Haryana Municipal Building Bye-laws 1982

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    "slug": "haryana-municipal-building-bye-laws-1982",
    "title": "Haryana Municipal Building Bye-laws 1982",
    "short_title": "Haryana Municipal Building Bye-laws 1982",
    "act_number": "Published vide Haryana Government Notification No.",
    "act_year": 1982,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Haryana Municipal Building Bye-laws 1982",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(i) 'Act' shall mean the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 ;\n(ii) 'Abut' - A building is said to abut on a street when the outer face of any of its external walls is on the street boundary ;\n(iii) 'Applicant' shall mean a person who gives notice to the municipality of his intention to erect or re-erect a building and shall include his legal representatives ;\n(iv) 'Architect' shall mean a person holding any of the qualifications laid down in Schedule I appended to these bye-laws and duly registered with a committee whether employed for preparation of plans or for supervision of construction or for both ;\n(v) 'Area Plan' shall mean the plan of a space or piece of ground ; a portion of surface ;\n(vi) 'Architectural Control Sheets' shall mean sheets of drawing with directions signed by the [Executive Officer or the Secretary, as the case may be,] and kept in his office showing the measure of Architectural Control and prepared under bye-law 15 ;\n(vii) 'Balcony' shall mean a cantilevered horizontal projection from the wall of a building without any vertical support and having balustrade or railing not exceeding one metre in height to serve as a passage or a sitting out place;\n(viii) 'Barsati' shall mean a habitable space on the roof of the building with toilet facilities;\n(ix) 'Base' applied to a wall or a column, shall mean the underside or that part of the wall or of the column which immediately rests upon the footing or foundation or upon any bressummer or other structure by which such wall or column is carried ;\n(x) 'Basement' or 'Celler' shall mean the lower storey of a building below or partly below ground level ;\n(xi) 'Bressummer' shall mean a wooden beam or re-inforced concrete or a stone slab or a metallic girder which cornices a wall ;\n(xii) 'Building' shall mean 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, plumbing and building services, fixed platforms, verandah, balcony, cornice or projection, part of building or anything affixed thereto or any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any kind of space and signs and outdoor dis-play structures, tents and shamianas as tarpaulin shelters shall not be considered as building ;\n(xiii) 'Building line' shall mean the line upto which the plinth of a building adjoining on a street or an extension of a street or on a future street may lawfully extend and includes the lines prescribed, if any, in any scheme ;\n(xiv) 'Classification of buildings based on occupancy' shall mean all buildings, whether existing or hereafter erected and shall be classified, according to the use or the character of occupancy, in one of the following grounds :-\nGroup A ... 'Residential Buildings'\nGroup B ... 'Public Buildings'\nGroup C ... 'Commercial Buildings'\nGroup D ... 'Warehouses and Industrial Buildings'\n(A) 'Residential Building' shall mean a building used or constructed or adopted to be used wholly or principally for human habitation and includes all garages, stables or other houses appurtenant thereto;\n(B) 'Public Building' shall include a building used or intended to be used either ordinarily or occasionally, as a Church, Chapel, Temple, Mosque or any other place of public worship, Dharamashalla, College, school, hostel, theatre, cinema hall, public concert room, public hall, public bath, hospital, Government offices and those of local bodies, [* * *] lecture room, library, orphanage or rescue room or any other place of public assembly ;\n(C) 'Commercial Buildings' shall mean a building of which the whole or a substantial part, such part being not less than 2/3rd of the entire floor area is used or intended to be used for business purpose ; and\n(D) 'Warehouse and Industrial Building' shall mean a building wholly or principally used as a factory, a workshop, motor-garage, warehouse, laundry, brewery, distillery, iron foundry or for any other similar purpose.\n(xv) 'Canopy' shall mean a cantilevered projection from the face of a wall over an entrance to the building at the lintel level provided that, -\n(a) it shall not exceed five square meters in area ;\n(b) it shall not be lower than 2.3 metres when measured from the ground;\n(c) it shall not be allowed at more than one entry ;\n(d) it shall not extend 1.8 metres beyond the building line ; and\n(e) there shall be no platform underneath it ;\n(xvi) 'Chhaja' or 'Sunshade' shall mean a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain ;\n(xvii) 'Chimney' shall mean an upright shaft containing and encasing one or more flues ;\n(xviii) 'Courtyard' shall mean a space open to the sky within the boundary of a plot, which is enclosed or partially enclosed, by building, boundary-walls or railing and may be at the ground-floor level or any other level within or adjacent to a building ;\n(xix) 'Covered Area' shall mean ground immediately above the plinth level covered by the building but does not include the spaces covered by :-\n(a) garden, rockery, well and well structures, plant nursery, waterpool, swimming pool (if uncovered), platform round a tree, tank, fountain, bench, Chabutra with open top and unenclosed on sides by walls and the like ;\n(b) drainage culvert, conduit, catch-pit, gully-pit, chamber, gutter and the like ; and\n(c) compound wall, gate, unstoreyed porch and portico, slide, swing, uncovered staircases, areas covered by Chhajja and the like ;\nNote. - For the purpose of these bye-laws, covered area equals the plot area minus the area due for open spaces.\n(xx) 'Damp proof' shall mean a course consisting of some appropriate water proofing material provided to prevent penetration of dampness or moisture from any part of the structure to any other part at a height of not less than 15 cms. above the surface of the adjoining ground;\n(xxi) 'Detached Building' shall mean a building whose walls and roofs are independent of any other building with open space on all sides ;\n(xxii) 'Drainage' shall mean act, process, method or means of drainage, mode of discharge of water ; the system of drains ;\n(xxiii) 'Engineer' shall mean a person holding any of the qualifications laid down in Scheduled II appended to these bye-laws and duly registered with any Class 'A' or 'B' committee, whether engaged for the supervision, construction or for the preparation of structural drawing or both ;\n(xxiv) 'Erect or re-erect any building' includes :-\n(a) any material alteration or enlargement of any building ;\n(b) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation ;\n(c) the conversion into more than one place 'for human habitation, of a building originally constructed as one such place ;\n(d) the conversion of two or more places of human habitations into a greater number of such places ;\n(e) such alterations of a building as affect an alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrangement or materially affect its security ;\n(f) the addition of any rooms, buildings, out-houses or any other structures to any buildings ; and\n(g) the construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on such street or land ;\n(xxv) 'Exit' shall mean a passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storeys or floor area to a street or other open space of safety ;\n(xxvi) 'External wall' shall mean an outer wall or vertical enclosure of any building not being a party wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building and shall also include a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building but shall not include an outer verandah wall.