Street, as appearing in different provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act is to be read in the wider sense and not to be treated only as a lane. Parking place attached to road is also covered, Harpal Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1992 P&H 314. [Land Acquisition Act (1 of 1894), ss. 5A, 17; Punjab Municipal Act (3 of 1911), s. 58]
Street, in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), by s. 343, includes any highway, including a highway over any bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, Court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; and see A.G. v. Laird, 1925 C 318.
Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley or passage in a cantonment, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right-of-way and also the road-way or foot-way over any bridge or cause way. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2(xxxvii)]
Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare or not, to which the public have access. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2(i)]
Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, gully, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway or footway over any bridge or causeway. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(51)]
Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare or note, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway and footway over any public bridge or causeway. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(68)]
A road or public thorough fare used for travel in an urban area, including pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs and other areas within street lines, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1434.
Street, includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway and footway over any public bridge or causeway, Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(68).
Means a road in town or village comparatively wide as opposed to land or alley, running between two lines of houses or shop, Anurag Mishra v. State of Madhya Pradesh, 1992 Jab LJ 480.
Street, shall mean any road, footway, square, court, public park, alley or passage, accessible whether permanently or temporarily to the public, and whether a thoroughfare or not; and shall include every vacant space notwithstanding that it may be private property and partly or wholly obstructed by any gate, post, chain or other barrier, if houses, shops or other buildings about thereon, and if it is used by any person as a means of access to or from any public place or thoroughfare whether such persons be occupiers of such buildings or not, but shall not include any part of such space which the occupier of any such buildings has a right at all hours to prevent all other persons from using as aforesaid; and shall include also the drains, or gutters therein, or on either side, and the land, whether covered or not by any payment, verandah or other erection, upto the boundary of any abutting property nor accessible to the public, Municipal Committee, Karnal v. Nirmala Devi, AIR 1996 SC 892. [Haryana Municipalities Act (24 of 2003), s. 2(23)]
Street, when a varanda is being used for passing and re-passing by the public at large -- it is a 'street' in terms of s. 3(13)(a) of the Act, Gobind Pershad Jagdish Pershad v. N.D.M.C., AIR 1993 SC 2313 (2316). [Punjab Municipal Act, 1931, s. 3(13)(a)]