Saratoga Municipal Code Art. 1-10 Definitions

The definitions set forth in this Article shall be applied throughout this Code, unless the context or the provision clearly requires otherwise.

"Article" means an article of the chapter in which the term occurs unless some other chapter is expressly mentioned.

"Board of Supervisors" means the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara, California.

"Business day" means any day other than a holiday or day that the City offices are closed for the entire day for any reason. (Amended by Ord. 259 § 1 (part), 2008)

"Chapter" means a chapter of this Code unless some other statute is expressly mentioned.

(a) "City" or "this City" means the City of Saratoga.

(b) "City Hall" means the offices of the City located at 13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California.

"Code" or "this Code" means the Saratoga City Code.

"Council" or "City Council" means the City Council of the City of Saratoga.

"County" means the County of Santa Clara, California.

"Day" means a calendar day consisting of the period of time between midnight and the midnight following.

"Government Code" means the Government Code of the State of California.

"Holiday" means every Saturday, Sunday, and such other days on which the City offices are closed in observance thereof.

"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.

"Occupant," as applied to a building or land, means any person in actual or constructive possession of the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.

"Owner" means a person holding any ownership interest in property, and includes part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of such property or any portion thereof.

"Penal Code" means the Penal Code of the State of California.

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

"Personal property" includes every species of property, except real property as defined in this Article.

"Planning Commission" means the Planning Commission of the City of Saratoga.

"Preceding" means next before and "following" means next after.

"Property" includes every species of real and personal property.

"Real property" includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.

"Section" means a section of this Code, unless some other statute is expressly mentioned.

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

"Signed" or "signature" 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.

"State" or "this State" means the State of California.

"Tenant", as applied to a building or land, means any occupant of such building or land, or any portion thereof, pursuant to a written or verbal lease, or a lease implied by law.

"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.

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