(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 MAYOR AND ALDERMEN. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Manchester.
CITY. The City of Manchester, New Hampshire.
CODE, THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. This municipal code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. When time is to be reckoned from a day, date, act done, or the time of an act done, either by force of law, or by virtue of a contract made since December 23, 1842, such day, date, or the day when such act is done shall not be included in the computation.
CORPORATE or CITY LIMITS. The legal boundaries of the City of Manchester.
COUNTY. Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY. Whenever a provision appears requiring the head of a department or some other city officer to do some act or perform some duty, it is to be construed to authorize the head of the department or other officer to designate, delegate, and authorize subordinates to perform the required act or perform the duty unless the terms of the provisions of the section specify otherwise.
JOINT AUTHORITY. All words purporting to give a joint authority to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such persons or officers, unless otherwise expressly declared.
MAYOR. The Mayor of Manchester.
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.
OFFICERS, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, COMMIS- SION, or DEPARTMENT. An officer, office, employee, commission, or department of this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
OWNER. Applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
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 described.
PRECEDING or FOLLOWING. Next before or next after, respectively.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
REGISTERED MAIL. When used in connection with the requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail.
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of New Hampshire.
STREET. Includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts, and all other public ways in the city, and shall include all areas thereof embraced between the property lines and dedicated to the public use.
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, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease or who occupies the whole or part of such buildings or land, either alone or with others.
WHOLESALE, WHOLESALER or WHOLESALE DEALER. In all cases where the words WHOLESALE, WHOLESALER or WHOLESALE DEALER are used in this Code, unless otherwise specifically defined, they shall be understood and held to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in quantity to persons who purchase for purposes of resale, as distinguished from a retail dealer who sells in smaller quantities direct to the consumer.
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.
('71 Code, § 1-2)