9-1-1. Definition of terms. Terms used in this title, unless the context otherwise plainly requires, shall mean:

(1) "County," the county or counties wherein the municipality concerned or affected is located;

(2) "Elector(s)" or "qualified elector(s)," voter(s);

(3) General terms descriptive of an officer, act, proceeding, or thing shall have reference to a municipality concerned or affected;

(4) "Governing body," the board of trustees, the board of commissioners, or the common council, as the case may be, of a municipality concerned or affected;

(5) "Lot" includes parcel or tract of land;

(6) "Municipal corporation" or "municipality," all cities and towns organized under the laws of this state but shall not include any other political subdivisions;

(7) "Owner," as used in the chapters relating to local improvements, the grantee in the last deed of conveyance of any lot or parcel of land recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties in which the municipality is located, or his heirs or successors;

(8) Except as provided by § 9-13-13, any requirement for publication shall mean publication in the official newspaper of the municipality concerned or affected, if any; but if none, then, in a legal newspaper published in such municipality, if any; but if none, then, in any legal newspaper which serves such municipality;

(9) "Street" includes "avenue".

Personal service either within or without the state upon the person affected thereby by delivery of a copy of a notice required to be published shall be equivalent to the required publication.

Source: SL 1891, ch 87, § 1; RPolC 1903, § 1567; SL 1909, ch 110, § 19; RC 1919, §§ 6154, 6186, 6358, 6579; SDC 1939, § 45.0101; SL 1949, ch 178; SL 1961, ch 242; SL 1978, ch 60, § 9.