1) "Adhoc Committee" means an Adhoc Committee appointed under
section 33;
2) "Auditor" means an Auditor appointed under section 93, and includes any
officer authorized by him to perform all or any of the functions of an
Auditor under this Act;
3) "Balance sheet'' means the balance sheet prepared under section 91;
4) "Bio-medical waste" means waste generated during diagnosis, treatm ent
or immunization of human beings or animals or in research activities
pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biological;
5) "Bridge" includes a culvert;
6) "Budget Estimate’’ means the budget estimate prepared under se ction
84;
7) "Budget Grant" means the total sum entered on the expenditure side of a
budget estimate under a major head and adopted by the Municipality' and
includes any sum by which such budget grant is increased or reduced by
transfer from or to other heads in accordance with the provisions of this
Act and the rules and the regulations there under ;
8) "Building" means a str ucture constructed for whatever purpose and of
whatever materials, and includes the foundation' plinth, walls, floors,
roofs, chimneys, fix ed platforms, verandas balconies, corn ices or
projections or part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall
(other than a boundary wall of less than three meters in height) enclosing
or intended to enclose, any land, sign or outdoor display structure but
does not include a tent, shamiana or tarpaulin shelter ;
9) "Cadres" of common municipal services" means the cadres of common
municipal services constituted under sub-section (1) of section 43;
10) "Carriage" means any wheeled vehicle, with springs or other appliances
acting as springs, which is ordinarily used fo r the conveyance of human
beings, and includes a auto -rickshaw, cycle-rickshaw, bicycle or tricycle,
Short title, extent
and
commencement.
Definitions
but does not include a perambulator or other form of vehicle designed for
the conveyance of children or elderly, infirm or handicapped persons ;
11) "Cart" means any hackney or wheeled vehicle with or without sprin gs,
which is not a carriage, and includes a handcart, a cycle van and a push
van but does not include any wheeled vehicle which is propelled by
mechanical power or its trailer ;
12) "Category 'A' post" means a category 'A' post classified as such under
section 37 ;
13) "Category 'B' post" means a category 'B' post classified as such under
section 37;
14) "category 'C' post" means a category 'C' pos t classified as such under
section 37;
15) "category 'D' post" means a category 'D' post classified as such under
section 37;
16) "Chief Councillor” means,-
i. in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Mayor,
ii. in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, and
iii. in relation to Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal president;
17) "Chief Municipal Executive Office/' means,-
i. In relation to a Municipal Council in Capital Region and " Municipal
Executive Officer’’ means,-
ii. in relation to a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat, in districts.
18) "City " means a larger urban area declared to be a city under section 3 ;
19) "Class 'A smaller urban area" means a smaller urban area classified as
such under section 7 :
20) "Class 'B' smaller urban area" means a smaller urban area classified as
such under section 7 ;
21) "Class 'C' smaller urban area" means a smaller urban area classified as
such under section 7 ;
22) "Councillor", in relation to a Municipality, means a person chosen by
direct election from a ward of that Municipality;
23) "Cubical extent," with reference to the measurement of a buil ding,
means the space contained within the extern al surface of its walls and
roof and the upper surface of the floor of its lowest or only storey ;
24) "Dangerous disease" means-
a. Cholera ,plague, small-pox, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria,
Tuberculosis, leprosy, influenza, encephalitis, poliomye litis, or
syphilis; or
b. any other epidemic, endemic, infectious disease which the State
Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous
disease for the purposes of this Act ;
25) "Deputy Chief Councillor" means,-
a. in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Deputy Mayor,
b. in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Vice - Chair
Person, and
c. in relation to a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal Vice President ;
26) "Director of Urban Local Bodies" means an officer appointed as such by
the State Government' and includes an Additional Directo r a Joint
Director, a De puty Director, or any other offi cer of nodal department of
the State Government authorized by it to perform the functions of the
Director of Urban Local Bodies under this Act,
27) "Domestic purpose" in relation to the supply of water, means the purpose
other than those referred to in sub-section ( 3) of section 172 ;
28) "Drain" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description,
a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel or any other device for carrying off
sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or sub -soil
water ;
29) "Drug" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or
preparation of medicine, whether for internal or external use, but does not
include a drug within the meaning of clause ( b) of section 3 of the Drugs
and Cosmetics Act,23 of 1940;
30) "Dwelling- house" means a mas onry building constructed, us ed, or
adapted to be used, wholly or principally for human habitation ;
