No.UDD 439 MNU 2018 (P-2) Karnataka Government Secretariat, Vikasa soudha, Bengaluru, Date: 26-07-2021 Whereas, the Government of Karnataka being of the opinion that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike advertisement Bye-law 2006 or any other Bye-law made in that behalf which is in force not being adequate, the draft of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Advertisement rules, 2019 was published in Part IVA No. 623of the Karnataka Gazette (Extra Ordinary Gazette) dated 24.07.2019 vide Notification No. UDD 439 MNU 2018 dated 15.07.2019 inviting objections or suggestions from all persons likely to be affected within fifteen days from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette as required under sub-section (1) of section 421 of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 (Karnataka Act 14 of 1977). A notice of fifteen days was also given to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike as required under subsection (5) of section 427 of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 as to show cause why the rules shall not be made.
In the meantime, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike made the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Outdoor Signage and Public Messaging Byelaws 2018 vide its notification No. AC(ADVT)PR/2232/2016-17 dated 06.09.2019, which were deemed to be sanctioned by the Government under the proviso to section 425 of theKarnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976. The Government of Karnataka is of the opinion that the said Byelaws 2018 are also not adequate for the purpose of regulating the outdoor advertisements.
And whereas the objections and suggestions received from the public as well as the reply from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike to the Draft Rules have been considered by the Government.
And whereas the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act, 2020 (Karnataka Act No. 53 Of 2020) has come into force on 11th day of January, 2021 which extends to the jurisdiction of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by the sub-section (1) of section 316, sub-section (2) of section 321and sub-section (1) of section 375 of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act, 2020,Government of Karnataka hereby makes the following rules, namely: -
(1) These rules may be called as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Advertisement Rules, 2021.
(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the official Gazette.
(3) These rules shall:
(a) have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Advertisement Bye-laws, 2006 or the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Outdoor Advertisement and Public Message Byelaws 2018;
(b) be applicable to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike within its Jurisdiction.
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) “ ” means the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act, 2020 (Karnataka Act No. 53 Of 2020)
(b) " " means and includes any display, device or representation by word, direction, abbreviation, letter, logo, symbol, model, image, or a combination thereof sign by means of billboards, hoarding, banners, temporary arches, electronic display, name boards, direction boards, pamphlets, flags or any other visible or audible media, displayed in or in view of any public place, to promote a product or service in a commercial sense under categories covered in these definitions. This does not include signage installed for the identification and naming of places, buildings and tenant business names.
(c) “ ” means an originator or facilitator of advertisement who may be an individual, Government, semi-Government organizations, registered charitable organization firm, partnership or a company incorporated under the Companies Act,2013;
(d) “ ” means Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike;
(e) “ ” means cloth or any other bio degradable flexible material (but not made fully or partially from poly-vinyl chloride or any other form of plastic, virgin or recycled), which contains some advertisement or announcement or written matter for display in public place;
(f) “ ” means an outdoor media device with space for display of advertising in the form of an advertisement panel and where such panel is, mounted with its foundation on any structure either on ground or building and made of any bio degradable flexible material (but not made fully or partially from poly-vinyl chloride or any other form of plastic, virgin or recycled) or Electronic display/LCD.
(g) “ ” means an advertisement displayed on any building frontage usually stretched across the building frontage or on scaffolding of a building under construction or repair or by sticking or fixing it to a glass frontage or window;
(h) “ ” means an advertisement displayed on any building frontage, which is not a heritage structure, using digital displays, which can be switched on at night time and may flash or appear in a synchronized manner in one or more different colours;
(i) “ ” means the Chief Commissioner of the BBMP;
(j) “ ” means an advertisement being visible to public, irrespective of the space on which the advertisement is installed;
(k) “ ” means an outdoor media device, with display made from LED (Light Emitting Diode) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or any other electronic source, to display running text, displays and informational messages from computer programs and software or any other means.
(l) “ ” means a form appended to these rules;
(m) “ ” are permitted Commercial Billboards erected and displayed on Private Properties by Enrolled/Registered Agencies, after having obtained permissions under the Advertisement Byelaw 2006, now referred to as Commercial Billboards / Billboards.
