<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 59-34. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Abutting property owners</span> means adjacent property owners and property owners directly landward of affected
               property.
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               <span class="ital">Ocean beach</span> means land area without vegetative covering, consisting of unconsolidated soil material
               that extends landward from the mean low tide to a point when any one or combination
               of the following occur:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Vegetation;
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                  (2)
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                  Change in soil material; or
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                  (3)
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                  A change in slope or elevation which alters the physiographic land form and thus constitutes
                  the transition into dunes or wetlands.
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               <span class="ital">Sand dunes</span> means sand deposits of windblown (eolian) origin, whether barren or partly or wholly
               vegetated with grasses, herbs, vines or woody plants. The dunes extend from the inland
               perimeter of the ocean beach to the shore protection line.
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               <span class="ital">Shore protection area</span> means, for an area north of Snows Cut, the area on the ocean side of the shore protection
               line; south of Snows Cut, the term "share protection area" means the area not enclosed
               within the perimeter formed by the centerline of U.S. Highway No. 421 and the centerline
               of State Road No. 1573.
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               <span class="ital">Shore protection line</span> means the centerline of the Intracoastal Waterway from the Pender County line on
               the north to its intersection with the centerline of U.S. Highway No. 421 at Snows
               Cut; thence with the centerline of U.S. Highway No. 421 to its southern intersection
               with State Road No. 1573; thence with the centerline of State Road No. 1573 westwardly
               and northwardly to its northern intersection with U.S. Highway No. 421. The centerline
               of the Intracoastal Waterway is located as shown upon National Oceanic and Atmospheric
               Administration Nautical Charts No. 11541 and No. 11534.
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               (Code 1978, Â§ 4-21)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="11337">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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