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§ 10.05 ORDINANCE BOOK; NOTATION OF AMENDING AND REPEALING ORDINANCES.
   (A)   The book in which the ordinances are engrossed shall be known as the “Ordinance Book of the Town of Awendaw, South Carolina.”
   (B)   The Clerk shall write on the first page of every ordinance that has been amended or repealed the words “amended” or “repealed,” as the case may be. The amended or repealed sections of the amended ordinance shall be redlined and a cross-reference made to the amending ordinance, giving the ordinance number, ratification date and the page thereof in the ordinance book.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.06 HOW CODE DESIGNATED AND CITED.
   The ordinances embraced in this code shall constitute and be designated “The Code of the Town of Awendaw, South Carolina” and may be so cited.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.07 DEFINITIONS.
   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)
§ 10.08 CATCH LINES OR SECTIONS.
   The catch lines of the sections and division of this code are intended merely as catch words to indicate the contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such sections, nor as any part of the section, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catch lines, are amended or re-enacted.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.09 EFFECT OF REPEAL OF ORDINANCES.
   (A)   The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect.
   (B)   The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.10 SEVERABILITY OF PARTS OF CODE.
   It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Town Council that the sections, divisions, sentences, clauses and phrases of this code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, division or section of this code shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, divisions and sections of this code.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.99 PENALTY.
   Whenever, in this code or in any ordinance or resolution of the Town Council or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the town under authority duly vested in him or her, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required, or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this code or any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $200 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days, in the discretion of the judge of the town court. Each day any violation of any provision of this code or of any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)