(n) “ ” means the license granted under rule 3;
(o) “ ” means the permission granted under rule 4;
(p) “ ” means sheet of paper or any other bio degradable material (but not made fully or partially from poly-vinyl chloride or any other form of plastic, virgin or recycled) used to advertise something for display in a public place, usually by sticking the same on a flat surface such as a wall, compound, parapet, hoardings, etc.
(q) “ ” shall means total land width required for the road, to accommodate the roadway (carriageway and shoulders), side drains, service roads, tree plantation, utilities, etc, owned by the respective authority.
(r) “ ” means a schedule appended to these rules;
(2) Words and expressions used but not defined shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act and Rules and bye-laws made there under;
(1) No person except licensed or registered advertisers or agencies shall be allowed to undertake display of advertisements on behalf of other persons or agencies, but shall enroll themselves as licensed or registered advertisers with the BBMP by furnishing the required information, documents, security as may be determined by Chief Commissioner and shall pay the license fee or registration fee and security deposit as may be determined by the Chief Commissioner from time to time.
(2) Persons intending to entrust the work of displaying advertisement on their behalf shall not entrust it to any unlicensed or unregistered advertiser.
(3) A licensed or registered advertiser shall, before displaying or causing the display of advertisements, satisfy himself that, the fee due thereon has been paid to the BBMP and the Chief Commissioner's approval obtained thereof.
(4) All licensed or registered advertiser shall maintain proper record of advertisements displayed by him and produce the same whenever required for inspection by the Chief Commissioner or any other officer authorized by him.
(1) Every application for a License to an Agency for registration shall be made to the Chief Commissioner in Form-I and required enclosures, along with the Challan for payment of registration fee of Rupees fifty thousand for a term of three years.
(2) The License shall be issued in Form-II.
(3) Applicant can appeal against decisions taken by the Chief Commissioner with the Advertisement Regulatory Committee Constituted under these rules.
The Chief Commissioner shall, refuse to grant license to agency where-
(1) the individual or agency, any of its directors, owners or promoters has been debarred from the display of advertisement by any Corporation or Government or any agency owned and controlled by the Government;
(2) the individual or agency, its directors, owners or promoters are in arrears of payment of any dues to BBMP;
(3) the authorized signatory of the agency has earlier been the authorized signatory of any company in arrears of payment of any dues to BBMP.
(1) Every application for grant of permission for an advertisement shall be made to the Chief Commissioner in Form-III.
(2) Every application made under sub-rule (1) shall contain, -
(i) a plan of the advertisement to be erected indicating the height and other dimensions and the material proposed to be used as approved by a qualified engineer;
(ii) a no objection certificate from the owner of the land where the advertisement is to be erected in a private land or building or a no objection certificate from the State or Central Government Department concerned, if the advertisement is to be erected on the land of State or Central Government or a no objection certificate from the Chief Commissioner of the BBMP if the advertisement is to be erected on BBMP land:
Provided that, in respect of State and Central Government land, the no objection certificate shall be issued by an Officer not lower in rank than that of an Assistant Executive Engineer as the case may be;
(iii) a topographical sketch indicating the proposed location of the advertisement.
(iv) Structural Stability certificate as well as the Occupancy certificate of the building (wherever obtaining an occupancy certificate for such building is mandatory),in case of the advertisement proposed for being erected on any existing building. But if such a building does not have the Occupancy Certificate, then the fees shall be calculated as in sub-rule (3)
(b) and the owner of the building shall provide an undertaking in Form-XI.
(3) Fee:
(a) Every application made under sub-rule (1) shall be accompanied by a Challan for payment of the Application fee specified in the Schedule-I.
(b) In case of the advertisement proposed for being erected on any existing building without the Occupancy Certificate, 150% of the fees calculated as per the fee specified in the Schedule-I and any other penalty that may be decided to be levied by the government on buildings which are unauthorised or deviate from sanctioned plan shall be paid.
