Director of Environmental Services . 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 of Arcata, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The masculine gender includes the feminine and masculine. The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means.
Any reference in this Code to an ordinance or provision of this Code shall mean such ordinance or provision as now, or hereafter amended. Reference to any section of this Code shall be understood to refer to and include the penalty section relating thereto unless otherwise expressly provided. In case of the amendment of any section of this Code containing provisions for which a penalty is provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended whether reenacted in the amendatory ordinance or not, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein. Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon a public officer, or employee, the power may be exercised or duty may be performed by a deputy of such officer or employee or by a person otherwise duly authorized pursuant to law or ordinance, unless this Code expressly provides otherwise. Title, Chapter, Article and Section headings and the catchlines to sections contained in this code shall not govern, limit, modify or affect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of this Code.