31) "Empowered Standing Committee" means the Empowered Standing
Committee referred to in section21;
32) "Establishment Schedule" means the Establishment Schedule prepared
under section 37 ;
33) "Financial statement "means the financial statement prepared under
section 90 ;
34) " Food" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than
drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in
the composition or prepar ation of, human food, and also includes
confectionery flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments ;
35) " Footpath" means a pavement for use by pedestrians which abuts a
category I or category II or category III or category IV road ;
36) " Habitable room" means a room constructed or adapted for human
habitation;
37) "Hazardous process" means the hazardous process defined in Clause
(cb) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 ;
38) "Hazardous wastes" means the categories of wastes specified as such in
the Environment (Protection ) Act, 1986 ;
39) "House- drain" means any drain of one or more premises used for the
drainage of such premises ;
40) "House-gully" means a passage or a strip of land constructed, set apart
or utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or affording a ccess to a
privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter for
municipal employee ;
41) "Hut" means any building, no substantial part of which, excluding the
walls up to a height of fifty centimetres above the floor o r floor level, is
constructed of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, iron or other metal ;
42) "Industrial township" means such urban area or part thereof as the
Governor may, having regard to the size of the area and the municipal
services being provided or proposed to be provided by an industrial
establishment in that area and such other factors as he may deem fit, by
notification, specify to be an industrial township ;
43) "Infectious disease" or "communicable disease "means any disease
which may be tr ansmitted from one person to another and declared as
such by the State Government by notification;
44) "Joint Committee" means a Joint Committee constituted under section
34;
45) "Larger urban area" means a municipal area classified as a larger urban
area under section 7 ;
46) "Land or building" includes a slum ;
47) "Market" includes anyplace, by whatever name called, where persons
assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live stock, or any
other article of food of a perishable nature, or any other article fo r which
there is a collection of shops or warehouses or stalls, declared and
licensed by the Municipality as a market'
48) "Masonry building" means any building, other than a hut, and includes
any structure, a substantial part of which is made of maso nry, reinforced
concrete, steel, iron or other metal ;
49) "Milk" includes cream, separated milk, and condensed, sterilized,
desiccated or toned milk ;
50) "Municipal Accounts Committee" means a Municipal Accounts
Committee constituted under section 100 ;
51) "Municipal Accounting Manual" means the Municipal Accounting Manual
prepared and maintained under section 89 ;
52) "Municipal area" means an area constitu ted as a municipal area under
section 6 ;
53) "Municipal drain" means a drain vested in the Municipality;
54) "Municipal Fund" means the Municipal Fund referred to in section 75 ;
55) "Municipal Magistrate" means the Municipal Magistrate appointed under
section 425 ;
56) "Municipal Market" means a market belonging to, or maintained by, the
Municipality;
57) "Municipal Service Commissio n" means the Municipal Service
Commission constituted under section 44 ;
58) "Municipal slaughterhouse" means a slaughterhouse belonging to, or
maintained by, the Municipality;
59) "Municipality" means an institution of self government constituted under
section 12, read with article 243 Q of the Constitution of India, and
includes a Municipal Corporation, a Municipal Council, and Nagar
Panchayat, referred to in section 13;
60) "Notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
63 of 1948
29 of 1986
61) "Nuisance" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes, or is
likely to cause, injury, danger, annoyance or injurious to health or
property ;
62) "Occupier" includes any person for the time being paying or liable to pay,
to the owner rent or any portion of the re nt of the land or the building in
respect of which the word is used or for damages on account of the
occupation of such land or building, and also includes a rent-free tenant :
Provided that an owner livin g in, of otherwise using, his own land
or building shall be deemed to be the occupier thereof ;
63) "Offensive matter" means kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt, putrid or
putrefying substance, or fifth of any kind which is not included in sewage ,
64) "Other agency" means a company firm, society, or body corporate in the
private sector, or any institution, or government agency, or any joint
sector agency, or any agency under any other law for the time br ing in
force ;
65) "Owner" includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of any
land or building or of any part of any land or building, whether on his own
account or as an agent or charitable purpose or as a receiver who would
receive such rent if the land or the building or of any part of the land or
the building were let to a tenant ;
66) "Population" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding
census of which the relevant figures have been published ;
