[Ord. #84-27, § 1.1; Ord. #86-31, § 1.1]
This section shall be known as the Ocean City Administrative Code.
[Ord. #84-27, § 1.2; Ord. #86-31, § 1.2]
For the purpose of this section and the interpretation and application of all other ordinances pertaining hereto, except as the context may otherwise require:
a. 
ADMINISTRATOR - Shall mean the business administrator appointed pursuant to the charter and this code, or any deputy or acting administrator temporarily serving in place of the business administrator.
b. 
CHARTER OR CITY CHARTER - Shall mean Mayor-Council Plan D of the Optional Municipal Charter Law (hereinafter OMCL), and all applicable provisions of the general law.
c. 
CITY - Shall mean City of Ocean City.
d. 
CLERK OR CITY CLERK - Shall mean Municipal Clerk appointed by the Council.
e. 
COUNCIL - Shall mean the Governing Body of the City.
f. 
DEPARTMENT - Shall mean the basic organizational unit of the City government established as such pursuant to this code.
g. 
DIVISION - Shall mean a basic organizational unit under a "Department".
h. 
DIRECTOR - Shall mean the administrative head of a "Department".
i. 
RESOLUTION - Shall mean an action expressing the sense or will of the Council on a matter of special or temporary interest, which shall be written and may be adopted at the meeting at which it is introduced, without publication or public hearing.
j. 
MONTH- Shall mean a calendar month, unless otherwise specifically provided.
k. 
YEAR - Shall mean a calendar year unless otherwise specifically provided.
[Ord. #84-27, § 1.3; Ord. #86-31, § 1.3]
For the purpose of this Code and any other ordinances or resolutions heretofore or hereafter adopted, except as the context may otherwise require:
a. 
The present tense includes the past and future tenses and the future, the present.
b. 
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
c. 
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
d. 
"Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
e. 
The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day, and if the last day be Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall be excluded.
f. 
"Writing" and "written" mean any visual mode of reproducing words or numbers on paper or similar material that is in general use.
[Ord. #84-27, § 1.4; Ord. #86-31, § 1.4]
a. 
It is the intent of Council in enacting this Code to exercise fully the powers delegated by the Charter to organize and regulate its internal affairs, and the provisions of the Code shall be construed liberally to that end.
b. 
The Code shall be interpreted and administered so as to maintain the separation of Legislative and Administrative powers as provided in the Charter.