Chapter 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections:
1-1. How Code designated and cited.
1-2. Definitions and rules of construction.
1-3. Provisions considered as continuations of existing ordinances.
1-4. Effect of repeal of ordinances.
1-5. Severability of parts of Code.
As to authority of counties to enforce regulations not in conflict with the general law, see Const., art. XI § 11.
1-1 How Code designated and cited.
The ordinances embraced in the following chapters and sections shall constitute and be designated “The Code of the County of Colusa, California,” and may be so cited. It may also be cited as the “Colusa County Code.”
1-2 Definitions and rules of construction.
For the purposes of this Code the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Board of supervisors. Whenever the words “board of supervisors” are used, they shall be construed to mean the board of supervisors of Colusa County.
Code. The words “the Code” or “this Code” shall mean “The Code of the County of Colusa, California.”
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.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 6800.
County. The words “the county” or “this county” shall mean the County of Colusa.
Day. A “day” is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 6806.
Daytime, nighttime. “Daytime” is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. “Nighttime” is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 6807.
Gender. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 12.
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 police powers or other regulatory powers.
Joint authority. All words giving a joint authority to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.
See C. C., § 12.
Month. The word “month” shall mean a calendar month.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 6804.
Number. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 13.
Oath. “Oath” includes affirmation.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 15.
Officers, departments, etc. Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees referred to shall mean officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the County of Colusa unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
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.
Or, and. “Or” may be read “and,” and “and” may be read “or,” if the sense requires it.
Owner. The word “owner,” 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.
Person. “Person” includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, joint venture, business trust, corporation or company.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 17; C. C. P., § 17.
Personal property includes every species of property, except real property, as herein defined.
See C. C., §§ 14 and 663.
Preceding, following. The words “preceding” and “following” mean next before and next after, respectively.
Process includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 22.
Property. The word “property” shall include real and personal property.
See C. C., § 14; C. C. P. § 17.
Real property shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments.
See C. C., §§ 14 and 658.
Shall, may. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 14.
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.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 16.
State. The words “the state” or “this state” shall be construed to mean the State of California.
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.
Tenses. The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future includes the present.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 11.
Week. A week consists of seven consecutive days.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 6805.
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.
For similar state law, see Gov. C. A., § 8.
Year. The word “year” shall mean a calendar year, except where otherwise provided.
For state law definition of “year,” see Gov. C. A., § 6803.
1-3 Provisions considered as continuations of existing ordinances.
The provisions appearing in this Code, so far as they are the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the effective date of this Code, shall be considered as continuations thereof and not as new enactments.
1-4 Effect of repeal of ordinances.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect.
The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for any offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
1-5 Severability of parts of Code.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the board of supervisors that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Code.
1-6 Catchlines of sections.
The catchlines of the several sections of this Code are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such section, nor as any part of the section, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines, are amended or re-enacted.