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Definitions. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (1) ―Administrator‖ means a person or committee of persons appointed by the Government under this Act to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Corporation. (4) ―backery‖ means any place in which bread or confectionery including biscuits is backed, cooked or prepared in any manner whatsoever for he purposes of profit or sale; (5) ―brothel‖ means any house, room or place, or any part thereof, occupied or let or intended to be occupied or let as a single tenement which is habitually used by one or more than one woman for the purpose of prostitution; (7) ―building‖ includes a house, outhouse, stable, shed, hut and other enclosure or structure whether, of masonary, bricks, wood, mud, metal or any other material whatever, whether used as a human dwelling or otherwise, and also includes verandahs, fixed platforms, plinths, doorsteps, walls including compound walls, and fencing and the like but does not include a tent or a temporary shed erected on ceremonial or festive occasions; (8) ―building line‖ means a line beyond which the outer face or any part of an external wall of a building should not project in the direction of any street existing or proposed; (9) ―cesspool‖ includes a settlement tank or other tank for the reception and disposal of foul matter from building; (11) ―commissioner‖ means the Municipal Commissioner for the Municipal Corporation appointed under section ---- and includes any municipal officer empowered under this Act to exercise, perform or discharge any of the powers, duties or functions of the Commissioner to the extent to which such officer is so empowered; (12) ―closet accommodation‖ means a receptacle for human excreta, together with the structure comprising such receptacle and the fittings and apparatus connected there with; (13) ―corporation‖ means the municipality of a larger urban area; (14) ―councilor ― means any person who is legally a member of the Corporation. (15) ―dairy‖ includes any farm, cattle-shed, m ilk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied for sale or in which milk is kept for the purpose of sale or manufactured into butter, ghee, cheese, curds or dried or condensed milk for sale, and in the case of a dairy-man who does not occupy any place for the sale of milk but does not include a shop or othe4r place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only; (16) ―dairy man‖ includes the keeper of a cow, buffalo, goat, ass or other animal, the milk of which is offered or intended to be offered for sale for human consumption and any purveyor of milk and any occupier of a dairy; Madhya Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 3 | P a g e (17) ―dairy produce‖ includes milk, butter, ghee, curd, buttermilk, cheese and every product of milk; (18) ―dangerous disease‖ means cholera, plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cerebrospinal meningitis and diphtheria, leprosy, other than lecuoderma, and any other disease which the Municipality may, by public notice declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; (18-b) ―district‖ means a district as constructed in the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code,