City: The City of Show Low, Arizona.

The Code or this Code: The Show Low City Code unless the context indicates otherwise.

Council or city council: The common council of the City of Show Low, Arizona.

Day: The period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.

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

Department, board, commission, office, officer or employee: A department, board, commission, office, officer or employee of the city unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Gender – Singular and Plural. Words of the masculine gender include the feminine; words in the singular number include the plural and words in the plural number include the singular.

In the city or within the city: All territory over which the city now has, or shall hereafter acquire, jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers.

Joint Authority. All words purporting to give a joint authority to three (3) or more city officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such officers or other persons unless it shall be otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority.

Month: A calendar month.

Oath: Includes affirmation or declaration.

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

Person: Firms, corporations, or voluntary associations, as well as individuals, unless plainly inapplicable.

Personal property: Every species of property, except real property as defined in this chapter.

Preceding and following: Next before and next after, respectively.

Property: Real and personal property.

Real property: Lands, tenements and hereditaments.

Shall have been: Includes past and future cases.

Shall, May. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.

Signature or subscription by mark: Includes a mark when the signer 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 state: The state of Arizona.

Tenant or Occupant. The word “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 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.

Time, Computation. The time within which an act is to be done as provided in this Code or in any order issued pursuant to any ordinance, when expressed in days, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last, except that if the last day is a Sunday or holiday it shall be excluded; and when such time is expressed in hours, the whole of Sunday or a holiday, from midnight to midnight, shall be excluded.

Time, Reasonable. In all cases where any section of this Code shall require any act to be done in a reasonable time or reasonable notice to be given, such reasonable time or notice shall be deemed to mean such time only as may be necessary for the prompt performance of such duty, or compliance with such notice.

Week. A week consists of seven (7) consecutive days.

Writing: 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: A calendar year, except where otherwise provided. (Ord. No. 2003-15, §§ 1, 2, 11-4-03. 1976 Code § 1-3-2)