A. 
In the construction of this Code and of all other ordinances of the City, the following definitions shall be observed, unless it shall be otherwise expressly provided in any Section or ordinance, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Aldermen, or unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
BOARD OF ALDERMEN
The Board of Aldermen of the City of California, Missouri.
CITY
The words "the City" or "this City" or "City" shall mean the City of California, Missouri.
COUNTY
The words "the County" or "this County" or "County" shall mean the County of Moniteau, Missouri.
DAY
A day of twenty-four (24) hours, beginning at 12:00 Midnight.
MAY
Is permissive.
MAYOR
An officer of the City, known as the Mayor of the Board of Aldermen of the City of California, Missouri.
MONTH
A calendar month.
OATH
Shall be construed to include an affirmation in all cases in which 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".
OWNER
The word "owner" as applied to a building or land, shall include 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.
PERSON
May extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING
When used by way of reference to any Section of this Code, shall mean the Section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other Section is expressly designated in the reference.
PROPERTY
Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC WAY
Shall include any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway, sidewalk or other public thoroughfare.
REAL PROPERTY
The terms "real property", "premises", "real estate" or "lands" shall be deemed to be co-extensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SHALL
Is mandatory.
SIDEWALK
That portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line which is intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE
The words "the State" or "this State" or "State" shall mean the State of Missouri.
STREET
Shall mean and include any public way, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley or other public thoroughfare, and each of such words shall include all of them.
TENANT, OCCUPANT
The words "tenant" or "occupant", applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
WRITING, WRITTEN, IN WRITING and WRITING WORD FOR WORD
Includes printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters, but in all cases where the signature of any person is required, the proper handwriting of the person, or his/her mark, is intended.
YEAR
A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed, and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord".
B. 
Newspaper. Whenever in this Code or other ordinance of the City it is required that notice be published in the "official newspaper" or a "newspaper of general circulation published in the City", and if there is no newspaper published within the City, the said notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, regardless of its place of publication. Such newspaper shall not include an advertising circular or other medium for which no subscription list is maintained.
[Ch. 25 §25.001]
Any person who shall aid, assist, conspire, abet, counsel, hire or by any means procure any person to violate any provision prohibited by Titles II and III of this Code shall be punished in the same manner as for committing the offense so aided, assisted, conspired, abetted, counseled, hired or procured to be committed.
A. 
A person is guilty of attempt to commit an offense when, with the purpose of committing the offense, he/she does any act which is a substantial step towards the commission of the offense. A "substantial step" is conduct which is strongly corroborative of the firmness of the actor's purpose to complete the commission of the offense.
B. 
It is no defense to a prosecution under this Section that the offense attempted was, under the actual attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission, if such offense could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed them to be.
[Ch. 25 §25.004]
When used in these ordinances any reference to the masculine gender shall also include the feminine gender.
[Ch. 25 §25.006]
If any Section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, or provision of this Article shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of any other part of the Code of the City of California, Missouri.