<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 50-31. - Definitions.</div>
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               Whenever used in this article, the following terms, unless otherwise expressly defined,
               shall mean and include each of the meanings set forth below.
               
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               <span class="ital">County</span> means Cabarrus County.
               
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               <span class="ital">Department</span> means the Cabarrus County Active Living and Parks Department.
               
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               <span class="ital">Park</span> means all parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, greenways, water areas, wildlife
               refuges, nature preserves or other recreation areas, including any adjacent public
               parking area as well as the driveway, entrance way or pedestrian walkway used by the
               public to access the park or recreation facility, developed or undeveloped, and structures
               thereon, owned, operated, leased or managed by the county.
               
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               <span class="ital">Official meeting</span> means a meeting that is required to be open to the public by the Open Meetings Law,
               Article 33C of Chapter 143 of the North Carolina General Statutes.
               
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               <span class="ital">Recreation facility</span> means any publicly owned, leased, operated or maintained property that is designated
               or used as a recreation facility by the county and including any adjacent public parking
               area as well as the driveway, entrance way or pedestrian walkway used by the public
               to access the recreation facility.
               
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               <span class="ital">Registered sex offender</span> means any individual who is required to register or is registered with the North
               Carolina Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry (established under Article 27A
               of Chapter 14 of the North Carolina General Statutes) or, the Dru Sjodin National
               Sex Offender Public Registry (maintained by the United States Department of Justice),
               or any other official state or federal registered sex offender listing maintained
               by either the United States Department of Justice or any of the several states. For
               purposes of determining if an individual is registered or is required to register
               with any one of the official registries, law enforcement officers may rely upon the
               official website of any state or federal registry of sex offenders and the descriptions
               published and available from such registry.
               
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               (Ord. No. 2009-04, Â§ 1, 1-20-09; Ord. No. 2017-29, 5-15-17)
               
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