Firebaugh Municipal Code Ch. 1 General

The book shall be known and may be cited as "The Code of the City of Firebaugh, 1980" and is herein referred to as the "revision." Any additions or amendments to this code are incorporated in this code so that a reference to "The General Ordinances of the City of Firebaugh" includes them.

For the purpose of this revision, and in the interpretation and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:

a. "City" shall mean the City of Firebaugh in the County of Fresno and State of California.

b. "City Council" or "Council" shall mean the mayor and council of the City.

c. "Clerk" or "City Clerk" shall mean the municipal clerk duly elected pursuant to law.

d. "County" shall mean the County of Fresno.

e. "Department" shall mean an organizational unit of the government established or designated by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational unit by the City Council.

f. "Laws" shall mean laws of the State of California.

g. "Licensed" shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this revision.

h. "Month" shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.

i. "Ordinance" shall mean any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this revision, 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.

j. "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 of any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.

k. "State" shall mean the State of California.

l. "Street" shall include a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, sidewalk, and crosswalk, and every class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the general public.

m. "This code" shall mean the General Ordinances of the City of Firebaugh.

n. "Year" shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.

For the purpose of this revision and any other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:

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

b. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

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

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

e. The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day and if the last day be a Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which the offices of the City are closed, that day shall be excluded.

f. "Writing" and "written" shall include printing, typewriting and any other mode of communication using paper or similar material which is in general use, as well as legible handwriting.

g. Whenever a specific time is used in this revision, it shall mean the prevailing and established time in effect in the State of California during any day in any year.

h. Any citation of a law or ordinance contained in this revision shall be deemed to refer to such law or ordinance as amended, whether or not such designation is included in the citation.

i. "Chapter" shall mean one of the major divisions of the revisions identified by an numeral and divided by subject matter.

j. "Section" shall mean a major subdivision of a chapter.

k. "Subsection" shall mean a subdivision of a section, identified by a decimal number.

l. "Paragraph" shall mean a subdivision under a subsection, identified by an alphabetical letter or Arabic number.

If any chapter, section, subsection or paragraph of this revision shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such chapter, section, subsection or paragraph shall, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, remain in full force and effect, and no such determination shall be deemed to invalidate the remaining chapters, sections, subsections or paragraphs of this revision.

This code incorporates and codifies the general ordinances of the City as originally enacted, except as revised herein, existing and in effect on the effective date of the ordinance adopting this code. Certain general ordinances, expressly referred to in the adopting ordinance, shall be repealed and not codified herein. The provisions of this code, insofar as they are substantially the same as the previously enacted ordinances, shall be construed as restatements and continuations thereof and not as new enactments.

[Added 1-17-2018 by Ord. No. 18-01]

The Council, now being duly advised, finds that certain credit cards may be used to pay for City fees. A convenience fee in the amount of 2.5% of the total charge is necessary to cover the costs of administering this service and may be modified from time to time by City Council resolution. The transaction amount is limited to no more than $1,000 and shall be done by actual swiping of the credit card. Proof of identification is required for every transaction. No manual entries, over-the-phone transactions, or cash back to the credit card holder are allowed. Only credit cards with Visa, MasterCard, and Discover logos will be accepted for payment.