In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-

"Authority" means the Ghana Highway Authority-,

"authorised person" means an inspector appointed under this Act or a person authorised by the Minister;

"Board" means the governing body of the Ghana Highway Authority;

"District Assembly" includes Municipal and Metropolitan Assembly;

"feeder road" means a public track or an engineered way for vehicular use connecting a rural community to another or a rural community to a road classified as a trunk road;

"maintenance" in the case of a trunk road means preservation of the entire highway, including surface, shoulders, roadsides, structures and such traffic control devices as are necessary for the safe and efficient utilisation of the trunk road;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Roads and Highways;

"Ministry" means the Ministry of Roads and Highways;

"offending activity" includes-

(a) depositing or leaving a disused vehicle or machine or disused part of a vehicle or machine, or any logs, firewood, rubbish or other refuse on a public road;

(b) disposal of storm water on a trunk road or diversion of storm water onto a trunk road;

"related facilities" includes bridges and ferries;

"road" means a way or strip of land open to the public for the purposes of travel as a matter of right and over which abutting property owners have the right of light, air and access, and includes roads, streets, rights-of way, bridges, railway-highway crossings, tunnels, drainage structures, traffic control devices, guardrails and protective structures connected with public ways;

"toll" includes charge levied on a road, bridge or ferry;

"trunk road" includes a public highway, ferry, road camp and traffic device.

"urban road" means a road which falls within the ex-tended urban area of a selected District Assembly;