\n(xxvii) 'Factory' shall have the same meaning as given to it in the Factories Act, 1948 (Act 63 of 1948) ;\n(xxviii) 'Floor Area' shall mean usable covered area of a building at any floor level;\n(xxix) 'Floor Area Ratio' or 'F.A.R.' shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing the multiple of the total of the covered area (plinth area) on all floors and 100 by the areas of the plot i.e. -\n(xxx) 'Flue' shall mean a confined space provided for the conveyance to the outer air of any product of combustion resulting from the operation of any heat-producing appliance or equipment employing solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel ;\n(xxxi) 'Foundation' shall mean that part of a structure which is below the lower most floor and which provides support for the superstructure and which transmits loads of the super-structure to the bearing materials;\n(xxxii) 'Framed Building' shall mean a building the external walls of which are constructed of a frame of timber, iron, reinforced cement concrete or steel and such framing consisting of posts or columns and beams, filled in, wholly or partially with bricks, stones, iron-plates or other material ; and the stability of which depends upon such framing ;\n(xxxiii) 'Front' as applied to a building shall mean generally the portion facing the street from which it has access and in case of doubt as determined by the Executive Officer or Secretary as the case may be ;\n(xxxiv) 'Front Air Line' shall mean the plane contained between the ground in front of the building and the straight lines downwards and outwards from the line of intersection of the outer surface of any front wall of the building with the roof perpendicular to that line, and at an angle of 63½ degrees to the horizontal ;\nNote. - The 63½ degrees angle has a tangent of 2:1 so that if the ground is level the air plane reaches the ground at a distance from the exterior wall equal to half the height of the structure above the level of that ground.\n(xxxv) 'Garage' shall mean a building or portion thereof, used or intended to be used for shelter, storage or parking of a wheeled vehicle ;\n(xxxvi) 'Ground Floor' shall mean the floor surface immediately above the ground around the building ;\n(xxxvii) 'Habitable room' shall mean a room occupied or designed for occupancy by one or more persons for study, living, sleeping, eating, kitchen if it is used as a living room, but not including bathrooms, water-closet, compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, cellars, attic and spaces that are not used frequently or during extended periods :\n[(xxxvii-a) 'hearing disabilities' mean deafness or hearing handicaps that might make an individual insecure in public areas because he is unable to communicate or hear warning signals;]\n(xxxviii) (a) 'Height' (as applied to a building) shall mean the vertical distance measured, in the case of flat roofs from the average level of the centre line of the adjoining street to the highest point of the buildings adjacent to the street wall, and in the case of pitched roofs, upto the point where the external surface of the outer wall intersects the finished surface of the sloping roof and in case of gable facing the road, the mid-point between the eaves level and the ridge, architectural features serving no other function except that of a decoration shall be excluded for the purpose of taking heights, and if the building does not abut on a street the height shall be measured above the average level of the ground around and contiguous to the building;\n(b) 'Height' (as applied to a room) shall mean the vertical distance measured from the finished floor surface to the finished ceiling surface. Where a finished ceiling is not provided, the underside of the joints or beams or tie beams shall determine the upper point of measurement and in the case of sloping ceiling the 'height' shall be the mean height of any such room, provided that at no point shall it be less than 2.3 meters.\n(xxxix) 'Lay-out plan' shall mean the plan showing arrangement of building on ground ;\n(xl) 'Licensed Plumber' shall mean a person registered by the committee for the purpose of these bye-laws and possession on the qualifications as laid down in Scheduled III appended to these bye-laws ;\n(xli) 'Light Plane' shall mean the plane lying between the line of intersection of the floor of any room in a building with the outer surface or an exterior wall of the building and the straight lines drawn upwards from that line perpendicular thereto and at an angle of 63-1/3 degrees to the horizontal ;\nNote. - For the purpose of the definition of light plane the outer surface of any verandah abutting on an interior side open space shall be considered to be the exterior wall of the building.\n(xlii) 'Load Bearing Wall' shall mean a wall designed to carry super imposed road in addition to its own road ;\n(xliii) 'Dead Load' shall mean the weight of all permanent stationery construction becoming a part of the structure;\n(xliv) 'Live Load' shall mean all load except dead load that may be imposed on a structure ; and wind loads shall be considered as live loads ;\n(xlv) 'Loft' shall mean an intermediary floor in between two main floors but not more than 1.5 metres in height which may be adopted or constructed for storage purpose ;\n(xlvi) 'Mamti' or 'Stair Cover' shall mean a structure erected on the roof of a building at the head of a staircase to protect such a staircase from weather and not used for human habitation;\n(xlvii) 'Material change of use' shall mean a change of whole or any part of building from one class of building to another ;\n(xlviii) 'Mezzanine floor' shall mean an intermediate floor in between two main floors, above ground level with area of mezzanine restricted to one-third of the area of that floor and with a minimum height of 2.3 metres and shall not be lower than 2.3 metres above floor level;\n[(xlviii-a) 'non-ambulatory disabilities' mean impairments that regardless of cause or manifestation, for all practical purposes, confine individuals to wheelchairs;]\n(xlix) ' Occupier' shall include any person for the time being, paying or liable to pay rent or any portion of rent of the building in respect of which the word is used, or compensation or premium on account of the occupation of such building and also a rent-free tenant, but does not include a lodger, and the words 'occupy' and 'occupation' do not refer to the lodger.