For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day; and if the last day is a Saturday or Sunday or a legal holiday, that shall be excluded.
COUNCIL or TOWN COUNCIL. The Town Council of the Town of Awendaw, South Carolina.
COUNTY. The County of Charleston, South Carolina.
GENDER. A word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to females and to firms, partnerships and corporations, as well as to males.
NUMBER. Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural includes the singular number.
OATH. Construed to include an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases, the words “swear” and “sworn” shall be equivalent to the words “affirm” and “affirmed.”
OFFICERS and OFFICIALS. Whenever reference is made to officials, boards, commissions, departments and the like, by title only, i.e., Clerk, Chief of Police and the like, they shall be deemed to refer to the officials, boards, commissions and departments of the town.
OWNER. Applied to a building or condominium, including, but not limited to, time-sharing arrangements, or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of such building or land.
PERSON. Firms, partnerships, associations, organizations and bodies, politic and corporate, or any combinations thereof, as well as individuals.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidence of debt.
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY and REAL ESTATE. Lands, tenements, hereditament, condominiums and time-sharing arrangements.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street improved, designated or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
SIDEWALK. A strip of land in front or on the sides of a house or lot of land lying between the property line and the street.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of South Carolina.
STREET. Construed to embrace streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, viaducts and all other public ways and thoroughfares.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
TENSE. Words used in the present tense include the future, as well as the present.
TOWN. The Town of Awendaw, South Carolina.
WRITTEN or IN WRITING. Any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)