Unless the context otherwise requires, or unless other definitions
are given for specific ordinances, or unless the Charter expressly
or impliedly otherwise requires, the following words and phrases where
used in the ordinances of the City of Santa Barbara shall be given
the meaning and construction given in this chapter.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966; Ord. 3248 §1, 1967)
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the
singular.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
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 unless otherwise specified.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
Every officer, department, board, commission or similar body
mentioned in this code means an officer, department, board, commission,
or similar body of the City of Santa Barbara, unless otherwise specified.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean Pacific
Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time as may be in current use in
the City.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
"Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
"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.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the
future includes the present.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
A week consists of seven consecutive days.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
shall be construed as if followed by the words "of Santa
Barbara."
means "the Code of the City of Santa Barbara."
means 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.
means the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara.
means the County of Santa Barbara.
is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight
following.
is the period of time between sunrise and sunset.
means and includes all territory over which the City now
has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of
its police powers or other regulatory powers.
means a calendar month.
is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
means and includes affirmation.
means and includes any person, firm, association, organization,
partnership, business trust, corporation or company.
means and includes every species of property, except real
property, as herein defined.
mean next before and next after, respectively.
means and includes real and personal property.
means and includes land, tenements and hereditaments.
means the State of California.
applied to a building or land, means and includes owners
or 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.
means and includes any form of a 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.
(Ord. 3132 §1, 1966)
