Definitions in Administration in UDCPR 2020

UDCPR 2020 Chapter 1 is all about Administration as per mentioned in the UDCPR 

This is Applicable to all Planning Authorities and Regional Plan Areas except Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Other Planning Authorities/Special Planning Authorities/ Development Authorities within the limit of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, MIDC, NAINA, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Hill Station Municipal Councils, Eco-sensitive/Eco-fragile region notified by MoEF & CC and Lonavala Municipal Council, in Maharashtra.

Rule No. 1.3 Definitions

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions given hereunder, shall have meaning indicated against each of them.

Words and expressions which are not defined in these Regulations, shall have the same meaning or sense as in the :-

i)  Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966

ii)  Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949

iii)  Nagpur Improvement Trust Act, 1936

iv)  Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965

v)  Maharashtra Metropolitan Region Development Authority Act, 2016

vi)  Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966

vii)  Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016

viii)  National Building Code of India, 2016

ix)  Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976

x)  Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance And Redevelopment) Act, 1971

1. Act - means the Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act, 1966 as may be amended from time to time.

2. Addition/Alteration - means any change in existing authorized building or change from one occupancy to another, or a structural change, such as an addition to the area or height, or the removal of part of a building, or any change to the structure, such as the construction of, cutting into or removal of any wall, partition, column, beam, joist, floor, roof or other support or a change to or closing of any required means of ingress or egress or a change to the fixtures of equipment as provided under these regulations. However, modification in regards to gardening, whitewashing, painting, plastering, pointing, paving and retiling shall not be deemed to be alteration.

3. Advertising Sign - means any surface or structure with characters, letters or illustrations applied thereto and displayed outdoors in any manner whatsoever for purposes of advertising or to give information regarding or to attract the public to any place for public performance, article or merchandise whatsoever, or is attached to, or forms a part of the building, or is connected with any building or is fixed to a tree or to the ground or to any pole, screen, fence or hoarding or displayed in space, or in or over any water body.

4. Air-conditioning - means the process of treating air so as to control simultaneously its temperature, humidity, cleanliness and distribution to meet the requirement of conditioned space.

5. Accessory Building - means a building separate from the main building on a plot and containing one or more rooms for accessory use such as servant quarters, garages, store rooms etc.

6. Accessory/Ancillary Use - means any use of the premises subordinate to the principal use and incidental to the principal use.

7. Amenity Space - for the purpose of these regulations, amenity space means a statutory space kept in any layout to be used for any of the amenities such as open spaces, parks recreational grounds, playgrounds, sports complexes, gardens, convenience shopping, parking lots, primary and secondary schools, nursery, health club, Dispensary, Nursing Home, Hospital, sub-post-office, police station, electric substation, ATM of banks, electronic cyber library, open market, garbage bin, assisted living and hospice together, senior citizen housing and orphanage together, project affected persons' housing, auditorium, conventional centre, water supply, electricity supply and includes other utilities, services and conveniences.

8. Annual Statements of Rates - means the Annual Statements of Rates (ASR) published by the Inspector General of Registration, Maharashtra State, Pune.

9. Architectural Projection - means a chajja, cornice, etc. which is a protrusion from the building facade or line of the building only for aesthetic purposes and not used for any habitable purpose.

10. Access - means a clear approach to a plot or a building.

11. Architect - An Architect who is a member of the Indian Institute of Architects and duly registered with the Council of Architecture under the Architects Act, 1972.

12. Apartment - means whether called block, chamber, dwelling unit, flat, office, showroom, shop, godown, premises, suit, tenement, unit or by any other name, means a separate and self-contained part of any immovable property, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces, located on one or more floors or any part thereof, in a building or on a plot of land, used or intended to be used for any residential or commercial use such as residence, office, shop, showroom or godown or for carrying on any business, occupation, profession or trade, or for any other type of use ancillary to the purpose specified.

