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Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (1) “Administrator” means any officer appointed by the Government to exercise the powers and perform the functions and discharge duties conferred or imposed on the City Corporation. (2) “Association” means an association of body of persons, a trust, society, association or organization duly registered under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 (Karnataka Act 17 of 1960); (3) “Authority” means the Greater Bengaluru Authority created under this Act; (4) “Backward Classes” means such class or classes of citizens as may be classified and notified by the Government from time to time for the purposes of reservation of seats in the Corporation; (5) “Bio-medical waste” means any waste generated during diagnosis, treatment, immunization or any health services of human beings or animals or in research activities as may be discarded by any medical hospital, nursing home, clinics, pet care centres and practicing doctors pertaining thereto; (6) "Bengaluru Metropolitan Region" means the area comprising Bengaluru District, Bengaluru Rural District and such other areas that the Government may, by notification specify; (7) “Building” includes,- (a) a house, out-house, stable, privy, shed, hut, wall, verandah, fixed platform, plinth, door step and any other structure built over a firm foundation including telecommunication tower or advertisement structure of whatever manner consisting of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, metal or any other material whatsoever; (b) a structure on wheels simply resting in the ground without foundations; and (c) a ship, vessel, boat, tent, and any other structure used for human habitation or used for keeping or storing any article or goods; (8) "Bye-law" means bye-laws made by the City Corporation under this Act; (9) “Casual vacancy” means a vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time to the office of elected Councillor to which election to be held by the State Election Commission, and “casual election” means an election held to fill up a casual vacancy arising out of death or resignation or demission of office of the councillor by whatsoever means; (10) “Chair Person” means such person who shall be the head of the Committee or Commission or other such bodies provided for under this Act; (11) “Chief Commissioner” means the Chief Commissioner of the Greater Bengaluru Authority appointed under section10; (12) “City Corporation” means the City Corporations established by the State, in accordance with the provisions of this Act including such areas to fall within the control and jurisdiction of this Act, by notification; (13) “City Corporation Fund” means the fund which will receive from the City Corporations consolidated fund in accordance with such conditions prescribed under this Act; (14) "Civic Authorities" means Civic Authorities constituted under section 4; (15) “Civil Society” means any person, association of persons, non- governmental organisations, established, constituted or registered under any law for the time being in force and working for the benevolence of the social welfare, and shall include any community based organisation, professional institution, civic, health, educational, social or cultural body and such other association or body as the City Corporation may deem it appropriate; (16) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of a City Corporation appointed under this Act; (17) “Councillor” means a Councillor elected to a City Corporation under this Act; (18) “Complimentary Connection” means and includes providing a connection for cable television or connection to direct to home service free of any payment or at a reduced rate; (19) “Complimentary ticket” means and includes any ticket which provides an entry into a ticket-based entertainment free of any payment or at such reduced rates; (20) “Co-ordination Committee” means a Constituency Consultative and Co–ordination Committee constituted under of this Act; (21) “Dangerous diseases” means any epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease contagious diseases as to be notified by the Government as dangerous disease under this Act or any other law, for time being in force, threatening safety and well-being of life; (22) “Deputy Mayor” means a Deputy Mayor of a City Corporation elected under this Act; (23) “Election” means an election to fill any vacancy in the office of a Councillor; (24) “Entertainment” means and includes any amusement event or provision of service which involves a performance, presentation, production or staging of any act and for the viewing of which any person or body of persons may be required to purchase a ticket to enter such an event or purchase a connection to view such a service; (25) “Essential services” means services in which any City Corporation officer, servant, or other person is employed by or on behalf of the City Corporation, as may be notified by the Government; (26) “Factory” means a factory as defined in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (Central Act 37 of 2020) and the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948); (27) “Filth” includes sewage, dung, dirt, swill, putrid and putrefying substances of all and any offensive matter; (28) “Government” means the Government of Karnataka; (29) “Guidance Value of site” means value of the vacant plot as specified under the provisions of the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 (Karnataka Act 34 of 1957); (30) "Greater Bengaluru Area" means the larger urban area of the City of Bengaluru and such other areas as the State Government may, by notification specify in that behalf; (31) "Greater Bengaluru Authority" means the Greater Bengaluru Authority constituted under this Act; (32) “Infrastructure and environmental impact fee” means and includes fees for usage of public roads and other infrastructure facilities provided and maintained by the City Corporation and debris generated, during the period of construction; (33) “Joint Commissioner” means the Joint Commissioner referred to under this Act and includes an Additional Commissioner; (34) “Khata” means a record of an immovable property maintained in the property tax register by the City Corporation; (35) “Khatadar” is a person in whose name the khata is recorded by the City Corporation and is legally responsible to pay the property tax and the katha entry shall be presumed to be true until the contrary is proved or a new entry is lawfully substituted; (36) “Khata Extract” is an extract issued by the City Corporation containing the specified details of immovable property; (37) “Land” includes land which is being built upon or is covered with water, benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth and rights created by law over the same situated on any street within the jurisdiction of the City Corporation; (38) “Lay-out” means a lay-out formed by an individual or body of persons or by any state authority whether incorporated or not, or also issued with statutory licenses for its existence; (39) “Local Bodies” means a City Corporations, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Municipal Council, Town