§ 1-2. Rules of construction.

In the construction of this Code and of all ordinances, the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the mayor and council:

City. The City of Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Georgia.

City Charter. References to the "City Charter" shall refer to provisions of Ga. Laws 1957, Act No. 2, p. 2003 as amended.

City officials, officers and employees. Whenever reference is made to officials, boards, commissions, departments, et cetera, by title only, i.e., "mayor," "recorder," "planning commission," "marshal," or any other such designation, such reference shall be deemed to be to officials et cetera of the City of Port Wentworth, and powers and authority granted to them shall be deemed to be grants of such powers and authority to their respective duly designated subordinates.

Computation of time. The time in which an act is to be done must be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; and if the last day is a Sunday or legal holiday, that shall be excluded.

County. Chatham County, Georgia.

Gender. A word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to females, and to firms, partnerships and corporations, as well as to males.

Joint authority. All words giving joint authority to three (3) or more persons or officers, give such authority to a majority of such persons or officers, unless it is otherwise declared.

Month. A calendar month.

Number. Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural includes the singular number.

Oath. Includes affirmation.

Or, and. The word "or" may be read as "and" and the word "and" as "or," where the sense requires it.

Owner. The word "owner" shall include not only the owner of the whole, but any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, or joint tenant of the whole or a part of property.

Person. The word "person" shall extend and be applied to firms, partnerships, corporations, associations, organizations, trustees, agents, and bodies politic, or any combination thereof, as well as to natural persons.

Personal property includes every species of property except real property, as defined herein.

Preceding, following. The words "preceding" and "following" mean next before and next after, respectively.

Property. The word "property" includes real and personal property.

Real property includes land, tenements and hereditaments.

Shall. The word "shall" is mandatory.

Sidewalk. That portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.

Signature or subscription. Includes a mark when the person cannot write if his name is written near the mark and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness.

State. The words "the state" or "this state" shall mean the State of Georgia.

Street. The word "street" shall be construed to embrace streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts and all other public ways in the city, and shall embrace all parts thereof within the designated right-of-way. In those instances where the public records are silent, the term shall embrace all of the area between the off-street edge of the sidewalk or walkway on each side of the street, including the grassplots or other divisional areas lying between the sidewalk or walkway and street.

Written or in writing shall be construed to include any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.

Year. A calendar year.