Article 1-2. DEFINITIONS  


For the purpose of this revision, and in the interpretation and application of all other ordinances heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:

"City" shall mean the City of Villa Park in the County of Orange and State of California.

"City Council" or "Council" shall mean the Council of the City of Villa Park.

"Clerk" or "City Clerk" shall mean the City Clerk of the City of Villa Park duly appointed pursuant to law.

"County" shall mean the County of Orange.

"Department" shall mean an organizational unit of the government established or designated by ordinance or this revision as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the government assigned to such organizational unit by the City Council.

"Laws" shall mean laws of the State of California.

"Licensed" shall mean licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this revision.

"Month" shall mean a calendar month unless otherwise specifically provided.

"Ordinance" shall mean any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this revision, so long as it is adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it remains in force and effective pursuant to law.

"Person" shall mean any individual, natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations or unincorporated groups; or any officers, agents employees, servants, factors of any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in any capacity, acting either for himself or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.

"Recreational vehicle" shall mean a vehicular-type portable structure without permanent foundation which can be towed, hauled or driven and is primarily designed as temporary living accommodations for recreational, camping and travel use and including but not limited to travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers and self-propelled motor homes.

"State" shall mean the State of California.

"Street" shall include a street, avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, driveway, culvert, sidewalk, and crosswalk, and every class of road, square, place or municipal parking field used by the general public.

"This Code" shall mean the General Ordinances of the City of Villa Park.

"Year" shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.

(New; Ord. #88-372, § 1)