(4) The Chief Commissioner shall, after satisfying himself that the applicant has complied with all the requirements of the Act and rules, before issuing the permission for erection and display of hoarding, shall raise a Demand in Form-V for the Advertisement Fee as specified in Schedule–I. This demand shall be complied with by the Applicant (Licensed Agency) within a period of 15 days.
Once the Advertisement Fee has been paid in full by the Applicant, Chief Commissioner shall grant the permission in Form-VI for erection of hoarding within a period of 7 working days from the date of payment of such Advertisement Fee.
(5) The permission granted under this rule shall be valid for not more than three years.
(6) Applicant can appeal against decisions taken by the Chief Commissioner with the Advertisement Regulatory Committee Constituted under these rules.
(7) Change of location of display including Legacy Advertisement Billboards may be allowed once, against an application and payment of requisite fee, provided the new location is in line with the provisions of these rules.
(8) Transfer of Permission for a hoarding/billboard from one Agency to another shall be allowed against the submission of NOC to such transfer from the Agency presently holding such permission and one time payment of Rs.10,000/-. The Agency acquiring the Permission shall intimate the Chief Commissioner in Form IV-A along with a Demand Draft for requisite amount. Under such transfer, the Agency acquiring the Permission shall be deemed to have obtained the assets and liabilities of the related billboard from the date of intimation to the Chief Commissioner as above.
The Chief Commissioner shall refuse the permission for display of following categories of advertisements.
(1) Advertisement which may cause distraction to motorists thereby endangering public safety.
(2) Advertisements which may interfere with, obstruct the view of, are may be confused with any authorized traffic sign, signal, or device because of its position, shape, or colour, including signs illuminated in red, green, or amber colour to resemble a traffic signal, and advertisement which make use of words STOP, LOOK, DETOUR, DANGER, CAUTION, WARNING, or any other word, phrase, symbol or character in a manner that misleads, interferes with, or confuses with authorized traffic message.
(3) The advertisement proposed at any of the prohibited places including those listed in Schedule-II.
Every license granted under these rules may be renewed after three years. The application for renewal of license shall be made to the Chief Commissioner in Form-VIII two months before the date of expiry of the license and the provisions applicable to the grant of license shall mutatis mutandis apply to the renewal of license. The fee for license shall be applicable for renewal also.
Every permission granted under these rules may be renewed after three years. The application for renewal of permission shall be made to the Chief Commissioner in Form-IX two months before the date of expiry of the renewal of permission and the provisions applicable to the grant of permission shall mutatis mutandis apply to the renewal of permission. The fee for permission shall be applicable for renewal also.
No vehicle used for the purpose of advertisement shall display any advertisement in a manner different from that as approved by the Chief Commissioner. For every advertisement on vehicles, including metro trains, permission from the Chief Commissioner shall be obtained on payment of a fee in the manner specified for other advertisements.
No person shall erect, exhibit, fix or retain upon or over any land, building, wall, hoarding, frame, post, kiosks, structure, vehicle, neonsign or sky-sign, any advertisement or display any advertisement to public view in any manner whatsoever in any place within the jurisdiction of the BBMP without the prior written permission of the Chief Commissioner.
No person shall erect, exhibit, fix, retain or display or cause to be erected, exhibited fixed, retained or displayed any advertisement so as to cause damage to the amenities or obstruct the view of any historic public building or buildings of national importance, monument or public garden, etc.
(1) Within 50 meters from religious places, measured along the roads;
on which temples, mosques, gurud waras, churches and other such religious places are situated and 100 meters from religious places on roads leading exclusively to Temples, church’s, Mosques and Gurd waras.
(2) Within 3.5 meters of the edge of any fly-over, railway over-bridge, elevated corridor, communication tower and buildings and within 15 Mtrs from BWSSB water tank and transmission tower over land.
(3) On any other street, road, crossing, junction, place, area, locality or part thereof as may be decided by the Chief Commissioner from time to time, in public interest for reasons to be recorded in writing.
(4) In world Heritage areas.
(5) In national parks, forests and water bodies in it.
(6) In areas classified as remnant endangered regional ecosystems.