\n(I) 'Open space' shall mean an area forming an integral part of the plot open to the sky ;\n(li) 'Owner' shall mean the person who receives the rent for the use of the land or building or would be entitled to do so if they were let. It also includes:-\n(a) an agent or trustee who receives such rent on behalf of the owner;\n(b) a receiver, executor or administrator or a manager appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge, of or to exercise the rights of the owner;\n(c) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of or is entrusted with or is concerned with any building devoted to religious or charitable purposes; and\n(d) a mortgagee in possession.\n(lii) 'Parapet' shall mean a low wall built along the edge of a roof or a floor not more than 1 metre in height ;\n(liii) 'Part wall' means :-\n(a) a wall forming part of a building, and being used or constructed to be used in any part of the height or length of such wall for separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners or occupied or constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons ; or\n(b) a wall forming part of a building and standing in any part of the length of such wall, to a greater extent than the projection of the footing on one side on the grounds of different owners ;\n(liv) 'Partition wall' shall mean an interior non-load bearing wall, one storey or less in height;\n(lv) 'Party wall' shall mean a common wall partly constructed on the plot of land, and partly on the adjoining plot and serving both structurally ;\n(lvi) 'Plinth' shall mean the portion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and surface of the floor, immediately first above the ground ;\n(lvii) 'Plinth Area' shall mean the built-up covered area measured at the floor level of the basement or of any storey ;\n(lviii) 'Plinth level' shall mean the level of the ground-floor of a building above the surrounding ground ;\n(lix) 'Plinth height' shall mean the height of the ground floor above the adjoining street level, measured from the level of the centre of the street ;\n(lx) 'Plot' shall mean a parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by one main building, together with its accessory buildings and used customarily and incidental to it, including the open spaces required by these bye-laws and having frontage upon a street or upon a private way that has been approved by the authority having jurisdiction ;\n(lxi) 'Premises' shall mean passages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure ;\n(lxii) 'Public sewer' shall mean a sewer constructed and maintained by Government or local authority ;\n(lxiii) 'Rain Water Pipe' shall mean a pipe or drain situated wholly above ground and used or constructed to be used solely for carrying off rain water directly from roof surfaces ;\n(lxiv) 'Rear air plane' shall mean the plane contained between the ground behind the building and the straight line drawn downwards and outwards from the line of intersection of the outer surface of any rear wall of the building with the roof perpendicular to that line, and at an angle 63½ degrees to the horizontal ;\n(lxv) 'Row Housing' shall mean a row of houses with only front, rear and interior open spaces ;\n[(lxv-a) 'semi-ambulatory disabilities' mean impairments that cause individuals to walk with difficulty or insecurity, Individuals using braces or crutches, amputees, arthritics, spastics and those with pulmonary and cardiac ills may be semi-ambulatory;]\n(lxvi) 'Semi-detached Building' shall mean a building detached on three sides with open spaces ;\n(lxvii) [-]\n(lxviii) 'Set Back Line' shall mean a line usually parallel to the plot boundaries and laid down in each case by the municipality beyond which nothing can be constructed towards the plot boundaries ;\n[(lxviii-a) 'sight disabilities' mean total blindness or impairments affecting sight to the extent that the individual, functioning in public areas, is insecure or exposed to danger;]\n(lxix) 'Special Areas' shall mean the areas shown as such on the zoning plans in which architectural control sheet apply;\n(lxx) 'Shear Wall' shall mean a wall designed to carry horizontal forces acting in its plane with or without imposed loads ;\n(lxxi) 'Site' shall mean a parcel (piece) of land defined by definite boundaries;\n(lxxii) 'Storage tank' shall mean a tank or a cistern for storage of water which is connected to the water main by means of a supply pipe ;\n(lxxiii) 'Storey' shall mean any horizontal division of a building so constructed as to be capable of being used as living apartment, although such horizontal division may not extend over the whole depth or width of the building, but shall not include mezzanine floor ;\n(lxxiv) 'Street' shall mean any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway passageway, carriageway, footway, square, place or bridge whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have 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 bonds, channels, ditches, stormwater drains, culverts, sidewalks, traffic islands, road side trees and hedges, retaining walls, fences, barriers and railings within the street lines ;\n(lxxv) 'Street level' shall mean the officially established elevation or grade of the centre line of the street upon which a plot fronts and if there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street at its mid point ;\n(lxxvi) 'Street line' shall mean the line defining the side limits of a street ;\n(lxxvii) 'Structural Wall' shall mean a load bearing wall, i.e., a wall that carries load in addition to its own load ;\n(lxxviii)'Sub-soil drain' shall mean a drain used or constructed to be used solely for conveying to any sewer (either directly or through another drain) any water that may percolate through the sub-soil ;\n(lxxix) 'Temporary Buildings' shall mean a building built of unburnt bricks, burnt bricks without mortar, corrugated iron bamboo thatch, wood, boarding or plywood but shall not include a building built of burnt bricks, cement blocks or stones laid in mortar ;\n(lxxx) 'Unsafe building' shall mean those buildings which are structurally unsafe, insanitary or not provided with adequate means of egress or which constitute a fireazard or are otherwise dangerous for 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;\n(lxxxi) 'Ventilation' shall mean the supply of outside air into a building through window or other openings due to wind outside and convection effects arising from temperature or vapour pressure difference (or both) between inside and outside of the building ;\n(lxxxii) 'Water Closet' shall mean a privy with arrangement for furnishing the pan with water. It does not include a bath-room ;\n[(lxxxii-a) Water seal latrine shall mean a latrine with a minimum water seal of 20 mm in which excreta is pused in or flushed by water and is not required to be removed manually;]\n[(lxxxii-b) 'Wheel chair' means chair used by disabled people for mobility. The standard size of wheel chair shall be taken as 1050 millimeter x 750 millimeter;]\n(lxxxiii) 'Zoning Plan' shall mean the detailed layout plan of the municipal area or part thereof maintained in the office of the municipality showing the sub-division plots, open spaces, streets, position of protected trees and other features in respect of each plot, permitted land use, building lines and restriction with regard to the use and development of each plot in addition to those laid down in the building bye-laws ;\n(lxxxiv) 'Words and expressions' not defined in the bye-laws shall have the same meaning as are assigned to them in the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973.