Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “Authorized Officer” means and Executive Sanitary Inspector, Sanitary Inspector of ULB, and Officer of the Uttarakhand Police, not below the rank of Sub Inspector, a Revenue officer not below the rank of Revenue Inspector or an officer authorized by the District Magistrate for and area under his jurisdiction. (b) “building” includes any premises, house, hut, stall, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, palling, frame, boarding, landing-stage or bridge or any structure, support or foundation connected to the foregoing; (c) “Community Service” means cleaning, sweeping, collecting litter, clearing graffiti from the walls, or any other tasks notified by the urban local body as community service; (d) “garden refuse” includes any refuse from garden and agricultural operations; (e) “litter” means any dust, sand, earth, gravel, clay, stone, cement, paper, ashes, carcass, refuse, leaves and branches, grass, straw, boxes, barrels, bales, shavings, sawdust, garden refuse, stable refuse, trade refuse, manure, garbage, bottles, glass, can, food container, food wrapper, particles of food or other things, articles or materials. It will also include urinating or defecting by pets or humans in open; (f) “occupier” includes any person in actual occupation of any premises or having the charge, management or control thereof, and in the case of property subdivided of let to various tenants or lodgers, the person who for the time being is receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers, the person who for the time being is receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers whether on his own account or as an agent for any person entitled thereto or interested therein; (g) “owner” shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the U.P. Municipalities Act, 1916 [as adapted, amended and made applicable to Uttarakhand] and the U.P. Municipal Corporation Act, 1959 [as adapted, amended and made applicable to Uttarakhand] and shall also include the occupier of any building or premises for the time being; (h) “premises” means land, whether enclosed or not which is appurtenant to a building or commmonly appurtenant to several building. (i) “public place” includes every public highway, street, road, hill side, drain, waterway, sub-way, bridge, square, court, lane, alley or passage, bridle way, footway, parade, public/park, garden or open space (enclosed or unenclosed), building or premises, every theatre, place of public resort to which admission is obtained or to which the public has access, whether on payment or otherwise; (j) “spitting” means voluntary ejection of saliva from the mouth after chewing or without chewing, ejection of mucus from nose after inhaling snuff or without inhaling; (k) “stable refuse” means the dung or urine of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, buffaloes, pigs, poultry or other domesticated animal and the sweepings or refuse of drainage from any stables or sheds for keeping horses, cattle, sheep, goats, buffaloes, pigs, poultry or other domesticated animals ; (l) “street” means any road, square, footway, back lane or passage whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, also the way over any public bridge, and also includes any road, footway, or passage, open court or open alley used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public have a right of way there over or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of such street; (m) “trade refuse” means the refuse of any trade, manufacture or business, industry or of any building operation;