13. Applicant - means any person who is an owner or a person having an irrevocable registered Power of Attorney of an owner and any other document as acceptable to the Authority.

14. Authority means :

i) in the case of a Municipal Corporation, the Municipal Commissioner or such other officer as he may appoint on this behalf.

ii)  in the case of a Zilla Parishad, the Chief Executive Officer or such other officers as he may appoint on this behalf.

iii)  in the case of a Municipal Council, the Chief Officer of the Council; and

iv)  in the case of any other local authority, Special Planning Authority, New Town Development Authority or Area Development Authority, the Chief Executive Officer or person exercising such powers under Acts applicable to such authorities.

v)  in the area of a Regional Plan, the Collector of the District.

vi)  in the case of Development Authorities established under the Metropolitan Region Development Authorities Act, the Metropolitan Commissioner or such other officer as he may appoint on this behalf.

vii)  in case the land is situated in the gaothan, within the meaning of clause (10) of section 2 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, the village Panchayat concerned.

15. Atrium - means a skylighted and naturally/mechanically ventilated area in a building, with no intermediate floors and used as circulation space or entrance foyer.

16. Balcony - means a horizontal cantilever projection, including parapet, handrail or balustrade to serve as a passage or sitting out place with at least one side open, except for the railing or parapet wall for safety.

Also, the non-cantilever balcony shown in the illustration below shall be treated as a balcony.

17. Basic FSI - means floor Space Index permissible without levy of premium or loading of TDR on any parcel of land as per the provisions of these regulations.

18. Basement/Cellar - means the lower storey of a building below or partly below the ground level with one or more than one level.

19. Biotechnology Unit/Park - means a Unit or a Park which is certified as such by the Development Commissioner (Industries).

20. Building - means any structure for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof whether used as human habitation or not and includes foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, wells, doorsteps, fencing, plumbing and building services, fixed - platforms, verandahs, balcony; cornice or projection, part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall fence enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space and signs and outdoor display structures. However, tents, shamiyanas and the tarpaulin shelters erected for temporary and ceremonial occasions with the permission of the Authority shall not be considered as buildings.

21. Built-up Area - means the area covered by a building on all floors including cantilevered portion, and mezzanine floors, if any, but excluding the areas specifically exempted from the computation of Floor Space Index (F.S.I.) under these Regulations.

22. Building Line - means the line up to which the plinth of a building adjoining a street or an extension of a street or on a future street may lawfully extend. It includes the lines prescribed, if any, in any scheme and/or development plan/Regional Plan, or under any other law in force.

23. Building Height - means the vertical distance measured in the case of flat roofs, from the average level of the ground around and contiguous to the building or as decided by the Authority to the terrace of last floor of the building adjacent to the external walls; to the highest point of the building and in the case of pitched roofs, up to the point where the external surface of the outer wall intersects the finished surface of the sloping roof; and in the case of gable facing road, the mid-point between the eaves level and the ridge. Architectural features serving no other function except that of decoration, terrace water tank, staircase roof and parapet wall shall be excluded for the purpose of measuring heights.

24. Cabin - means a non-residential enclosure constructed of non-load bearing, non-masonry partitions.

25. Carpet area - means the net usable floor area of an apartment, excluding the area covered by the external walls, areas under services shafts, exclusive balcony or veranda area and exclusive open terrace area, but includes the area covered by the internal partition walls of the apartment.

Explanation (1) - The expression "exclusive balcony or veranda area" means the area of the balcony or veranda, as the case may be, which is appurtenant to the net usable floor area of an apartment, meant for the exclusive use of the allottee; and "exclusive open terrace area" means the area of open terrace which is appurtenant to the net usable floor area of an apartment, meant for the exclusive use of the allottee.

Explanation (2) - If in any regulation of these regulations, the carpet area is defined differently than what is mentioned here, then the carpet area as mentioned in that regulation, shall be applicable.

26. Chajja - means a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain and for the purpose of architectural appearance.