\nPart-II\nProcedure for submission of application for building permit and execution of works.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Application for erection or re-erection of building.",
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            "content": "(a) a site plan as required by bye-law 4;\n(b) a building plan or plans as required by bye-law 5; and\n(c) details of specifications of the work to be executed in Form BR II :",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Site Plan.",
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            "content": "(a) 1 : 200 for sites upto 1000 sq. metres ;\n(b) 1 : 400 for sites above 1000 sq. metres and below 4500 square metres;\n(c) 1 : 800 for sites of 4500 square metres and above.\n(a) the boundaries of the site ;\n(b) the direction of the North point relative to the site ;\n(c) the street and road adjoining the site with their width clearly dimensioned and names (if any given), all existing roadside trees, lamp posts, electric, telegraph or telephone lines or poles or any other features or structures likely to affect the approach to the building;\n(d) surrounding buildings in outline within a distance of 12 metres from the boundaries of the site ;\n(e) all existing buildings or structures on, over and under the site or projecting beyond it in outlines besides distinctly indicating the proposed buildings including the number of storeys ;\n(f) the area and proportion of the site to be covered by building and the area which is not to be built upon ;\n(g) the levels of the site and of the plinth of the building in relation to those of the neighbouring streets, the levels of the all courtyards and open spaces in relation to the bed levels of the existing drains and sewers in the street or streets into which the building or site is to be drained ;\n(h) means of access from the street to the building which the applicant intends to build;\n(i) method of disposal of waste water, sewerage and storm water ; and\n(j) position of water main.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Building plan.",
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            "content": "(a) 1 : 50 for plots upto 1,000 squire metres in size ;\n(b) 1 : 100 for plots over 1,000 square metres.\n(a) the plans of all the floors, all external elevations and sections (longitudal and cross) illustrating distinctly all the different levels through floors, stair-cases, W.C. bath, kitchen end garage ;\n(b) the plinth level of the building with reference to the level at the centre of the street or streets on which the proposed building is to abut ;\n(c) the scheduled indicating the sizes of the doors, windows, openings and other methods of ventilation of each room ;\n(d) the means of access to the building and its various floors together with the means of escape in case of fire, if required under the specific rules ;\n(e) in the case of proposed additions and alterations to an existing building, all new works shall be indicated on the plan by an indelible distinctive colour as required by bye-law 6;\n(f) the proposed method of drainage, including the position, forms and dimensions of all privies, [water seal latrine] urinals, drains and the method of disposal of sewage, sullage and storm water in full detail ;\n(g) terrace plan indicating the drainage and slopes in the roof ;\n(h) north point relative to the plan to the building ;\n(i) dimensions of the projected portions beyond the permissible building line;\n[(j) the fire protection equipment as per the provisions of the National Building Code of India, 1983 (Part IV), as amended from time to time.]\nNote. - In case of large buildings, various blocks of the building may be drawn on separate sheets.\n[(j) building plans of the buildings namely, industries with hot-water requirements for processing, hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, motels, banquet halls, guest houses, lodges, barat ghars, kalyan mandaps and building of similar use, barracks of armed forces, paramilitary forces, police, canteens, group housing society complexes, residential buildings on a plot of 500 square yards and above and all Government buildings, hostels of schools, colleges, technical/vocational institutions, tourist complexes and universities showing the solar water heating system; conforming to BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) as Specifications IS 12933.]",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Colouring the plan.",
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            "content": "Item\nItem\nSite Plan\nSite Plan\nBuilding Plan\nBuilding Plan\nExisting work\nWhite Plan\nBlue Print\nWhite Plan\nBlue Print\nBlack outline\nWhite\nBlack\nWhite\nProposed work\nRed filled in\nRed\nRed\nRed\nDrainage and Sewerage work\nRed dotted\nRed dotted\nRed dotted\nRed dotted\nWater-supply work\nBlack dotted\nBlack dotted\nBlack dotted\nBlack dotted\nWork proposed to be dismantled\nYellow hatchet\nYellow hatchet\nYellow hatchet\nYellow hatchet\nOpen spaces\nNo colour\nNo colour\n...\n...\nPlot lines\nThick black\nThick black\n...\n...\nPermissible\nThick dotted\nThick dotted\n...\n...\nBuilding lines\nBlack\nBlack\n...\n...\nExisting streets\nGreen\nGreen\n...\n...\nFuture street, if any\nGreen dotted\nGreen dotted\n...\nWork to be regularised or deviation made\nRed hatchet\nRed hatchet\nRed hatchet\nRed hatchet\n*[Fire Safety\nOrange dotted\nOrange dotted\nOrange dotted\nOrange dotted.]\n*Added by Haryana Government Notification No. S.O.1/H.A. 24/1973/Sections 201, 202 and 214/2000 dated 21st December, 2000.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Type or design.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Information necessary to validate application.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Sanction to erect or re-erect.",
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            "sort_order": 8
