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ORDINANCE NO: 566
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA
ENACTING THIS ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO GENERAL
PROVISIONS INCLUDING DEFINITIONS, NECESSARY
FOR THE CODIFICATION OF THE ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF BEAUMONT INTO A MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE
CITY OF BEAUMONT.
The City Council for the City of Beaumont, California does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Definitions. The following words and phrases,
whenever used in the ordinances of the City of Beaumont, shall
be construed as defined in this section unless from the context
a different meaning is intended or unless a different meaning
is specifically defined and more particularly directed to the
use of such words or phrases.
A. "City" and "town" each mean the City of Beaumont,
of the area within the territorial limits of the City of Beaumont,
and such territory outside the City of Beaumont over which the
City of Beaumont has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any
constitutional or statutory provision.
B. "Council" means the City council of the City of
Beaumont. "All its members" or "all councilmen" means the total
number of councilmen holdingoffice.
C. "County" means the county of Riverside.
D. "Law" denotes applicable federal law, the Constitutio
and statutes of the state of California, the ordinances of the
City of Beaumont, and, when appropriate, any and all rules and
regulations which may be promulgated thereunder.
E. "May" is permissive.
F. "Month" means a calendar month.
G. "Must" and "shall" are each mandatory.
H. "Oath" includes an affirmation or declaration 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."
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I. "Owner," applied to a building or land, includes
any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant,
tenant by the entirety, of the whole or a part of such building
or land.
J. "Person" includes a natural person, joint venture,
joint stock company, partnership, association, club, company,
corporation, business, trust, organization, or the manager, lessee,
agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them.
K. "Personal property" includes money, goods, chattels,
things in action and evidences of debt.
L. "Preceding" and "following" means next before and
next after, respectively.
M. "Property" includes real and personal property.
N. "Real property" includes lands, tenements and
hereditaments.
0. "Sidewalk" means that portion of a street between
the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use
of pedestrians.
P. "State" means the state of California.
Q. "Street" includes all streets, highways, avenues,
lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, or other public
ways in this "City" which have been or may hereafter be dedicated
and open to public use, or such other public property so designate
in any law of this state.
R. "Tenant" and "occupant," applied to a building or
land, include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such
building or land, whether alone or with others.
S. "Written" includes printed, typewritten, mimeograph&
multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible form.
T. "Year" means a calendar year.
SECTION 2. Title of office. Use of the title of any officer
employee, department, board or commission means that officer,
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employee, department, board or commission of the "City."
SECTION 3. Interpretation of language. All words and
phrasesshall be construed according to the common and approved
usage of the language, but technical words and phrases and such
others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning
in the law shall be construed and understood according to such
peculiar and appropriate meaning.
SECTION 4. Grammatical interpretation. The following
grammatical rules shall apply in the ordinances of the City of
Beaumont, unless it is apparent from the context that a different
construction is intended:
A. Gender. Each gender includes the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
B. Singular and Plural. The singular number includes
the plural and the plural includes the singular.
C. Tenses. Words used in the present tense include
the past and the future tenses and vice versa, unless manifestly
inapplicable.
SECTION 5. Acts by agents. When an act is required by an
ordinance, the same being such that it may be done as well by
an agent as by the principal, such requirement shall be construed
to include all such acts performed by an authorized agent.
SECTION 6. Prohibited acts include causing and permitting.
Whenever in the ordinances of the City of Beaumont, any act or
omission is made unlawful, it shall include causing, allowing,
permitting, aiding, abetting, suffereing, or concealing the fact
of such act or omission.
SECTION 7. Computation of time. Except when otherwise
provided, the time within which an act is required to be done
shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the
last day, unless the last day is Sunday or a holiday, in which
case it shall also be excluded.
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SECTION 8. Construction. The provisions of the ordinances
of the City of Beaumont, and all proceedings under them are to
be construed with a view to effect their objects and to promote
justice.
SECTION 9. Repeal shall not revive any ordinances. The
repeal of an ordinance shall not repeal the repealing clause of
an ordinance or revive any ordinance which has been repealed
thereby.
SECTION 10. The City Council of the City of Beaumont is
contemplating the adoption of a Municipal Code for the City of
Beaumont, California.
SECTION 11. Book Publishing Company of Seatle, Washington,
has reviewed all of the ordinances of the City of Beaumont, and
has recommended the adoption of this ordinance by the City of
Beaumont.
SECTION 12. This ordinance shall take effect thrity days
after its final passage and within fifteen days after its passage
shall be published as provided by law.
ADOPTED THIS 14th DAY OF
February
, 1983, BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA.
ATTESTED TO BY
CITY CLERK
CALIFORNIA
YOR OF THE CITY OF BE
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F THE'CITY OF BEAUMONT,
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CERTIFICATION
I, Edna J. Burkett, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular
meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 24th
day of January 1983, and was duly adopted upon second
reading on the 14th day of February , 1983, upon the
following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
Councilmen May, Hammel, Lowry and Mayor Thompson.
None.
None.
Councilman Shaw.
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EDNA J. BU ETT, CITY
CITY OF BEAUMONT.
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