27. Chief Fire Officer - means a Chief Fire Officer as specified in the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2006 and Rules there under as amended from time to time.

28. Chimney - means an upright shaft containing one or more flues provided for the conveyance to the outer air of any product of combustion resulting from the operation of heat-producing appliance or equipment employing solid, liquid or gaseous fuel.

29. Cluster - means any area of land so defined, under these regulations.

30. Combustible Material - means a material which when burnt adds heat to a fire when tested for combustibility in accordance with IS 3808-1979 : Method of test for non-combustibility of building materials (first revision) given in the National Building Code.

31. Congested Area - In the case of the Regional Plan area, a land included within the gaothan as determined under Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, and in the case of other areas as specifically earmarked in the Development Plan/Planning Proposal. (In the case of Nashik Municipal Corporation, a congested area is referred to as a Core area).

32. Control Line - means a line on either side of a highway or part of a highway beyond the building line fixed in respect of such highway by the Highway Authority from time to time.

33. Courtyard or Chowk - means a space permanently open to sky enclosed on sides fully or partially by buildings and may be at ground level or any other level within or adjacent to a building.

34. Canopy - means a cantilevered projection over any entrance to a building.

35. Convenience Shops - means shops for day-to-day domestic needs, as distinguished from wholesale trade or departmental stores.

36. Corridor - means a common passage or circulation space including a common entrance space.

37. Curb Cut - means a small solid (usually concrete) ramp that slopes down from the top surface of a sidewalk or footpath to the surface of an adjoining street. It is designated for ease of access for pedestrians, bicyclists and differently-abled people.

38. Detached Building - means a building whose walls and roofs are independent of any other building with marginal distances on all sides as may be specified.

39. Development - Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of buildings, engineering, mining or other operations in or over, or under land or the making of any material change, in any building or land or in the use of any building or land or any material or structural change in any Heritage building or its precinct and includes demolition of any existing building, structure or erection of part of such building, structure or erection and reclamation, redevelopment and layout or sub-division of any land and to develop shall be construed accordingly.

40. Development Rights - means right to carry out development or to develop the land or building or both and shall include the transferable development right in the form of the right to utilize the floor space index of land utilizable either on the remainder of the land partially reserved for a public purpose or elsewhere as the development control & promotion regulations in this behalf provide.

41. Dharmashala - means a building used as a place of religious assembly, a rest house, a place in which charity is exercised with religious or social motives, or a place where in a certain section of people have a right of residence or are granted residence without payment or on nominal payment.

42. Development Plan - means a plan for the development or re-development of the area within the jurisdiction of a Planning Authority and includes revision of a Development Plan and Planning Proposals of a Special Planning Authority for the development of land within its jurisdiction.

43. Drain - means a system or a line of pipes, with their fittings and accessories, such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps, gullies, floor traps used for the drainage of building, or the number of building or land appurtenant to the buildings within the same cartilage. A drain shall also include an open channel for conveying surface water or a system for the removal of any liquid.

44. Dwelling Unit/Tenement - means an independent housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitary requirements.

45. Eating House - means any premises where any kind of food is prepared or supplied for consumption by the public for the profit or gain of any person owning or having an interest in or managing such premises.

46. Enclosed Staircase - means a staircase separated by fire-resistant walls and door(s) from the rest of the building.

47. Energy Efficient Building - means a building compliant with the provisions of the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC).

48. Existing Building or use - means a building, structure or premises or its use existing on the ground.

49. Exit - means a passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storeys or floor area to a street or other open space of safety.

i) “Horizontal Exit” means a protected opening through or around a firewall or a bridge connecting two or more buildings.

ii) “Outside Exit” means an exit from a building to a public way, or to an open area leading to a public way, or to an enclosed fire-resistant passage leading to a public way.

iii) “Vertical Exit” means an exit used for ascension or dissension between two or more levels including stairways, smoke-proof towers, ramps, escalators and fire escapes.

