For the purpose of this code the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOND. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing with approved surety shall be sufficient.
COUNTY. Brunswick County, State of North Carolina.
KEEPER or PROPRIETOR. Includes any person, firm, association, corporation, club and partnership, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent or employee.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. Includes an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words AFFIRM and AFFIRMED shall be equivalent to the words SWEAR and SWORN.
OFFICIALS, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. Whenever reference is made to OFFICIALS, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS by title only, they shall be deemed to refer to the officials, boards and commissions of the Town of Carolina Shores.
OR and AND. OR may be read AND, and AND may be read OR if the sense requires it.
OWNER. When applied to buildings or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or part of the building or land.
PERSON. Includes a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization and any other group acting as a unit, as well as an individual.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes every species of property except real property as defined below.
PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before and next after respectively.
PROPERTY. Includes real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
RESIDENCE. The place adopted by a person as his or her place of habitation and to which, whenever he or she is absent, he or she has the intention of returning. When a person eats at one place and sleeps at another, the place where the person sleeps shall be deemed his or her residence.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway, and includes the use of the entire width of the land between the property lines so dedicated to public use.
ROADWAY. That portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.
SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when a person cannot write.
STATE. The State of North Carolina.
STREET. Includes any public way, road, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, path, viaduct, bridge or other public place and the approaches thereto within the town when any part thereof is open to the use of the public and established for purposes of vehicular traffic.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. When applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of the building or land, whether alone or with others.
TOWN. The Town of Carolina Shores in the County of Brunswick, State of North Carolina unless otherwise provided.
TOWN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS or BOARD. The Board of Commissioners for the Town of Carolina Shores.
TOWN LIMITS. The corporate limits of the Town of Carolina Shores.
VEHICLES. Every wagon, hack, coach, carriage, omnibus, pushcart, bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle, automobile, streetcar, sleigh or sled, or other conveyance, except baby carriages or invalid chairs, in whatever manner or by whatever force they may be driven, ridden or propelled, which is or may be used or adapted for pleasure riding, for the transportation of passengers, baggage, merchandise or freight on any street, and every draft or riding animal, whether driven, ridden or led. An animal attached to any vehicle with the vehicle constitute one VEHICLE.
WRITING or WRITTEN. Includes printing and any other mode of representing words and letters.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(Ord. 14-1, passed 10-9-2014)