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(a) “animal” means any domestic or captive animal;
(b) “building” includes any erection of whatsoever material and in whatsoever manner constructed (including a farm building for agricultural purposes) and also includes plinths, door-steps, walls (including compound walls and fences) advertisement boards and the like;
(c) “building line” means a line on either side of any highway or part of a highway fixed in respect of such highway or part by a notification under sub-section (1) of section 7;
(d) “Cantonment” means a Cantonment established under the Cantonments Act, 1924 (Central Act 2 of 1924);
(e) “control line” means a line on either side of a highway or part of a highway beyond the building line fixed in respect of such highway or part by notification under sub-section (1) of section 7; 6 (f) “encroachment” means any unauthorised occupation of any highway or part thereof and includes an unauthorised,-
(i) erection of a building or any other structure, balconies, porches, projections on or over or overhanging the highway;
(ii) occupation of a highway beyond the prescribed period, if any, for stacking building materials or goods of any other description, for exhibiting articles for sale, for erecting poles, awnings, tents, pendals, hoardings and other similar erections or for parking vehicles or stabling animals or for any other purpose;
(iii) excavations or dumps of any sort made or extended on any highway or underneath such highway.
(g) “to erect” with its grammatical variations in relation to a building means to construct, reconstruct, extend or alter structurally a building;
(h) “excavation” relating to any piece of land does not include any workings which do not pierce the surface of that piece of land, but includes wells and tanks;
(i) “highway” means any road or way over which the public have a right of way or are granted access and which is declared to be a highway under section