(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) "Act" means the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961 (Karnataka Act 11 of 1963);
(b) "Allottee" means an institution to which a civic amenity site is allotted under these rules;
(c) “Authority” means the Planning Authority defined under sub-section (7) of section 2 of the Act;
(d) "Civic Amenity" means,-
(i) a market, post office, telephone exchange, bank, fair price shop, milk booth, school, hostel, dispensary, hospital, pathological laboratory, maternity home, child care centre, library, gymnasium, bus stand or bus depot;
(ii) a recreation centre, Convention Centre, Fuel stations;
(iii) a centre for educational, social or cultural established by the Central Government or the State Government or by a body established by the Central Government or the State Government;
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(iv) a centre for educational, religious, social or cultural activities or for philanthropic service run by a cooperative society registered under the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959 (Karnataka Act 11 of 1959) or society registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 (Karnataka Act 17 of 1960) or by a trust created wholly for charitable, educational or religious purposes;
(v) a police station, an area office or service station of the Urban Local Bodies or the Water Supply and Sewerage Board or the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL) / ESCOMs; and
(vi) such other amenity as the Government may, by notification specify.
(e) "Civic Amenity site" means a site earmarked for civic amenity in a layout formed by the authority or a site earmarked for civic amenity in a private layout approved by the authority and relinquished to it;
(f) "Form" means a form appended to these rules;
(g) "Institution" means an institution, society or an association registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 (Karnataka Act 17 of 1960) or a Cooperative Society registered under the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959 (Karnataka Act 11 of 1959) or a trust created wholly for charitable, educational or religious purpose;
(h) "Lease amount" means the rent as may be fixed by the Authority having regard to all relevant factors based on the sital value;
(i) "Lessee" means an institution to which a civic amenity site is allotted and which has entered into an agreement with the Authority in that behalf;
(j) "Section" means a section of the Act;
(k) "Sital value" means the amount fixed as value of the site by the Authority having regard to all relevant factors including the guidance value of the site in accordance with section 45-B of the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 (Karnataka Act of 34 of 1957), the location it is formed, availability of road, whether it is corner or intermediate site and its use and other factors, as may be decided by the Authority;
(2) Words and expressions used herein but not defined shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.
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