California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Flavell v. City of Albany, 19 Cal.App.4th 1846, 25 Cal.Rptr.2d 21 (Cal. App. 1993):
Moreover, "[t]he contemporaneous administrative construction of a statute by an administrative agency charged with its enforcement and interpretation is entitled to great weight unless it is clearly erroneous or unauthorized. [Citations.]" (Rivera v. City of Fresno (1971) 6 Cal.3d 132, 140, 98 Cal.Rptr. 281, 490 P.2d 793.)
Applying these principles to the case at bar, it seems clear that the city's interpretation
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