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Validity of sanctioned plans.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Notice of commencement of work.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Occupation of building.",
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            "content": "Part-III\nSiting, Planning and Architectural Control",
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            "sort_order": 11
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Use of site, type and character of building.",
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            "content": "[(b) Every building that may be erected or re-erected on site shall, in addition to other restrictions, comply with the provisions made in the National Building Code of India 1983 (Part IV), with regard to fire safety.]\n(b) Each plot shall be accessible separately and independently through a public road laid out and constructed to the satisfaction of the committee.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Proportion of the site which may be covered with building.",
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            "content": "(A) Residential\nArea of the plot\nArea of the plot\nMaximum permissible coverage\nMaximum permissible coverage\n(i) (a) for the\n\t\t\tfirst 225 sq. metres of the total area of the site.\n55% of the areas of the site.\n(b) for the next\n\t\t\t225 sq. metres i.e. portion of the area between 225 and 450 sq.\n\t\t\tmetres\n35% of the such portion of the site.\n(c) for the\n\t\t\tremaining portion of the site i.e. for the portion of the area\n\t\t\texceeding 450 sq. metres.\n25% of such portion of the site.\n(ii) Subject to the restriction shown in the zoning plan of Architectural/frame control sheets no building shall contain more than 2 storeys. However, any building may have a Mamti or Barsati with toilet facilities and the total area to be covered excluding the stair-case shall not exceed 25% of the maximum permissible coverage on the ground floor or 50 sq. metres, whichever is less.\n(iii) A basement not exceeding 50% of the total permissible coverage on the ground floor intended to be used as storage and godown may be allowed if it satisfies the public health and structural requirements :\n[(B) Industrial]\nMaximum permissible coverage on the ground\nMaximum permissible floor Area/Ratio excluding the ancillary\n\t\t\t\tzone\nMaximum Height of the industrial building excluding chimney\n60% of area of the site\n125.00%\n21 metres.\"\n(C) Commercial\n(D) Public Buildings\nArea\n\t\t\t\tof plot\nArea\n\t\t\t\tof plot\nMaximum\n\t\t\t\tpermissible coverage\nMaximum\n\t\t\t\tpermissible coverage\n(1)\n(2)\nUpto 10,000 sq. metres\n33-1/3% of the area of the plot.\nAbove 10,000 sq. metres\n25% of the area of the plot.\n(ii) F.A.R.\n(a) Maximum F.A.R. = 100%\n(b) Maximum height = 20 metres.\n(i) pergola constructed purely for architectural effects ;\n(ii) a canopy, sunshade, chajja, balcony, or an architrave cantilevers from the face of any wall :\n(iii) cantilevered projections referred to in clause (ii) in the case of plots where architectural or frame control does not apply, projecting not more than 1.80 metres beyond the building lines in the front and rear of the main residential building and 1.00 metre along the sides thereof, when measured at right angle to the outer face of the respective wall;\n(iv) any such projection referred to in clause (ii) shall not be lower than 2.3 metres when measured from the ground.",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Architectural Control.",
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            "content": "(a) Compulsory elevations for a particular building or a row of buildings.\n(b) Compulsory height on the front or on any side exposed to view from a street upon which a building shall have to be erected and completed within a certain period.\n(c) Compulsory height of floors.\n(d) Compulsory height and design of sills and top of windows in the first and higher storey.\n(e) Compulsory building line along which the building shall have to be erected and completed within a certain period.\n(f) Compulsory type designs of balconies.\n(g) Compulsory use of materials, texure and colour.",
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            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Building lines.",
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            "content": "(i) Front Set Back :\n(a) If the depth of the plot is as shown in column (1) below, the minimum front set back forming an integral part of the site, the building from the boundary of the plot shall be as shown in column (2) below :-\nDepth of the plot\nDepth of the plot\nMinimum set back from the boundary of the plot\nMinimum set back from the boundary of the plot\n1\n2\nUpto 10 metres\n1 metre\nAbove 10 metres and upto 20 metres\n2 metres\nAbove 20 metres but not exceeding 30 metres\n3 metres\nAbove 30 metres but not exceeding 40 metres\n5 metres\nAbove 40 metres but not exceeding 50 metres\n7.5 metres\nAbove 50 metres but not exceeding 60 metres\n9 metres\nAbove 60 metres\n12. 5 metres\n(b) (i) No construction work of a building shall, however, be undertaken within 4.5 metres from the centre line of any street as determined by the committee.\nNote - This limiting distance shall be determined by the committee for the individual road-street width taking into account the traffic flow.\n(ii) Rear Set Back :-\n(iii) Side Set back :",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Maximum height of a building.",
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            "content": "(a) (i) when the width of the street is less than 3.5 metres the maximum height shall be 4.6 metres ;\n(ii) when the width of the street is 3.5 metres or more but less than 7.6 metres, the a maximum height shall be 10.6 metres :\n(iii) when the width of the street is 7.6 metres or more but less than 1.2 metres the maximum height shall be 12.2 metres ;\n(iv) when the width of the street is 12.2 metres or more the maximum height shall be the width of the street ;\n(v) where the building abuts [on] more than one street, its maximum height shall be regulated by the width of such street so far as it abuts upon such wider street and also, to a distance of 24.4 metres from such wider street in so far as it abuts up on the narrow of such streets ;\n(1) if the face of the building is set back from the street for nay distance not exceeding the height specified above as applicable to the case such building may be erected or raised to a height greater than that so specified, but not so that, any portion of the building shall intersect any of a series of imaginary straight lines drawn from the set back line in the direction of the portion set back, at an angle of 45 degrees with the horizontal ;\n(2) if a building is to be erected upon a corner plot, its height shall be regulated by the width of the two adjoining streets upon a point not more than 24.4 metres from the wider street;\n(3) the height of mamties, parapat walls, lift rooms, water storage tank and cooling towers shall not be taken into account when calculating the maximum height of a building hereinbefore prescribed ;\n(4) the height of a building on muchamahaz (dead load of street) shall be regulated by the width of the street.\n(b) for buildings in the vicinity of aerodromes, the maximum height of such buildings shall be decided in consultation with the Civil Aviation authorities.",
