Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
With respect to buildings which are to be newly erected the following provisions in addition to the provisions of the by-laws for the time being in force shall have effect, namely:- (a) the erection of any such building on either side of a new street may be dis approved by the Commissioner, unless and until such new street has been levelled, metalled or paved, sewered and drained to the satisfaction of the Commissioner; (b) the erection of any such building in any part of the City in which the position and the direction of the streets likely to be required in future have not yet been laid down or determined or in which it is deemed expedient to lay out a public street under section 205, shall, with the assent of the Standing Committee, be disapproved by the Commissioner, unless the site proposed for such building is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, such as, with reference to the positions occupied by the buildings, if any, already existing in the neighbourhood, will admit of the construction in the future of one or more new streets convenient for the occupiers of all the buildings in the neighbourhood and for the purposes of drainage, water supply and ventilation: When work may be commenced. Provisions as to building which are to be new erected. 1949 : Bom. LIX ] Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 249 Provided that any person whose building is so disapproved may, by written notice to the Commissioner, require that the position and direction of the future street or of the proposed public street under section 205 in the vicinity of his intended building be forthwith laid down and determined and if such requisition be not complied with within six months from the date thereof, may, subject to all other provisions of the Act and the rules applicable thereto, proceed with the erection of the building; (c) the erection of any such building in any part of the City may be disapproved by the Commissioner if such building or any portion thereof copies within the line of any street the position and direction of which has been laid down by the Commissioner, with the approval of the Standing Committee, but which has not been actually constructed, or within the regular line up a new public street or of the extension of an existing public street which the Commissioner has been authorised to lay out under section 205; (d) the foundation of any such building shall not be constructed on any site which has been filled up with, or has been used as a place for depositing, excrementitious matter or the carecasses of dead animals or other filthy or offensive matter, until such matter shall have been properly removed or rendered innocuous to the satisfaction of the Commissioner; (e) the sub-soil of the site of a building shall, whenever the dampness or position of the site renders the precaution necessary, be effectually drained and the Commissioner may require such measures to be taken as will effectually protect the building from damp arising from the sub-soil.