[Amended 4-9-2001 by Ord. No. 9-2001]
A. The following words, when used in this chapter, shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, mean or indicate as follows:
ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL — Those documents specifying operational matters of municipal units including, but not necessarily limited to, descriptions of the duties and responsibilities of subordinate units, rules, and regulations and appropriate administrative procedures, records, and reports.
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE — All personnel in those units of the City which are under the authority of the Managing Director.
CHARTER — The Home Rule Charter for the City of Reading approved by the voters of the City of Reading, November 1993.
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER — The Managing Director.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER — The Mayor.
CITY — The City of Reading, Pennsylvania.
COUNCIL — The City Council of the City of Reading, Pennsylvania.
HOME RULE LAW — The Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, Act of 1996, December 19, No. 177, §§ 101 et seq.
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LAW — All applicable laws of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
ORDINANCE — All ordinances of the City of Reading, including this Administrative Code.
PERSON — Any individual, partnership, association or corporation.
PRESIDENT — The President of Council.
PUBLISH — To print in a newspaper of general circulation in the City the entire document or a brief summary thereof with a listing of places where copies have been filed and times when they are available for public inspection. This may include exposure on local TV stations.
RESIDENCE — Domicile, a person's legal home; that place where a person has his true, fixed and permanent home or principal establishment, and to which whenever he has been absent he has the intention of returning. If an employee fails to establish his or her permanent residence as defined in this Part by the time specified, his or her employment within the City of Reading is terminated as of that date.
THIRD CLASS CITY CODE - Act 67, 11 Pa.C.S. §§ 10101 et seq.2
UNIT — All official components of the City government.
B. In this Part, the singular shall include the plural and the plural shall include the singular.
1. Editor's Note: See 53 Pa.C.S. § 2901 et seq.
2. Editor's Note: See 11 Pa.C.S. §§ 10101 et seq.