In the construction of this code, the rules and definitions set out in Section 1.04.020 and this section shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the city council. The rules of construction and definitions set out herein shall not be applied to any section of this code which contains any express provision excluding such construction, or where the subject matter or context of such section may be repugnant thereto.
1. "City" means the city of Lawndale, California. The words "in the city" 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.
2. "Council" means the city council of the city of Lawndale, California.
3. "County" means the county of Los Angeles in the state of California, unless obviously from the context it is intended to mean the city of Lawndale.
4. "Day" means the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
5. "Daytime" means the period of time between sunrise and sunset; "nighttime" means the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
6. "Goods" means and includes wares or merchandise.
7. "Month" means a calendar month.
8. "Oath" means and includes an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
9. "Operate" means and includes carry on, keep, conduct or maintain.
10. "Owner," when applied to real estate, means and includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint interest or other fee interest in the whole or a part of such real estate.
11. "Person," as used in this code or in any ordinance or code adopted hereby, means and includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company or corporation, and any municipal, political or governmental corporation, district, body or agency other than the city.
12. "Personal property" means and includes every species of property, except real property, as defined in this section.
13. "Preceding" and "following" mean next before and next after, respectively.
14. "Process" means and includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
15. "Property" means and includes real and personal property.
16. "Real property" means and includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
17. "Sale" means and includes any sale, exchange, barter or offer for sale.
18. "Signature" or "subscription" means and 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.
19. "State" means the state of California.
20. "Street" means and includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts and all other public ways in the city, and includes all parts thereof constituting the designated right-of-way.
21. "Tenant" or "occupant," as applied to a building or land, means and includes any person holding a written or an oral lease on, or who occupies the whole or a part of, the building or land, either alone or with others.
22. "Unincorporated territory of the county of Los Angeles," as used in this code or any code, ordinance or other regulation adopted by reference herein, means the city of Lawndale.
23. "Week" means seven consecutive days.
24. "Writing" means and 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 expressly provided otherwise.
25. "Year" means a period of three hundred sixty-five days; "half year" means one hundred eighty-two days; "quarter of a year" means ninety-one days. The added day of a leap year, and the day immediately preceding, if they occur in any such period, shall be reckoned together as one day. (Prior code § 1-2 (part))