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WA Rev Code § 91.08.650 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.650 - Enforcement.

RCW 91.08.650 Enforcement.The superior court may compel the performance of duties imposed by this chapter, and may on proper application therefor issue its mandatory injunction for such purpose.[ 1911 c 23 § 66; RRS § 9842.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.660 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.660 - Construction—1911 c 23.

RCW 91.08.660 Construction—1911 c 23.This chapter shall not be held to be an exclusive method of constructing, deepening or widening such waterways, nor in conflict with any other method which may be provided by law.[ 1911 c 23 § 64; RRS § 9840.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 91.08.900 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.[ 2009 c 521 § 199.]
1 V.S.A. § 51
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Vermont Statutes Annotated|§ 51. Vermont Statutes Annotated defined

§ 51. Vermont Statutes Annotated defined|Vermont Statutes Annotated, Revision of 1959, as published by the Commission to revise the statutory law of Vermont under No. 91 of the Acts of 1957, 1 V.S.A. §§ 1-9, are hereby enacted as positive statute law, exclusive of the prefatory subject matter, analyses, catchlines, notes, annotations, appendixes, tables and indexes contained therein. They may be cited as - -  V.S.A. § - -  and they shall not, in any citation of the statutes, be considered as acts of the present year. (Added 1959, No. 262, § 1, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 52
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Vermont Statutes Annotated|§ 52. Vermont Statutes Annotated; time of taking effect

§ 52. Vermont Statutes Annotated; time of taking effect|Vermont Statutes Annotated shall take effect from and after July 1, 1959 except the parts thereof as to which a different provision is expressly made therein. (Added 1959, No. 262, § 2, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 55
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Vermont Statutes Annotated|§ 55. Repeal of Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, and session laws not to affect associations and corporations

§ 55. Repeal of Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, and session laws not to affect associations and corporations|The repeal of the Vermont Statutes, Revision of 1947, and acts of the General Assembly shall not affect associations or private corporations organized thereunder, but they may have and exercise the powers conferred thereby. (Added 1959, No. 262, § 5, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 56
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Vermont Statutes Annotated|§ 56. Limitations, how affected

§ 56. Limitations, how affected|When a limitation or period of time prescribed in an act repealed, for acquiring a right, or barring a remedy, or for any other purpose, has begun to run and the same or a similar limitation is prescribed in the Vermont Statutes Annotated, the time of limitation shall continue to run, and shall have like effect as if the whole period had begun and ended under the operation of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. (Added 1959, No. 262, § 6, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 57
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Vermont Statutes Annotated|§ 57. Vermont Statutes Annotated, continuation of existing laws

§ 57. Vermont Statutes Annotated, continuation of existing laws|The provisions of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, so far as they are the same as those of existing laws, shall be construed as a continuation of those laws, and not as new enactments. (Added 1959, No. 262, § 7, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 59
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - Vermont Statutes Annotated|§ 59. Certified copy of Vermont Statutes Annotated

§ 59. Certified copy of Vermont Statutes Annotated|A copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated shall be kept in the office of the Secretary of State, to which copy that officer shall affix a certificate, under his or her hand and the Seal of the State, that the laws therein contained are the statute laws of the State of Vermont; and that certified copy shall be an authentic record of those laws. (Added 1959, No. 262, § 9, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 101
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 101. Application of chapter

§ 101. Application of chapter|In the construction of statutes, the rules set out in this chapter shall be observed, unless such construction is inconsistent with the manifest intent of the General Assembly or repugnant to the context of the same statute.
1 V.S.A. § 111
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 111. Annual meeting

§ 111. Annual meeting|"Annual meeting" when applied to towns shall mean the annual town meeting in March or an adjournment thereof.
1 V.S.A. § 112
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 112. Biennial; biennially

§ 112. Biennial; biennially|"Biennial" or "biennially" shall mean the year in which a regular session of the General Assembly is held.
1 V.S.A. § 113
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 113. County; town

§ 113. County; town|"County" or "town" may mean the county or town in which the subject matter referred to is situate, belongs or is cognizable.
1 V.S.A. § 114
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 114. Domestic and foreign corporations

§ 114. Domestic and foreign corporations|"Domestic" when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign," when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country.
1 V.S.A. § 115
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 115. Fees

§ 115. Fees|"Fees" shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation.
1 V.S.A. § 116
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 116. Folio

§ 116. Folio|"Folio" shall mean 100 words.
1 V.S.A. § 117
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 117. General election; local election

§ 117. General election; local election|"General election" shall mean any election of State and county officers, Representatives to the General Assembly, U.S. Senators, Representative to Congress, or electors. "Local election" shall mean any election of town or village officers in towns or villages having more than 4,000 inhabitants.
1 V.S.A. § 118
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 118. Grantor; grantee

