For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AND or OR. The word AND may be read as OR, and OR as AND where the sense requires it.
BOND. When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing shall be sufficient.
CLERK. Whenever the word is used, the term shall be construed to mean Clerk to Council.
CORPORATE LIMITS, CORPORATION LIMITS or TOWN LIMITS. The legal boundary of the Town of Winnsboro.
COUNCIL. The Mayor and Council of this town in council assembled.
COUNTY. The County of Fairfield in the State of South Carolina.
JOINT AUTHORITY. All words giving a joint authority to three or more persons or officers shall be construed as giving the authority to a majority of the persons or officers.
KEEPER and PROPRIETOR. Include persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs and partnerships, whether acting by themselves or through a servant, agent or employee.
MANAGER. The Town Manager of this town.
MAYOR. The Mayor of this town.
MONTH. A calendar month.
MUNICIPALITY. The Town of Winnsboro.
NAME OF OFFICER. Whenever the name of an officer is given, it shall be construed as though the words “of the Town of Winnsboro” were added.
OATH. The word OATH shall be construed to include an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an OATH, and in those cases the words SWEAR and SWORN shall be equivalent to the words AFFIRM and AFFIRMED.
OFFICERS, AGENTS, THINGS AND PLACES OF THE TOWN. Unless a contrary intention appears, the officer, agents, employees and other persons, things and places situated in the town or employed by or appertaining to the town or subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
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 the building or land.
PERSON. Extends and applies to associations, clubs, societies, firms, partnerships and bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes every species of property except real property as herein described.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING. Next before and next after, respectively.
PREMISES. Place or places.
PROPERTY. Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any park, cemetery, school yard or open space adjacent thereto.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
RESIDENCE. The place adopted by a person as his or her place of habitation, and to which, whenever he or she is absent, he or she has the intention of returning. When a person eats at one place and sleeps at another, the place where the person sleeps shall be deemed his or her RESIDENCE.
ROADWAY. The portion of a street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.
SEAL. The town or corporate seal.
SIDEWALK. Any portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians, excluding parkways.
SIGNATURES or SUBSCRIPTIONS. Includes a mark when the person cannot write.
STATE. The State of South Carolina.
STREET. Avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts, bridges and approaches thereto 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 foot path, unless the contrary is expressed or unless the construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Town Council.
TENANT, OCCUPANT. Applied to a building or land, shall include any person holding a written or oral lease or who occupies the whole or a part of the building or land, either alone or with others.
TOWN, CITY, CORPORATION. Whenever the words are used, they shall be construed as if the words “of Winnsboro, South Carolina” followed them.
WEEK. Shall be construed to mean seven days.
WRITTEN, IN WRITING. Include any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.
YEAR. A calendar year.
(1995 Code, § 1-3042)