Section 163

163. A Municipality may, by bye-laws, make bye-regulate in respect of the erection or re-erection of any building within the municipal area or any part thereof-
(a) the materials and method of construction to be used for external and party walls, roofs. floors, fire-places and chimneys;
(b) the materials and method of construction and position of fore-places chimneys, drains prives, urinals and cesspools;
(c) the height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon Which human beings are to live or cooking operation are to be carried on;
(d) the ventilation and the space to be left about the building to secure the free circulation of air and for the prevention of fire;
(e) the line of frontage where the building abuts on a street;
(f) the number and height of the storeys of which the building may consists; and
(g) the means to be provided for egress from the building in case of fire.