Section 3 of Mysore Tramways Act, 1906

3. Definitions :- In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context. (1) "Local authority" means [a municipal council], district board, or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the [State Government] with, the control or management of a municipal or local fund; (2) "Road" means the way of a road, street, thoroughfare, passage or place along or across which a tramway authorised under this Act is, or is intended to be laid, and includes the surface-soil and subsoil of a road, and the footway, bermes, drains and ditches of a road, and any bridge, culvert or causeway forming part of a road; (3) "Road authority", in relation to a road, means. (a) if a local authority maintains and repairs the road, then that authority; (b) if a local authority does not maintain and repair the road, and the road is neither vested in nor maintained and repaired by the [State Government], then the person in whom the road is vested; and (c) if a local authority does not maintain and repair the road, and the road vested in or maintained and repaired by the [State Government], then the [State Government]; (4) "Cirde", in relation to a local authority or road authority, means the area within the control of that authority; (5) "Tramway" means a tramway, or any part of a tramway, or any siding, turn-out, connection, line or track belonging to a tramway; (6) "Order" means an order authorising the construction of a tramway under this Act, and includes a further order substituted for, or amending, extending or varying, that order; (7) "Promoter" means a local authority or person in whose favour an order has been made, and includes a local authority or person on whom the rights and liabilities conferred and imposed on the promoter by this Act and by the order and any rules made under this Act as to the construction, maintenance and use of the tramway, have devolved; (8) "Undertaking" includes all movable and immovable property of the promoter suitable to and used by him for the purposes of the tramway; (9) "Carriage", in the case of a tramway on which steam-power or any other mechanical power is used, includes an engine worked on the tramway for the purpose of producing that power; (10) "Toll" includes any charge leviable in respect of the use of a tramway; (11) "Lessee" means a person to whom a lease has been granted of right of user of a tramway and of demanding and taking the authorised tolls; (12) "District Magistrate" includes an officer empowered by the [State Government] by name or by virtue of his office to discharge within any local area all or any of the functions of a District Magistrate under this Act; (13) "District Court" means a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction; (14) "Deputy Commissioner" means the chief officer in charge of the revenue administration of a district, and includes an officer empowered by the [State Government] by name or by virtue of his office to discharge within any local area the functions of a Deputy Commissioner under this Act; and (15) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the 1 [State Government] under this Act. Orders authorising the construction of tramways 1. Substituted for the word "Government" by Act No. 1 of 1956