1.0 SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT.
1.1 These Bye-Laws shall be called “ The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Building Bye – Laws 2003”.
1.2 These Bye-laws shall be applicable within the jurisdiction of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike as notified by the Government under Chapter II of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976.
1.3 These Bye-laws shall come into operation from of June 2004.
2.0 Definitions.
In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires, the expressions given below shall have the meaning indicated against each of them.
2.1 ‘Act’ means the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976.
2.2 ‘agriculture’ includes horticulture, farming, growing of crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers, grass, fodder, trees of any kind or cultivation of soil, breeding and keeping of live stock including cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, fish, poultry and bees, the use of land which is ancillary to the farming of land or any purpose aforesaid but shall not include the use of any land attached to a building for the purpose of garden to be used along with such building; and ‘agriculture’ shall be construed accordingly.
2.3 ‘alteration’ means a structural change such as an addition to the area or height, or the removal of part of building, or any change to the structure such as construction or, cutting into or removal of any wall, partition, column, beam, joint, floor or other support, or a change to or closing of any required means of ingress or egress.
2.4 ‘apartment’ means a part of the property intended for any type of independent use, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces located on one or more floors (or part or parts thereof) in a building, intended to be used for residential purposes and with a direct exit to a public street, road, or highway or to a common area leading to such street, road or highway;
2.5 ‘apartment building / multi dwelling units’ means a building containing four or more apartments / dwelling units, or two or more buildings, each containing two or more apartments / dwelling units with a total of four or more apartments / dwelling units for all such buildings and comprising or part of the property.
2.6 ‘applicant’ means any person who gives notice to the Authority with an intention to erect or re-erect or alter a building.
2.7 ‘Authority’ means the Commissioner of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike or an Officer to whom the powers of sanction of building licences are delegated by the Commissioner.
2.8 ‘balcony’ means a horizontal cantilever projection including a handrail or balustrade, to serve as passage or sit out place.
2.9 ‘basement storey or cellar’ means any storey, which is partly/wholly below the ground level. The basement height should not project more than one metre above the average ground level.