67) "Premises" means any land or building or part of a building or any hut or
part of a hut, and includes -
(a) the garden, ground and outhouses, if any, appertaining thereto, and
(b) any fittings or fixtures affixed to a building or part of a building or hut
or part of a hut for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;
68) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
69) "Presiding officer" means,-
(a) in the case of a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson,
(b) in the case of a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President;
70) "Private drain" means any drain which is not a municipal drain;
71) "Private street" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage or
square which is not a public street, and includes any passage securing
access to four or more premises belonging to the same or different
owners, but does not include a passage provided in effecting a partition
of any masonry building am ongst joint owners where such passa ge is
less than two meters and fifty centimetres wide ;
72) "Public building" means a masonry building constructed, used, or
adapted to be used,-
(a) as a place of public worship or as a school, college or other place of
instruction (not being a dwelling -house so used) or as a hospital,
workhouse, public theatre, public cinema, public hall, public concert -
room, public ballroom, public lecture -room, public library or public
exhibition room or as a public place of assembly, or
(b) for any other public purpose, or
(c) as a hotel, lodging -house, refuge or shelter, where the building, in
cubical extent, exceeds seven thousand cubic meters or has
sleeping accommodation for more than one hundred person;
73) "Public street" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage,
pathway, square or court yard, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which
the public have a right of way, and includes :-
(a) the access or approach to a public ferry,
(b) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway,
(c) the footpath attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway,
(d) the passage connecting two public streets, and
(e) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway,
and, where there is no drain attached to any such street, shall be
deemed to include als o, unless the contrary is shown, ail land up to
the boundary wall, hedge or pillar of the premises, if any, abutting on
the street, or, where a str eet alignment has been fixed, up to such
alignment ;
74) "Regulations" means the regulations made by a Municipality under this
Act ;
75) "Rules" means the Rules made by the State Government under this Act
;
76) "Sewage" means nigh -soil and other contents of privies, urinals,
cesspools or drains, and includes trade effluents and discharges from
manufactories of all kinds;
77) "Smaller urban area" means a municipal area classified as a smaller
urban area under section 7;
78) "State Municipal Service Commission" means the State Municipal
Service Commission constituted under section 45 ;
79) "State Municipal Vigilance Authority" mea ns the State Municipal
Vigilance Authority appointed under section 46 ;
80) "Street" means a public street or a private street ;
81) "Street alignment" means the line dividing the land comprised in, and
forming part of, a street from the adjoining land;
82) "Subject Committee" means a Subject Committee constituted under
section 32 ;
83) "Ward Committee" means a ward Committee referred to in section 31;
84) "Wards Committee" means a wards Committee constituted under section
30 ;
85) "Water-course" includes a ricer, stream or channel, whether natural or
artificial ;
86) "Year" means a financial year beginning on the first day of April.
Chapter-II
Constitution of Municipal Areas and Classification of Municipalities
Section 2 • Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 2007
Section 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
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In relation to a Municipal Council in Capital Region and \" Municipal \nExecutive Officer’’ means,- \nii. in relation to a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat, in districts. \n18) \"City \" means a larger urban area declared to be a city under section 3 ; \n19) \"Class 'A smaller urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as \nsuch under section 7 : \n20) \"Class 'B' smaller urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as \nsuch under section 7 ; \n21) \"Class 'C' smaller urban area\" means a smaller urban area classified as \nsuch under section 7 ; \n22) \"Councillor\", in relation to a Municipality, means a person chosen by \ndirect election from a ward of that Municipality; \n23) \"Cubical extent,\" with reference to the measurement of a buil ding, \nmeans the space contained within the extern al surface of its walls and \nroof and the upper surface of the floor of its lowest or only storey ; \n24) \"Dangerous disease\" means- \na. Cholera ,plague, small-pox, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, \nTuberculosis, leprosy, influenza, encephalitis, poliomye litis, or \nsyphilis; or \nb. any other epidemic, endemic, infectious disease which the State \nGovernment may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous \ndisease for the purposes of this Act ; \n25) \"Deputy Chief Councillor\" means,- \na. in relation to a Municipal Corporation, the Deputy Mayor, \nb. in relation to a Municipal Council, the Municipal Vice - Chair \nPerson, and \nc. in relation to a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal Vice