CITY shall mean the City of Clearlake in the County of Lake, State of California.

CLERK, MUNICIPAL CLERK or CITY CLERK shall mean the Municipal Clerk duly elected or appointed pursuant to law.

COUNCIL or CITY COUNCIL shall mean the City Council of the City of Clearlake.

COUNTY shall mean the County of Lake, State of California.

DAYS shall mean the calendar days.

DEPARTMENT shall mean an organizational unit of the government established or designated by ordinance or otherwise, together with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational unit by the City Council.

LICENSED shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this Code.

MONTH shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.

OATH shall be construed to include an affirmation where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. In such cases the words swear and sworn shall be construed to be equivalent to the words affirm and affirmed.

OCCUPANT. See tenant.

OFFICER or OFFICIAL and the title of an officer or official shall be construed as if the words “of the City of Clearlake” followed it.

ORDINANCE shall mean any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this Code, so long as it is adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains in force and effect pursuant to law.

OWNER when applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, any corporation, 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 shall mean any individual, natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents, employees, servants, factors or any kind of personal representatives of any kind thereof in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.

PERSONAL PROPERTY shall mean goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidence of debt, and all written instruments by which any any right to, interest in, or lien or encumbrances upon, property or any debt or financial obligation as created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged or defeated, in whole or in part, and every thing, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject of ownership.

PRECEDING and FOLLOWING shall mean next before and next after, respectively.

PROPERTY shall mean real and personal property.

PUBLIC GROUNDS, PUBLIC SQUARES, PUBLIC PLACE or PUBLIC PLACES shall severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public square, public park or other public place within the City.

REAL PROPERTY shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.

SIDEWALK shall mean any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.

STREET shall include an avenue, road, alley, land, highway, boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, sidewalk, and crosswalk, and every class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the general public. Street shall be considered to include a sidewalk or footpath, unless the contrary is expressed or unless such construction is inconsistent with the apparent intent.

TENANT or OCCUPANT applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.

WEEK shall mean seven (7) days.

YEAR shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided. (New)