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0RDI~ANGE NO. 1255 AN ORDINANCE R2~UIRING THE 0APPII~ OR COVERING THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAII~, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: As used in this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "person" means any iadividual, firm, co-partnership, Joint adventure, association, social club, fraternal organization, corpora- tion, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, city or muy other group or combination acting as a unit; (b) The slngulsr number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular; (c) "shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive; (d) an "abandoned" oil or water well shall include any such well not actually and continuously used and any well, whether being used or not, the mouth or entrance of which is left open. SECTION 2: A person who digs, drills, excavates, constructs, owns, or controls any water well or oil well and abandons such well,, and a person who owns, possesses or controls any premises on which an aban- doned water well or oil well exists shall cap or otherwise securely cov- er the mouth or entrance to t~e well. The capping or covering shall be so constructed and installed as will prevent any human being from fall- ing into the well or from suffering any bodily injury, through accident or inadvertence, by reason of the existence of the well. SECTION 3: If any section, paragraph or provision of this Ordinance be declared invalid for any reason, the City'Co,nell hereby declares that it would have passed all other portions of this Ordinance independent of any portion that may be declared invalid. SEOTION 4: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in con- flict with this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that the provisions of this ordinance so far as they are substantially the sene as existing ordinances, must be construed as continuations thereof,