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(1) The revenue officer shall take action to modify or remove any outdoor hoarding, advertising device that contravene the provisions of these rules along with following list of negative advertisement, namely: -
(i) Nudity;
(ii) Racial advertisements or advertisements propagating caste, community or ethnic differences;
(iii) Advertisement promoting drugs, alcohol, cigarette or tobacco items;
(iv) Advertisements propagating exploitation of women or child;
(v) Advertisement having sexual overtone;
(vi) Advertisement depicting cruelty to animals;
(vii) Advertisement depicting any nation or institution in poor light;
(viii) Advertisement casting aspersion of any brand or person;
(ix) Advertisement banned by the Advertisement Council of India or by law;
(x) Advertisement glorifying violence;
(xi) Destructive devices and explosives depicting items;
(xii) Lottery tickets, sweepstakes entries and slot machines related advertisements;
(xiii) Any psychedelic, laser or moving displays;
(xiv) Advertisement of Weapons and related items (such as firearms, firearm parts and magazines, ammunition etc.,);
(xv) Advertisements which may be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing;
(xvi) Advertisements which may be obscene or contain pornography or contain an "indecent representation of women" within the meaning of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (Central Act 60 of 1986)
(xvii) Advertisement linked directly or indirectly to or include description of items, goods or services that are prohibited under any applicable law for the time being in force, including but not limited to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (Central Act 23 of 1940), the Drugs And Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 (Central Act 21 of 1954)and the Indian Penal Code, 1860; or
(xviii) Any other items considered inappropriate by the Committee.
(2) For all categories of devices (except Category 3 and some Category 4 devices which are directed at pedestrians), text elements on an Advertising Device face should be easily discernible to travelling motorists. This will minimize driver distraction. Additionally, a sign shall be quickly and easily interpreted so as to convey the required advertising message to the viewer and reduce the period of distraction.
(3) The content or graphic layout exhibited on advertising device panel shall avoid hard-to-read and overlay intricate typefaces and have letters styles that are appropriate. Under no circumstances should device contain information in text sizes, which would necessitate the driver or passenger in a moving vehicle to stop, read and/or note down, which is detrimental to the smooth flow of traffic and distracting for the driver.
(4) All signs shall be so designed as to maintain a proportion where, as a general rule, letters shall not appear to occupy more than 20 percent of the sign area, unless otherwise permitted by the BBMP.
The following types of advertisements excluding illuminated advertisements and sky-signs, are not required to obtain permission from Chief Commissioner.
(a) Advertisements displayed within window of a building; or
(b) Advertisement related to the trade or business carried on within the land or building upon or over which such advertisement is exhibited, or to sale or letting of such land or building or any effects therein or to sale, entertainment or meeting to be held upon in such land or building; or
(c) Advertisements related to the name of the land or building, upon or over which the advertisement is exhibited, or to the name of the owner or occupier of such land or building; or
(d) Advertisement related to the business of any railways including metro or state transport; or
(e) Advertisement exhibited within any railway or metro or state transport station or upon any wall or other property of a railway or metro or state transport except any portion of the surface of such wall or property fronting any street.
(1) Notwithstanding provisions of rule13, advertisements on public infrastructure listed in sub-rule (2) below, which are developed and maintained by government agencies using government or their own funds or by any other agency under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model, can be displayed subject to permission of the Chief Commissioner under rule 6, limits set out in rule 18 and payment of the applicable fee as detailed in Schedule- I or any concessional fee, and ground rent as may be agreed upon by the Chief Commissioner.
Provided that the concession period of the PPP for the advertisement rights shall be determined based on ‘Value for Money’ analysis for BBMP based on estimated cost of the infrastructure and the fees forgone.
(2) The following categories of public Infrastructure may be used for display of advertisements not related to business of the concerned agency on commercial consideration: -
(i) Metro infrastructure such as piers, viaduct and outside of stations and depots,
(ii) Travel and Transit Management Centers,
(iii) Bus shelter,
(iv) Foot over bridges / skywalks.
(v) Public Toilets including e-Toilets.
(vi) Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, Traffic Police Chowki,
(vii) And any other PPP project creating public infrastructure.
