In the construction of this code and of all ordinances of the town, the following definitions and rules of construction shall be observed, unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Town Council or the context clearly required otherwise.
AND, OR. The word “and” may be read as “or”, and the word “or” as “and”, where the sense requires it.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day. If the last day be Sunday or a legal holiday, it shall be excluded.
COUNCIL or TOWN COUNCIL. The Town Council of the Town of Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina.
COUNTY. The County of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina.
GENDER. Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter.
MONTH. A calendar month.
NUMBER. Words used in the singular include the plural and the plural shall include the singular number.
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 SWEAR and SWORN shall be equivalent to the words “affirm” or “affirmed”.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD. Whenever certain hours are named, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving time, as may be in current use in the town.
OWNER. Applied to a building or land, shall include any licensee, part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety, of the whole or part of such 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. Includes every species of property except real property, as herein defined.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PROPERTY. Includes real and personal property.
REAL PROPERTY and REAL ESTATE. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curb line, or the lateral lines of all roadways where there is no curb, and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE. The words “the state” or “this state” shall be constructed to mean the State of South Carolina.
STREET. Includes avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes, bridges, and approaches thereto, and viaducts and all other public thoroughfares in the town, and shall mean the entire width thereof between opposed abutting property lines; it shall be construed to include a sidewalk or footpath, unless the contrary is expressed or unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Town Council.
TENANT or 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.
TOWN. The Town of Sullivan’s Island in the County of Charleston and State of South Carolina, except as otherwise provided.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(Prior Code, § 1-2)
Statutory reference:
Calculating time, see S.C. Code § 15-1-20