Torrance Municipal Code Art. 4 Definitions

Shall mean and refer to the Charter of the City of Torrance, as amended.

Shall be construed as if followed by the words of Torrance.

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

Shall be construed to mean the City Council of the City of Torrance.

A day is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.

Daytime is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. Nighttime is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.

The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

Shall mean and include all territory over which the City now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.

All words giving a joint authority to 3 or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.

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

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.

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

As applied to a building or land, shall include 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.

Includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation or company.

Includes every species of property, except real property, as herein defined.

The words preceding and following mean next before and next after, respectively.

Includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.

Shall include real and personal property.

Shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments.

Is that portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.

Shall is mandatory and may is permissive.

Shall be that portion of a highway, other than the roadway, set apart for pedestrian travel.

Includes 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 (2) witnesses so sign their own names thereto.

The words the state and this state shall be construed to mean the State of California.

Shall be a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.

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.

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

A week consists of seven consecutive days.

Includes any form of a 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.

Shall mean a calendar year, except where otherwise provided.