(3) Not withstanding anything contained in this rules, advertisements which are being displayed within the territorial jurisdiction of BBMP by virtue of contracts, agreements and permissions accorded for display of advertisements under PPP model with Bengaluru Development Authority, under the provisions of BBMP Outdoor Signage and Public Messaging Bye-laws 2018, be and same hereby saved in terms of BBMP Advertisement Rules 2021.
(1) An appeal must be filed in Form-VII along with appeal fees as prescribed by the BBMP within thirty days from the receipt of the orders of a lower authority or when the cause of action arose as the case may be.
(2) For sufficient cause, the appellate authority at his discretion may condone delay of filing appeal up to thirty days.
(3) Appellate authority will as far as possible decide the appeal within four weeks.
(4) If the applicant simultaneously seeks redresses in a court of law of the same cause of action the appeal shall stand automatically dismissed.
(5) During the pendency of appeal in any forum, the hoarding owner or license holder shall not display any advertisement on the alleged hoarding.
(1) The standard size of the hoarding boards shall be as follows:- 1 For ROW less than 30M, width. (roof top/wall mounted) 12 6 18 NA 2 For Row more than 30M, width. (roof top / wall mounted) 18 9 18 NA 3 Trivision 12 6 18 NA 4 Variable message Advertising devices such as LED, LCD Screens etc.
12 6
2.5 if on Ground.
NA if on Roof.
5 Billboards erected on Ground 18 9 25 2.5 Commercial Billboards may also be put up against Building Walls, the Criteria shall be similar to a Roof Top erection.
(2) It shall not be permissible to erect hoarding larger in size than the largest standard size.
(3) No hoarding shall be erected to a height exceeding 25meters above the road level. The lower base or the bottom of hoarding shall be a height not less than 2.5meters from the surface below.
(4) The maximum height of the hoarding erected on the terrace of a building shall not be more than 12.2 meters from the terrace level.
(5) A minimum distance of 1.50 meters shall be maintained beyond the edge of the ROW.
(6) The lower bottom of the hoarding board shall not be at a height less than 3.05 meters (10 ft).
(7) The advertisement along roads shall not be permitted within a distance of 25 meters from the stop line of the approach road or junctions.
(8) Sandwich (back to back) and (‘V ’ shape) hoarding having standard size can be permitted.
(9) The structural framework supporting advertisement board shall not be outsized compared, to the permitted board size and shall be within tolerance limits on either side laterally. No vertical tolerance is permitted except the columns up to the ground clearance. Any incremental deviation shall be deemed to be an increase in the size of the advertisement board against norms and breach of the terms and conditions of the permit.
(10) Existing Legacy Advertisement Bill boards which were permitted prior to these rules shall be given a grace period of upto6 (six) months to obtain permission under these rules. Upto 6 (six) months from the date of the permission shall be given to set right the size, height and ground clearance as per the rules.
However, display of advertisements on Legacy Advertisement Bill boards not conforming to size, height and ground clearance as specified under these rules shall not be allowed in the grace period or thereafter.
(11) Construction fence may be allowed as no lit special advertising structure, temporary in nature, which will be non-standard advertising field, subject to height restriction of 10ft. from the ground.
(12) Kiosks advertisement displaying on electric point etc., shall be a standard size of 2.5’ x 3.25’ height all over the city and bottom clearance of 10ft. from the ground.
(13) Advertisements on public infrastructure through PPP:
(a) Specific public infrastructure financed by private business, philanthropies, or individuals. Sponsoring individual, institution, is permitted to display a memorial plaque containing name, date, public message. The PPP concession may expressly be in terms of the advertisement rights for:
i. - a. Commercial signage sponsorship is permitted for bus shelters, not more than one bus shelter unit per 300 meters on the same side of Right-of-way.
b. Permit validity is to be determined by the Authority, based on “Value for Money” analysis.
c. Advertisement to be not more than 2.5 meters height from ground up.
d. Not extending outside the roof of the bus stop.
e. Total surface coverage not more than seventy percent of the interior vertical surface of the shelter.
ii. - The size should be limited to not more than 50% of exterior vertical surface of the bridge/ skywalk across the road without affecting natural lighting & ventilation.
iii. –The size should be limited to not more than 25% of exterior vertical surface of the Public Toilets including e-Toilets.
