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Definitions: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Audit Authority" means the authority prescribed under section 113. (2) "Balance means the balance sheet of the Municipality prepared under section 111 "Budget estimate" means the budget estimate of the Municipality prepared under section 105. (3) 2 (4) "Budget grant "means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of budget estimate under a major head. (5) "building" means any shop, house, hut, outhouse, stable, a factory, an industrial shed and a temporary structure erected by means of tents and any other structure including structures raised for entertainment purposes whether roofed or not and whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise and whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatever, and includes a wall and a well. (6) "Chairperson" means a chairperson elected as Chairperson of a Municipal Council or Town Council. (7) "Chief Executive Officer "means the executive officer of Municipal Council and "Executive Officer" means the executive officer of Town Council and includes such officer as maybe especially authorized in this behalf to carry out the functions of the Executive Officer under the Act. (8) "Company" means a body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals and "Director" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm. (9) "contagious/infectious disease" means: - (i) Cholera, plague, chicken box, small box, tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, dengue, fever, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis B and C, cerebral malaria, and viral pneumonia and (ii) Any other epidemic, endemic, pandemic or infectious diseases which the Government may, in relation to any Municipal areas, by notification, declare to be an infectious or contagious disease for the purpose ofthis Act. (10) "Deputy Chairperson" means a Deputy Chairperson elected as Deputy Chairperson of a Municipal Council or a Town Council. (11) "Ex-Officio" means Members of Lok Sabha from Nagaland, Members of Rajya Sabha from Nagaland and Members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly representing Legislative Assembly Constituencies which comprise wholly or partly the Municipal Council! Town Council area. (12) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted under section