50. External Wall - means an outer wall of a building not being a party wall even though adjoining to a wall of another building and also means a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building.

51. Escalator - means a power-driven, inclined, continuous stairway used for ascending or descending between floors or bridges over a road/railway line.

52. Escape Route - means any well-ventilated corridor, staircase or other circulation space, or any combination of the same, by means of which a safe place in the open air at ground level can be reached.

53. Fire and/or Emergency Alarm System - means an arrangement of call points or detectors, sounders and other equipment for the transmission and indication of alarm signals, for testing of circuits and, whenever required, for the operation of auxiliary services. This device may be workable automatically or manually to alert the occupants in the event of fire or other emergency.

54. Fire Lift - means a special lift designed for the use of fire service personnel in the event of fire or other emergency.

55. Fire Proof Door - means a door or shutter fitted to a wall opening made of fire-resistant material to prevent the transmission and spread of heat, smoke and fire for a specified period.

56. Fire Pump - means a machine driven by external power of transmitting energy to fluids by coupling the pump to a suitable engine or motor, which may have varying outputs/capacity but shall be capable of having a pressure of 3.2 kg/cm2 at the topmost level of a multi-storied or high rise building.

57. Fire Resistance - means the time during which a material fulfils its function of contributing to the fire safety of a building when subjected to prescribed conditions of heat and load or restraint. The fire resistance test of structures shall be done in accordance with "IS 3809 (1979) : Fire resistance test for structures"

58. Fire Resisting Material - means a material which has a certain degree of fire resistance.

59. Fire Separation - means the distance in meters measured from any other building on the site, or from other sites, or from the opposite side of a street or other public space to the building.

60. Fire Service Inlet - means a connection provided at the base of a building for pumping up water through in-built fire-fighting arrangements by fire service pumps in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief Fire Officer.

61. Fire Tower - means an enclosed staircase that can only be approached from the various floors through landings or lobbies separated from both, the floor areas and the staircase by fire-resisting doors and open to the outer air.

62. Floor - means the lower surface in a storey on which one normally walks in a building. The general term floor, unless otherwise specifically mentioned, shall not refer to a mezzanine floor.

Note - The sequential numbering of floors shall be determined by its relation to the determining entrance level. Floors at or above ground level, with direct entrance from/to a road or street shall be termed as the ground floor. The other floors above the ground floor shall be numbered in sequence as Floor 1, Floor 2, etc., with the number increasing upwards. The stilt shall be termed as stilt floor or Stilt floor 1, Stilt floor 2, etc., and floors above shall be numbered as Floor 1, Floor 2, etc.

63. Floor space index (F.S.I.) - means the quotient obtained by dividing the area covered by the P line as mentioned in Regulation No.6.6 by the net area of the plot.

F.S.I. = Area covered by P line as mentioned in Regulation No.6.6 on all floors/Net Plot area

“Premium FSI” means the FSI that may be available on payment of premium as may be prescribed under these regulations.

64. Footing - means a foundation unit constructed in brickwork, masonry or concrete, steel or any other material permissible as per IS Code under the base of a wall or column for the purpose of distributing the load over a large area.

65. Foundation - means that part of the structure that is in direct contact with transmitting loads to the ground.

66. Front Open Space/Margin/Setback - means the distance between the boundary line of the plot abutting the means of access/road/street and the building line. In case of plots facing two or more means of accesses/roads/streets, the plot shall be deemed to front on all such means of accesses/roads/streets.

67. Gallery - means an intermediate floor or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium or a hall providing extra floor area, additional seating accommodation, etc. These shall also include the structures provided for seating in stadia.

68. Garage - A) Private Garage - means a building or portion thereof having a roof and walls on three sides, designed and used for parking of privately owned motor driven or other vehicles within a project. A private garage is not operated for gain and not designed or used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling, etc. of such vehicles. It does not include an unenclosed or uncovered parking space such as an open parking areas.

B) Public Garage - means a building or portion thereof designed as a garage operated for gain, and used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling or storing or parking of motor-driven or other vehicles.

69. Grey Water - means wastewater from kitchen sinks, bathrooms, tubs, showers, wash basins, washing machines, and dishwashers excluding the waste water from water closets (W.C.).

70. Group Housing Scheme - means a building or a group of buildings constructed or to be constructed with one or more floors, consisting of more than one dwelling unit and having common service facilities. Common service facilities mean facilities like staircases, balconies, corridors and verandahs, lifts, etc.

71. Ground Level - means the average level of the ground in a plot.

72. Habitable Room - means a room constructed or intended for human habitation and uses incidental thereto, including kitchen if used as a living room but excluding a bathroom, water closet compartment, laundry, serving and storing pantry, corridor, cellar, attic and spaces not frequently used.

73. Hazardous Material means -

i) Radioactive substances

ii) Material that is highly combustible or explosive and/or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosive emanations or storage, handling, processing or manufacturing of which may involve highly corrosive, toxic, or noxious alkalis or acids or other liquids.

iii) Other liquids or chemicals producing flame, explosives, poisonous irritants, or corrosive gases or which may produce explosive mixtures of dust or fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.

74. High-rise Building - means a building having a height of 24 m. or more above the average surrounding ground level. Excluding chimneys, cooling towers, boilers, rooms/lift machine rooms, cold storage and other non-working areas in case of industrial buildings, and water tanks, and architectural features in respect of other buildings.

75. Home Occupation - means customary home occupation other than the conduct of an eating or a drinking place offering services to the general public, customarily carried out by a member of the family residing on the premises without employing hired labor, and for which there is no display to indicate from the exterior of the building that it is being utilized in whole or in part for any purpose other than a residential or dwelling use, and in connection with which no article or service is sold or exhibited for sale except that which is produced therein, which shall be non-hazardous and not affecting the safety of the inhabitants of the building and the neighborhood, and provided that no mechanical equipment is used except that as is customarily used for purely domestic or household purposes and/or employing licensable goods. Home Occupation may also include similar occupations as specified by the Authority.

76. Layout Open Space/Recreational Open Space - means a statutory common open space kept in any layout, sub-division or group housing scheme or campus planning exclusive of margins and approaches.

77. Ledge or Tand - means a shelf like projection, supported in any manner whatsoever, except by vertical supports within a room.

78. Licensed Engineer/Structural Engineer/Supervisor - means a qualified Engineer/Structural Engineer/Town Planner/Supervisor licensed by the Authority.

79. Lift - means an appliance designed to transport persons or materials between two or more levels in vertical or substantially vertical directions, by means of a guided car platform.

80. Lift Lobby - means a space from which people directly enter lift car(s) and in to which people directly enter upon exiting lift car(s).

81. Lift Machine - means part of the lift equipment comprising the motor(s) and the control gear there with, reduction gear (if any), brakes, and winding drum or sheave, by which the lift car is raised or lowered.

82. Lift Well - means unobstructed space within an enclosure provided for the vertical movement of the lift car(s) and any counterweights, including the lift pit and the space for top clearance.

83. Loft - means an intermediate floor between two floors which is constructed for storage purpose and as defined in these regulations.

84. Mall - means a large enclosed area comprising of shopping, entertainment and eating facilities and facilities incidental thereto.

85. Side and Rear Marginal Open Space/Marginal Distance - means a minimum distance required to be left open to sky between the boundary of the building plot and the building line on respective sides.

86. Masonry - means an assemblage of masonry units properly bound together with mortar.

87. Mezzanine floor - means an intermediate floor between two floors of any story, forming an integral part of floor below, overhanging or overlooking a floor beneath, not being a loft between the floor and ceiling of any storey.

88. Means of Access - means the road/street/vehicular access way, pathway upto the plot and to the building within a plot.

89. Multiplex/Multiplex Theatre Complex (MTC) - means a place of public entertainment for the purpose of an exhibition of motion pictures with multiple screens and/or dramas and other social or cultural programs as described in Maharashtra Entertainment Duty Act, 1923.

90. Net Plot Area - means area of the plot as defined in these regulations.

91. Non-conforming User - means any lawful use/building existed on the site but which does not conform to the zoning shown on the Development Plan/Planning Proposal/Regional Plan in force.

92. Noise Barrier - means an exterior structure/part of structure designed to protect inhabitants of sensitive land use areas from noise pollution.

93. Occupancy or Use Group - means the principal occupancy or use for which a building or a part of a building is used, or intended to be used. Occupancy shall be deemed to include subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon principal occupancy or use. Buildings with mixed occupancies are those in which, more than one, occupancy is present in different portions of the building. The occupancy classification shall have the meaning given in this regulation, unless otherwise spelled out in any plan under the Act.

i) Residential Building means any building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes with or without cooking or dining or both facilities. It includes one or two or multi-family dwellings, lodging or rooming houses, residential hotels, hostels, dormitories, Dharmashala, apartment houses, flats, service apartments, studio apartments and private garages incidental thereto.

ii) Educational Building means 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 incidental thereto such as a library, multi-purpose hall, auditorium or a research institution. It shall also include quarters for essential staff required to reside on the premises and a building used as a hostel attached or independent to an educational institution whether situated on or off its campus and also includes buildings used for day-care purposes for more than 8 hours per week.

iii) Institutional Building means a building constructed or used for research in education, health, and other activities, for medical or other treatment, hostel for working women/persons/students but not for lodging, an auditorium or complex for cultural and allied activities or for a 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 hospitals, sanatoria, custodial and penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental hospitals, houses for correctional detention and reformatories.

iv) Assembly Building means any building or part of a building where groups of people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, or social, religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes, e.g. theatres, motion picture houses, drive-in-theatres, multiplexes, assembly halls, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, mangal-karyalayas, cultural centers, skating rinks, places of worship, dance theatres, clubs & gymkhanas, malls, passenger stations and terminals of air, surface and other public transportation services, recreation piers, and stadia;

v) Business Building means any building or part thereof which is used for transaction of business for the keeping of accounts and records for similar purposes; offices, banks, professional establishments, I.T. establishments, call centres, offices for private entrepreneurs etc. shall be classified in this group in so far as principal function of these is transaction of public business and the keeping of books and records.

vi) Office Building/Premises means the premises whose sole or principal use is to be used as an office or for office purposes; “office purposes” shall include the purpose of administration, clerical work, handling money, telephone/telegraph/computer operations; and ‘clerical work’ shall include writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, typing, filing, duplicating, drawing of matter for publication and the editorial preparation of matter for publication and such other activities.

vii) Mercantile (Commercial) Building means any building or part of a building that is used as shops, stores, market, or malls for the display and sale of merchandise, either wholesale or retail, including office, storage, and service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and located in the same building.

viii) Public/Semi-public Building means a building used or intended to be used, either ordinarily or occasionally by the public such as (a) offices of State or Central Government, any public sector undertaking or statutory or local Authority or Semi semi-government organization (b) a place for public worship, etc.

ix) Wholesale Establishment means an establishment, wholly or partly engaged in wholesale trade, manufacturers’ wholesale outlets including related storage facilities, A.P.M.C. establishments, warehouses, and establishments engaged in truck transport including truck transport booking agencies.

x) Industrial Buildings means any building or part of a building or structure, in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed like assembling plants, laboratories, power plants, smoke houses, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies, factories etc.

xi) Storage Buildings means any building or part of a building used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise, like warehouses, cold storages, freight depots, transit sheds, godowns, store houses, public garages, hangars, truck terminals, grain elevators, barns and stables.