Additional pole or hoarding display whether illuminated or non-illuminated shall not be allowed.
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May be individually reviewed by the Review Committee and additional relevant Authorities to ensure design and message enhances the environment. However the size should be limited to not more than 25% of exterior vertical surface of the structure.
(b) In case of PPP projects, other than the size of the advertisement allowed in above sub rule (a), any additional pole, hoarding or any other type of display whether illuminated or non-illuminated shall not be allowed under any circumstance.
The Chief Commissioner or any officer authorized by him in this behalf shall make periodical inspection of advertisements erected and verify whether advertisements are being maintained in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the license. During such inspection, if it is noticed that the advertisements are not in accordance with provisions of the Act and these rules and the conditions of the license, the Chief Commissioner shall take such action as specified under these rules.
The advertisement devices shall be categorized as follows:
: Large-format advertisements, mainly fixed on bill boards/ Uni-poles/Bi-poles/Variable Message advertising device such as LED, LCD Screens etc./and bridge / flyover panels etc;
: Advertisements mounted on public amenities, like public toilets, garbage collection points/Flag Signs etc;
: Fleets and transport related infrastructure;
: Advertisement devices for self-advertising in commercial areas .
No person shall deface or cause to be defaced any sign or mark or letter or words that, shall have been put by the Chief Commissioner on the advertisements erected, exhibited, fixed, retained or displayed in token of their having been permitted or approved by him and of the fee having been collected thereon.
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(1) Every Licensed Agency desiring to erect, exhibit, fix, retain or display an advertisement shall apply to the Chief Commissioner for permission in Form-VI. The said application form duly filled in all respects shall be submitted by the applicant to the Advertisement Division in BBMP head office, against a proper receipt. The Chief Commissioner may, after causing such inspection as may be necessary and satisfied of the land status and within thirty days after the receipt of the application may raise a demand under subrule (4) of rule 6, upon fulfillment of which, the Chief Commissioner may, grant or refuse or renew or cancel the permission, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, these rules or bye-laws made there under, by specifying reasons in case of rejection.
(2) The Chief Commissioner may disapprove an advertisement among others, on the ground that, its contents or the manner of its display is unsuitable from the considerations of public safety, traffic hazards or aesthetic design, or otherwise offensive and in bad taste and offensive to public sentiments.
(3) Every permission shall be valid for a period of not more than three years except in the case of sites used for temporary congregations including fairs, festivals, circus, yatra, exhibitions, sports events or cultural social programs.
(4) If any fee on advertisements is not paid within the stipulated time after the demand notice, the same shall be recovered as arrears of fee and the permission granted shall be deemed to have been terminated. The Chief Commissioner shall be at liberty to remove such hoardings and to collect the charges for removing such advertisement.
(5) If any advertisement is erected, exhibited, fixed or retained on any land and building without due authorization and in contravention to the provisions of the Act, and the Rules made there under, such advertisement or hoarding shall be removed by the Chief Commissioner, without giving any written notice whatsoever and expenses for the removal of such unauthorized advertisement or hoarding shall be recovered from the advertiser or exhibitor concerned at the rate of Rupees.5000 per advertisement or hoarding for size up to 100 Sq.ft and Rupees 7000 for size larger than 100 Sq.ft., as per the provisions of law.
(6) The Chief Commissioner shall cause to maintain a comprehensive register showing the licenses or permissions issued under the Act, these Rules or Bye-laws made there under. The issue of licenses and permissions for outdoor advertisements shall be through a zero physical contact, online single window system with live updation, which shall be established within 90 (Ninety) days from the date of these rules coming into effect. Said online single window system shall also contain the aforementioned register showing the licenses or permissions issued under the Act, these Rules or Bye- laws made there under, and the same shall be continually updated and shall be made available for unrestricted public viewing.
(7) Within 90 (Ninety) days from the date of these rules coming into effect, the Chief Commissioner shall cause to include the Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Advertisement Rules, 2021 within the ambit of Sakala Act.
