The ordinances embraced in this and the following chapters and
sections shall constitute and be designated the "San Bruno Municipal
Code." Such code may also be cited as the "San Bruno City Code."
(Prior code § 1-1.1; Ord. 1348 § 1, 1980; Ord. 1866 § 2, 2018)
In the construction of this code and of all ordinances of the
city, the following words or terms shall have the following definitions,
unless such would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the
city council or the context clearly requires otherwise:
is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight
following.
is the period of time between sunrise and sunset.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and non-binary.
means all things, including specially manufactured goods,
which are movable. The term includes investment securities and things
in action. "Goods" also includes the unborn young animals and growing
crops and other identified things attached to realty as described
in Section 2107 of the Commercial Code.
means and includes all territory within the territorial limits
of the city and to that territory outside of the city over which the
city has jurisdiction or control by the Constitution, law, or ownership
or control of property.
means a calendar month.
is the period of time between sunset and the following sunrise.
The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural
the singular.
includes affirmation.
includes carry on, keep, conduct, or maintain.
as applied to a building or to land, shall mean that person
or those persons: (a) to whom real property taxes are assessed as
stated in the last equalized assessment roll; or (b) to whom the aforesaid
owner has transferred his or her interest; or (c) entitled to possession
and/or control of the property.
includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership,
business trust, corporation or company.
includes every species of property, except real property,
as defined herein.
mean "next before" and "next after," respectively.
includes real and personal property.
includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
consists in the passing of title from the seller to the buyer
for a price, as defined in Section 2401 of the Commercial Code.
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write.
Under such circumstances, such signer's or subscriber's name is written
near the mark by a witness who writes his or her own name near the
signer's or subscriber's name. 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.
shall be construed to mean the state of California.
includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts,
places, squares, sidewalks, parkways, curbs, or other public ways
in the city which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open
to public use, or such other public property so designated in any
law of this state.
as applied to a building or land, shall include owners or
any person holding a written or oral lease of the whole or a part
of such building or land, either alone or with others, or who occupies
the same.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and
the future includes the present.
shall be construed as if followed by the words "of San Bruno."
means the code of the city of San Bruno, California.
means the county of San Mateo.
A week consists of seven consecutive days.
includes any form of a recorded message capable of comprehension
by ordinary visual means.
shall mean a calendar year, except when otherwise provided.
(Prior code §§ 1-1.2—1-1.31; Ord. 1348 § 1, 1980; Ord. 1866 § 2, 2018; Ord. 1897 § 4, 2021)
