Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 63 > Article 11 - Marking and Notice of Meteorological Towers

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Height: means the distance from the base of a tower to the highest point of the tower. See North Carolina General Statutes 63-110
• Meteorological tower: means a structure that is either self-standing or supported by guy wires and ground anchors and has guy wires and accessory facilities on which equipment used to measure wind speed and direction is mounted. See North Carolina General Statutes 63-110
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3