(8) Display on BBMP Lands are to be allocated only through a competitive tender process held through e-Procurement portal under the KTPP Act.
(9)
Provided the Applicant has obtained the License as per sub-rule
(1) of rule 4, application for regularisation of the Legacy Advertisement Billboards shall be made in Form-IV from the date of these rules coming into effect. This process shall be manual till the time online single window system is established by BBMP in pursuance of sub- rule (6).
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(1) Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of these Rules and terms and conditions on the License/Permission or fails to comply with the order or direction lawfully given, shall be punishable with a fine of Rupees 1000/- per day or such higher amount specified in the Act from time to time, till which such contravention continues.
The contravention of these rules shall be dealt with and punishable as per the provisions of the Act and rules made there under.
(2) Any other action including blacklisting of the defaulting agency or advertiser may also be taken by BBMP based on the recommendation of the Chief Commissioner.
(1) A copy of these rules shall be kept at the BBMP Office and during office hours shall be open free of charge for inspection by any inhabitant of Bengaluru.
(2) The copies of the rules shall be kept at the BBMP office or Unit Cells of each Ward for sale to the public at the cost to be decided by the BBMP.
The Chief Commissioner may grant permission for free display of advertisements to any organization of either Central or State Government or to the BBMP itself or any other Institution or organization duly registered with the Chief Commissioner Department of Endowment and Hindu Religious Charitable Institutions or the Director, Department of Minority Welfare or Chief Commissioner of Department of Public Instructions or any other Department of the Government, for the advertisements relating to the Women and Child Development or religious or education or charitable or any other Welfare purposes under his discretionary powers.
(1) No hoarding shall be permitted at intersection for a distance of 25 meters from the stop line of each approach road.
(2) No hoarding shall be permitted in the compulsory open space required to be maintained under the provisions of the Act, rules and bye-laws made there under including public recreation grounds playgrounds, parks and Gardens.
(3) No hoarding shall be permitted on buildings of archaeological, architectural, aesthetical and historical and heritage importance.
(4) No hoarding shall be permitted in river bed, lakes and water bodies.
(5) In case of illuminated or neon-sign hoardings following restrictions should be observed.
(a) The level of luminance shall not exceed a source limit of1rd/cm square. Illumination shall not be continued after 11:00pm
(b) The neon-signs in residential premises should not be flickering.
(c) Neon-signs shall be put off by 10:00 p.m.
(d) No video or moving digital advertisements will be allowed.
LED Displays etc. should be still only Changing of images after minimum 10 seconds will only be permissible.
(6) No hoardings shall be permitted around Traffic islands and signal junctions within a distance of 25 meters from the stop line.
(7) No hoardings shall be permitted which would obstruct the light or ventilation of any premises.
(8) Not more than two hoarding per 400 sq. mtrs. of plot area will be permitted on private properties or layouts. For every additional 400 sq. mtrs of area, another two hoardings will be allowed. To avoid appearance of clutter these should be erected back to back, in the form of a “V” or separately facing the opposing traffic on the road.
(9) No hoardings shall be permitted on the walls other than dead walls of any building except wrap up neon or digital advertisements subject to other provisions of these rules and Act.
(10) No diesel generators sets will be allowed to illuminate hoardings as these create noise and air pollution.
(11) No hoardings shall be erected to a height exceeding 25.0 meters above the road level.
(12) There shall be no hoarding or advertisement on footpath.
(13) No hoarding shall be projected on a public road.
(14) No hoardings shall be permitted one above another.
(15) Display of advertisement by means of wall painting shall not be permitted.
(16) Clubbing of the hoardings shall not be allowed.
(17) Hoardings shall also not be permitted in the following conditions: -
(a) Any hoarding erected in such manner and at such places, which will cause obstruction or interference with the visibility of approaching, merging or intersecting traffic.
(b) The hoarding which would obstruct the vision of the sunrise or sunset from a location designated for such vision.
(c) The building, where action under the Act or under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961(Karnataka Act 11 of 1963) is pending either at BBMP level or in a court of law or the owner of the building has been issued with a stop work notice under the Acts.
