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 Santa Barbara County.
Code. The words "the Code" or "this Code" means "The Code of Santa Barbara County,
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.
County. The words "the county" or "this county" mean the County of Santa Barbara.
Day. A "day" is a period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
Daytime, Nighttime. "Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. "Nighttime"
is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
Gender. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
Highways shall include the whole of all public ways, roads, alleys, courts and streets
and sidewalks between the property lines forming the exterior lateral boundaries thereof,
and those parts of public squares and places which form traveled parts of highways.
In the County. The words "in the county" 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.
Month. The word "month" means a calendar month.
Number. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural, the singular.
Oath. "Oath" includes affirmation.
Officers, Departments, Etc. "Officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees"
referred to means officers, departments, boards, commissions and employees of the
County of Santa Barbara unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
Official Time. Whenever certain hours are named herein they 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 or tenant by the entirety
of the whole or a part of such building or land.
Person. "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership,
joint venture, business trust, corporation or company.
Personal property includes every species of property, except real property, as herein
defined.
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.
Property. The word "property" shall include real and personal property.
Real Property shall include lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Shall, May. "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
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.
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.
Weed. A week consists of seven consecutive days.
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.
Year. The word "year" shall mean a calendar year, except where otherwise provided.
