Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Corporation may from time to time make by-laws, not inconsistent with this Act and the rules, with respect to the following matters, namely :– (1) regulating, in any particular not specifically provided for in this Act or the rules, the construction, maintenance, protecting, flushing, cleansing and control of drains, ventilation- shafts or pipes, cess-pools, water-closets, privies, latrines, urinals, washing places, drainage works of every description, whether belonging to the Corporation or other persons, municipal water-works, private communication pipes, private streets and public streets; (2) regulating all matters and things connected with the supply and use of water; (3) regulating the maintenance, supervision and use of public and private cart-stands and the levy of fees for the use of such of them as belong to the Corporation; (4) prescribing the forms of notice under sections 253 and 254, the information, documents and plans to be furnished therewith in respect of different classes of structures or works, the manner in which and the persons by whom notices shall be signed and the manner in which plans, sections, descriptions, structural drawings or structural calculations shall be drawn given, prepared and signed; (5) regulating the manner in which, the supervision under which, the agency through which and the conditions and restrictions under which the work of erecting or re-erecting building of particular classes and any work such as is described in section 254 shall be carried out; (6) the structure of walls, foundations, roofs and chimneys, the number, width and position of staircases, the width of corridors and passages, the materials, dimensions and strength of floors and staircases and of all scantlings, girders, posts and columns of buildings, for securing stability and the prevention of fires and the safety of the inmates in the event of fire and for purposes of health, either generally or with reference to the type of the structure and the use to which it is intended to be put; By-laws for what purpose to be made. 1949 : Bom. LIX ] Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 187 (7) the construction of scaffolding for building operations to secure the safety of the operatives and of the general public; (8) the provision and maintenance of sufficient open space, either external or internal, about buildings to secure a free circulation of air, and of other means for the adequeate ventilation of buildings; (9) the provision and maintenance of suitable means of access to buildings and preventing encroachment theron; 1[(9A) the provision and maintenance of parking space and loading and unloading space, for buildings erected or re-erected in such locality or for such use as may be specified;] (10) the provision and maintenance of house-gullies and service passages; (11) regulating the conditions on which frame buildings may be constructed; (12) regulating the use of land as building sites, prescribing the minimum size of such sites, either generally or for specified areas and prescribing set-backs from the street margin for all or particular classes of buildings on specified streets or classes of streets or in specified localities; (13) regulating the height of structures generally or with reference to the materials of which they are constructed or the width of the streets on which they from of the areas in which they are situated or the pruposes for which they are intended to be used; (14) regulating the number and height above the ground or above the next lower storey of the storeys of which a building may consist; (15) prescribing the form of the completion certificate required under section 263 and the manner in which and the person by whom it shall be signed and subscribed; (16) regulating the intervals at which, the manner in which and the persons by whom buildings shall be periodically inspected under section 265; (17) regulating the management, maintenance, control and use of dwellings intended for the poorer sections of the community vesting in the Corporation; (18) prescribing the qualifications and experience of licensed surveyors, architects, engineers, structural designers, clerks of works and plumbers; (19) regulating in any particular not specifically provided for in this Act conservancy and sanitation, the destruction of rodents and other vermin, preventive and remedial measures against mosquitoes, flies and other insect pests; (20) the control and supervision of all premises used for any of the purposes mentioned in section 376 and of all trades and manufactures carried on thereon and the prescribing and regulating of the construction, dimensions, ventilation, lighting, cleansing, drainage and water-supply of any such premises; (21) the inspection of milch-cattle, and prescribing and regulating the construction, dimensions, ventilation, lighting, cleasning, drainage and water-supply of cattle-sheds and dairies; (22) securing the cleanliness of milk-stores, milk-shops and milk-vessels used by dairymen of milk-sellers for containing milk ; (23) regulating the sale of milk in the City; the protection of milk against contamination and the prevention of the sale of contaminated milk; (24) requiring notice to be given whenever any milch animal is affected with any contagious disease and prescribing precautions to be taken for protecting milch-cattle and milk against infection or contamination;