A. 
For the purpose of these regulations, words and terms used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
(1) 
Words used in the present tense include the future.
(2) 
The singular includes the plural.
(3) 
The word "person" includes a corporation, institution, partnership, joint venture and association as well as the individual.
(4) 
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
(5) 
The word "town" shall always mean the Town of Princess Anne.
(6) 
The words "Town Commissioners" and the words "Town Commission" shall always refer to the Princess Anne Town Commissioners.
(7) 
The words "Planning and Zoning Commission" always refer to the Princess Anne Planning and Zoning Commission.
(8) 
The word "county" shall always mean Somerset County.
B. 
Any word or term not defined herein shall be used with a meaning of standard usage.
Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the following words and phrases shall have, for the purpose of these regulations, the meanings in the following clauses:
APPLICANT
Any person who submits to the Planning and Zoning Commission subdivision plans for the purpose of obtaining approval thereof.
BUILDING
A structure having an impervious roof which is used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. The word "building" shall include any part thereof.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE
The rear line of the minimum required front yards. The building setback line shall be measured from the future right-of-way line.
CRITICAL AREA
Chesapeake Bay critical area definitions are adopted herein by reference and are found in Chapter 61, Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Program, § 61-3.
EASEMENT
A grant of the use of a parcel of land to the use of the public, a corporation or person for a specific purpose, without including title to the land.
IMPROVEMENTS
Those physical additions, installations and changes, such as streets, curbs, sidewalks, water mains, sewers, drainage facilities, public utilities, landscaping and other appropriate items, required to render land suitable for the use proposed.
LOT
A parcel of land, with or without buildings, recorded on the tax map as one unit of land.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
The division of a single lot, tract or parcel of land into four or fewer lots, tracts or parcels of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transferring ownership or of exercising development rights, provided that the proposed lots, tracts or parcels of land thereby created have frontage on an improved public street or streets, and provided further that there is not created by the subdivision any new street or streets.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, alley, crosswalk, sanitary or storm sewer or drainage ditch or for another specified use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land plotting purposes in the Town shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on the final plan is to be separate and distinct from lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way and not included with the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels.
RIGHT-OF-WAY, FUTURE
A. 
The right-of-way width required for the expansion of existing streets to accommodate anticipated future traffic loads.
B. 
A right-of-way established to provide future access to or through undeveloped land.
STREET
A public or private way used or intended to be used for passage or travel by automotive vehicles and pedestrians and to provide access to abutting properties.
STREET LINE
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line, provided that where a future right-of-way width for a street has been officially established, the street line shall be the side of the future right-of-way so established.
SUBDIVISION
A. 
The division of a single lot, tract or parcel of land or part thereof into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transferring ownership or of exercising development rights.
B. 
The term "subdivision" includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided.