§ 100010 Construction Rules Govern Part

• •Use the chapter’s rules to interpret this part unless the situation clearly needs a different meaning.
• •It’s a default rule – it only changes if the context says otherwise.
• •Helps keep the law read consistently across the whole chapter.

Someone is trying to understand a specific rule about building permits and wonders how to read a tricky phrase.

Because there’s no special instruction, they must apply the general rules from the same chapter to decide what the phrase means.