Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Added by Act 12 of 1994. (38) "private street" means any street, which is not a public street and includes any passage securing access to two or more places belonging to the same or different owners; (39) "private market" means a market which is not a municipal market; (40) "private slaughter house" means a slaughter house which is not a munici- pal slaughter house; (41) "public place" means any place which is open to the use and enjoyment of the public, whether it is actually used or enjoyed by the public or not; (42) "public securities" means any securities of the Central Government or a State Government or any securities guaranteed by the Central Government or a State Government or any securities issued under this Act; (43) "public street" means any street which vests in the Corporation as a public street or the soil below the surface of which vests in the Corporation or which under the provisions of this Act becomes or is declared to be, a pub- lic street; (44) "railway administration" has the meaning assigned to it in the Indian Rail- ways Act, 1890; (45) "rate payer" means a person liable to pay any rate, tax, cess or licence fee under this Act; (46) "rateable value" means the value of any land or building fixed in accord- ance with the provisions of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder for the purpose of assessment of property taxes; (47) "regulation" means a regulation made by the Corporation under this Act, by notification in the Official Gazette; (48) "reside"- (a) a person shall be deemed to "reside" in any dwelling house which or some portion of which he sometimes, although not uninterruptedly, uses as a sleeping apartment; and (b) a person shall not be deemed to cease to "reside" in any such dwelling house merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling house in which he resides, if there is the liberty of returning to it at any time and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it; (49) "rubbish" includes ashes, broken bricks, broken glass, dust, malba, mortar and refuse of any kind which is not filth; (50) "rule" means a rule made by the Government under this Act, by notifica- tion in the Official Gazette; (51) "rural areas" means the area of the City which immediately before their in- clusion within the limits of the City are situated within the local limits of a Gram Panchayat established under the Punjab Gram Panchayats Act, 1952, but shall not include such portion thereof as may, by virtue of a no- tification under section 421, cease to be included in the rural areas as herein defined; (52) "Scheduled Caste" means any of the Scheduled Castes specified in Part X of the Schedule to the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950; (53) "sewage" means night-soil and other contents of latrines, urinals, cess- Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, Section 2 19 pools or drains, and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattle sheds and other like places, and includes trade effluents and discharges from manufactories of all kinds; (54) "shed" means a slight or temporary structure for shade or shelter; (55) "slaughter house" means any place ordinarily used for the slaughter of ani- mals for the purpose of selling the flesh thereof for human consumption; [(55-a) "State Election Commission" means an Election Commission consti- tuted by the Government of Punjab under Article 243 K and 243 ZA of the Constitution of India;]1 (56) "street" shall mean any road, footway, square, court, alley, gully or pas- sage, accessible, whether permanently or temporarily to the public and whether a thoroughfare or not; and shall include every vacant space, not- withstanding that it may be private property and partly or wholly ob- structed by any gate, post, chain or other barrier, if houses, shops or other buildings abut thereon, and if it is used by any persons as means of access to or from any public place or thoroughfare, whether such persons be oc- cupier of such buildings or not, but shall include any part of such space which the occupier of any such building has right at all hours to prevent all other persons from using as aforesaid and shall include also the drains or gutters therein, or on either side, and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, verandah or other erection, upto the boundary of any abut- ting property not accessible to the public; (57) "trade effluent" means any liquid either with or without particles of matter in suspension therein, which is wholly or in part produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at trade premises, and in relation to any trade premises means any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at those premises, but does not include domestic sewerage; (58) "trade premises" means any premises used or intended to be used for car- rying on any trade or industry; (59) "trade refuse" means the refuse of any trade or industry; (60) "urban areas" means the areas of the City which are not rural areas; (61) "vehicle" includes a carriage, cart, van, dray, truck, hand- cart, bicycle, tri- cycle, cycle-rickshaw, auto-rickshaw, motor vehicle and every wheeled conveyance which is used or is capable of being used on a street; (62) "ward" means a municipal ward provided by order made under section 5 of the purpose of election of Councillors; [(62-a) "Wards Committee" means a Committee constituted by the Govern- ment;]2 (63) "water course" includes any river, stream or channel whether natural or ar- tificial; (64) "water works" includes all lakes, tanks, streams, cisterns, springs, pumps, 20 Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, Section 2