Title 01 General Provisions
Chapter 01.02 General Provisions
Section 01.02.020 Use of “Shall”
Because use of the word “shall” can create ambiguity concerning the intent to use the future tense or the imperative mood of associated verbs, this code sometimes employs alternative phraseology. Hence, for example, the phrase “no person may” expresses a prohibition against acting and has the same meaning as more traditional phrases such as “it shall be unlawful for a person to.”
Date Passed: Monday, January 22, 2007
Effective Date: Sunday, March 4, 2007
Recodification ORD C33969 Section 1