§ 118. Grantor; grantee|"Grantor" may include every person by or from whom an estate or interest in land is passed in or by a deed. "Grantee" may include every person to whom such estate or interest passes.
1 V.S.A. § 119
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 119. Highway; road

§ 119. Highway; road|"Highway" or "road" shall include bridges thereon and their approaches.
1 V.S.A. § 121
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 121. Issue

§ 121. Issue|"Issue" as applied to the descent of estates shall include the lawful lineal descendants of the ancestor.
1 V.S.A. § 122
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 122. Justice

§ 122. Justice|"Justice" when applied to a person, other than a Justice of the Supreme Court, shall mean a justice of the peace for the county for which he or she is elected or appointed. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 9, 1974.)
1 V.S.A. § 123
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 123. Magistrate

§ 123. Magistrate|"Magistrate" shall mean any Supreme Court Justice, Superior judge, District judge, or Probate judge. (Amended 1969, No. 207 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 24, 1970; 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 9, 1974.)
1 V.S.A. § 124
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 124. Month; year

§ 124. Month; year|"Month" shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord."
1 V.S.A. § 126
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 126. Municipality

§ 126. Municipality|"Municipality" shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units.
1 V.S.A. § 127
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 127. Oath; sworn

§ 127. Oath; sworn|"Oath" shall include affirmation where by law an affirmation may be substituted. In like cases, "sworn" shall include affirmed.
1 V.S.A. § 128
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 128. Person

§ 128. Person|"Person" shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. (Amended 1969, No. 207 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 24, 1970.)
1 V.S.A. § 129
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 129. Personal estate

§ 129. Personal estate|"Personal estate" shall include all property other than real estate.
1 V.S.A. § 130
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 130. Population; inhabitants

§ 130. Population; inhabitants|"Population" or "inhabitants" shall mean the population of the political division referred to, as ascertained by the national census last completed before the time when such population is a material fact.
1 V.S.A. § 131
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 131. Preceding; following; such; said

§ 131. Preceding; following; such; said|"Preceding" and "following" when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. "Such" and "said" when used by way of reference to a person or thing shall apply to the same person or thing last mentioned.
1 V.S.A. § 132
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 132. Land; lands; real estate

§ 132. Land; lands; real estate|"Land," "lands," and "real estate" shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate.
1 V.S.A. § 133
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 133. Seal- Official

§ 133. Seal- Official|When a seal of a court, public officer, or corporation is required to be affixed to a paper, "seal" shall include an impression of the official seal made upon paper alone or by means of a wafer or wax affixed thereto.
1 V.S.A. § 134
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 134. Private

§ 134. Private|When the private seal of a person or corporation is required on an instrument or writing to make such instrument or writing legal and valid, such seal shall consist of an impression as provided in section 133 of this title or of a wafer, wax, or other adhesive substance affixed thereto or of a paper or other similar substance affixed thereto or the word "seal" or the letters "L.S." opposite the signature.
1 V.S.A. § 134a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 134a. Registered mail

§ 134a. Registered mail|"Registered mail," as the words appear in Vermont Statutes Annotated, the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure and the Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure, when used solely for the purpose of securing evidence of delivery, shall include any method of mail delivery requiring the signature of the addressee or his or her agent. (Added 1979, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Apr. 24, 1980.)
1 V.S.A. § 135
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 135. School officers

§ 135. School officers|"School officers" shall include all persons, other than teachers, who have to do with matters pertaining to public schools. The board of school directors of a town school district or the governing board of an incorporated school district shall constitute the legislative branch of such district.
1 V.S.A. § 136
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 136. State

§ 136. State|"State" when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (Amended 1959, No. 262, § 11, eff. June 11, 1959.)
1 V.S.A. § 137
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 137. Sworn

§ 137. Sworn|"Sworn" when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take certain oaths shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers, it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a person authorized to administer oaths.
1 V.S.A. § 138
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 138. Time, how computed

§ 138. Time, how computed|When time is to be reckoned from a day, date, or an act done, such day, date, or day when such act is done shall not be included in the computation, unless otherwise provided.
1 V.S.A. § 139
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 139. Town; town officers

§ 139. Town; town officers|"Town" shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. This section shall be so construed as not to conflict with the acts of incorporation of or laws specially applicable to such municipal corporations. (Amended 2013, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 72.)
1 V.S.A. § 140
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 140. Village

§ 140. Village|"Village" shall mean an incorporated village.
1 V.S.A. § 141
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 141. Will

§ 141. Will|"Will" shall include codicils.
1 V.S.A. § 142
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 142. Written; in writing

§ 142. Written; in writing|"Written" or "in writing" may include printing or other mode of representing words and letters, except where the written signature of a person is required.
1 V.S.A. § 143
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 143. Sexual orientation

