Chapter I PRELIMINARY

(1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Improvement Boards Act, 1976.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the twentieth day of November, 1975 in the urban areas comprising the Hubli-Dharwar Municipal Corporation and the cities of Belgaum, Bellary, Bijapur, Bhadravathi, Davangere, Gulbarga and Shimoga, and on such date and in such other urban areas as the State Government may, by notification, specify and different dates may be specified for different urban areas.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) ‘Bagalkot Town Area’ means the area comprising the Bagalkot City Municipality constituted or continued under the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 and such other area adjacent thereto, as the Government may, from time to time, by notification specify;.

(aa) ‘Board’ means an Improvement Board established under section 3 for any urban area and includes the Bagakot Town Development Authority constituted under section 12-A;

(b) ‘Chairman’ means the Chairman of the Board;

(c) ‘development', with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering or other operations in, on, over or under the land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes re-development but does not include regulation and development of drinking water and drainage facilities and slum clearance or slum improvement;

(d) ‘development scheme’ means a scheme prepared and sanctioned under this Act for purposes of the development of an urban area;

(e) ‘engineering operations’ includes the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply;

(f) ‘Government’ means the State Government;

(g) ‘improvement’ with its grammatical variations means re-development of any built up area, whether partly built or fully built for the purpose of improving the environmental conditions of the locality by undertaking work such as widening of roads extending or augmenting civic amenities, community facilities, utilities and services but does not include regulation and development of drinking water and drainage facilities and slum clearance or slum improvement;

(h) ‘improvement scheme’ means a scheme prepared and sanctioned under this Act for purposes of the improvement of an urban area;

(i) ‘land’ includes benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;

(j) ‘local authority’ means a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Sanitary Board or a Notified Area Committee constituted or continued under any law for the time being in force;

(k) ‘member’ means a member of the Board;

(l) ‘planning authority’ means a Planning Authority as defined in clause (7) of section 2 of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961;

(m) ‘section’ means a section of this Act;

(n) ‘street’ has the same meaning as in the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964;

(o) ‘urban area’ means any local area which is within the jurisdiction of a local authority and includes such other area adjacent to the limits of the local authority, as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify.

(2) All other words and expressions used herein but not defined shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the respective Municipal laws in force in the area.