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Inserted by Haryana Act 12 of 2014. [1994 : Hr. Act 16 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION 395 (10) "District Judge" means the District Judge having jurisdiction in the Municipal area; (11) "Divisional Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Division in which the Corporation is situated any includes any other officer appointed by the Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Divisional Commissioner under this Act; (12) "drain" includes a sewer, a house drain, a drain of any other desciption, 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; (13) "district" means a district in the State; (14) "entertainment" includes any exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment; (15) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (16) "filth" includes offensive matter and sewage; (17) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted by the State Government under articles 243-1 and 243- Y of the Constitution ofIndia; (18) 'goods' includes animals; (19) "Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana; (20) "house-gully" or "service passage" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set a part 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; (21) "hut" means any building which is constructed principally of wood bamboo, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatch and includes any structure of whatever material made which the Corporation may declare to be a hut for the purposes of this Act; (22) "land" includes benefits that arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth and rights created by law over any street; (23) "licensed architect", "licensed draftsmen", "licensed engineer", "licensed plumber", "licensed surveyor" and "licensed town planner" means respectively a person licensed under the provisions of this Act as an architect, draftsman, engineer, plumber, surveyor and town planner; 396 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION 1994 : Hr. Act 161 (24) "member" means a member of the Corporation l[and includes the Mayor;] (25) "municipal drain" means a drain vested in the Corporation; (26) "municipal market" means a market vested in or managed by the Corporation; (27) "municipal slaughter house" means a slaughter house vested in or managed by the Corporation; (28) "municipal water works" means water works vested in the Corporation; (29) "Metropolitan area" means an area having a population of ten lakhs or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette to be the metropolitan area for the purposes of this Act; (30) "Municipal area" means the territorial area of the Corporation declared under section 3 of this Act; (31) "municipality" means an institution of self-government constituted under section 2A of the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, which may be a Municipal Committee or a Municipal Councilor a Municipal Corporation; (32) "nuisance" includes any act, omission, place, animal or 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; (33) "occupier" includes- (a) 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; (b) an owner in occupation of, or otherwise using his land or building; (c) a rent-free tenant of any land or building; (d) a licensee in occupation of any land or building; and (e) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damage for the use and any occupation of any land or building;