In the construction of this Code and of all
County ordinances, the following rules of construction and definitions
shall be observed, unless such construction or definition would be
inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of County Commissioners
or be repugnant to the context of the provisions or the context clearly
requires otherwise.
A.
All words
and phrases shall be construed and understood according to the common
and approved usage of language, except where otherwise defined in
a given ordinance, but technical words and phrases and such others
as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law
shall be construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate
meaning.
B.
Gender.
Words importing gender include all genders.
C.
“May”
is discretionary.
D.
“Shall”
is mandatory.
Where not defined in particular chapters of
the County Code, as used in this Code, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The Doña Ana County Airport at Santa Teresa.
The Board of County Commissioners of Doña Ana County.
Doña Ana County.
Any statute, ordinance or regulation promulgated by the United
States, the state, the County or any agencies thereof, as well as
the rules and regulations of other bodies politic that may be appropriate.
Includes and shall be applied to a firm, partnership, association,
corporation, organization, club, society, group acting as a unit,
or body politic and corporate, as well as to an individual.
Includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt, things
in action, and any other species of property, except real property.
Includes real, personal, and mixed property.
Any public way, park, cemetery, school yard or open space
adjacent thereto; any public lake or stream; and any place or business
open to the use of the public in general, open to public view or to
which the public has access.
All roads and highways established pursuant to any law of
New Mexico, and roads dedicated to public use, that have not been
vacated or abandoned, and such other roads as are recognized and maintained
by Dona Ana County. (NMSA § 67-2-1).
Includes lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Includes public streets, avenues, boulevards, highways, roads,
alleys, lanes, viaducts, bridges, public ways and approaches thereto
and other public thoroughfares in the County devoted to public use.
The State of New Mexico.
