Building official – The person designated by the city manager to enforce and perform the duties assigned by the city’s building code and state specialty codes.

City – The City of Beaverton, if the provision involves a duty owed the city in its governmental or corporate capacity; the officer, department, or agency of the city indicated by the context, or where the context does not clearly indicate a specific officer, department or agency, then the city manager or the city manager’s designee. “City” also includes, depending upon the context, the area within the territorial city limits of the city and territory outside the city over which the city acquires jurisdiction or control by any constitutional or Charter provision or by any law.

City engineer – The person designated by the city manager as the city engineer of the City of Beaverton.

City lien docket, lien docket – The record keeping device or instrumentality used for maintaining the principal balance, interest and other obligations, certified as accurate by the city’s finance director, which are or have been owing to the city, and which device includes, but is not limited to, ledger books, microfilm, microfiche, computer memory storage and computer printouts.

City manager – The administrative head of the city’s government appointed by the city council.

Council – city council of Beaverton, as defined by city charter.

County – Washington County, Oregon.

Day – The period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.

Days – A calendar day, except when “working days” is used.

Daytime; nighttime – “Daytime” is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. “Nighttime” is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.

Department, board, commission, office, officer or employee – A department, board, commission, office, officer or employee of the city.

Development Code – Ordinance No. 2050, as now or hereafter amended or replaced by comparable provisions.

Interest – Interest accrued at the rate set by resolution of the council which shall be the legal rate of interest established by Oregon Revised Statutes at the time the resolution is passed.

Joint authority – All words giving joint authority to three or more persons or officers comprising a board or commission shall be construed as giving authority to a quorum of the board or commission members unless the ordinance specifically provides otherwise.

Minor – A person under the age of 18 years.

Month – A calendar month, except where otherwise provided.

Number – The singular number includes the plural and the plural, the singular.

Office – The use of the title of an officer, employee, or an office, or ordinance or Charter shall mean the officer, employee, office, ordinance or city charter, unless otherwise specifically designated.

Oath – Includes affirmation.

Official time – When certain hours are specified in the code, they mean the United States standard of time as established by the Congress of the United States for the State of Oregon under the Act of March 19, 1918, (15 USC 261) except that from 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in April until 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October the standard of time shall be one hour in advance of the standard established for the State of Oregon by the Congress under the Act of March 19, 1918.

Or, and – “Or” may be read “and”, and “and” may be read “or,” if the council determines that the sense requires it.

ORS – Oregon Revised Statutes.

Owner – A fee title owner, part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or of a part of the building or land, or vendee in possession under a land sale contract; but owner does not include tenant.

Peace officer – A member of the Oregon State Police, a sheriff, constable, marshal, or municipal police officer or other municipal officer or employee charged with the responsibility of enforcing municipal ordinances.

Person – Individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, joint stock companies, joint ventures, club, company, business trust, governmental subdivision, State of Oregon, or public or private organization of any kind, or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer, or employee of any of them.

Personal property – Every species of property, except real property as defined in this section.

Preceding, following – Next before and next after, respectively.

Process – A writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.

Property – Both real and personal property.

Real property – Lands, tenements and fixtures to land.

Recorder, city recorder – The person(s) designated by the city manager to be the custodian of the city’s records.

Shall, must and may – “Shall and must” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.

Signature or subscription by mark – “Signature” or “subscription” includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, the 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 sign their own names to it, or when notarized.

State – The State of Oregon.

Tenant or occupant – A person holding a written or an oral lease of, or who occupies the whole or a part of, the building or land, either alone or with others, regardless of the term of the lease.

To – “To” means “to and including” when referring to a series of sections of this code or the Oregon Revised Statutes.

Week – Seven consecutive days.

Working days – The days the city is officially open for business: Monday through Friday, excluding official holidays.

Writing – When notice in writing is given, writing means handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, and every means of recording including letters, words, pictures, sounds or symbols or combinations of them, and all papers, maps and photographic films and prints.

Year – A calendar year, except where otherwise provided. [BC 1.01.020, added by Ordinance No. 3323; amended by Ordinance No. 4794, 12/1/20]