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THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1994 23 1[(14) "Divisional Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the the Davison in which the Corporation is situated and includes any other Officer appointed by the Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Divisional Commissioner under 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 manual scavenging; (17) "entertainment" includes any exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport to which persons are ordinarily admitted on payment; (18) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948) ; (19) "filth" includes offensive matter and sewage; (20) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted by the State Government under section 98 of the Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 (4 of 1994), and under articles 243-I and 243-Y of the Constitution of India; (21) "goods" includes animals; (22) "Government" means the Government of the State of Himachal Pradesh; (23) "house gully" or "service passage" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised 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; (24) "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; (25) "land" includes benefits that arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything