Chino Municipal Code Ch. 1.04 General Provisions

The ordinances embraced in the following chapters and sections shall constitute and be designated "the code of the city of Chino, California," and may be so cited.

(Prior code § 1-1.)

In the construction of this code and of all ordinances of the city, the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the city council or the context clearly requires otherwise:

1. "City" or "this city" shall be construed as if followed by the words "of Chino."

2. "Code" or "this code" means "the code of the city of Chino, California."

3. "Computation of time" means the time in which any act provided by law is to be done, computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday and then it is also excluded.

4. "Council," whenever used, means the City Council of the city of Chino.

5. "County" or "this county" means the County of San Bernardino.

6. "Day" is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.

7. "Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset.

8. "In the city" means and includes all territory over which the city now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.

9. All words giving a "joint authority" to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.

10. "Month" means a calendar month.

11. "Oath" includes affirmation.

12. "Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.

13. "Or" may be read "and," and "and" may be read "or," if the sense requires it.

14. "Owner," applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, 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.

15. "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company.

16. "Personal property" includes every species of property except real property, as herein defined.

17. "Preceding" and "following" mean next before and next after, respectively.

18. "Process" includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.

19. "Property" includes real and personal property.

20. "Real property" includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.

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

22. "Signature" or "subscription" includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name; but 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.

23. "State" or "this state" shall be construed to mean the State of California.

24. "Street" includes all public ways, alleys, lanes, courts and sidewalks and those parts of public squares and places which form traveled parts of highways.

25. "Structure" means something that is built or constructed.

26. "Tenant" or "occupant," applied to a building or land, includes any person holding a written or an oral lease of or who occupies, the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.

27. A "week" consists of seven consecutive days.

28. "Writing" includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized by this code, it shall be made in writing in the English language unless it is expressly provided otherwise.

29. "Year" means a calendar year, except where otherwise provided.

(Prior code § 1-2 (part).)

(Ord. No. 2014-012, § 1, 2014.)

A. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

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

C. Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees referred to mean officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the city of Chino, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

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

(Prior code § 1-2 (part).)

The provisions appearing in this code, insofar as they are the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the effective date of this code, shall be considered as continuations thereof and not as new enactments.

(Prior code § 1-3.)

A. The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect.

B. The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for any offense committed under the ordinance repealed.

(Prior code § 1-4.)

It is declared to be the intention of the city council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this code shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this code.

(Prior code § 1-5.)

Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean Pacific Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the city.

(Prior code § 1-6.)

The catchlines of the several sections of this code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections, nor as any part of the section, nor unless expressly so provided shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted.

(Prior code § 1-7.)