Humboldt County Municipal Code Ch. 1 Definitions

Sections: Applicability. Board of Supervisors. Code. Computation of Time. County. Day. Daytime, Nighttime. Gender. Highways. In the County. Month. Number. Oath. Officers, Departments, Etc. Official Time. Owner. Person. Personal Property. Preceding, Following.

§ 111-20. § 111-21. § 111-22. § 111-23. § 111-24. § 111-25. § 111-26. § 111-27. § 111-28.

Property. Real Property. Shall, May. Signature or Subscription by Mark. State. Tenant or Occupant. Tenses. Week. Writing. 111-1. Applicability. For the purposes of this Code the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them. 111-2. Board of Supervisors. Whenever the words "Board of Supervisors" or "Board" are used, they shall be construed to mean the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County. 111-3. Code. The words "the Code" or "this Code" shall mean "The Code of Humboldt County, California," and any secondary Code adopted by reference the same as though such secondary Code had been set forth in full in this Code. 111-4. Computation of Time. The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last day unless the last day is a holiday and then it is also excluded. 111-5. County. The words "the County" or "this County" shall mean the County of Humboldt.

111-6. Day. A "day" is a period of time between any midnight and the midnight following. 111-7. Daytime, Nighttime. "Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. "Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise. 111-8. Gender. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. 111-9. Highways. Highways shall include the whole of all highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, sidewalks, parkways, curbs, or other public ways over which this Country has jurisdiction 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. 111-10. In the County. The words "in the County" shall mean and include all territory over which the County now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its powers or other regulatory powers. 111-11. Month. The word "month" shall mean a calendar month. 111-12. Number. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular. 111-13. Oath. "Oath" includes affirmation.

111-14. Officers, Departments, Etc. Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees referred to shall mean officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the County of Humboldt unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. 111-15. Official Time. Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean Pacific Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the County. 111-16. Owner. The word "owner" applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, or joint tenant. 111-17. Person. "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, joint venture, business trust, corporation or company. 111-18. Personal Property. "Personal Property" includes every species of property except "real property" as herein defined. 111-19. Preceding, Following. The words "preceding" and "following" mean next before and next after, respectively. 111-20. Process. Includes a writ or summons issued int he course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. 111-21. Property. The word "property" shall include real and personal property.

111-22. Real Property. "Real property" shall include lands, tenements and hereditament. 111-23. Shall, May. "Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive. 111-24. Signature or Subscription by Mark. "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. 111-25. State. The words "the State" or "this State" shall be construed to mean the State of California. 111-26. Tenant or Occupant. The words "tenant" or "occupant" applied to a building or land shall include 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. 111-27. Tenses. The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future includes the present. 111-28. Week. A "week" consists of seven consecutive days.

111-29. Writing. "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. § 112-1. § 112-2. § 112-3. § 112-4. § 112-5.