xii) Hazardous Building means any building or part of a building that is used for the storage, handling, manufacture, or processing of radioactive, highly combustible, or explosive materials or products that are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and/or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosive emanations during storage, handling, manufacturing or processing, which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing flames, fumes and explosive mixtures of dust or which result in the division of matter into fine particles capable of spontaneous ignition.

xiii) Information Technology Building/Establishment (ITE) means an establishment which is in the business of developing either software or hardware relating to computers or computer technology as approved by Director of Industries.

xiv) Special Building means - i) any multi-storeyed building which is more than 24 m. in height measured from ground level, or

ii) buildings for educational, assembly, mercantile, institutional, industrial, storage, and hazardous occupancies having a built-up area of 500 Sq.m. or more on any floor irrespective of the height of such building , or

iii) Any building with mixed occupancies with any of the aforesaid occupancies in (ii) above with a built-up area of 500 sq.m. or more on any floor irrespective of the height of such building.

Note : Any building for residential or mix occupancy with height upto 24 m. but built up area upto 750 Sq.m. on any floor and sprinkler system is provided and travel distance is maintained as per these regulations, shall not be considered as special building, subject to fire NOC.

xv) Yatri Niwas means a building used for the accommodation of tourists, traveller, etc.

94. Owner - means a person who has legal title to land or building and includes any person for the time being receiving or entitled to receive, whether on his own account or as an agent, trustee, guardian, manager, or receiver for another person or for any religious or charitable purposes the rents or profits of the property in connection with which it is used.

95. Parapet - means low wall or railing built along the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, verandah, etc.

96. Parking Space - means an enclosed or unenclosed, covered or open area or area provided by mechanical means sufficient in size to park vehicle. Parking spaces shall be served by a driveway connecting them with a street or alley and permitting ingress or egress of vehicles.

97. Partition - means an interior non-load-bearing barrier, one storey or part-storey in height.

98. Permit/Permission - means permission or authorization in writing by the Authority to carry out the work regulated by these regulations.

99. Plinth - means the portion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and the surface of the floor immediately above the ground.

100. Plot/Site - means a parcel or piece of land enclosed by definite boundaries.

101. Pandals/Shamiyanas - means a temporary structure with roof or walls made of canvas, cloth other similar material that is not adopted for permanent or continuous occupancy.

102. Porch - means a covered surface supported on pillars or otherwise, for the purpose of pedestrian or vehicular approach to an entrance in a building.

104. Podium - means a floor of a building extending beyond building line/s and used for parking, recreational open space, recreation, fire, and building services/utilities and incidental purposes, as specified in these regulations.

105. Refuge Area - means an unenclosed space in a multi-storied building specifically provided to serve as fire-proof space to gather easily for evacuation of the occupants.

106. Refuge chute - means a vertical pipe system passing from floor to floor provided with ventilation and inlet openings for receiving refuge from successive flats and ending at the ground floor on top of the collecting chamber.

107. Road/Street - means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passageway, carriageway, footway, square place or bridge, tunnel, underpass, elevated road, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a specified period, whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds, channels, ditches, storm-water drains, culverts, sidewalks, traffic islands, roadside trees, hedges, retaining walls, fences, barriers, and railings within the street lines.

108. Road/Street Line - means the line defining the side limit of a road/street.

109. Road width or Width of road/street - means the whole extent of space within the boundaries of a road when applied to a new road/street, as laid down in the city survey or development plan or prescribed road lines by any act or law and measured at right angles to the course or intended course or direction of such road.

110. Room Height - means the vertical distance measured from the finished floor surface to the finished slab surface of a room. In the case of pitched roofs, the room height shall be the average height between the bottom of the eaves and bottom of the ridge from the finished floor surface.

111. Roof Top Photovoltaic (RTPV) System - means any of the two Photovoltaic Systems installed on the roof of any building, i.e. (i) RTPV System with storage facility using battery, and (ii) Grid Connected RTPV System.

