Chapter 29:15 URBAN COUNCILS ACT “private sewer” means a sewer, exclusive of waste pipes, soil pipes and vent pipes, for the purpose of conveying to a combined private sewer, a public sewer or a conserving tank or other receptacle the sewage from one premises and includes all other things necessary in connection therewith; “public drain” means a conduit vested in or under the control of or used by a municipality or town for the conveyance or storm-water or any surface, subsoil or spring water and includes all other things necessary in connection therewith; “public sewer” means a sewer vested in or under the control of or used by a municipality or town into which is discharged or intended to be discharged the sewage from private sewers or combined private sewers and includes pipes, manholes, chambers, ventilating shafts, ejectors, sluices and all other things necessary in connection therewith; “public stream” bears the meaning assigned thereto in section 2 of the Water Act [Chapter 20:22]; “rateable property”, subject to subsection (4), means property on which a rate may be levied in terms of Part XIX; “rate”, subject to subsection (4), means a rate levied in terms of this Act; “ratepayer”, subject to subsection (4), means an owner of rateable property who is liable in terms of this Act for the payment of any rate by virtue of such ownership; “ Registrar-General” means the Registrar-General of Elections referred to in section 15 of the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:01] or, in respect of any particular function vested in the Registrar-General, any person to whom he may have delegated that function in terms of subsection (3) of that section; [Definition inserted by s. 16 of Act No. 21 of 1997.] “repealed Act” means the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 214 of 1974]; “returning officer”, in relation to— (a) the first election of a council, means the person appointed by the Minister to be the returning officer for that purpose; (b) an election not referred to in paragraph (a) or a ballot held in terms of section three hundred and eighteen, means the town clerk; “road” means any road, street, highway, thoroughfare, sanitary or other lane, cycle track, footpath, sidewalk, alley, subway, passage, square, bridge or other place of a similar nature or any portion thereof, and includes all appurtenances thereto; “sanitary fitting” means any water closet, urinal, bidet, slopsink, bath, wash basin, sink, shower or other fitting of a like nature from which soil-water or waste water is disposed of into a soil pipe or waste pipe, as the case may be; “sewage” includes trade effluent; “sewage works” includes reservoirs, tanks, strainers, filter beds, ponds, engines, pumps, machinery, buildings, lands and all other works and things, except public sewers, which are necessary for the treatment and disposal of sewage; “special vacancy” means a special vacancy in terms of section seventy-eight; “standing order” means a standing order made in terms of section one hundred and two or the corresponding provision of the repealed Act; “storm-water” means all flow of water directly due to rainfall before such water joins a public stream; “town” means a town which has been established or is deemed to have been established in terms of this Act; “town area” means the area of a town as fixed in terms of this Act or the repealed Act; “town council” means a town council which has been established or is deemed to have been established in terms of this Act; “town planning scheme” means a master plan, local plan or scheme as defined in section 2 of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act [Chapter 29:12], and “approved”, in relation to a town planning scheme, means such a master plan or local plan which is operative in terms 10