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 San Luis Obispo County
 County Code
 Title 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
 Chapter 1.01. CODE

  § 1.01.090. Definitions—Construction.

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  • (a)

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

    (b)

    Gender. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

    (c)

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

    (d)

    Across includes along, in or upon.

    (e)

    Board of supervisors or board means the board of supervisors of the county.

    (f)

    Code means the San Luis Obispo County Code.

    (g)

    County means the county of San Luis Obispo.

    (h)

    Ex-officio means by virtue of office.

    (i)

    Goods includes wares and merchandise.

    (j)

    Oath includes affirmation.

    (k)

    Office, board or commission. The use of the title of any officer, employee, office, commission, department or board shall mean such officer, employee, office, commission, department or board of the county.

    (l)

    Operate or engage in includes carry on, keep, conduct, maintain, or cause to be kept or maintained.

    (m)

    Owner as applied to a building or land includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, or joint tenant of the whole or part of such building or land.

    (n)

    Person unless it otherwise appears from the context as used, includes any person, firm, association, corporation, organization, partnership, business trust, company, public agency, school district, the state of California, and its political subdivisions and/or instrumentalities.

    (o)

    Sale includes any sale, exchange, barter or offer for sale.

    (p)

    Shall is mandatory, may is permissive.

    (q)

    State means the state of California.

    (r)

    Street includes all streets, highways, public roads, county roads, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, sidewalks, parkways, or other public ways in the county, which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of this state.

    (s)

    Tenant or occupant as applied to a building or land includes any person who occupies the whole or part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.

(Ord. No. 3329, § 9, 9-13-16)