Resignation of Pradhan, Upa-Pradhan or a member

(21) "General election" means an election of members held for constitution of Gram of Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samities or Zilla Parishads in such areas as the State Government may, by notification, specify and includes the first General Election; (22) "Local Authority" means the local authority constituted under any law for the being in force and includes the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, Municipal Authorities, Notified Area Authorities and Cantonment Authorities; (23) "Member" means a member of a Gram Panchayat or Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad; (24) "Notification" means the notification published in the Tripura Gazette; (25) "Pradhan" means the Pradhan of a Gram Panchayat elected under Section 20; (26) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (27) "Prescribed Authority" means an authority appointed by the State Government by notification published in the Official Gazette, for all or any of the purposes of this Act; (28) "Public property" and "Public Land" means any public building, park or garden or other place to which for the time being the public have or are permitted to have access whether on payment or otherwise; (29) "Public Servant" means a public servant as defined in Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code 1860 (Act XLV of 1860); (30) "Public Street" means any street, road, lane, gulley, passages, path way, bridge, square or court, whether a throughfare or not, over, which the public have a right of way, and includes side drains or gutters and the land upto the boundary or aubtting property; (31) "Panchayat Area" means the territorial area of a Panchayat; (1) A Prandhan or a Upa-Pradhan or a member of a Gram Panchayat may resign his office by writing under his hand addressed to the prescribed authority and on such resignation being accepted by such authority the Pradhan, the Upa-Pradhan, or the member, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have vacated his office. (2) When a resignation is accepted under sub-section (1) the prescribed authority shall communicate it to the members of the Gram Panchayat within fifteen days of such acceptance.