Definitions

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Summary

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (i) bye-laws means bye-laws made under this Act; (ii) Corporation means the Rajasthan Water Supply and Sewerage Corporation established under section 3; (iii) cess-pool includes a settlement tank or other tank to receive or dispose off foul matter from any premises; (iv) Chairman means the Chairman of the Corporation; (v) communication pipe means any pipe or system of pipes, alongwith 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; (vi) connection pipe means any water pipe from a ferrule to stop-cock connecting the main of the local body of the Corporation, as the case may be with the service pipe; (vii) consumer means any person getting the benefit of any water supply or sewerage service from the local body or the Corporation, as the case may be; (viii) Director means a Director of the Corporation, and includes the Chairman and the Managing Director; (ix) domestic sewage means waste water from the residential premises, boarding and lodging houses, hostels, hotels, public places, 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; (x) 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 shafts or pipe or other appliances or fittings 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; (xi) ferrule means a ferrule connecting the connection pipe with the main; (xii) local area means the area falling within the jurisdiction of a local body; (xiii) local body means a Municipal board, committee, corporation or council, a district board, Zila Parishad, a Panchayat Samiti, Panchayat or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government, with the control or management of a municipal or local fund and shall also include an Urban Improvement Trust; (xiv) Public Health Engineering Department mean the Department functioning for the maintenance and execution of water supply and sewerage schemes of the Government of Rajasthan; (xv) main means a pipe laid by the local body or the Corporation as the case may be, for the purpose of giving general supply of water as distinct from supply to individual consumers, and. includes any apparatus used in connection with such a pipe; (xvi) Managing Director means the Managing Director of the Corporation; (xvii) non-official Director means a Director; not being an Exofficio Director; (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 these 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 owner; (b) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of, or is entrusted with the management of, any premises devoted to religious or charitable purposes; (c) a receiver or manager appointed by any Court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge of, or to exercise the rights of an owner of the said premises; and (d) a mortgage-in-possession; (xx) polluted water means water containing objectionable or harmful material rendering it unfit for its intended use; (xxi) premises means any land or building or any part of land or building; (xxii) prescribed means prescribed by rules; (xxiii) prescribed authority means any authority appointed by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to perform all or any of the functions of the prescribed authority; (xxiv) private street, public street and street in relation to any local area, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the law relating to the local body having jurisdiction over that local area; (xxv) regulations means regulations made under this Act; (xxvi) rules means rules made under this Act; (xxvii) service pipe means any pipe other than the connection pipe beyond the stop-cock by means of which water is supplied to any premises; (xxviii) sewage means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools or drains, and polluted water from sinks, bath rooms, stables and other like places, and includes trade effluents; (xxix) sewer means a closed conduit for carrying sewage offensive matter, polluted water, waste water or sub-soil water; (xxx) sewerage means a system of collection of waste water from a community from its houses, institutions, industry and public places, the pumping, treatment and disposal of such waste water, its effluent, sludge, gas and other products; (xxxi) stop-cock means a stop-cock fitted at the end of the connection pipe away from the main for the purpose of switching off and regulating the water supply to any premises; (xxxii) trade effluent means any liquid either with or without particles of matters in suspension therein, which is wholly or in part produced or discharged in the course of any trade or industry, including agriculture and horticulture but it does not include domestic sewage; (xxxiii) waste water means the spent water of a community and it includes the combination of liquid and water carrying wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with ground water, surface water and storm water; (xxxiv) water-connection includes- (a) any tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap, situated or any private property and connected with a main or other pipe belonging to the local body or the Corporation, as the case may be; (b) the water pipe connecting such a tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap, with such main or pipe; (xxxv) water supply means a system of providing water to a community for meeting its requirement for drinking and other domestic uses, industry, recreation and various public uses; (xxxvi) water works includes water channel (including steam, lake, spring, river or canal, well, other underground water source, pump, gallaries, reservoir, cistern (tank), duct whether covered or open, treatment units, sluice, supply main, culvert, engine, water truck, hydrants, stand-pipe, conduit and machinery, land, building or other things for supplying or used for supplying water or for protecting sources of water supply or for treatment of water.