(A) General rule. 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.
(B) For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS or COMMISSIONERS. The governing body of the town, constituted and elected pursuant to law.
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CLERK or TOWN CLERK. The municipal clerk duly appointed pursuant to law.
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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. Brunswick County, North Carolina.
DEPARTMENT. The organizational unit of the town government established or designated by ordinance or this code as a department, together with any agency or instrumentality of the town government assigned to such organizational unit by the Board of Commissioners.
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LAWS. The laws of the State of North Carolina.
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LICENSED. Licensed in accordance with the appropriate section or chapter of this code.
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MANAGER, TOWN. The Town manager is the chief appointed official with powers and duties as set forth in the Holden Beach Code of Ordinances, § 30.09.
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
MAYOR. The Mayor is the Chief elected official with powers and duties as set forth in the Holden Beach Code of Ordinances, § 30.04.
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.
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OFFICER, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, or COMMISSION. An officer, office, employee, or commission of this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
ORDINANCE. Any act of local legislation heretofore or hereafter adopted, and including this code, so long as it shall have been adopted by the procedure required for the adoption of an ordinance and so long as it shall remain in force and effect pursuant to law.
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OWNER. Any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or a part of such building or land.
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PERSON. An individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, interstate body, the State of North Carolina and its agencies and political subdivisions, or other legal entity.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, evidences of debt, and all written instruments by which any right to, interest in or encumbrances upon, property or any debt or financial obligation as created, acknowledged, evidenced, transferred, discharged, or defeated, in whole or in part, and everything, except real property as herein defined, which may be the subject of ownership.
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PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
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PROPERTY. All real property subject to land use regulation by a local government. The term includes any improvements or structures customarily regarded as part of real property.
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PUBLIC GROUNDS, PUBLIC PLACE or PUBLIC PLACES. Shall severally be construed to mean any and every public ground, public park, or any other public place in the town.
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REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein.
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SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of North Carolina.
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 or OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land, a person who occupies the whole or a part of such buildings or lands, either alone or with others.
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TOWN. The Town of Holden Beach, North Carolina.
WEEK. Seven days.
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WRITTEN. Any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; equivalent to the words YEAR OF OUR LORD.
(Ord. 07-04, passed 5-22-07; Am. Ord. 21-10, passed 6-15-21)