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            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Height of mezzanine storey and internal balconies.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Minimum provision with regard to residential buildings.",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Minimum area of courtyard for the purposes of ventilation.",
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            "content": "(a) only one half of the floor area of such rooms and verandahs as abut on another courtyard or an open space or road of not less than 4 metres in width shall be taken in account ;\n(b) any room which is separated only by an open verandah from the courtyard shall, for the purpose of this bye-law, be deemed to abut on such courtyard ; and\n(c) the area of the courtyard for the purpose of this rule shall be area open to sky, clear of all projections.",
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            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Minimum height, size and other requirement of ventilation regarding a habitable room and kitchen.",
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            "content": "(i) the height shall not be less than 2.75 metres measured from the surface of the floor to the lowest point of ceiling (bottom of slab). In case of air- conditioned rooms, a height not less than 2.4 metres measured from the surface of the floor to the lowest point of the air-conditioning duct or the false ceiling shall be provided ; and\n(ii) the area shall not be less than 9.5 square metres where there is only one room with a minimum width of 2.4 metres. Where there are two rooms one of these shall be less than 9.5 sq. metres and the other shall not be less than 7.5 sq. metres a minimum width of 2.4 metres.\n(b) In case of kitchen, -\n(i) the height measured from the surface of the floor to the lowest point in the ceiling (bottom of slab) shall not be less than 2.75 metres except for the portion to accommodate floor trap of the upper floor ; and\n(ii) the area shall not be less than 5.5 sq. metres and with a minimum width of 1.8 metres. Where there is a separate store, the floor area of the kitchen may be reduced to 4.5 sq. metres. A kitchen which is intended for use as a dinning room also, shall have a floor area of not less than 9.5 sq. metres with a minimum width of 2.4 metres.\n(c) Every room to be used as kitchen shall have -\n(i) unless separately provided in, a pantry, means for the washing of kitchen utensils, which shall lead directly or through a sink to a grated and trapped connection to the waste pipe :\n(ii) an impermeable room ; and\n(iii) a flue, if found necessary.",
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            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Bath room and water closet.",
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            "content": "(b) The minimum floor area of a water closet shall be 1.1 sq. metres, the smallest side being 0.95 metre.\n(c) The minimum area of a dry latrine, where no sewerage facility exist shall be not less than 1.75 sq. metres of which the smallest side shall be not less than one metre.\n(d) The bath room and the water closet shall be provided with a permanent ventilation of a minimum of 0.2 sq. metre in addition to the door and window opening directly to the outside which shall be not less than one forth of the floor area.\n(e) the minimum height of bath rooms and water closets shall not be less than 2.3 metres.",
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            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Height of boundary wall, fence and type of gate.",
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            "number": "23A",
            "title": "23A. Rain-Water Harvesting.",
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            "content": "(b) the system of collection, conveyance and dispersion of rain-water for harvesting shall be made in such a manner that only clear-water is able to enter. No contaminated waste water from the building or surrounding area should find its way in this system.\n(c) The entry points of the rain-water for harvesting shall be designed in such a manner that in normal days, these remain covered. Arrangements of segregation of the rain-water from the first shower (containing wash water) shall also be there.\n(d) The arrangement of quick filtration of rain-water also be made in the rain-water harvesting well/tubewell so that rain-water does not pollute or choke the strata.\n(e) the complete system of rain-water harvesting will be constructed within plot area available with the owner.\n(f) The recharge well shall be located at a distance of not less than 10 meters away from any structure handling sewage industrial waste water (such as septic tank or effluent treatment plant etc.) This minimum distance of 10 meters will not be applicable to manholes or sewer lines although it will be ensured that they are leak proof.\n(g) the detail proposal of the system comprising collections, conveyance and dispersion of rain-water harvesting well/tubewell will have to be shown on the building plan submitted for approval.\n(h) Any Engineer not below the rank of Sub Divisional Engineer/Municipal Engineer will have the powers to inspect the system whenever considered necessary and the owner of building will ensure compliance.\n(i) Urban Development Department, Haryana shall notify the area where such rain-water harvesting system is to be provided. Broad guidelines about the approximate depth of the recharge well and the sample strata chart will also be made available.\n(j) The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (Act 6 of 1974), with all amendments made from time to time shall be applicable.\n[Part-III A]\nProvision/facilities for physical handicapped persons",
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            "number": "23B",
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            "number": "23C",
            "title": "23C. Site Development.",