President ; \n26) \"Director of Urban Local Bodies\" means an officer appointed as such by \nthe State Government' and includes an Additional Directo r a Joint \nDirector, a De puty Director, or any other offi cer of nodal department of \nthe State Government authorized by it to perform the functions of the \nDirector of Urban Local Bodies under this Act, \n27) \"Domestic purpose\" in relation to the supply of water, means the purpose \nother than those referred to in sub-section ( 3) of section 172 ; \n28) \"Drain\" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, \na tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel or any other device for carrying off \nsullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or sub -soil \nwater ; \n29) \"Drug\" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or \npreparation of medicine, whether for internal or external use, but does not \ninclude a drug within the meaning of clause ( b) of section 3 of the Drugs \nand Cosmetics Act,23 of 1940; \n30) \"Dwelling- house\" means a mas onry building constructed, us ed, or \nadapted to be used, wholly or principally for human habitation ; \n31) \"Empowered Standing Committee\" means the Empowered Standing \nCommittee referred to in section21; \n32) \"Establishment Schedule\" means the Establishment Schedule prepared \nunder section 37 ; \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n33) \"Financial statement \"means the financial statement prepared under \nsection 90 ; \n34) \" Food\" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than \ndrugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in \nthe composition or prepar ation of, human food, and also includes \nconfectionery flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments ; \n35) \" Footpath\" means a pavement for use by pedestrians which abuts a \ncategory I or category II or category III or category IV road ; \n36) \" Habitable room\" means a room constructed or adapted for human \nhabitation; \n37) \"Hazardous process\" means the hazardous process defined in Clause \n(cb) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 ; \n38) \"Hazardous wastes\" means the categories of wastes specified as such in \nthe Environment (Protection ) Act, 1986 ; \n39) \"House- drain\" means any drain of one or more premises used for the \ndrainage of such premises ; \n40) \"House-gully\" means a passage or a strip of land constructed, set apart \nor utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or affording a ccess to a \nprivy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter for \nmunicipal employee ; \n41) \"Hut\" means any building, no substantial part of which, excluding the \nwalls up to a height of fifty centimetres above the floor o r floor level, is \nconstructed of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, iron or other metal ; \n42) \"Industrial township\" means such urban area or part thereof as the \nGovernor may, having regard to the size of the area and the municipal \nservices being provided or proposed to be provided by an industrial \nestablishment in that area and such other factors as he may deem fit, by \nnotification, specify to be an industrial township ; \n43) \"Infectious disease\" or \"communicable disease \"means any disease \nwhich may be tr ansmitted from one person to another and declared as \nsuch by the State Government by notification; \n44) \"Joint Committee\" means a Joint Committee constituted under section \n34; \n45) \"Larger urban area\" means a municipal area classified as a larger urban \narea under section 7 ; \n46) \"Land or building\" includes a slum ; \n47) \"Market\" includes anyplace, by whatever name called, where persons \nassemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live stock, or any \nother article of food of a perishable nature, or any other article fo r which \nthere is a collection of shops or warehouses or stalls, declared and \nlicensed by the Municipality as a market' \n48) \"Masonry building\" means any building, other than a hut, and includes \nany structure, a substantial part of which is made of maso nry, reinforced \nconcrete, steel, iron or other metal ; \n49) \"Milk\" includes cream, separated milk, and condensed, sterilized, \ndesiccated or toned milk ; \n50) \"Municipal Accounts Committee\" means a Municipal Accounts \nCommittee constituted under section 100 ; \n51) \"Municipal Accounting Manual\" means the Municipal Accounting Manual \nprepared and maintained under section 89 ; \n52) \"Municipal area\" means an area constitu ted as a municipal area under \nsection 6 ; \n53) \"Municipal drain\" means a drain vested in the Municipality; \n54) \"Municipal Fund\" means the Municipal Fund referred to in section 75 ; \n55) \"Municipal Magistrate\" means the Municipal Magistrate appointed under \nsection 425 ; \n56) \"Municipal Market\" means a market belonging to, or maintained by, the \nMunicipality; \n57) \"Municipal Service Commissio n\" means the Municipal Service \nCommission constituted under section 44 ; \n58) \"Municipal slaughterhouse\" means a slaughterhouse belonging to, or \nmaintained by, the Municipality; \n59) \"Municipality\" means an institution of self government constituted under \nsection 12, read with article 243 Q of the Constitution of India, and \nincludes a Municipal Corporation, a Municipal Council, and Nagar \nPanchayat, referred to in section 13; \n60) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n63 of 1948 \n \n \n29 of 1986 