SECTIONS 1-18 - California Statutes

PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE

SECTION 1-18

1. This act shall be known as the Public Resources Code.

2. The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially
the same as existing provisions relating to the same subject matter,
shall be construed as restatements and continuations thereof and not
as new enactments.

3. All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold
office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are
continued by this code, continue to hold the same according to the
former tenure thereof.

4. No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect,
and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code,
but all procedure thereafter taken therein shall conform to the
provisions of this code so far as possible.

5. Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions
hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.

6. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained
herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner
affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of any
division, part, chapter, article, or section hereof.

7. Whenever, by the provisions of this code, an administrative
power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an
officer, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by a deputy
of the officer or by a person authorized pursuant to law.

8. Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of
comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report,
statement or record is required by this code, it shall be made in
writing in the English language.

9. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of
any other law of this State, such reference shall apply to all
amendments and additions thereto now or hereafter made.

10. "Section" means a section of this code unless some other
statute is specifically mentioned.

11. The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the
future the present.

12. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.

13. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the
singular.

14. "County" includes "city and county."

15. "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.

16. "Oath" includes affirmation.

17. "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or
subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being
written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the
signer's or subscriber's name; but a signature or subscription by
mark can be acknowledged or can serve as a signature or subscription
to a sworn statement only when two witnesses so sign their own names
thereto.

18. If any provison of this code, or the application thereof to any
person or circumstances, is held invalid the remainder of the code,
and the application of its provisions to other persons or
circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.