A. 
Recodification and Adoption. There is hereby codified and adopted the Woodland Municipal Code as revised, reformatted, indexed, codified, compiled, edited, updated, and republished by the Quality Code Corporation including new Titles 1 through 17 inclusive, together with those secondary codes adopted by reference as authorized by the California State Legislature, save and except those portions of the secondary code as are deleted, modified, or amended by the provisions of the Woodland Municipal Code. Three copies of the code are on file in the office of the City Clerk and are open for public inspection. The Woodland Municipal Code and the secondary codes adopted by reference in the Woodland Municipal Code are adopted by reference under the provisions of Government Code Sections 50022.1 to 50022.10.
B. 
Effect of Recodification, Republication, and Repeal. The adoption of the Woodland Municipal Code and the repeal of the prior code as specified in the ordinance codified in this section is not intended to affect or disrupt the continuity of the City's business and administration of its law, including, but not limited to, the following:
1. 
Actions and proceedings that began before the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section;
2. 
Prosecution for ordinance violations committed before the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section;
3. 
The amount, or collection, of license, fee, penalty debt, forfeiture, or obligations due and unpaid as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section;
4. 
Bonds and cash deposits required to be posted, filed, or deposited pursuant to any ordinance, resolution, or regulation;
5. 
Matters of record that refer to or are connected with a provision of the prior code as amended and which references shall be construed to apply to the corresponding provisions of the Woodland Municipal Code;
6. 
Woodland Municipal Code sections cited on signage within the City shall, until updated if and as required, be deemed to be citations to the counterpart sections in the new Woodland Municipal Code for purposes of notice and enforcement.
C. 
Continuation of Existing Law. The recodification and adoption of the Woodland Municipal Code is intended by the City Council to be a continuation of existing provisions of the Woodland Municipal Code, and nothing is intended to modify or enact any new laws or new taxes. To the extent the provisions of the Woodland Municipal Code are substantially the same as existing law, the provisions of the Woodland Municipal Code shall be considered a continuation of existing law and not new enactments.
D. 
Repeal of Existing Ordinances. Except as otherwise provided in the ordinance codified in this section or in the Woodland Municipal Code, all provisions of the prior Woodland Municipal Code are hereby repealed on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section. This section does not revive an ordinance that was repealed before the adoption of this code.
E. 
Exclusions From Code. Every ordinance governing the following subject matter is excluded from the municipal code and is not affected by the repeal provisions of it:
1. 
Alteration of City boundaries;
2. 
Contracts to which the City is a party;
3. 
Elections to which the City is a party;
4. 
Fixing the rate and making a levy of City taxes;
5. 
Granting, altering or withdrawing a franchise;
6. 
Land use classifications of specific property;
7. 
Naming roads and streets.
F. 
Maintenance and Distribution of the Code. Not less than one copy of the municipal code certified by the City Clerk shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk for examination and use by the public. Amendments to this code shall be noted, by ordinance number, on the appropriate pages of the code, and complete files of amendatory ordinances, indexed for ready reference, shall be maintained in the office of the City Clerk for use and examination by the public.
G. 
Additional Findings. The City Council finds and determines that the amendments to, and recodification of, the Woodland Municipal Code, proposed by the ordinance codified in this section are:
1. 
Consistent with all the applicable objectives, policies, general land uses, programs, and actions of applicable elements in the General Plan;
2. 
Not detrimental to the public convenience, health, safety, or general welfare of the City; and
3. 
Internally consistent.
(Prior code § 1-1-1)
City.
The words "the City" or "this City" shall be construed as if followed by the words "of Woodland."
City seal.
The common seal of the City shall be of the size and form of the usual and general official seal with the following inscription in a circle near the edge of the stamping and embossing part thereof: "City of Woodland, Yolo County, California," and across the center of the seal at the top the word "Seal," and at the bottom "1890" and the figure of a cornucopia in the center.
Code.
The words "the code" or "this code" shall mean "The Code of the City of Woodland, California, 1955," and any amendment or addition thereto.
Computation of time.
The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday and then it is also excluded, and the following day is counted. Holidays otherwise failing within this time period shall be counted.
Council.
Whenever the words "City Council" or "Council" are used in this code, they shall be construed to mean the City Council of the City of Woodland.
County.
The words "the County" or "this County" shall mean the County of Yolo.
Day.
A "day" is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
Daytime, nighttime.
"Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. "Nighttime" is the period between sunset and sunrise.
Gender.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
Holiday.
"Holiday" means each of the following days: January 1st (New Year's Day); the third Monday in February (President's Day); the last Monday in May (Memorial Day); July 4th (Independence Day); the first Monday in September (Labor Day); September 9th (California Admission Day); November 11th (Veteran's Day); Thanksgiving Day and the day thereafter; December 25th (Christmas); every day appointed by the City Council of the City for a public fast, thanksgiving or holiday.
In the City.
The words "in the City" shall mean and include property owned by the City outside of the City limits and all territory over which the City now has, or shall hereafter acquire jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.
Joint authority.
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.
Month.
The word "month" shall mean a calendar month.
Number.
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
Oath.
"Oath" includes an affirmation.
Officers, departments, etc.
Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees referred to in this code shall mean officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the City of Woodland, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
Official time.
Whenever certain hours are named in this code, they shall mean Pacific Standard Time or Pacific Daylight Time, as may be in current use in the City.
Or, and.
The word "or" may be read as "and," and the word "and" may be read as "or," if the context requires it.
Owner.
The word "owner," applied to a building or land, shall include 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.
Person.
"Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation or company.
Personal property.
"Personal property" includes every species of property, except real property, as defined in this section.
Preceding, following.
The words "preceding" and "following" mean next before and next after, respectively.
Process.
"Process" includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
Property.
The word "property" shall include real and personal property.
Quorum.
"Quorum" shall mean a majority of members of the Council, board, commission or committee necessary to be present in order to transact business.
Real property.
"Real property" shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Shall, may.
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
Signature or subscription by mark.
"Signature" or "subscription" 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 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 so sign their own names thereto.
State.
The words "the State" or "this State" shall be construed to mean the State of California.
Street.
"Street" means all streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, alleys, courts, places, squares or other public ways in the City which have been or may be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of this State.
Tenant or occupant.
The words "tenant" or "occupant," applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or an oral lease of, or who occupies the whole or part of, such building or land, either alone or with others.
Tenses.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future includes the present.
Week.
A "week" consists of seven consecutive days.
Writing.
"Writing" 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.
Year.
The word "year" shall mean a calendar year, except where otherwise provided.
(Prior code §§ 1-2-1—1-2-35)