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Clause (6-a) inserted vide Act No. 33 of 2011. 16 (9) "Deputy Commissioner" or "Deputy Commissioners of the districts" includes Additional Deputy Commissioners, or any other officer at any time appointed by the State Government to perform in any district or districts the functions of a Deputy Commissioner under this Act ; (10) "Director" means the Director of Urban Local Bodies appointed by the State Government; (11) "District" means a revenue district; (12) "District Planning Committee" means a committee constituted under article 234 ZD of the Constitution of India and under section 185 of the Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 (4 of 1994) at the district level to consolidate the plans prepared by the Panchayats and the municipalities in the district ; (13) "dry latrine" means a latrine from which the excreta is removed manually ; (14) "dung" means night soil, sewage, sullage, sludge, refuse, filth or rubbish or animal matter of any kind ; (15) "election" means and includes the entire election process commencing on and from the date of notification calling for such election of members and ending with the date of declaration and notification of results thereof ; (16) "erect or re-erect any building" includes- (a) any material alteration or enlargement of any buildings; (b) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation ; (c) the conversion into more than one place for human habitation of a building originally constructed at one such place ; (d) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places ; (e) such alterations of a building as effect an alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrangements, or materially affects its security ; (f) the additions of any rooms, buildings, out-houses or other structures to any building ; (g) the construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on to such street or land.; 17 (17) "Executive Officer" means a person, by whatever name called, appointed under section 305 of this Act to discharge the functions of the Executive Officer in relation to a Municipal Council and that of Secretary in relation to a Nagar Panchayat ; (18) "explosive" and "petroleum" have the meanings, assigned to those words in the Indian Explosive Act, 1884, (4 of 1984) and the Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934), respectively; (19) "factory" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Factory Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (20) "infectious disease" means cholera, plague, small-pox, tuberculosis or such other dangerous disease as the State Government may notify in this behalf. (21) ―inhabitant‖ include any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business, or owning or occupying immovable property, in any municipality; or in any local area which the State Government has by notification under this Act, proposed to declare to be a municipality; and in case of any dispute; means any person or persons declare by the Deputy Commissioner to be inhabitant or inhabitants; (22) ―municipal council‖ means the municipal council constituted by or under this Act; (23) ―municipal area‖ means the territorial area of municipality notified by the state Government and Include any territorial area which form part of municipality and commencement of this Act‘ (24) ―municipality‖ means an institution of Self Government constituted as a Nagar Panchayat or municipal council under this Act; (25) ―Nagar Panchayat‖ means the Nagar Panchayat constituted under this Act; (26) ―nuisance‖ includes any act, omission , place or thing which causes is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property ; (27) ―occupier‖ include an owner in actual occupation of his own land or building, and also any person for the time being paying or liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which the word is used; for the proposes of Chapters VI and X, occupier shall include hotel- keeper, lodging house-keeper, and any owner whose premises are let to more than one tenant; 18 (28) ―Office bearer‖ means in relation to a municipality a member , Vice-President or a President of a municipality and in relation to municipal corporation , a councillor, Mayer or Deputy Mayer of the Municipal corporation and in relation to a panchayat an office bearer of panchayat as defined in clause (23) of section 2 of the Himachal Pradesh Panchayti Raj Act, 1994 ‗ (29) ―owner‖ include the person for the time being receiving the rent of land and buildings, or either of them, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any person or society or for any religious or charitable purpose, or who would so receive the same if the land or building were let to tenant; (30) ―panchayat‖ means an institution of self-government (by whatever name called) constituted for rural areas under the Himachal Pradesh Panchayti Raj Act,1994; (31) ―population‖ means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures has been published; (32) ―public place‖ means a place which is open to the use or enjoyment of the public whether or not private property and whether or not vested in the municipality; (33) ―public street‖ shall mean any street --- (i) heretofore levelled, paved, metalled, channelled, sewered or repaired out of municipal or other public funds unless before such work was carried out there was an agreement with the proprietor that the street should not thereby become a public street or unless such work was done without the implied or express consent of proprietor; or (ii) Which under the provisions of Section 182 is declared by the municipality to be or under any other provisions of this Act become, a public street; 1[(33-a) 'ratable value' shall mean,— (a) In the case of land, the ratable value shall be based upon per square metre of the actual area of land multiplied by the unit area rate of tax and relevant factors prescribed for the particular zone and in the case of building, the ratable value shall be based upon per square metre of plinth area multiplied by unit area rate of tax and relevant factor prescribed for the particular zone; ___________________