For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the text indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOND. When a BOND is required, an undertaking in writing shall be sufficient.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day. If the last day is Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
COUNCIL. The Town Council of the Town of Southern Pines, North Carolina, constituting the governing body of the Town.
COUNTY. Moore County, North Carolina.
COUNTY SANITARIAN. The County Sanitarian of Moore County, North Carolina.
GAMING OPERATIONS. Any business activity, whether as a principal or accessory use, in which patrons use electronic or mechanical machines, including, but not limited to, computers and gaming terminals, to conduct or simulate games of chance, including the use of the machines to reveal the pre-determined value of an entry, and where cash, merchandise or other items of value are redeemed or otherwise distributed, whether the value is determined by the machines or by pre-determined odds. GAMING OPERATIONS does not include any lottery approved by the State of North Carolina or any nonprofit activity otherwise lawful under state law.
MONTH. A calendar month.
OATH. Includes an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an OATH, and in such cases, the words "affirm" and "affirmed" shall be equivalent to the words "swear" and "sworn".
OFFICIALS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND THE LIKE. Whenever reference is made to OFFICIALS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES AND THE LIKE, by title only, they shall be construed as if followed by the words "of the Town of Southern Pines, North Carolina."
OWNER. When 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 part of the building or land.
PERSON. Includes a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, and any other group acting as a unit, as well as an individual.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Every species of property, except real property as herein defined.
PRECEDING and FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Real and personal PROPERTY.
REAL PROPERTY. Lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Shall include a mark when a person cannot write.
STATE. The State of North Carolina.
STATUTES REFERENCES. The General Statutes of North Carolina shall be cited throughout this code as "G.S."
STREET. Any public way, road, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley, lane, path, viaduct, bridge, or other public place and the approaches thereto within the Town when any part thereof is open to the use of the public and established for purposes of vehicular traffic.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land shall include any person who occupies the whole or part of the building or land, whether alone or with others.
THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES. The Town Code as modified by amendment, revision, and adoption of new titles, chapters, or sections.
TOWN. The Town of Southern Pines in the County of Moore and the State of North Carolina.
TOWN LIMITS or CORPORATE LIMITS. The legal boundary of the Town of Southern Pines, North Carolina.
WRITING or WRITTEN. Shall include printing and any other mode of representing words and letters.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(1989 Code, § 10.05) (Am. Ord. 1374, passed 6-8-2010)
Statutory reference:
Similar state law definitions, see G.S. § 12-3