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n61) \"Nuisance\" includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes, or is \nlikely to cause, injury, danger, annoyance or injurious to health or \nproperty ; \n62) \"Occupier\" includes any person for the time being paying or liable to pay, \nto the owner rent or any portion of the re nt of the land or the building in \nrespect of which the word is used or for damages on account of the \noccupation of such land or building, and also includes a rent-free tenant : \n Provided that an owner livin g in, of otherwise using, his own land \nor building shall be deemed to be the occupier thereof ; \n63) \"Offensive matter\" means kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt, putrid or \nputrefying substance, or fifth of any kind which is not included in sewage , \n64) \"Other agency\" means a company firm, society, or body corporate in the \nprivate sector, or any institution, or government agency, or any joint \nsector agency, or any agency under any other law for the time br ing in \nforce ; \n65) \"Owner\" includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of any \nland or building or of any part of any land or building, whether on his own \naccount or as an agent or charitable purpose or as a receiver who would \nreceive such rent if the land or the building or of any part of the land or \nthe building were let to a tenant ; \n66) \"Population\" means the population as ascertained at the last preceding \ncensus of which the relevant figures have been published ; \n67) \"Premises\" means any land or building or part of a building or any hut or \npart of a hut, and includes - \n(a) the garden, ground and outhouses, if any, appertaining thereto, and \n(b) any fittings or fixtures affixed to a building or part of a building or hut \nor part of a hut for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof; \n68) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; \n69) \"Presiding officer\" means,- \n(a) in the case of a Municipal Council, the Municipal Chairperson, \n(b) in the case of a Nagar Panchayat, the Municipal President; \n70) \"Private drain\" means any drain which is not a municipal drain; \n71) \"Private street\" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage or \nsquare which is not a public street, and includes any passage securing \naccess to four or more premises belonging to the same or different \nowners, but does not include a passage provided in effecting a partition \nof any masonry building am ongst joint owners where such passa ge is \nless than two meters and fifty centimetres wide ; \n72) \"Public building\" means a masonry building constructed, used, or \nadapted to be used,- \n(a) as a place of public worship or as a school, college or other place of \ninstruction (not being a dwelling -house so used) or as a hospital, \nworkhouse, public theatre, public cinema, public hall, public concert -\nroom, public ballroom, public lecture -room, public library or public \nexhibition room or as a public place of assembly, or \n(b) for any other public purpose, or \n(c) as a hotel, lodging -house, refuge or shelter, where the building, in \ncubical extent, exceeds seven thousand cubic meters or has \nsleeping accommodation for more than one hundred person; \n73) \"Public street\" means any street, road, lane, gully, alley, passage, \npathway, square or court yard, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which \nthe public have a right of way, and includes :- \n(a) the access or approach to a public ferry, \n(b) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway, \n(c) the footpath attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway, \n(d) the passage connecting two public streets, and \n(e) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway, \nand, where there is no drain attached to any such street, shall be \ndeemed to include als o, unless the contrary is shown, ail land up to \nthe boundary wall, hedge or pillar of the premises, if any, abutting on \nthe street, or, where a str eet alignment has been fixed, up to such \nalignment ; \n74) \"Regulations\" means the regulations made by a Municipality under this \nAct ; \n75) \"Rules\" means the Rules made by the State Government under this Act \n; \n76) \"Sewage\" means nigh -soil and other contents of privies, urinals, \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\ncesspools or drains, and includes trade effluents and discharges from \nmanufactories of all kinds; \n77) \"Smaller urban area\" means a municipal area classified as a smaller \nurban area under section 7; \n78) \"State Municipal Service Commission\" means the State Municipal \nService Commission constituted under section 45 ; \n79) \"State Municipal Vigilance Authority\" mea ns the State Municipal \nVigilance Authority appointed under section 46 ; \n80) \"Street\" means a public street or a private street ; \n81) \"Street alignment\" means the line dividing the land comprised in, and \nforming part of, a street from the adjoining land; \n82) \"Subject Committee\" means a Subject Committee constituted under \nsection 32 ; \n83) \"Ward Committee\" means a ward Committee referred to in section 31; \n84) \"Wards Committee\" means a wards Committee constituted under section \n30 ; \n85) \"Water-course\" includes a ricer, stream or channel, whether natural or \nartificial ; \n86) \"Year\" means a financial year beginning on the first day of April. \n \nChapter-II \n \nConstitution of Municipal Areas and Classification of Municipalities",
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