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:
"Day"
is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
"Daytime"
is the period of time between sunrise and sunset.
Gender.
The masculine gender includes the feminine and non-binary.
"Goods"
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.
"In the city"
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.
"Month"
means a calendar month.
"Nighttime"
is the period of time between sunset and the following sunrise.
Number.
The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular.
"Oath"
includes affirmation.
"Operate"
includes carry on, keep, conduct, or maintain.
"Owner,"
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.
"Person"
includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation or company.
"Personal property"
includes every species of property, except real property, as defined herein.
"Preceding" and "following"
mean "next before" and "next after," respectively.
"Property"
includes real and personal property.
"Real property"
includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
"Sale"
consists in the passing of title from the seller to the buyer for a price, as defined in Section 2401 of the Commercial Code.
"Shall"
is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
"Signature" or "subscription"
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.
"State" or "this state"
shall be construed to mean the state of California.
"Street"
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.
"Tenant" or "occupant,"
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.
Tenses.
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future includes the present.
"The city" or "this city"
shall be construed as if followed by the words "of San Bruno."
"The code" or "this code"
means the code of the city of San Bruno, California.
"The county" or "this county"
means the county of San Mateo.
Week.
A week consists of seven consecutive days.
"Writing"
includes any form of a recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means.
"Year"
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)