§ 143. Sexual orientation|The term "sexual orientation" means female or male homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. "Sexual orientation" shall not be construed to protect conduct otherwise proscribed by law. (Added 1991, No. 135 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
1 V.S.A. § 144
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 144. Gender identity

§ 144. Gender identity|The term "gender identity" means an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, or gender-related characteristics intrinsically related to an individual's gender or gender-identity, regardless of the individual's assigned sex at birth. (Added 2007, No. 41, § 1.)
1 V.S.A. § 145
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 145. Include, includes, and including

§ 145. Include, includes, and including|The terms "include," "includes," and "including" mean that the language following the term is illustrative and not exhaustive, and shall have the same meaning as though the term were followed by the words "but not limited to."  (Added 2013, No. 5, § 1, eff. April 23, 2013.)
1 V.S.A. § 146
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 146. Intellectual disability

§ 146. Intellectual disability|"Intellectual disability" or "person with an intellectual disability" shall mean an individual who has significantly subaverage intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior. "Intellectual disability" replaces what was previously known as "mental retardation."  (Added 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 2b.)
1 V.S.A. § 147
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 147. Psychiatric disability

§ 147. Psychiatric disability|"Psychiatric disability" means an impairment of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that limits one or more major life activities but does not include intellectual disability. (Added 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 2c.)
1 V.S.A. § 148
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 148. Developmental disability

§ 148. Developmental disability|"Developmental disability" or "person with developmental disabilities" shall have the same meaning as in 18 V.S.A. § 9302. (Added 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 2d.)
1 V.S.A. § 149
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 149. Semiweekly

§ 149. Semiweekly|Unless a statute provides a more specific definition, "semiweekly" means twice per week. (Added 2015, No. 57, § 34, eff. June 11, 2015.)
1 V.S.A. § 171
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 171. Court; officer; board

§ 171. Court; officer; board|When a court, officer, or board is named by official title, such designation shall apply to the court, officer, or board of the county, town, or place within and for which they are qualified to act.
1 V.S.A. § 172
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 172. Joint authority

§ 172. Joint authority|When joint authority is given to three or more, the concurrence of a majority of such number shall be sufficient and shall be required in its exercise.
1 V.S.A. § 173
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 173. Minors

§ 173. Minors|Persons of the age of 18 years shall be considered of age and until they attain that age, shall be minors. Whenever referred to in the laws of this State, a person who is an adult or who has attained majority shall be a resident or nonresident person of 18 years of age or more. (Amended 1971, No. 90, § 1; 1971, No. 184 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 29, 1972.)
1 V.S.A. § 174
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 174. Notice by publication

§ 174. Notice by publication|When a notice is required to be given by publication in a newspaper, it shall mean a newspaper published in the county where the subject matter is situated, pending or to be heard, or a newspaper published within the State which has a general circulation. In any case, in its discretion, the court may cause such notice to be further published in a newspaper which circulates in the neighborhood of the persons interested. Whenever a notice of any kind is required to be given by publication in a newspaper prior to a certain date for a certain number of weeks successively, it may be given by an insertion prior to such date once a week, for the number of successive weeks required, either in a daily, semiweekly, or weekly newspaper. If such publication is in a daily or semiweekly newspaper, such notice shall be inserted on the same day of each successive week.
1 V.S.A. § 175
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 175. Number; gender

§ 175. Number; gender|Words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to more than one person or thing; words importing the plural number may be applied as if singular and words importing the masculine may extend and be applied to persons of the feminine gender.
1 V.S.A. § 176
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 176. Title; chapter; section

§ 176. Title; chapter; section|The words "title," "chapter," and "section" when used by way of reference shall mean a title, chapter, or section of Vermont Statutes Annotated.
1 V.S.A. § 177
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 177. Domicile

§ 177. Domicile|Marital status shall not be the sole or determinative factor of a person's domicile. (Added 1979, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Apr. 23, 1980.)
1 V.S.A. § 211
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 211. Official acts and resolutions

§ 211. Official acts and resolutions|The acts and resolutions printed or reproduced under 29 V.S.A. § 1115 shall be taken to be the laws and resolutions of the session of the General Assembly at which they were passed, unless the original act and legislative records show otherwise, in which case the original act and legislative records pertaining thereto shall control. (Amended 1969, No. 90, § 1.)
1 V.S.A. § 212
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 212. Effective date of laws

§ 212. Effective date of laws|Laws enacted by the General Assembly shall take effect on July 1 next following the date of their passage, unless it is otherwise specifically provided. (Amended 1961, No. 228, § 1, eff. July 21, 1961; 1969, No. 207 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1971.)
1 V.S.A. § 213
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 213. Pending suits unaffected

§ 213. Pending suits unaffected|No act of the General Assembly shall affect a suit begun or pending at the time of its passage, except acts regulating practice in court, relating to the competency of witnesses, or relating to amendments of process or pleadings. (Amended 2015, No. 97 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)