For the purpose of this code of ordinances, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CITY. The City of Winner, Tripp County, South Dakota.
CODE or THIS CODE. The Winner Municipal Code in its entirety, including each and every section thereof. The entire CODE is intended by the Council to constitute an ordinance in revision of the ordinances of the city, within the meaning of SDCL §§ 9-19-16 and 9-19-17.
COMPUTATION OF TIME. The time in which any act provided by this code or other ordinance is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last is a holiday and then it also is excluded. Fractions of a day are to be disregarded in computations which include more than one day, and involve no questions of priority.
COUNCIL. The City Council of Winner, Tripp County, South Dakota.
COUNTY. The County of Tripp, South Dakota.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
ELECTOR(S) or QUALIFIED ELECTOR(S). Voter(s).
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
GOVERNING BODY. The board of trustees, the board of commissioners or the common council, as the case may be, of a municipality concerned or affected.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
LOT. Includes PARCEL or TRACT OF LAND.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
MAY. A permissible reference.
MONTH. A calendar month.
MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. All cities and towns organized under the laws of this state but shall not include any other political subdivisions.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
OATH. Includes an affirmation, and the words “swear” and “sworn” shall be equivalent to the words “affirm” and “affirmed”.
ORDINANCE. A permanent legislative act within the limits of its powers of the governing body of a municipality.
(SDCL § 9-19-1)
OWNER. As used in this code relating to local improvements, the grantee in the last deed of conveyance of any lot or parcel of land recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties in which the municipality is located, or his or her heirs or successors.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
PERSON. Shall extend and be applied to associations, companies, corporations, firms, partnerships, organizations and bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals and any other legal entities, or any agent or employee thereof.
PUBLICATION.
(1) Any requirement for publication shall mean publication in the official newspaper of the municipality concerned or affected, if any; but if none, then, in a legal newspaper published in such municipality, if any; but if none, then, in any legal newspaper which serves such municipality, except as provided by SDCL § 9-13-13.
(2) Personal service either within or without the state upon the person affected thereby by delivery of a copy of a notice required to be published shall be equivalent to the required PUBLICATION.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
RESOLUTION. Any determination, decision or direction of the governing body of a municipality of a temporary or special character for the purpose of initiating, effecting, or carrying out its administrative duties and functions.
(SDCL § 9-19-1)
SDCL. South Dakota Codified Laws.
SHALL. A mandatory reference.
SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION. Includes a mark when the person cannot write, his or her name being written near such mark, and written by a person who writes his or her own name as a witness.
STATE or THIS STATE. The State of South Dakota.
STREET. Includes AVENUE.
(SDCL § 9-1-1)
WRITTEN or IN WRITING. Includes typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. WRITING may be made in any manner, except that when a person entitled to require the execution of a writing demands that it be made with ink, it must be so made.
YEAR. A calendar year.