Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual sense. However, technical words and phrases having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.
BOND. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing shall be sufficient.
CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, or MUNICIPALITY. The City of Easley, South Carolina.
CODE, THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. This municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
COUNTY. Pickens County, South Carolina.
IN THE CITY. Any territory, jurisdiction of which, for the exercise of its regulatory power, has been conferred on the city by public or private law.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. 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.
OFFICER, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, COMMISSION, or DEPARTMENT. An officer, office, employee, commission, or department of this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
OWNER. Applied to buildings 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.
PERSON. Extends to and includes person, persons, firm, corporation, copartnership, trustee, lessee, or receiver. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the terms PERSON or WHOEVER as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers or agents thereof.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes every species of property except real property, as herein defined.
PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Shall include real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY. Include lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of South Carolina.
STATE REFERENCES. Whenever reference is made to a title or section of the S.C. Code, it shall be construed to refer to the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as the same may have been amended or whatever section is to be cited.
STREET. Any public way, road, highway, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, viaduct, bridge and the approaches thereto within the city.
SUBCHAPTER. A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a heading in the chapter analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading. Not all chapters have subchapters.
TENANT. The words TENANT and 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.
WRITING. The words WRITING and WRITTEN shall include printing and any other mode of representing words and letters.
YEAR. A calendar year.
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