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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1973, BY AMENDING SECTION 40-31 OF SAID CODE PERTAINING TO DEFINITIONS. BE iT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: 1. That Section 40-31 of the Code of the City of Ports- mouth, Virginia~ 1973, be amended and reordained to read as follows: Section 40-31. Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words shall for the purpose of this chapter have the meanings herein indicated. Words used in the present tense include the future. The singular number includes the plural and the plural the sing- ular. The word "shall" is mandatoryt not directory. Automobile repair garage. Any building or part thereof wherein is kept or stored a motor vehicle or wherein painting, body and fender work, engine overhauling or other major repair of motor vehicles is performed. This occupancy skall not include automotive service stations as defined herein. Automotive se~ice stations. A place of retail business at which outdoor automotive refueling is carried on using fixed dispensing equipment connected to underground storage tanks by a closed system of piping, and at which goods and services generally required in the operation and maintenance of motor vehicles and the fulfilling of motorist needs may also be available. The building may consist of a sales office where automotive accessories and packaged automotive supplies may be kept or displayed. It may also include one or more service bays in which vehicle washing, lub- rication and minor replacement~ adjustment and repair services are rendered~ Such use shall not include the outdoor sto~age of self-propelled motor vehicies, whether operative or inoperative. Billboard. Any notice or advertisement~ pictorial or otherwise~ with an area of two hundred seventy-five- (275) o= more square feet~ and~ without regard to area, all those used.as an outdoor display for the purpose of m~.king anything kno~, the origin or place of sale of which is not on the Dtot with such display, except that governmental notices shall-not be considered to be bil!boards. (See definition of "sign'S). Building. Any structure enclosed and isolated by ex- terior walls constructed or used for residence~ business~ industry or other public or private purposes~ or accessory thereto, and including tents~ trailers, free-standing billboards and signs.