Panchayat, Development Authority, City Improvement Board, Town Improvement Board, Zilla Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat and Grama Panchayat constituted under any law, for the time being in force; (40) “Mayor” means a Mayor of a City Corporation elected under this Act; (41) “Market” includes any place, whether public or private, by whatever name called, where persons assemble for the trade of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, livestock, or any other article of food of a perishable nature, or any other merchandise for which there is a collection of shops or warehouses or stalls, or premises let out to professionals, government or any other bodies, declared and licensed by the City Corporation as a market; (42) “Medium term fiscal plan” means the fiscal plan prepared by the City Corporation for a period of five years; (43) “Non-ticket-based entertainment” means and includes any entertainment which does not require the purchase of a ticket to enter the place of the entertainment; (44) “Nuisance” shall include any act, omission, commission of such act at such places, which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance, or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing, disturbance to rest or sleep, or which is or may be dangerous to human life, or injurious to health or property; (45) “Occupier” includes any person who, for the time being, is paying or is liable to pay to the khatadar, the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or payable, mesne profits, or otherwise using the building or land, as rent-free tenant, licensee, lessee, mortgagee, occupying the property in any capacity and includes an owner in occupation; (46) “Occupancy Certificate” is a certificate issued by the City Corporation to occupy the premises, upon completion of construction of a building in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (47) “Owner" includes the khatadar or any such person who, for the time being, receiving or is entitled to receive the amount of lease or the rent of any land or building whether on own account or as an agent, trustee, guardian or receiver or who should so receive, if the land or building or part thereof were to be let on lease or rent or such and similar terms; (48) “Population” means the Population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which relevant figures have been published; (49) “Political party” means a political party registered under section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (Central Act 43 of 1951); (50) “Polling stations'' means those stations set up by the State Election Commission to enable those persons on the electoral roll to cast their vote; (51) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (52) “Presiding Officer” means such an officer appointed by the State Election Commission to preside over one or more polling stations; (53) “Property tax” means the tax levied on buildings or vacant land or such premises by the City Corporation as per this Act; (54) “Public authority” means any authority or body or agency established or constituted by the Central Government or a State Government involved in service delivery in the Greater Bengaluru Area and includes the Bangalore Development Authority, the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Corporation, Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited, the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited and the Bengaluru Metropolitan Land Transport Authority; (55) “Residents welfare association” means a voluntary association of residents registered under any law, for the time being in force; (56) “Regulation” means a regulation made under this Act; (57) “Rubbish” includes dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, broken glass, garden or stable refuse and refuse of any kind which is not offensive matter or sewage; (58) “Rules” means the rules made under this Act; (59) “Schedule” means the Schedule appended to this Act; (60) “Scheduled Castes” means those castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within castes, races or tribes notified under Article 341 of the Constitution of India; (61) “Scheduled Tribes” means those tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within castes, races, tribes or tribal communities notified under Article 342 of the Constitution of India; (62) “Scrutiny fee” means fee collected to meet the establishment charges for processing the application for permitting building construction; (63) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Ward Committee appointed under this Act; (64) “Sectoral Committee” means a Sectoral Committee of the Greater Bengaluru Authority constituted under this Act; (65) “Sinking fund” means a fund formed by periodically setting aside money for the gradual repayment of a debt or replacement of a wasting asset; (66) “Solid Waste Management” means and includes collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid waste; (67) “Standing Committee” means the Standing Committee constituted under this Act; (68) “State Election Commission” means the State Election Commission referred to in Article 243K of the Constitution of India; (69) “State Finance Commission” means the finance commission constituted under Part IXA of the Constitution of India. (70) “Street” means a public street or a private street, and includes any highway and any causeway, bridge, road, lane, foot-way, subway or riding path or passage over which the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a period of twenty years and, when there is a foot-way as well as a carriage way in any street, the said term includes both; (71) “Street alignment” means a line dividing the land comprised in and forming part of a street from the adjoining land; (72) “Tax” includes toll, rent, cess, fee or other expenses incurred by the City Corporation, leviable under this Act; (73) “Ticket based entertainment” means and includes any entertainment programme, which requires the purchase of a ticket to enter the place of ticket-based entertainment; (74) “Trade effluent” means any liquid either with or without particles of matter in suspension therein which is wholly or in part produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at the trade premises or industrial premises and in relation to any trade premises means to include any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at those premises, but does not include domestic sewage; (75) “Trade premises” means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or industry; (76) “Tribunal” means the Karnataka Appellate Tribunal; (77) “Vacant land” means, land not built upon and does not include land appurtenant or attached to a building; (78) “Ward Committee” means the ward committee established under this Act; (79) “Ward development plan” means the development plan prepared by the Ward Committee for the allotment of budget to it by the City Corporation; (80) “Ward Sabha” means a Ward Sabha referred to under this Act; and (81) “Zones of the Corporation” means such areas within the City Corporation as may be notified by the Government under this Act. CHAPTER – II ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIC AUTHORITIES IN THE GREATER BENGALURU AREA