1.04.020 - Definitions and rules of construction.
In the construction of this Code, and of all ordinances, the following definitions and rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the City Council:
(A) "The City" or "this City" shall be construed as if the words "of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada" followed.
(B) "The City Council," the "Council," "the Board of Commissioners" and "the Board" each means the governing body of the City of Las Vegas.
(C) Computation of time: The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day, and if the last day be Sunday or a legal holiday, that shall be excluded.
(D) "The County" or "this County" shall mean the County of Clark.
(E) Gender: The masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders. The use of a masculine noun or pronoun in conferring a benefit or imposing a duty does not exclude a female person form that benefit or duty. The use of a feminine noun or pronoun in conferring a benefit or imposing a duty does not exclude a male person from that benefit or duty.
(F) Joint authority: All words which give authority jointly to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers.
(G) "Keeper" and "proprietor" mean and include persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs, and copartnerships, whether acting by themselves or through servants, agents, or employees.
(H) "Month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise specified.
(I) Number: The singular number includes the plural number and the plural number includes the singular number.
(J) "Oath" includes an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
(K) "Or" may be read "and," and "and" may be read "or," if the sense requires it.
(L) "Owner," applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or a part of such building or land.
(M) "Person" includes a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, and any other group acting as a unit, as well as an individual.
(N) "Personal property" includes every type or species of property, except real property as hereinafter defined.
(O) "Preceding" and "following" mean next before and the next after, respectively.
(P) "Property" includes real and personal property.
(Q) "Public place" means any public building, street, park, cemetery, schoolyard and open space adjacent thereto, any other publicly owned property and any lake or stream.
(R) "Real property" includes land, tenements and hereditaments.
(S) "Sidewalk" means any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
(T) "Signature" or "subscription" includes a mark, if a person cannot write.
(U) "The State" or "this State" means the State of Nevada.
(V) "Street" means and includes any public way, road, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, viaduct, bridge, and the approaches thereto, within the City.
(W) "Tenant" or "occupancy" as applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
(X) Tense: The past tense or the present tense includes the future tense as well as the past tense and the present tense.
(Y) "Writing" and "written" include printed and any other mode of representing words and letters.
(Z) "Year" shall mean a calendar year, unless otherwise specified.
(Ord. 3063 § 1, 1983; Ord. 2232 § 3, 1981: prior code § 1-1-3)
