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Receiving the articles

limits necessarily implies that the word receiving' would cover the storing or keeping of such articles within the municipal limits, also for use, consumption or sale, especially when the enforcing staff can demand the production of a

Revenue officer

discharge any of the functions of a Revenue officer in any area within the local limits of the Municipal Corporation of Kolkata and Howrah and other municipalities under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. [Kolkata Land

Revising assessors

Revising assessors, two officers elected by the bur-gesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in revising the parish burgess lists (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882,

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Service passage or lane or bye-lane

electricity cable (underground or over-head) and any electrical and other allied installations or any other civic services by municipal employees or other person employed in the service thereof. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994),

Shall

of the word 'shall' in a statute does not always indicate that the provisions are mandatory in character, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. B.E.S.T. Workers' Union, AIR 1973 SC 883: (1973) 3 SCC 546: (1973) 2

Structure

not be a building but it may be analogous to a buildings, outhouse, shed, hut or a stable, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Indian Oil Corporation, AIR 1991 SC 686 (692): 1991 Supp (2) SCC 18.

Peremptory mandamus

obedience and due execution. See MANDAMUS; and as to 'peremptory mandamus' in the first instance, to hold a municipal election, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 225 (8), repealed by the Local Government Act, 1933.

Support

see Acton v. Burnell, (1843) 12 M&W 324. The word 'support' will have to mean sustenance or maintenance, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Children Book Trust, AIR 1992 SC 1456: (1992) 3 SCC 390. [Delhi Municipal Corporation

Tax

61. Tax, includes any toll, crate, cess fee or other import leviable or levied under the Act. [M.P. Municipalities Act, 1961, s. 3(37)] Tax, is a charge, a pecuniary burden for the support of Government, A Dictionary

Thereafter

380. Means after the list is finalized on the completion of revision of valuation and assessment, New Delhi Municipal Committee v. LIC, AIR 1977 SC 2134: 1977 (4) SCC 84. The word thereafter' means 'after the list

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