Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, the following terms used in this Charter shall have the following meanings:
(a) 
"Board" means any board, commission or agency of the Town.
(b) 
The "Charter" means this Charter, as the same may be supplemented or amended from time to time.
(c) 
"General Statutes" means the General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision of 1958, and reference thereto, or to any provision or provisions thereof, shall mean and include any supplements or amendments thereto.
(d) 
"Home Rule Law" means Chapter 99 of the General Statutes.
(e) 
"Meeting" of any body includes any adjourned session thereof.
(f) 
"Meeting of the Town Meeting" means the same thing as "town meeting" as used in the General Statutes.
(g) 
"The Town" means the Town of Woodbridge.
In computing the period of time of any notice under this Charter, the day on which the notice is given shall be excluded and the day on which the matter noticed is to occur shall be included. The same principle shall govern other computations of time for purposes hereof.
All elected and appointed officers and members of boards, agencies or commissions of the Town shall swear or affirm the faithful performance of their duties.
(a) 
This Charter is intended to avail, make use of and exercise the full home rule powers of the Town under the Home Rule Law, and any other statute now in effect or hereafter enacted and any other home rule powers thereof under the Constitution of the State of Connecticut, under its reserved power status as a Town antedating the Constitution of the United States, under the common law, or otherwise.
(b) 
Nothing herein shall be construed as intended to conflict with or be inconsistent with, any general statute of the State of Connecticut expressing any substantial public policy of the state. It shall be construed as an assertion of the Town's full power and authority to prescribe its organic law for the administration of its local affairs.
(c) 
If any provision of this Charter shall be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in which such provision so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with the provision to which such holding shall directly apply.