL HAVE BEEN. Past and future cases.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. A mark when the signer cannot write, the 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 sign their own names thereto.
STATE. The State of Arizona.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Any person holding a written or an oral lease of or who occupies the whole or part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
WEEK. 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 calendar year.
(B)
(1) Words of the masculine gender include the feminine.
(2) Words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular.
(C) All words purporting to give a joint authority to three or more City officers or other persons shall be construed as giving the authority to a majority of the officers or other persons unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority.
(D) OR may be read AND, and AND may be read OR.
(E) The present tense includes the past and future tense, and the future includes the present.
(F)
(1) The time within which an act is to be done as provided in this Code or in any order issued pursuant to any ordinance, when expressed in days, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last, except that if the last day is a Sunday or holiday, it shall be excluded; and when the time is expressed in hours, the whole of Sunday or a holiday, from midnight to midnight, shall be excluded.
(2) In all cases where any section of this Code shall require any act to be done in a reasonable time or reasonable notice to be given, the reasonable time or notice shall be deemed to mean the time only as may be necessary for the prompt performance of the duty, or compliance with the notice. (Code 1982 Art. 1-3. Code 2012 § 10.03.)