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The following words and phrases, whenever used in the ordinances of the city of Bethel, Alaska, 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. “Agent” means a person acting on behalf of another.

B. “Business day” means a calendar day on which the city’s administrative offices are open to provide general services to the public.

C. “Calendar day” means any day, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

D. “City” means the city of Bethel, Alaska, or the area within the territorial limits of the city of Bethel, Alaska, and such territory outside Bethel over which the city of Bethel has jurisdiction or control by virtue of any constitutional or statutory provision.

E. “City attorney” means the city attorney for the city of Bethel.

F. “City clerk” means the city clerk of the city of Bethel.

G. “City manager” means the city manager of the city of Bethel.

H. “Code” means the Bethel Municipal Code.

I. “Council” means the city council of the city of Bethel, Alaska. “All its members” or “all councilmen” means the total number of councilmen provided for in the code, without regard to vacancies or absences.

J. “Fee” means a sum of money charged by the city for the carrying on of business, profession or occupation.

K. “Knowingly” imports only a knowledge of the facts exists which brings the act or omission within the provisions of this code. It does not require any knowledge of unlawfulness of such act or omission.

L. “Law” means the Constitution and statutes of the United States, the Constitution and statutes of the state of Alaska, and the ordinances enacted by the city of Bethel.

M. “Owner,” applied to a building or land, means and includes any part owner, joint owner, organization, business trust, society, tenant in common, joint tenant, tenant by the entirety, lessee of the whole or of a part of such building or land.

N. “Peace officer” means any officer of the state of Alaska, members of the police force of any incorporated city or borough, United States Marshals and their deputies, and other officers whose duty it is to enforce and preserve the public peace.

O. “Person” includes a natural person, joint venture, joint stock company, partnership, association, club, company, corporation, business, firm, trust, organization, or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer or employee of any of them.

P. “Personal property” means and includes tangible property, other than real property, such as money, merchandise, goods, chattels, effects, evidence of rights in action and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, right or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished and every right or interest therein.

Q. “Real property” means and includes land, tenements, hereditaments of all kinds, together with all rights to and interest in land, tenements, and hereditaments and further includes buildings, structures, improvements and fixtures upon or affixed to land. [Ord. 17-19 § 2.]