Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
(a) a person is deemed to "reside" in any dwelling which, or some portion of which he sometimes uses, whether interruptedly or not, as a sleeping apartment, and (b) a person is not deemed to cease to "reside" in any such dwelling merely because he is absent from it or has elsewhere another dwelling in which he resides if there is the liberty of returning to it at any time and no abandonment of the intention of returning to it; (61) "special fund" means a fund constituted under section 91; (62) "standing order" means an order made under section 466; [ (624) "State Election Commission" means a State Election Commission referred to in article 243K of the Constitution of India;] (63) "street" includes any highway and any causeway, bridge, arch road, lane, footway, sub-way, court, alley or riding path or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a period of twenty years, and, when there is a footway as well as a carriage way in any street, the said term includes both; (64) "sweetmeat shop" means any premises or part of any premises used for the manufacture, treatment or storage for sale, or for the sale, wholesale or retail of any ice-cream, confections or sweetmeats whatsoever, for whomsoever intended, and by whatsoever name the same may be known, and whether the same be for consumption on or outside the premises; (65) "theatre tax" means a tax on amusements or entertainments; (66) "trade effluent" means any liquid either with or without particles of matter in suspension therein, which is wholly or in part produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at trade premises, and in relation to any trade premises, means any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at those premises, but does not include domestic sewage; (67) "trade premises" means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or industry; (68) "trade refuse" means and includes the refuse of any trade, manufacture or business; (69) "Transport Manager" means the Transport Manager of the Transport Undertaking appointed under section 40 and includes an acting Transport Manager appointed under section 41; (70) "Transport Undertaking" means all undertakings acquired, organised, constructed, maintained, extended, managed or conducted by the Corporation for the purpose of providing mechanically propelled transport facilities for the conveyance of the public and includes all moveable and immovable property and rights vested or vesting in the Corporation for the purposes of every such undertaking; (71) "vehicle" includes a carriage, cart, van, dray, truck, hand-cart, bicycle, tricycle, motor-car, and every wheeled conveyance which is used or is capable of being used on a street; [ (72) "water closet" means a closet used as a privy in which discharges are pushed in or carried off by water, and includes an acqua privy, gas plant, latrine attached with gas plant, a closet of type known as P.R.A.I. (Planning Research Action Institute) type, septic tank type, hand flush type, bore hole type, clap trap type or any other type which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify;] (73) "water-connection" includes— (a) any tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap situated on a private property and connected with water-main or pipe belonging to the Corporation; and (b) the water-pipe connecting such tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap with such water-main or pipe;