Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (i) "Board" means the Maharashtra Water Supply and Sewerage Board established under section 3;
2. (ii) "bye-laws" means bye-laws made under this Act;
3. (iii) "cess-pool" includes a settlement tank or other tank to receive or dispose of foul matters from any premises;
4. (iv) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board;
5. (v) "communication pipe" means any pipe or system of pipes, along with all fittings thereto, by means of which water is supplied to any premises from the main, and includes a connection pipe, service pipe, meter or other fittings;
6. (vi) "connection pipe" means any water pipe from a ferrule to stop-cock connecting the main of the local body or the Board, as the case may be, with the service pipe;
7. (vii) "consumer" means any person getting the benefit of any water supply or sewerage service from the local body or the Board, as the case may be;
8. (viii) "domestic sewage" means waste water from residential premises, boarding and lodging houses, hostels, hotels, public place, offices and all such establishments as are not a part of any trade or industry, and arising out of personal and normal human activities such as drinking, bathing, ablution, washing and cooking;
9. (ix) "drain" means a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or channel or any cistern, flush-tank, septic tank or other device for carrying off or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waste water or sub-soil water, and includes any culvert, ventilation shaft or pipe or other appliances or fitting connected with such drain, and any ejectors, compressed air mains, sealed sewage mains and special machinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage or offensive matter from any place;
10. (x) "ferrule" means a ferrule connecting the connection pipe with the main;
11. (xi) "local area" means the area falling within the jurisdiction of a local body;
12. (xii) "local body" means a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Zilla Parishad or Village Panchayat established under any law for the time being in force;
13. (xiii) "Maharashra Environmental Engineering Service" means the organisation functioning for this purpose as a wing of the Urban Development and Public Health Department of the Government of Maharashtra and comprising the following categories of officers and servants, namely :—

1. (1) all Engineers belonging to the Maharashtra Environmental Engineering Service, Class I and Class II;
2. (2) all officers and servants, not covered under
3. (1) above, who are appointed exclusively on the establishment of the organisation and who have no lien on any post in any other Department of the Government of Maharashtra;
4. (3) all officers and servants belonging to the technical staff borne on Mechanical Engineering cadre of the Irrigation Department of the Government of Maharashtra, who are for the time being serving in the organisation;
5. (4) all officers and servants belonging to the ministerial and non-ministerial staff of the Irrigation Department, who are for the time being serving in the organisation;
   • (xiv) "main" means a pipe laid by the local body or the Board, as the case may be, for the purpose of giving a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers, and includes any apparatus used on connection with such a pipe;
   • (xv) "Member" means a Member of the Board, and includes the Chairman of the Board;
   • (xvi) "Member-Secretary" means the Member-Secretary of the Board;
   • (xvii) "non-official Member" means a Member, not being an ex-officio Member; (xviii) "occupier", in relation to any premises, means the following :—
   • (a) any person for the time being paying or liable to pay rent or any portion thereof to the owner in respect of those premises;
   • (b) an owner who is in occupation of those premises;
   • (c) a tenant of those premises who is exempt from payment of rent;
   • (d) a licensee who is in occupation of those premises, and
   • (e) any person, who is liable to pay damages to the owner in respect of use and occupation of those premises;
     • (xix) " owner ", in relation to any premises, means the person who receives the rent of the said premises or who would be entitled to receive the rent thereof if the premises were let, and includes—
   • (a) an agent or trustee who receives such rent on account of the owners;
   • (b) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of, or is entrusted with the management of