Alameda County Municipal Code Ch. 1.04 General Provisions

This code shall be known and cited as the Alameda County Ordinance Code.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.0)

All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the ordinances repealed by this code, shall continue to hold the same according to the present tenure thereof.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.1)

No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein shall conform to the provisions of this code so far as possible.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.2)

No rights given by any license or certificate under any ordinance repealed by this code are affected by the enactment of this code or by such repeal; but such rights shall hereafter be exercised according to this code.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.3)

Unless the provisions of the context otherwise requires, these general provisions, rules of construction and definitions shall govern the construction of this code.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.4)

The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations thereof and not as new enactments.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.5)

This code is divided into titles, chapters, articles and sections. Title, chapter, article and section headings do not govern, limit, modify or in any way affect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of any title, chapter, article or section.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.6)

Whenever, by this code, a power is granted to a public officer or a duty is imposed upon a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by a deputy of the officer or by a person authorized pursuant to law by the officer.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.7)

Whenever any notice, report, statement or record is required by this code, it shall be made in the English language.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.8)

The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.9)

The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

(Prior gen. code § 1-1.10)

The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.0)

"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.1)

"Signature" includes mark when the signer cannot write, the signer's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's name. A signature by mark can be acknowledged or can serve as a signature to a sworn statement only when two witnesses sign their own names thereto.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.2)

"State" means the state of California.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.3)

"County" means the county of Alameda.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.4)

"Board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the county of Alameda.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.5)

Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of the state, the reference applies to all amendments and additions now or hereafter made.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.6)

"Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.7)

If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.8)

"Person" includes a natural person, firm, partnership, co-partnership, association, organization, company or corporation.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.9)

This code is applicable in the unincorporated territory of the county.

(Prior gen. code § 1-2.10)