Except as otherwise specifically provided or indicated by the context:
(a) 
All words used in this Charter indicating the present tense shall not be limited to the time of the adoption of this Charter, but shall extend to and include the time of the happening of any event or requirement for which provision is made therein.
(b) 
The singular number shall include the plural, the plural number shall include the singular and the masculine gender shall extend to and include the feminine gender and neuter.
(c) 
The word "City" shall mean the City of Bridgman.
(d) 
The terms "Council" and "City Council" shall be construed as meaning Council or Common Council.
(e) 
The term "majority vote of the Council" means the concurring vote of a majority of the members of the Council present and voting at any legal meeting of the Council at which there is a quorum present.
(f) 
The word "Manager," "Clerk," "Treasurer," "Assessor," or "Attorney" shall mean the City Manager, City Clerk, City Treasurer, City Assessor or City Attorney, unless from the context the contrary shall plainly appear; words referring to the several officers where not preceded by the word "City" shall be deemed to include official action in form of a motion as well as in form of a resolution.
(g) 
The word "person" may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships as well as to individuals.
(h) 
The word "printed" and "printing" shall include reproductions by printing, engraving, stencil duplicating, lithographing or any similar method, except in reference to signatures, the words "written" and "in writing" shall include printing and typewriting.
(i) 
The word "officer" shall include the administrative officers created by or pursuant to this Charter.
(j) 
The word "official" or "City official" shall include the Mayor and other members of the Council, members of City Boards, Commissions or Authorities created by or pursuant to this Charter.
(k) 
The word "state" shall mean the State of Michigan.
(l) 
The word "statute" shall denote the Public Acts of the State of Michigan in effect at the time the provision of the Charter containing the word "statute" is to be applied.
(m) 
The words "written" and "in writing" may be construed to include printing, engraving, typewritten, electronic, facsimile transmissions, and lithographing, except that this rule shall not apply to provisions requiring written signatures, unless it be otherwise expressly herein provided.
(n) 
The words "law" or "general laws of the state" shall denote the Constitution and the Public Acts of the State of Michigan in effect at the time the provision of the Charter containing the words "law" or "general laws of the state" is to be applied, and applicable common law.
(o) 
All reference to section numbers shall refer to the section numbers of this Charter.
No estoppel may be created against the City.
All processes against the City shall run against the City in the corporate name thereof, and may be served by leaving a true copy with the Mayor or Clerk.
All trusts established for any municipal purpose shall be used and continued in accordance with the terms subject to the cy pres doctrine. The Council may in its discretion receive and hold any property in trust for any municipal purpose and shall apply the same to the execution of such trust and for no other purposes, except in cases where the cy pres doctrine shall apply.
Whenever the date fixed by this Charter for the doing or completion of any act falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such act shall be done or completed on the next succeeding day which is not a Sunday or legal holiday.
Until otherwise changed by the Council, the seal of the City of Bridgman shall be as fixed hereto.
If any provision, section, article or clause of this Charter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall be found to be invalid by a court, such invalidity shall not affect any remaining portion or application of the Charter which can be given effect without the invalid portion or application, provided such remaining portions or applications are not determined by the court to be inoperable, and to this end, this Charter is declared to be severable.