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            "content": "(i) Access Path/Walk Way. - Access path from plot entry and surface parking to building entrance shall be minimum of 1800 millimetre wide having even surface without any steps. Slope, if any, shall not have gradient greater than 5%. Selection of floor material shall be made suitably to attract to guide visually impaired persons (limited to coloured floor material whose colour and brightness is conspicuously different from that of the surrounding floor material or the material that emit different sound to guide visually impaired persons hereinafter referred to as \"guiding floor material\"). Finishes shall have a non-slip surface with a texture traversable by a wheel chair. Curbs wherever provided shall blend to a common level.\nAccess Path/Walk Way.\n(ii) Parking. - For parking of vehicles of handicapped people the following provisions shall be made :\nParking.\n(a) surface parking for two car spaces shall be provided near entrance for the physically handicapped persons with maximum travel distance of 30.0 metres from building entrance;\n(b) the width of parking bay shall be minimum 3.6 metres;\n(c) the information stating that the space is reserved for wheel chair users shall be conspicuously displayed;\n(d) guiding floor materials shall be provided or a device which guides visually impaired persons with audible signals or other devices which serves the same purpose shall be provided.",
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            "number": "23D",
            "title": "23D. Building Requirements.",
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            "content": "(1) Approach to plinth level. - Every building shall have at least one entrance accessible to the handicapped and shall be indicated by proper signage. This entrance shall be approached through a ramp together with the stepped entry.\nApproach to plinth level.\n(i) Ramped Approach. - Ramp shall be finished with non-slip material to enter the building. Minimum width of ramp shall be 1800 millimetre with maximum gradient 1:12, length of ramp shall not exceed 9.0 metres having 800 millimetre high handrail on both sides extending 300 millimetre beyond top and bottom of the ramp. Minimum gap from the adjacent wall to the handrail shall be 50 millimeter.\n(i) Ramped Approach.\n(ii) Stepped Approach. - For stepped approach size of tread shall not be less than 300 millimeter. And maximum riser shall be 150 millimeter. Provision of 800 millimeter high handrail on both sides of the stepped approach similar to the ramped approach.\n(ii) Stepped Approach.\n(iii) Exit/Entrance Door. - Minimum clear opening of the entrance door shall be 900 millimeter and it shall not be provided with a step that obstructs the passage of a wheel chair user. Threshold shall not be raised more than 123 millimeter.\n(iii) Exit/Entrance Door.\n(iv) Entrance Landing. - Entrance landing shall be provided adjacent to ramp with the minimum dimension 1800 millimeter x 2000 millimeter. The entrance landing that adjoin the top end of a slope shall be provided with floor materials to attract the attention of visually impaired persons (limited to coloured floor material whose colour and brightness is conspicuously different from that of the surrounding floor material or the material that emit different sound to guide visually impaired persons hereinafter referred to as \"guiding floor material\"). Finishes shall have a nonslip surface with a texture traversable by a wheel chair. Curbs wherever provided shall blend to a common level.\n(iv) Entrance Landing.\n(2) Corridor connecting the entrance/exit for the handicapped. - The corridor connecting the entrance/exit for handicapped leading directly outdoors to a place where information concerning the overall use of the specified building can be provided to visually impaired persons either by a person or by signs, shall be provided as follows :-\nCorridor connecting the entrance/exit for the handicapped.\n(i) guiding floor materials shall be provided or devices that emit sound to guide visually impaired persons;\n(ii) the minimum width shall be 1500 millimeter;\n(iii) in case there is a difference of level slope ways shall be provided with a slope of 1:12;\n(iv) Handrails shall be provided for ramps/slope ways.\n(3) Stair-ways. - One of the stair-ways near the entrance/exit for the handicapped shall have the following provisions :-\nStair-ways.\n(i) the minimum width shall be 1350 millimeter;\n(ii) height of the riser shall not be more than 150 millimeter and width of the tread 300 millimeter. The steps shall not have abrupt (square) nosing;\n(iii) maximum number of risers on a flight shall be limited to 12;\n(iv) handrails shall be provided on both sides and shall extend 300 millimeter. On the top and bottom of each flight of steps.\n(4) Lifts. - Wherever lift is required as per bye-laws, provision of at least one lift shall be made for the wheel chair user with the following cage dimensions of lift recommended for passenger lift of 13 persons capacity by Bureau of Indian Standards :-\nLifts.\nClear internal depth\n..1100 millimeter.\nClear internal width\n..2000 millimeter.\nEntrance door width\n..900 millimeter.\n(i) a handrail not less than 600 millimeter long at 1000 millimeter above floor level shall be fixed adjacent to the control panel;\n(ii) the lift lobby shall be of an inside measurement of 1800 millimeter x 1800 millimeter or more;\n(iii) the time of an automatically closing door shall be minimum 5 seconds and the closing speed shall not exceed 0.25 meter/second;\n(iv) the interior of the cage shall be provided with a device that audibly indicates the floor. the cage has reached and indices that the door of the cage for entrance/exit is either open or closed.\n(5) Toilets. - One special water closet in a set of toilet shall be provided for the use of handicapped, with essential provision of wash basin near the entrance for the handicapped. It shall have -\nToilets.\n(i) the minimum size of 1500 millimeter x 1750 millimeter;\n(ii) minimum clear opening of the door of 900 millimeter and it shall swing out;\n(iii) suitable arrangement of vertical/horizontal handrails with 500 millimeter clearance from wall;\n(iv) at least 500 millimeter distance between the water closet seat and the floor.\n(6) Drinking Water. - Suitable provision of drinking water shall be made for the handicapped near the special toilet provided for them.\nDrinking Water.\n(7) Designing for Children. - In the building meant for the predominant use of the children, it shall suit the height of the handrail and other fittings and fixtures etc.]\nDesigning for Children.\nPart-IV\nStructural Materials and Control",
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            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Materials.",
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            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Site.",
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            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Foundations.",
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            "content": "Safe allowable pressure in Metric Ton/sq. metres\nAt and beyond depths (in metres)\nSoft wet pasty or muddy clay\n...\n5 4\n2.5\n...\n1.5\nAlluvial earth\n...\n5\n0.5\nArtificial filling\n...\n3\n0.5\nLoams (loose)\n...\n8\n0.5\nLoams (compact)\n...\n11\n0.5\nSandy loam\n...\n16\n0.75\nSandy loam\n...\n16\n1.0\nSandy loam\n...\n8\n0.5\nClay (loose)\n...\n11\n0.75\nClay (compact)\n...\n8\n0.5\nClay (compact)\n...\n11\n0.75\nClay (compact)\n...\n16\n1.0",