112. Row Housing - means a row of houses with only front and rear open spaces except for end houses which shall have side open spaces.

113. Semi-detached building - a building detached on three sides with marginal distances as specified, and on the fourth side, it is attached to a building in an adjoining plot.

114. Service Apartment - means premises other than a lodge or hotel, in which furnished rooms or a suite of rooms are let out on short/long term basis.

115. Service Floor - means a non-habitable floor with a height not more than 1.8 m. from floor level to soffit of beam, generally provided in special buildings, wherever required, wherefrom services like water supply, sewage disposal system, electricity etc. are coordinated/maintained.

116. Service Road - means a local road on a continuous alignment that normally runs adjacent and parallel to main roads like National or State Highways and provides access to properties bordering it.

117. Site corner - means the side at the junctions of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets.

118. Site, Depth of Site - means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear side boundaries.

119. Solar Assisted Water Heating (SWH) System - means a device to heat water using solar energy as heat source.

120. Double Frontage - means a site, having a frontage on two streets other than a corner plot.

121. Site, Interior, or Tandem - means a site, access to which is by a passage from a street whether such passage forms part of the site or not.

122. Smoke Stop Door - means a door for preventing or checking the spread of smoke from one area to another.

123. Stair Cover/Staircase Room - means a structure with a covering roof over a staircase and its landing built to enclose only the stair and its landings for the purpose of providing protection from weather which should not be used for human habitation.

124. Stall - means a small shop, floor area of which does not exceed 5.0 sq.m.

125. Storage - means a place where goods are stored.

126. Store Room - means a room used as storage space.

127. Storey - means the portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.

128. Stilts or Stilt Floor - means the portion of a building above ground level consisting of structural columns supporting the super-structure with at least two sides open and without any enclosures and used for the purpose of parking vehicles like cars, scooters, cycles, etc., and other services as may be permitted under these Regulations.

129. Sub-station (Electric) - means a station for transforming or converting electricity for the transmission or distribution thereof and includes transformers, converters, switchgears, capacitors, synchronous condensers, structures, cables and other appurtenant equipment and any buildings used for that purpose and the site thereof.

130. Supported Double Height Terraces - means open terraces, unenclosed on at-least one side with railing and lying wholly within building line with supports underneath and having minimum height of two floors.

131. Tenement - means an independent dwelling unit with a kitchen or cooking alcove.

132. Terrace - means an open-to-sky flat roof of a building or part of a building, provided with a parapet for safety and with or without any cantilevered portion.

133. Theatre - means a place of public entertainment for the purposes of exhibition of motion pictures and/or dramas and other social or cultural programs

134. Travel Distance - means the distance from the remotest point on a floor of a building to a place of safety, be it a vertical exit, horizontal exit, or an outside exit measured along the line of travel.

135. Tower-like structure - means a structure in which the height of the tower like portion is at least twice the width of the broader base.

136. Unsafe Building - means buildings which are structurally unsafe, unsanitary or not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress which constitute a fire hazard or are otherwise dangerous to human life or which in relation to existing use constitute a hazard to safety or health or public welfare, by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment.

137. Varandah - means a covered area with at least one side open to the outside with the exception of 1.0 m. high parapet on the upper floors to be provided on the open side.

138. Water Closet (WC) - means a privy with an arrangement for flushing the pan with water. It does not include a bathroom.

139. Water Course - means a natural channel meant for carrying stormwater and includes an artificial one formed by training or diversion of a natural channel;

i) “Major Water Course” means a river.

ii) “Minor Water Course” means a nallah.

140. Window - means an opening to the outside other than the door which provides all or part of the required natural light, ventilation or both, to the interior space.

141. Wing of a Building - means a part of a building with independent access, staircase, and lift connected to other parts with a common basement/stilt/podium/terrace/common wall and connecting passages.

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