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The State Government may. by notification in the official Gazette, declare any thoroughfare or land to be a highway and classify it as- CHAPTER-H DECLARATION OF HIGHWAYS, HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES AND THEIR POWERS AND FUNCTIONS (v) "vehicle" means motor vehicle and includes a barrow, plough. drag and a wheeled or tracked conveyance of any description capable of being used on a highway. {iii) the trees, fences, posts and other highway accessories and materials and material stacks on the thoroughfare or on laud attached to the thoroughfare; {ii) all bridges, culverts, causeways, carriage ways or other road structures, built on or across such thoroughfare; and (i) the slope, berm. borrow-pits. footpaths, pavements and side drains of any such thoroughfare; (u) "thoroughfare" means a road. street, lane, bridle path or a foot-track. whelhcr surfaced or unsurfaced, whether on land owned by the State Oovcmment or a local authority or on land belonging to a private person over which the public have or have acquired. a right of way by usage and includes - (r) "survey" includes all operations incidental to the determination, measurement and record of a boundary or boundaries or any pan of a boundary and includes a resurvey; (s) "survey mark" means any mark or object erected. made. employed oc specified by a survey officer to indicate or determine or assist in determining the position or level of any point or points; {t) "survey officer" means any person appointed to be a survey officer under this Act; (o) "public place" means a road, street, way or other place whether a thoroughfare or not. to which the public have a right of access, and includes any place or stand at which passengers arc picked up or set down by a public vehicle; (p) "public vehicle" means any vehicle used or adapted to be used for the carriage of passengers or goods for hire or reward; (q) "roadway" means the width of highway measured between outer edges of shoulders at any point along the highways; (b) when used with reference to an lnstirution or a body corporate. the manager of such institution or body corporate; 634 (31) (a) the acquisitioo of any land. which in the opinion of the Higltway Authoriiy is considered oecessary for its execution; (2) Such a scheme may provide for,-