As used in the Provo City Code and amendments thereto, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, according to the context in which they are used:

“Bribe” signifies any money, goods, right in action, property, thing of value, or advantage, present or prospective, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given, or accepted, with a corrupt intent to influence unlawfully the person to whom it is given in any action, vote, or opinion by such person in any public or official capacity.

“City” means Provo City, Utah.

“Corruptly” imports a wrongful design to acquire or cause some pecuniary or other advantage to the person guilty of the act, established either by proof or by presumption of law.

“Councilor” or “Council member” means a duly elected member of the Provo City Municipal Council.

“Knowingly” imports only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of these ordinances. It does not require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of such act or omission.

“Land,” “Real estate,” and “Real property” include lands, tenements, hereditaments, water rights, possessory rights and claims.

“Law” means any of the constitutions, statutes, regulations, or court decisions of the United States of America or the State of Utah or ordinances of Provo City, Utah.

“Month” means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed, and the word “year” or the abbreviation “A.D.” is equivalent to the expression “year of our Lord.”

“Neglect,” “Negligence,” “Negligent,” and “Negligently” import a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequences of the act or omission as a prudent person ordinarily bestows in acting in one’s own concern.

“Oath” includes affirmation, and the word “swear” includes the word “affirm.” Every mode of oral statement under oath or affirmation is embraced in the term “testify,” and every written one in the word “depose.”

“Officer” shall include officers and boards in charge of departments and the members of such boards.

“Ordinances” or “these ordinances” means the ordinances adopted by the Provo City Municipal Council, whether codified within this volume or uncodified.

“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 a part of such building or land.

“Person” means any individual person, firm, general or limited partnership, corporation, or other association however designated.

“Personal property” includes every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidences of rights in action and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, rights or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished, and every right or interest therein.

“Property” includes both real and personal property.

“Resident” shall mean any person who has been domiciled in the City of Provo, with a bona fide intent to make Provo City the person’s place of permanent abode, for a period of not less than thirty (30) days.

“Signature” includes any name, mark or sign written with the intent to authenticate any instrument or writing.

“Tenant” or “Occupant” applied to a building or land shall include any person who occupies the whole or any part of such building or land, either alone or with others.

“Wilfully,” when applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted, implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act or make the omission referred to. It does not require any intent to violate law, or to injure another, or to acquire any advantage.

“Writing” includes printing, writing and typewriting.