§ 159-1. Short title and definitions.
Chapter 159.
Local Government Finance.
SUBCHAPTER I. SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS.
Article 1.
Short Title and Definitions.
§ 159‑1. Short title and definitions.
(a) This Chapter may be cited as "The Local GovernmentFinance Act."
(b) The words and phrases defined in this section have themeanings indicated when used in this Chapter, unless the context clearlyrequires another meaning, or unless the word or phrase is given a morerestrictive meaning by definition in another Article herein.
(1) "Chairman" means the chairman of the LocalGovernment Commission.
(2) "City" includes towns and incorporated villages.
(3) "Clerk" means an officer or employee of a localgovernment or public authority charged by law or direction of the governingboard with the duty of keeping the minutes of board meetings and conservingrecords evidencing official actions of the board.
(4) "Commission" means the Local GovernmentCommission.
(5) "Publish," "publication," and otherforms of the word "publish" mean insertion in a newspaper qualifiedunder G.S. 1‑597 to publish legal advertisements.
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of the LocalGovernment Commission.
(c) Words in the singular number include the plural, and in theplural include the singular. Words of the masculine gender include the feminineand the neuter, and when the sense so indicates, words of the neuter gender mayrefer to any gender. (1927, c. 81, s. 2; 1931, c. 60, s. 2; 1971, c. 780, s. 1.)