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Inserted by the Orissa Act 11 of 1994, w.e.f. 31.05.1994. 5 THE ORISSA MUNICIPAL ACT, 1950 (28) 'Public health' includes water supply, conservancy, drainage and any other measure for the improvement of the sanitation and prevention of public nuisance; (29) 'Public road' means by street, road, square, court, alley, passage or riding path over which the public have a right of way, whether a thoroughfare or not, and includes– (a) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway; (b) the footway attached to any such road, public bridge or causeway;and (c) the drains attached to any such road, public bridge or causeway and the land whether covered or not by any pavement,verandah or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadways up to the boundaries of adjacent property whether that property is private property or property belonging to the State; (30) 'Public water courses, spring wells and tanks' include those used by the public to such and extent as to give a prescriptive right to such use; (31) 'reconstruction of a building' includes– (a) the erection wholly or partially of a building after more than one half of its cubical contents has been taken down or burnt down, or has fallen down whether at one time or not; (b) the re-erection wholly or partially of any building of which an outer wall has been taken down or has burnt down or has fallen down to,or within ten feet of the ground adjoining the lowest storey of the building, and of any frame building which has so far been taken down or burnt down or has fallen down as to leave only the framework of the lowest storey; (c) the conversion into a dwelling-house or a place of public worship of any building not originally constructed for human habitation of for public worship, as the case may be, or the conversion into more than one dwelling- house of a building originally constructed as one dwelling-house only or the conversion of a dwelling-house into a factory; (d) the re-conversion into a dwelilng-house or place of public worship or a factory or any building which has been discontinued as, or appropriated for any purpose other than a dwellling-house or of a place of public worship or a factory, as the case may be; (32) 'residence' - ' reside'– a person is deemed to have his 'residence' or to 'reside' in any house if he sometimes uses any portion thereof as a sleeping apartment;and a person is not deemed to cease to reside in any such house merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling in which he resides if he is at liberty to return to such house at any time and has not abandoned his intention of returning; (33) 'rubbish' means dust, ashes, broken bricks, mortar, broken glass and refuse of any kind which is not 'filth' 6 THE ORISSA MUNICIPAL MANUAL (34) 'Scavenger' means a person employed in collecting or removing filth, in cleansing drains or slaughter-houses or in driving carts used for the removal of filth; (35) 'road-alignment' means a line dividing the lands comprised in and forming part of a road from the adjoining land; (36) 'water-courses' includes any river, stream or channel whether natural or artificial; (37) 'year' means the financial year. –––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1 to 67. [* * *] 1[68. General amendments– In the principal Act, for the expressions– (a) 'municipality' and 'municipalities' wherever they occur conveying the meaning of an area or areas, as the case may be, the expressions 'municipal area' and 'municipal areas' shall respectively be substituted; (b) 'council and 'councils' wherever they occur, the expressions, 'municipality' and 'municipalities' shall respectively be substituted;and (c) 'municipal council' and 'municipal councils' wherever they occur, the expressions, 'municipality' and 'municipalities' shall respectively be substituted; (d) 'Chairman' and 'Vice-Charman' wherever they occur, the expressions, 'Chairperson' and 'Vice-Chairperson' shall respectively be substitued.] ––––––––