Inglewood Municipal Code § 10-139 Definitions

The definitions contained in this Article govern the construction of this Article unless the context otherwise requires. The definition of a word or phrase applies to any variants thereof.

"Assessment district" means an assessment district formed pursuant to this Article.

"Clerk" means the City Clerk of the City of Inglewood.

"Engineer" means the City Engineer, engineer of the district, or any other person designated by the City Council as the engineer for the purposes of this Article, including any officer, board, or employee of the City or any private person or firm specially employed by the City as engineer for the purposes of this Article.

"Finance Director" means the Finance Director of the City of Inglewood.

(Ord. 03-19 10-14-03; Ord. 07-08 4-25-07)

"Fiscal year" means a 12-month period commencing on July 1 and ending on the following June 30.

"Improvement" includes all work and improvements which are for a public purpose or which are necessary or incidental to a public purpose, including, but not limited to, those improvements specified in Section 10-140.

"Incidental expenses" include:

(1) The costs of preparation of the report, including plans, specifications, estimates, diagram, and assessment.

(2) The costs of printing, advertising, and the giving of published, posted, and mailed notices.

(3) Compensation payable to the county for collection of assessments.

(4) Compensation of any engineer or attorney employed to render services in proceedings pursuant to this Article.

(5) Any other expenses incidental to the construction or installation of the improvements or to the maintenance and servicing thereof.

"Including," unless expressly limited, means including without limitation.

"Maintain" or "maintenance" means the furnishing of services and materials for the ordinary and usual maintenance, operation, and servicing of any improvement, including:

(1) Repair, removal, or replacement of all or any part of any improvement.

(2) Providing for the life, growth, health, and beauty of landscaping, including cultivation, irrigation, trimming, spraying, fertilizing, or treating for disease or injury.

(3) The removal of trimmings, rubbish, dirt, debris, and other solid waste whether loose or stationary.

(4) Electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent for any public lighting facilities or for the lighting or operation of any other improvements.

(5) Water for the irrigation of any landscaping, the operation of any fountains, or the maintenance of any other improvements.

"Property owner" means any person shown as the owner of land on the last equalized county assessment roll; when such person is no longer the owner, then any person entitled to be shown as owner on the next county assessment roll, if such person is known to the City; where land is subject to a recorded written agreement of sale, any person shown therein as purchaser.

"Public agency" means the state or Federal governments, any city, county, or other public corporation formed pursuant to charter, general law, or special act, for the performance of governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries and any department, board, commission, independent agency, or instrumentality of any of the foregoing.

"Public lighting facilities" means all works or improvements used or useful for the lighting of any public places, including ornamental standards, luminaries, poles, supports, tunnels, manholes, vaults, conduits, pipes, wires, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, braces, transformers, insulators, contacts, switches, capacitors, meters, communication circuits, appliances, attachments, and appurtenances.

"Public places" means one or any combination of the following:

(1) Any public street, place, way, or property, easement, or right-of-way, open or dedicated to public use, and any property for the immediate possession and use of which as rights-of-way required for public use, an order has been obtained in compliance with the provisions of Section 14 of Article I of the State Constitution.

(2) Any public property, right-of-way, or leasehold interest which is in use in the performance of a public function and which adjoins any of the ways described in subsection (1).

"Public utility" means any public utility subject to the jurisdiction of and regulated by the Public Utilities Commission.