(A) Acts by agents. When an act is required to be done which may by law as well be done by an agent as by the principal, such requirements shall be construed to include all such acts when done by an authorized agent.

(B) AND, OR. AND may be read or, and OR may be read and, if the sense requires it.

(C) BOND. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing shall be sufficient.

(D) CHARTER. The Charter of the City of Goodyear.

(E) CITY. The City of Goodyear, Maricopa County, Arizona, except as otherwise provided. The words IN THE CITY or WITHIN THE CITY shall mean and include all territory over which the City has jurisdiction for the exercise of its police powers or other regulatory powers as authorized by statute.

(F) CODE. The municipal code of the City of Goodyear, unless the context indicates otherwise.

(G) COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Goodyear.

(H) COUNTY. Maricopa County, Arizona, unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(I) DAY. The period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.

(J) DAYTIME, NIGHTTIME. DAYTIME is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. NIGHTTIME is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.

(K) DEPARTMENT, BOARD, COMMISSION, OFFICE, OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE. Whenever any DEPARTMENT, BOARD, COMMISSION, OFFICE, OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE is referred to, it shall mean a department, board, commission, office, officer or employee of the City unless the context requires otherwise.

(L) Gender; singular and plural. Words of the masculine gender include the feminine; words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular.

(M) Joint authority. All words purporting to give a joint authority to three 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.

(N) KEEPER, PROPRIETOR. Includes persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs and partnerships, whether acting by themselves or through an agent, servant or employee.

(O) MONTH. A calendar month.

(P) 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.

(Q) OWNER. Applied to a building or land shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or lessee of the whole or of part of such building or land.

(R) PERSON. Includes a corporation, company, partnership, association or society as well as a natural person.

(S) PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property, except real property as defined in this section.

(T) PRECEDING, FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.

(U) PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and personal property.

(V) PUBLIC PLACE. Any thoroughfare, park, open space or building not privately owned or controlled.

(W) REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements and hereditaments.

(X) SHALL, MAY. SHALL is mandatory and MAY is permissive.

(Y) SHALL HAVE BEEN. Includes past and future tenses.

(Z) SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.

(AA) SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION BY MARK. Includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his or her 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 witnesses so sign their own names thereto.

(BB) STATE. The State of Arizona unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

(CC) STREET. Any alley, lane, court, boulevard, public way, public square, public place, sidewalk or thoroughfare.

(DD) 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.

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

(FF) 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 Saturday, Sunday or holiday it shall be excluded; and when such time is expressed in hours, the whole of Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, from midnight to midnight, shall be excluded.

(GG) 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.

(HH) WEEK. A week consists of seven consecutive days.

(II) 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 expressly provided otherwise.

(JJ) YEAR. A calendar year unless otherwise provided. (Prior Code, § 1-3-2)