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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) “Authority” means the Odisha State Highways Authority constituted under section 34; Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. CHAPTER I (b) “building” includes any erection of whatsoever material and in whatsoever manner constructed (including a farm- building for agricultural purposes) and also includes plinths, door steps, walls (including compound walls and fences) advertisement boards and the like; 2 (c) “chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Authority; (d) “collector” means the Collector of a District and includes any officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act; (e) “control zone” means the area of land appurtenant to a highway and situate within the distance specified in sub-section (1) of Section 10; (f) “concession” means the rights and obligations specified in a contract entered into between the state government or the authority, as the case may be, and any person for development, financing and operation of a state highway or part thereof, and includes a contract for operation of, and levy and collection of fees on, a state highway; (g) “concessionaire” means a person who has entered into a contract with the State Government or the Authority, as the case may be, for and in respect of a concession; (h) “development”, in relation to a state highway, includes its designing, construction, renovation, refurbishing, augmentation, upgradation and other activities incidental thereto, and “develop” shall be construed accordingly; (i) “encroachment” means unauthorised occupation of any highway or part thereof and includes,- (i) the erection of a building or any other structure, balconies, thresholds, porches or 3 projections on, over or overhanging the highway; (ii) occupation of highway beyond the prescribed period, if any, for stacking materials or goods of any description or for exhibiting articles for sale, or for erecting poles, awnings, tents, pandals, and other similar erection, or for parking vehicles or stabling domestic animals, or for any other purposes; and (iii) excavations or embankments of any kind made or extended on any highway land; (j) “erect”, with all its grammatical variations, in relation to a building, means to construct, reconstruct, extend or alter structurally a building; (k) “excavation”, in relation to a piece of land, means piercing the surface of that piece of land and includes digging of wells and tanks; (l) “expressway” means a highway having a controlled access thereto with a limited number of intersections and a divider between lanes for traffic moving in opposite directions; (m) “highway” or “state highway” means any road for the time being declared as a state highway under section 3 and shall include all land situate within the boundaries of such road; (n) “land” includes benefits arising out of the land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; (o) “Land Acquisition Act, 2013” means the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 and includes any modification, amendment or re-enactment thereof; (p) “member” means a member of the Authority appointed under section 34 and includes the Chairperson; Act 30 of