The ordinances embraced in the following chapters and sections shall constitute and be designated "The Code of the County of Placer, California 2000," and may be so cited. It may also be cited as the "Placer County Code, 2000."
(Prior code § 1.1)
For the purposes of this code, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Whenever the words "board of supervisors" are used, they shall be construed to mean the board of supervisors of Placer County.
means "The Code of the County of Placer, California, 1967."
The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last day unless the last day is a holiday and then it is also excluded.
means the county of Placer.
is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
"Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. "Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
means and includes all territory over which the county now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.
All words giving a joint authority to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.
means a calendar month.
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
means and includes affirmation.
Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees referred to means officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the county of Placer unless the context clearly indicated otherwise.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they mean Pacific Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the county.
"Or" may be read "and," and "and" may be read "or," if the sense requires it.
applied to a building or land, means and includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
means and includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, joint venture, business trust, corporation or company.
includes every species of property, except real property, as herein defined.
The words "preceding" and "following" mean next before and next after, respectively.
means and includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings whether civil or criminal in nature.
means and includes real and personal property.
means and includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
"Signature" or "subscription" means and includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his 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 so sign their own names thereto.
means the state of California.
applied to a building or land, means and includes any person holding a written or oral lease of or who occupies, the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future includes the present.
A week consists of seven consecutive days.
means and includes 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.
means a calendar year, except where otherwise provided.
(Prior code § 1.2)
The provisions appearing in this code, so far as they are the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the effective date of this code, shall be considered as continuations thereof and not as new enactments.
(Prior code § 1.3)
A.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect.
B.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, not any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for any offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
(Prior code § 1.4)
It is declared to be the intention of the board of supervisors that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this code shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this code.
(Prior code § 1.5)
The catchlines of the several sections of this code are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such section, nor as any part of the section, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or re-enacted.
(Prior code § 1.6)