- Definitions,- (a) In these Bye-laws unless the context otherwise requires,-
(1) ‘Access’ – means a clear approach to a plot or a building.
(2) ‘Act’- means the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 (Karnataka Act 22 of 1964);
(3) ‘Addition and/or Alteration’- means a structural change including an addition to the area or change in height or the removal of part of building, or any change to the structure, such as the construction or removal or cutting of any wall or part of a wall, partition, column, beam, joist, floor including a mezzanine floor or other support, or a change to or closing of any required means of access ingress or egress or a change to fixtures or equipment as provided in these Bye laws.
(4) ‘Agriculture’ includes horticulture, farming, growing of crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers, grass, fodder, trees of any kind or any kind of cultivation of soil, breeding and keeping of
livestock 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.
(5) ‘Air-conditioning’- The process of treating air so as to control simultaneously its temperature, humidity, purity, distribution and air movement and pressure to meet the requirements of the conditioned space.
(6) ‘Amalgamation’ means clubbing of two or more properties as a single property.
(7) ‘Amenity’ includes roads, street, open spaces, parks, recreational grounds, play grounds, gardens, water supply, electric supply, street lighting, sewerage, drainage, public works and other utilities, services and conveniences.
(8) ‘Annexure’ means the Annexure appended to these bye-laws;
(9) ‘Apartment' means suite of rooms, which are occupied or which is intended or designed to be occupied by one family for living purpose in an Apartment building. This word is synonymous with residential flat.
(10) ‘Apartment Building/Group Housing' means one or more buildings, each containing more than four Apartments.
(11) ‘Appendix' means Appendix appended to these bye-laws.
(12) ‘Application’ means an application made in such form as may be prescribed by the Authority or as notified by the Government from time to time
(13) ‘Applicant’ means any person who applies to the Authority with an intention to develop building as per these bye-laws. The Applicant shall be the owner of the property or his authorised representative or a promoter authorised by the owner.
(14) ‘Approved’ means as approved/sanctioned by the Authority under applicable Bye-Laws
(15) ‘Architect’- means a person holding a graduate degree in Bachelor of Architecture from any institute recognized by the Council of Architecture (COA) and has his/her name entered in the register of COA for the time being, with a valid COA Registration number
(16) ‘Auditorium’ means Premises having an enclosed space to seat audience and stage for various performances such as concerts, plays, music etc.
(17) ‘Authority’- means the Local Authority which has been created by a statute and which, for the purpose of administering / undertaking the various functions specified in these Byelaws, may authorize a committee or the CEO or any other designated officer of Local Body to act on its behalf; hereinafter called the ‘Authority’.
(18) ‘Balcony’ means a horizontal projection with a handrail or balustrade, to serve as passage or sit out place.
(19) ‘Basement storey or cellar’ means any storey, which is partly / wholly below the average ground level contiguous to the building, with one or more than one level. The basement height should not project more than 1.2m above the average ground level.
(20) ‘Bifurcation of plot’ means division of a plot into two.
(21) ‘Building’- means a Building defined in clause (3) of section 2 of the Act.
Types of Buildings based on use of premises or activity:
(a) ‘Residential Building’- includes a building in which sleeping and living accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes, with cooking facilities and includes one or more family dwellings, apartments/flats, and private garages of such buildings;
(b) ‘Educational Building’- Includes a building exclusively used for a school or college, recognized by the appropriate Board or University, or any other Competent Authority involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational use, and including a building for such other uses as research institution. It shall also include quarters for essential staff required to reside in the premises, and building used as a hostel captive to an educational institution whether situated in its campus or outside;
(c) ‘Institutional Building’- Includes a building constructed by Government, Semi Government Organizations or Registered Trusts and used for medical or other treatment, or for an auditorium or complex for cultural and allied activities or for an hospice, care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, handicap, disease or infirmity, care of orphans, abandoned women, children and infants, convalescents, destitute or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention with restricted liberty of the inmates ordinarily providing sleeping accommodation and includes Dharamshalas, hospitals, sanatoria, custodial and penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental hospitals, houses of correction, detention and reformatories etc;
(d) ‘Assembly Building’- means a building or part thereof, where groups of people (not <50) congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes and this includes buildings of drama and cinemas theatres, drive-in
theatres, assembly halls, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, kalyana mantapas, ‘mangal karyalayas’, skating rinks, gymnasia, restaurants, eating or boarding houses, places of worship, dance halls, clubs, gymkhanas and road, railways, air, sea or other public transportation stations and recreation piers;
(e) ‘Business Building’- Includes any building or part thereof used principally for transaction of business and/or keeping of accounts and records including offices, banks, professional establishments, court houses etc., if their principal function is transaction of business and/or keeping of books and records;
‘Commercial/Mercantile Building’- Includes a building or part thereof used as shops, stores or markets for display and sale of wholesale and or retail goods or merchandise, including office, storage and service facilities incidental thereto and located in the same building;
(g) ‘Industrial Building’- Includes a building or part thereof wherein products or material are fabricated, assembled or processed, such as assembly plants, laboratories, power plants, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies and factories etc.;
(h) ‘Storage Building’- means a building or part thereof used primarily for storage or shelter of goods, wares, merchandise and includes a building used as a warehouse, cold storage, freight depot, transit shed, store house, public garage, hanger, truck terminal, grain elevator, barn and stables;
(i) ‘Hazardous Building’- Includes a building or part thereof used for
(i) Storage, handling, manufacture of processing of radioactive substances or highly combustible or explosive materials or of products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and/or producing poisonous fumes or explosive emanations; and
(ii) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing of which involves highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids, or other liquids, gases or chemicals producing flame, fumes and explosive mixtures etc. or which result in division of matter into fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.
(j) ‘Mixed Land Use Building’- means a building partly used for non-residential activities and partly for residential purpose.
(k) ‘Wholesale Establishment’- means an establishment wholly or partly engaged in wholesale trade and manufacture, wholesale outlets, including related storage facilities, warehouses and establishments engaged in truck transport, including truck transport booking agencies