For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD. The Board of Commissioners of the town.
COUNTY. The County of Moore, in the State of North Carolina, except as otherwise provided.
MAYOR. The Mayor of the town.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. An affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in certain cases the words swear and sworn shall be equivalent to the words affirm and affirmed.
OFFICIALS, BOARDS, and COMMISSIONS. Whenever reference is made to OFFICIALS, BOARDS, and to COMMISSIONS by title only, they shall be deemed to refer to the officials, boards, and commissions of the town.
OR and AND. OR may be read AND, and AND may be read OR if the sense requires it.
OWNER. When applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant-in-common, joint tenant, or tenant-by-the-entirety, of the whole or a part of the building or land.
PERSON. Corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, and any other group acting as a unit, as well as an individual.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property except real property as herein defined.
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING. Next before and next after respectively.
PROPERTY. Real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
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 the mark of a person who cannot write when intended as a signature.
STATE. The State of North Carolina.
STREET. Any public way, road, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, or bridge, and the approaches thereto within the town.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Any person who occupies the whole or a part of the building or land, whether alone or with others.
TOWN, CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, or MUNICIPALITY. The Town of Carthage in Moore County, North Carolina, except as otherwise provided.
WRITING and WRITTEN. Printing and any other mode of representing words and letters.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(Prior Code, § 10.02)