[Adopted 11-8-1974 as § 1-2 of the 1974 Code]
[Amended 1-20-2004 by Ord. No. 0104-01 and Ord. No. 0104-02]
In the construction of this Code and all ordinances
the following rules of construction and definitions shall be observed
unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Commissioners
or the context clearly requires otherwise:
Written orders which are issued by the Mayor or chief administrative
officer of the City and compiled in a manual.
Means "and" may be read "or" and "or" may be read "and" if
the sense requires it.
An obligation, in writing, binding the signatory to pay a
sum certain upon the happening or failure of an event.
Any structure intended to have walls and a roof.
Any profession, trade, occupation and any other commercial
enterprise conducted for monetary reward.
The Charter of the City of Rehoboth Beach.
The City of Rehoboth, in the County of Sussex and State of
Delaware.
Within the City and includes not only the corporate limits
of the city, but also any property which it owns or which is under
its jurisdiction.
The chief administrative officer of the city.
The City Clerk.
The governing body of the city, the City Commissioners.
Sussex County, Delaware.
Thirty minutes prior to sunrise.
[Added 12-16-2011 by Ord. No. 1211-02]
Given within a chapter or article apply only to words or
phrases used in such chapter or article unless otherwise provided.
Following an official of the city, means the authorized agent,
employee or representative of such official.
The chief executive officer of the Office or Department to
which the particular Division, Bureau, Board, Agency or subordinate
municipal administrative body has been assigned by the Commissioners.
Words in any section importing the masculine gender shall
include the feminine and neuter as well as the masculine.
The head of the Health Department or any person designated
by the Commissioners to perform the City health functions and duties.
That authority given to several persons or officers. Such
authority vests in a majority of such persons or officers.
One in possession of or who has the care, custody or superintendence
of a thing, place or business, whether or not the owner or proprietor,
and includes any person, firm, association, corporation, club and
copartnership whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent
or employee.
The word "may" is permissive and discretionary.
The Mayor of the city.
A calendar month.
Words used in the singular include the plural and the plural
includes the singular.
Any form of attestation by which a person signifies that
he is bound in conscience to perform an act or to speak faithfully
and truthfully, and includes an affirmation or declaration in cases
where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
Tenant or person in actual possession.
Carry on, keep, conduct, maintain, manage, direct or superintend.
The ordinances of the City of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and
all amendments and supplements thereto.
One who has complete dominion over particular property and
who is the one in whom legal or equitable title rests: when applied
to a building or land, "owner" means any part owner, joint owner,
owner of a community or partnership interest, life tenant, tenant
in common, tenant by the entirety or joint tenant, of the whole or
part of such building or land.
Any individual, natural person, joint-stock company, partnership,
voluntary association, society, club, firm, company, corporation,
business trust, organization, or any other group acting as a unit,
or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, partner, member, director,
officer or employee of any of them, including an executor, administrator,
trustee, receiver, or other representative appointed according to
law.
Any money, goods, movable chattels, things in action, evidence
of debt, all objects and rights which are capable of ownership, and
every other species of property except real property.
Next before and next after, respectively.
An owner of the property or premises, including any person,
firm, association, corporation, club, partnerships or other group
acting as a unit whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent
or employee.
Any park, lake, stream, stadium, athletic field, playground,
schoolyard, street, avenue, plaza, square, bus, train or railroad
depot, station, terminal, cemetery, open space adjacent thereto or
any other place commonly open to the public.
Land, together with all things attached to the land so as
to become a part thereof.
The word "shall" is mandatory.
That portion of a street between the curbline and the adjacent
property along the margin of a street or other highway, designed,
constructed and intended for the use of pedestrians to the exclusion
of vehicles.
The name of a person, mark or symbol appended by him to a
writing with intent to authenticate the instrument as one made or
put into effect by him.
The State of Delaware.
The latest published edition of the Statutes or Revised Statutes
of Delaware.
All streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, roads,
lanes, viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto, docks built on
the public street, alleys, courts, places, squares, curbs, sidewalks,
recreation and park lands used for vehicular traffic, or other public
ways or thoroughfares in this city, over which it has jurisdiction,
which have been or may hereafter be dedicated and open to public use,
or such other public property so designated in any law of this state.
Any person occupying the premises, building or land of another
in subordination to such other person's title and with his express
or implied assent, whether he occupies the whole or a part of those
premises, building or land, whether alone or with others.
Words used in the past or present tense include the future,
past and present where applicable unless the context dearly indicates
otherwise.
An hour of the day according to the official time of the
city.
The time within which an act is to be done as provided in
any section or any order issued pursuant to any section, when expressed
in days, and is computed by excluding the first and including the
last day. If the last day is Sunday or a legal holiday, that day shall
not be counted in the computation. When the time is expressed in hours,
the whole of Sunday or a legal holiday from midnight to midnight is
excluded.
The City Treasurer.
Any drain, ditch and stream, flowing in a definite direction
or course in a bed with banks.
Seven days.
Shall be construed according to the common and approved usage
of the language, but technical words and phrases and others that have
acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law shall be construed
and understood according to such meaning.
Any representation of words, letters or figures, whether
by printing or otherwise, capable of comprehension by ordinary visual
means.
A calendar year.
