SECTION 16.05 INTERPRETATION OF THE CHARTER.
   The Article and Section headings herein have been inserted for convenient reference and are not intended to define, or limit the scope of, or otherwise affect, any provision of this Charter.
   Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Charter, or as the context otherwise requires, the masculine term or pronoun includes the feminine, the singular term includes the plural and the plural term includes the singular.
   The time within or by which any act or thing is required by any of the provisions of this Charter to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day, except that when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, then the act or thing may be done on the next business day which is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.
(Amended November 2, 2010)
 
 
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