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 Owosso
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER
 Chapter 2. DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 2.1. Definitions and Interpretations.  

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  • Except as otherwise specifically provided or indicated by the context, for the purposes of this charter:

    (1)

    "Board" includes "commission";

    (2)

    "City" means the City of Owosso and all of its officers and departments;

    (3)

    "Clerk" means the City Clerk as that term may be used in any law;

    (4)

    "Council" means the City Council of the City of Owosso and includes "governing body" as that term may be used in any law;

    (5)

    "Law" denotes applicable Federal law, the Constitution and statutes of Michigan, the applicable common law, and this charter;

    (6)

    "Lien" includes security interest as defined by law or as brought into being by operation of law, or both;

    (7)

    "Officer" includes the Mayor, the members of the Council, the Municipal Judges , the administrative officers named in this charter or created under authority of this charter and their deputies, and members of city boards created by or pursuant to law;

    (8)

    "Person" may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate and to partnerships and associations, as well as to individuals;

    (9)

    "Printed" and "printing" include printing, engraving, stencil duplicating, lithographing, typewriting, photostating, or any similar method of duplicating the written word;

    (10)

    "Publish" or "published" include[s] publication of any matter, required to be published, in the manner provided by law, or where there is no applicable law at least once in one or more newspapers of the city qualified by law for the publication of legal notices, or when such newspaper publication is not available, by posting in at least one public place in each election precinct;

    (11)

    "Public utility" shall include all public and private common carriers, water, sewage disposal, electric light, gas, electric power, telephone and telegraph lines and systems, garbage collection, garbage disposal and reduction plants, and such other and different enterprises as the law or the Council may determine to be or designate as public utilities;

    (12)

    "Treasurer" means the City Treasurer as that term may be used in any law;

    (13)

    "Written" and "in writing" include[s] hand written script, printing, typewriting, teletype and telegraphic communications, and other forms of graphic English language readable by the average literate person;

    (14)

    Words and phrases which are not herein defined shall be taken in their ordinary signification and import and when there is doubt thereof, the meaning given in the latest edition of Webster's Standard Unabridged Dictionary, extant at the time the meaning is required, shall govern;

    (15)

    All words indicating the present tense shall not be limited to the time of the adoption of this charter, but shall extend to and include the time of the happening of any event or requirement to which the provision is applied;

    (16)

    The singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine gender shall extend to and include the feminine gender and the neuter.