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (i) bye-laws means bye-laws made under this Act; (ii) Corporation means the Rajasthan Water Supply and Sewerage Corporation established under section 3; (iii) cess-pool includes a settlement tank or other tank to receive or dispose off foul matter from any premises; (iv) Chairman means the Chairman of the Corporation; (v) communication pipe means any pipe or system of pipes, alongwith 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; (vi) connection pipe means any water pipe from a ferrule to stop-cock connecting the main of the local body of the Corporation, as the case may be with the service pipe; (vii) consumer means any person getting the benefit of any water supply or sewerage service from the local body or the Corporation, as the case may be; (viii) Director means a Director of the Corporation, and includes the Chairman and the Managing Director; (ix) domestic sewage means waste water from the residential premises, boarding and lodging houses, hostels, hotels, public places, 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; (x) 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 shafts or pipe or other appliances or fittings 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; (xi) ferrule means a ferrule connecting the connection pipe with the main; (xii) local area means the area falling within the jurisdiction of a local body; (xiii) local body means a Municipal board, committee, corporation or council, a district board, Zila Parishad, a Panchayat Samiti, Panchayat or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government, with the control or management of a municipal or local fund and shall also include an Urban Improvement Trust; (xiv) Public Health Engineering Department mean the Department functioning for the maintenance and execution of water supply and sewerage schemes of the Government of Rajasthan; (xv) main means a pipe laid by the local body or the Corporation as the case may be, for the purpose of giving general supply of water as distinct from supply to individual consumers, and. includes any apparatus used in connection with such a pipe; (xvi) Managing Director means the Managing Director of the Corporation; (xvii) non-official Director means a Director; not being an Exofficio Director; (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 these 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 owner; (b) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of, or is entrusted with the management of, any premises devoted to religious or charitable purposes; (c) a receiver or manager appointed by any Court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge of, or to exercise the rights of an owner of the said premises; and (d) a mortgage-in-possession; (xx) polluted water means water containing objectionable or harmful material rendering it unfit for its intended use; (xxi) premises means any land or building or any part of land or building; (xxii) prescribed means prescribed by rules; (xxiii) prescribed authority means any authority appointed by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to perform all or any of the functions of the prescribed authority; (xxiv) private street, public street and street in relation to any local area, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the law relating to the local body having jurisdiction over that local area; (xxv) regulations means regulations made under this Act; (xxvi) rules means rules made under this Act; (xxvii) service pipe means any pipe other than the connection pipe beyond the stop-cock by means of which water is supplied to any premises; (xxviii) sewage means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools or drains, and polluted water from sinks, bath rooms, stables and other like places, and includes trade effluents; (xxix) sewer means a closed conduit for carrying sewage offensive matter, polluted water, waste water or sub-soil water; (xxx) sewerage means a system of collection of waste water from a community from its houses, institutions, industry and public places, the pumping, treatment and disposal of such waste water, its effluent, sludge, gas and other products; (xxxi) stop-cock means a stop-cock fitted at the end of the connection pipe away from the main for the purpose of switching off and regulating the water supply to any premises; (xxxii) trade effluent means any liquid either with or without particles of matters in suspension therein, which is wholly or in part produced or discharged in the course of any trade or industry, including agriculture and horticulture but it does not include domestic sewage; (xxxiii) waste water means the spent water of a community and it includes the combination of liquid and water carrying wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions together with ground water, surface water and storm water; (xxxiv) water-connection includes- (a) any tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap, situated or any private property and connected with a main or other pipe belonging to the local body or the Corporation, as the case may be; (b) the water pipe connecting such a tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap, with such main or pipe; (xxxv) water supply means a system of providing water to a community for meeting its requirement for drinking and other domestic uses, industry, recreation and various public uses; (xxxvi) water works includes water channel (including steam, lake, spring, river or canal, well, other underground water source, pump, gallaries, reservoir, cistern (tank), duct whether covered or open, treatment units, sluice, supply main, culvert, engine, water truck, hydrants, stand-pipe, conduit and machinery, land, building or other things for supplying or used for supplying water or for protecting sources of water supply or for treatment of water.

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