Personal property means and includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. Preceding and following mean next before and next after, respectively. Property means and includes real and personal property. Real property means and includes lands, tenements and hereditaments. Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
State means the state of Oregon.
Street means and includes all streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, or other public ways in the city which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use, or such other public property so designated in any law of this state. Tenant and occupant, applied to a building or land, mean and include any person who occupies the whole part of such buildings or land, whether alone or with others. Written means and includes, but is not limited to, handwritten, printed, typewritten, mimeographed, multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced in permanent visible form. Year means a calendar year. All word and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law shall be construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning.