Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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1.7 DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY the City of Portland is open for business.
Whenever a provision requires the head of a
department to perform an act or duty, that 1.8.5 Obligatory terms and conjunctions
provision will be interpreted as authorizing the The terms in the text of the Land Use Code shall be
department head or officer to delegate that interpreted in accordance with the following rules
responsibility to others over whom they have of construction:
authority. A. The terms “must”, “shall”, and “will” are
mandatory terms that express a requirement or
1.8 RULES OF INTERPRETATION impose an obligation.
1.8.1 Meaning of words and terms B. The terms “must not”, “shall not”, “will not”,
All words and terms shall have the meanings shown and “may not” express a prohibition.
in Article 3, unless otherwise expressly stated. For
words or terms not specifically defined in this Land