§ 1-3.13. Significance of Certain Words.

The following words shall be interpreted as follows unless otherwise apparent from the context:

(a)

"Property" includes both real and personal property.

(b)

"Real property" includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.

(c)

"Personal property" includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.

(d)

"Month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed.

(e)

"Quarterly," when used to designate a period of time, means the first three (3) calendar months of any given year or any succeeding period of three (3) calendar months.

(f)

"Calendar year" means from January first of any given year through December thirty-first of that same year.

(g)

"Fiscal year" means from July first of any given year through June thirtieth of the following year.

(h)

(Not used.)

(i)

"Tenses." The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.

(j)

"Gender." The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

(k)

"Number." The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.

(l)

"Shall" is mandatory.

(m)

"May" is permissive.

(n)

"Oath" includes affirmation.

(o)

"Person" includes any person, firm, company, corporation, partnership, association, any public corporation, political subdivision, city (excepting, however, the City of Modesto), county, district, the State of California, or the United States of America, or any department or agency of any thereof, unless this Code expressly provides otherwise.

(p)

"State" is the State of California.

(q)

"County" is the County of Stanislaus.

(r)

"City" is the City of Modesto.

(s)

"Office." The use of the title of any officer, employee, office or ordinance shall mean such officer, employee, office or ordinance of this City, unless otherwise specified.

(t)

"Council" is the City Council of this City.

(u)

"Street" includes all streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, alleys, courts, places, squares, or other public ways in this City which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of this state.

(v)

"Owner," applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant, tenant in common, joint tenant, of the whole or part of such building or land.

(w)

"Tenant or occupant," applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.

(Amended by Ord. 1725-C.S., § 1, effective 6-6-78)