As used in the Code, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CITY
The City of Northampton, in the County of Hampshire, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
CITY COUNCIL or COUNCIL
The duty elected City Council of the City of Northampton.
CODE or THIS CODE
The Code of Ordinances, City of Northampton, Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION
Includes a person's actual or perceived gender, as well as a person's gender identity, gender-related self-image, gender-related appearance, or gender-related expression whether or not that gender identity, gender-related self image, gender-related appearance, or gender-related expression is different from that traditionally associated with a person's sex at birth.
[Added 12-15-2005]
MONTH
A calendar month.
OATH
Includes an affirmation in all cases in which by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
OWNER
Applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, or trustee of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
PERSON
Associations, firms, partnerships, trusts and bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals.
PUBLIC GROUNDS OR SQUARES
Includes commons and all public lands and those parts of public places which do not form traveled parts of highways.
STREET
Includes public ways, streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, courts, viaducts, public squares, and all other public highways in the City.
TENANT or OCCUPANT
Applied to a building or land, includes any person holding a written or oral lease of or occupying the whole or a part of