HomeMy WebLinkAbout116 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 116
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR
USE IN THE INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF ALL ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, NOW EXISTING
OR HEREAFTER ENACTED.
The City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California,
does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Definitions. The following words and phrases,
whenever used in the Ordinances of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California,
shall be construed as defined in this section unless from the context a
different meaning is intended or unless a different meaning is specifically
defined and more particularly directed to the use of such words or
phrases:
(a) "City" and "town" each mean the City of
Rancho Cucamonga, California, or the area within the territorial limits
of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, and such territory outside
of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, over which the City of
Rancho Cucamonga, California, has jurisdiction or control by virtue of
any constitutional or statutory provision.
(b) "Council" means the City Council of the
City of Rancho Cucamonga, Calfiornia. "All its members" or "all councilmen"
means the total number of councilmembers holding office.
(c) "County" means the County of San Bernardino,
California.
(d) "Law" denotes applicable federal Law, the
Constitution and statutes of the State of California, the Ordinances of
the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California and when appropriate, any and
all rules and regulations which may be promulgated thereunder.
(e) "May" is permissive.
(f) "Month" means a calendar month.
(g) "Must" and "shall" are each mandatory.
(h) "Oath" includes an affirmation or declaration
in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an
oath, and in suc:. cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent
to the words "affirm" and "affirmed".
(i) 'Owner", applied to a building or land,
includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant,
tenant by the entirety, of the whole or a part of such building or land.
(j) "Person" includes a natural person, joint
venture, joint stock company, partnership, association, club, company,
corporation, business, trust, organization, or the manager, lessee,
agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them.
(k) "Personal property" includes money, goods,
chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
(1) "preceding" and "following" mean next
before and next after, respectively.
(m) "Property" includes real and personal
property.
(n) "Real property" includes lands, tenements
and hereditaments.
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(o) "Sidewalk" means that portion of a street
between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use
of pedestrians.
(p) "State" means the State of California.
(q) "Street" includes all streets, highways,
avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, or other public
ways in this 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.
(r) "Tenant" and occupant", applied to a
building or land, include any person who occupies the whole or a part of
such building or land, whether alone or with others.
(s) "Written" includes printed, typewritten,
mimeographed, multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible
form.
SECTION 2: Title of Office. Use of the title of any
officer, employee, department, board or commission means that officer,
employee, department, board or commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga,
California.
SECTION 3: Interpretation of Language. All words and
phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of
the language, but technical words and phrases and such others as may
have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law shall be
construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate
meaning.
SECTION 4: Grammatical Interpretation. The following
grammatical rules shall apply in the Ordinances of the City of Rancho
Cucamonga, California, unless it is apparent from the context that a
different construction is intended:
(a) Gender. Each gender includes the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
(b) Singular and Plural. The singular number
includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
(c) Tenses. Words used in the present tense
include the past and the future tenses and vice versa, unless manifestly
inapplicable.
SECTION 5: Acts by Agents. When an act is required by an
Ordinance, the same being such that it may be done as well by an agent
as by the principal, such requirement shall be construed to include all
such acts performed by an authorized agent.
SECTION 6: Prohibited Acts Include Causing and Permitting.
Whenever in the Ordinances of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California,
any act or omission is made unlawful, it shall include causing, allowing,
permitting, aiding, abetting, suffering, or concealing the fact of such
act or omission.
SECTION 7: Computation of Time. Except when otherwise
provided, the time within which an act is required to be done shall be
computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, unless
the last day is Sunday or a holiday, in which case it shall also be
excluded.
S—TION 8: Construction. The provisions of the Ordinances
of the Citi: f Rancho Cucamonga, California, and all proceedings under
them are to be construed with a view to effect their objects and to
promote justice.
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SECTION 9: Repeal Shall Not Revive Any Ordinances. The
repeal of an Ordinance shall not repeal the repealing clause of any
Ordinance or revive any Ordinance which has been repealed thereby.
SECTION 10: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the
City Clerk shall cause the same to be published within fifteen (15) days
after its passage at least once in The Daily Report, a newspaper of
general circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and
circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 16th day of July, 1980.
AYES: Frost, Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, Schlosser
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
l./ Phil D. 8'chlosser, Mayor
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ATTEST:
auren M. Wasserman, City Clerk