As used in this article, “clerk” means the clerk of a county or the legislative body thereof. Where the office of county clerk is separate from the office of clerk of the board of supervisors, “clerk” means the clerk of the board of supervisors.
The legislature occasionally skips outline levels.
For example:
(3) A person may apply [...]
(4)(a) A person petitioning for relief [...]
In this example, (3), (4),
and (4)(a) are all outline levels, but
(4) was
omitted by its authors. It's only implied. This presents an
interesting challenge when laying out the text. We've
decided to display a blank section with this note, in order
to aide readability.