DEFINITIONS          

Section 2(2)   “budget-grant” means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of a budget estimate under a major head and adopted by the Corporation and includes any sum by which such budget grant may be increased or reduced by transfer from or to other heads in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder;

(3)  “building” means a shop, house, out-house, stable, latrine, urinal, shed, hut, wall or any other structure, whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, metal or other material and includes a well but does not include any portable shelter;

(9) “dangerous disease” means-

(a) cholera, plague, chicken-pox, small-pox, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and diphtheria; and

(b) any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Commissioner may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, declare to be dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act;

(15) “drain” includes a sewer, a house drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water, rain water or subsoil water;

(16) “dry latrine” means a latrine or privy from where night soil is removed through mannual scavenging;

(19) “filth” includes offensive matter and sewage;

(23) “house gully” or “service passage” means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain or affording access to a latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or other polluted matter, by Corporation employees or other persons employed in the cleaning thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom;

(34) “nuisance” includes any act, omission, place, animal or a thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep, or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property; 

(35) “occupier” includes-

any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable;

an owner in occupation of, or otherwise using his land or building;

(a) a rent-free tenant of any land or building;

(b) a licensee in occupation of any land or building; and

(c) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building;

(37) “owner’ includes a person who for the time being is receiving or is entitled to receive, the rent of any land or building whether on hisown account or on account of himself and others or as an agent, trustee, guardian or receiver or any other person who should so receive the rent or be entitled to receive it if the land or building or part thereof were let to a tenant;

(39) “premises” means any land or building or part of a building and includes’-

(a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any, appertaining to a building or part of a building; and

(b) any fittings affixed to a building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;

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