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Definitions.- In this Act unless the context otherwise requires :- (1) "assessment list" means any municipal assessment register prepared and maintained in accordance with the provision of this Act or rules made there under and includes any register subsidiary thereto; (2) "building" includes a hut, shed or other enclosure whether used as a human dwelling or otherwise , and shall includes wells, walls, verandahs, fixed platforms, plinths, doorsteps and the like but shall not include a tent or a temporary shed erected on ceremonial or festival occasions; (3) "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; (4) "bye-law" means a bye-law made in exercise of a power conferred by this Act; (5) “Chief Municipal Officer” means the Chief Municipal Officer for the Municipal Council appointed under Section 87 or 89 and includes any municipal officer empowered under this Act to exercise, perform or discharge any of the powers, duties or functions of the Chief Municipal Officer to the extent to which such officer is so empowered; (5-a) "Committee" means a Committee constituted under this Act; (6) "Corrupt practice" means any of the practices specified in Section 28; (7) "Councillor" means any person who is legally a member of a Council; (8) "Council" means Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat constituted by or under this Act. (9) "Conservancy" means the removal and disposal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish; The Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1961 3 (10) "drain" includes a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter, or channel, and any cistern, flush, tank, septic tank, or other device for carrying off or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waster water, rain-water or subsoil water and any culvert, ventilation shaft or pipe or other appliance or fitting connected therewith, and any ejectors, compressed-air, mains, sealed sewage, mains and special machinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage of offensive matter from any place; (10-a) "district" means a district as constructed in the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code,