Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Building bye-laws.- (1) With the approval of the Government the corporation may make bye-laws,- (a) for the regulation or restriction of the use of sites or buildings, and (b) for the regulation or restriction of building. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (1), bye-laws made under that clause may provide,- (a) that no insanitary or dangerous site shall be used for building, and (b) for the regulation or restriction of the construction of buildings intended for public worship on sites. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (1), bye-laws made under that clause may provide for the following matters:- (a) information and plans to be submitted together with applications for permission to build; (b) height of buildings, whether absolute or relative to the width of streets; (c) level and width of foundation, level of lowest floor and stability of structure; (d) number and height of storeys composing a building and height of rooms; (e) provision of sufficient open space, external or internal, and adequate means of ventilation; (f) provision of means of egress in case of fire; (g) provision of secondary means of access for the removal of house refuse; (h) materials and methods of construction of external and party walls, roofs, and floors; (i) position, materials and methods of construction of hearths, smoke escapes, chimneys, staircases, privies, drains, cesspools; (j) paving of yards; (k) restrictions on the use of inflammable materials in buildings; (l) in the case of wells, dimensions of the well, the manner of enclosing it and if the well is intended for drinking purposes, the means which shall be used to prevent pollution of water. (4) Every bye-law made under sub-section (1) relating to grant of licence for the construction or reconstruction of a building shall provide that planting of 185 trees and plants in the premises shall be a condition of every licence granted for the construction or reconstruction of any such building. (5) No piece of land shall be used as a site for the construction of a buildings, and no building shall be constructed or reconstructed otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of any rules or bye-laws made thereunder relating to the use of building sites or the construction or re- construction of buildings. 1[295A. Obligation to provide for rain water harvesting structure.- Every owner or occupier of a building having sital area of not less than 2400 square feet or every owner who propose to construct a building on a sital area of not less than 1200 square feet shall provide rain water harvesting structure for storage for reuse or for ground water recharge within such date as may be notified by the State Government in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be provided in the rules and guidelines issued by the Corporation. Explanation.- For the purpose of this section,- (a) “rain water harvesting” means collection and storage of rain water from roof top of a building or from a vacant land for reuse or for ground water recharge; and (b) “ground water recharge” means recharging of open well or the under ground water table as the case may be, by use of harvested rain water. Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the buildings already provided with rainwater harvesting structure in accordance with section 72 A of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1964.]1