Definitions
 1. (1) In this Regulation, “committee of revision” means a committee of revision established under section 19; (“comité de révision”) “construct” includes reconstruct, extend, enlarge, improve and alter, and “construction” has a corresponding meaning; (“construire”) “cost”, as applied to a work, means capital cost; (“coût”) “drive approach” means pavement on a highway that is constructed to serve as an approach to a particular lot; (“voie d’accès”) “engineer” includes a person whom the municipality requires or authorizes to perform any duty that this Regulation requires or authorizes an engineer to perform; (“ingénieur”) “frontage”, when used in reference to a lot abutting on a work, means the side or limit of the lot that abuts on the work; (“longueur de façade”) “lifetime”, as applied to a work, means its lifetime as estimated by the engineer or, in the case of an appeal, as finally determined by the committee of revision; (“durée de vie”) “lot” means a parcel of land that is required to be separately assessed under the Assessment Act; (“lot”) “municipality’s share of the cost” means the portion of the cost of a work that is, (a)  payable by the municipality, and (b)  not to be specially charged under this Regulation; (“part du coût à la charge de la municipalité”) “owner” means, with respect to a lot, the person appearing to be its owner by the last returned assessment roll, as most recently revised, in the absence of evidence to the contrary; (“propriétaire”) “owners’ share of the cost” means the portion of the cost of a work that is to be specially charged under this Regulation; (“part du coût à la charge des propriétaires”) “pavement” means any type of highway surfacing; (“chaussée”) “paving” includes laying down or constructing any kind of pavement; (“pavage”) “private” means, with respect to a work or property, a work or property that is not owned by the municipality or a local board of the municipality; (“privé”) “sewer” includes a sanitary sewer and a storm drain; (“égout”) “special charge” means a fee or charge imposed under the Act in accordance with this Regulation in respect of the cost of a work undertaken as a local improvement, and “specially charged” has a corresponding meaning; (“redevance extraordinaire”) “sufficient agreement” means an agreement determined to be sufficient under section 36.4; (“accord valide”) “value” means, with respect to a lot, its assessed value according to the last returned assessment roll, as most recently revised; (“valeur”) “work” means a capital work. (“ouvrage”) O. Reg. 586/06, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 322/12, s. 2 (1). (2) For greater certainty, the definition of “work” in subsection (1) includes, without limitation, (a)  constructing a highway; (b)  constructing any works for the collection, production, treatment, storage, supply, distribution or conservation of water or for the collection, transmission, treatment or disposal of sewage; (c)  paving a highway; (d)  constructing a curb, gutter, sidewalk or retaining wall in, on or along a highway; (e)  constructing a boulevard on a highway; (f)  sodding any part of a highway and planting trees, shrubs and other plants on a highway; (g)  extending a system of gas or heat works, including any related works that may be necessary for supplying gas or heat to the owners of lots for whose benefit the extension is provided; (h)  constructing a park, square or other public place; (i)  constructing a retaining wall, dyke, breakwater, groyne, crib or other shore protection work along a body of water; (j)  constructing and erecting equipment, plant or works on a highway for the purpose of supplying electric light, including standards and underground conduits and wires; (k)  constructing a highway or subway under a railway or another highway; (l)  widening pavement on a highway; (m)  constructing a water service pipe from the water main to the edge of the highway; (n)  constructing a private sewer connection from the main sewer to the edge of the highway; (o)  constructing a drive approach on a highway; (p)  constructing noise abatement works on a highway; and (q)  constructing energy efficiency works or renewable energy works. O. Reg. 586/06, s. 1 (2); O. Reg. 322/12, s. 2 (2, 3). (3) If a municipality undertakes a work as a local improvement, a special charge imposed with respect to the work in accordance with this Regulation has priority lien status as described in section 1 of the Act. O. Reg. 322/12, s. 2 (4).