§ 25.10. Purpose and interpretation.  


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  • The purpose of this article is to protect the health, safety and general welfare of the people by ensuring that water, including ground water, will not be polluted or contaminated. To this end, minimum requirements are contained in this article to protect the water supply and to establish standard for construction, reconstruction, repair, and destruction of water wells, cathodic protection wells, and monitoring wells.
    (a) As defined in other documents. Except as otherwise required by the context of this article, the terms used in this article shall have the same meaning as in Chapter 10 of Division 7 of the California Water Code and the Department of Water Resources Bulletin 74-81 and subsequent supplements or revisions.
    (b) Tense or gender. Words used in the present tense include the future as well as the present. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
    (c) Section headings. When contained in this article, section headings shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner effect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of any section.
    (Ord. No. 985, § Appx. A.)