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            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Damp proof course.",
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            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Loads.",
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            "content": "Type of Floor\nType of Floor\nMinimum live load Kg. per sq. metre of floor\n\t\t\t\t\tarea\nMinimum live load Kg. per sq. metre of floor\n\t\t\t\t\tarea\n1.\nRoof (Flat)\n...\n150\n2.\nFloors of residential purposes including dwelling\n\t\t\t\t\thouses.\n...\n200\n3.\nFloors of tenements, hospital ward, bed room and\n\t\t\t\t\tprivate sitting room in hostel and dormitories\n...\n200\n4.\nOffice floors other than entrance hall floors of\n\t\t\t\t\tlight work rooms\n...\n250 to 400\n5.\nFloors of banking halls, office entrance halls and\n\t\t\t\t\toffice floors below entrance halls and reading rooms\n...\n300\n6.\nShop floors used for display and sale of\n\t\t\t\t\tmerchandise floors of class- rooms in schools floors of work\n\t\t\t\t\trooms garages for vehicles not exceeding 2.5 tons gross weight\n\t\t\t\t\tfloors of places of assembly with fixed seating churches chapels\n\t\t\t\t\trestaurants circulation space in machinery halls power stations\n\t\t\t\t\tetc. where not occupied by plant or equipment\n....\n400\n7.\nFloors of warehouses, workshops, factories and\n\t\t\t\t\tother buildings of similar category for light weight loads\n\t\t\t\t\toffice, floors for storage and filling purposes floors of place\n\t\t\t\t\tof assembly without fixed seating public rooms in hostels/hotels\n\t\t\t\t\tdance halls waiting halls etc.\n...\n500\n8.\nFloors of warehouses, workshops factories and\n\t\t\t\t\tother buildings of similar category for medium weight loads,\n\t\t\t\t\tfloors of garages for vehicle not exceeding 4 tons gross weight\n...\n750\n9.\nFloors of warehouses, workshops, factories and\n\t\t\t\t\tother buildings of similar category for heavy weight loads,\n\t\t\t\t\tfloors of book stores, roofs and pavement over basement\n\t\t\t\t\tprojecting under public footpaths\n...\n1000\nFor item No. 1 loading\n...\n200\nFor item No. 2 loading\n...\n300\nFor all other classes\n...\n500\nBalconies liable to overcrowding\n...\n500",
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            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Floors.",
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            "number": "30",
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            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Thickness of walls.",
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            "content": "Cement\nCement\nLime\nLime\nSand\nSand\nMaximum Stress in K.G. /Sq cm. corresponding to\n\t\t\t\t\tbricks of crushing strength in K.G./Sq. Cm.\nMaximum Stress in K.G. /Sq cm. corresponding to\n\t\t\t\t\tbricks of crushing strength in K.G./Sq. Cm.\n36\n70\n106\n1\n....\n3\n3.5\n7.0\n10.5\n1\n....\n4\n3.5\n7.0\n10.0\n1\n1\n6\n3.5\n7.0\n10.0\n2\n2\n9\n3.5\n5.5\n8.5\n1\n6\n6\n3.5\n5.5\n8.5\n1\n3\n12\n2.5\n5.0\n7.0\n.....\n1\n2\n2.5\n5.0\n7.0\n.....\n1\n1.5\n2.5\n4.0\n5.0\nBurnt bricks in mud mortar\n3\nCoursed rubble masonry (other than Ashlar in cement mortar\n\t\t\t\t1:4)\n10\nCoursed rubble masonry (other than Ashlar in lime mortar 1:2\n\t\t\t\tor cement Mortar 1:6)\n5\nRandom rubble masonry in cement mortar 1:4\n9\nRandom rubble masonry in lime mortar 1:2 or cement mortar 1:6\n4.5\nAshlar masonry in cement mortar 1:3 with 1:3:6 mass concrete\n\t\t\t\tbacking\n13\nAshlar masonry in lime mortar 1:2 or cement mortar 1:6 with\n\t\t\t\t1:4:8 mass concrete backing\n6.5",
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            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Slenderness ratio.",
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            "content": "Slenderness ratio\nReduction in maximum permissible pressures due to\n\t\t\t\tslenderness ratio exceeding six.\n7\n10.00%\n8\n20.00%\n9\n30.00%\n10\n40.00%\n11\n50.00%\n12\n60.00%\nFor walls with no lateral support at top\n1⅓ actual storey\n\t\t\t\theight\nFor walls with lateral support at top\n¾ actual storey\n\t\t\t\theight\nPiers with no lateral support at top\n2 actual storey height\nPiers with lateral support at top\nactual storey height",
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            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Hollow bricks and block walls.",
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            "content": "(i) the cavity between the inner and outer parts of the wall shall throughout be of a width not exceeding 10 centimeters (cm) ;\n(ii) the inner and outer parts of the wall shall be securely tied together with suitable bonding ties of adequate strength of galvanized irontarred and sanded stone ware, copper, bronze or other suitable materials, the ties being placed at distances apart not exceeding 1 metre horizontally and 0.5 metre vertically ;\n(iii) the inner and outer parts of the wall shall each be not less than 10 cm. thick throughout except that in a wall not exceeding 6 metres length and 6 metres in height, the thickness of each part may not be less than 10 cm. throughout if all courses of less height than 15 cm. are put together with cement mortar or the wall has at least twice the number of ties required by the preceding clauses;\n(iv) the cavity may be reckoned as part of the thickness prescribed for walls by these bye-laws where such thickness does not exceed 20 cm. but shall not be so reckoned where such thickness exceeds 20 centimeters. All external cavity walls shall be ventilated.",
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            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Roofs.",
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            "content": "Staircases",
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            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Staircases in residential buildings.",
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            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Residential buildings with multiple dwelling units other than the above, commercial, public and industrial buildings.",
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            "content": "Number of users up to 100\n...\n1.2 metres",
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            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Minimum dimension of steps.",
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            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Materials",
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            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Uniformity treads in and in risers on staircases.",
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            "number": "40",
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