(d) The building, which has been declared dangerous (partly or fully) or has been issued with a notice under the Act.
(e) An advertisement which is likely to offend public moral and decency will not be permitted. If the Chief Commissioner is satisfied that the contents of display there of violates norms of public normality and decency, the agency shall forthwith remove the display, after receipt of such intimation in writing.
(f) An advertisement which is in such form as it will obstruct the path of pedestrians and obstruct their visibility.
(g) An advertisement which is likely to affect any local amenity.
(h) An advertisement which will obstruct the visibility of any existing advertisement.
(i) If the hoarding or advertisement is not designed and constructed in accordance with building and fire codes.
(a) Appeal against the decision taken by the Revenue Officer BBMP, shall lie with the Chief Commissioner; and
(b) Appeal against the decisions taken by the Chief Commissioner shall be with the Advertisement Regulatory Committee Constituted under these rules.
(1) Advertisement regulatory committee shall be constituted at the highest level to accord prior approval to advertisement agencies or sites or devices after rejection by the Competent Authority appointed by the Chief Commissioner, or by the Chief Commissioner, himself. This body can also act as first stage of appeal for all rejected applications or for removal of devices order made by the Chief Commissioner which endanger safety of the public. This committee can meet once a month to monitor compliance enforcement and removal of unauthorized advertisement devices and those affecting safety of the public. The members may be decided in consultation by the Chief Commissioner.
(2) The suggested members maybe as follows;
a The Chief Commissioner, BBMP Chairperson b The Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru or his Nomine not below the rank of Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Member c The Managing Director, BESCOM Member d The Chairman, Tax and Finance Committee of BBMP Member e Joint Commissioner, Advertisement Member f The Special Commissioner(Estate), BBMP Member g A representative of the industry from a Registered Outdoor Association Member h The Chief Engineer (Road Infrastructure) BBMP Member secretary
(1) On disapproval of an advertisement under sub-rule (2) of rule 21 or refusal to renew a license under rule 6, the owner of such a hoarding shall remove it within seven days from the date of receipt of the order of such disapproval or of the order refusing to renew the license, failing which the Chief Commissioner shall cause to remove such hoarding and recover the cost of such removal from the owner of such hoarding;
(2) The Chief Commissioner may either suo moto or on any representation direct the licensee to remove those advertisement in a hoarding, within seven days, if the contents of such advertisement is considered to be obscene or objectionable. If the licensee does not remove such advertisement within seven days, the Chief Commissioner shall remove the hoarding and recover the cost from the owner of such hoarding.
A register as in Form-X shall be maintained by the respective Revenue Officer of BBMP regarding issue of license or permission etc., for erection of and collection of fee and penalty on advertisement – hoarding.
(1) Display of posters, graffiti or any other form of advertisement that may lead to disfigurement and compromise the city aesthetics is prohibited.
(2) Advertising in any manner or cause to be advertised, through any advertisement stuck, nailed, tied, attached, fixed or in any other manner on any tree is prohibited.
(3) Carrying of advertisement on animals, animal drawn vehicles/carriages or using live animals to advertise is prohibited.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Karnataka Under Secretary to Government, Urban Development Department (BBMP) Application fee of Rs. 1000/- (Rs. One Thousand Only) shall be levied on each Application for issue of Permission or Renewal of Permission for all Commercial Advertisements applied for by Licensed Advertisement Agencies.
(a) Non-Illuminated (including 15% health cess) 200
(b) Illuminated (including 15% health cess) 280
(c) Neon (including 15% health cess) 375
(d) Trivision (including 15% health cess) 560
(e) Electronics (including 15% health cess) 560
(f) Cloth Banners (For every week and meter) 100
(g) Buntings (for every kg) 500 Note:
(1) The rates of fee specified above shall be applicable to advertisements in zone area as categorized for the purpose of property tax within B.B.M.P.
(2) In respect of areas falling under zone B the rate specified above shall be reduced by 10%.
(3) In respect of areas falling under zone C the rate specified above shall be reduced by 20%.
There shall not be any display of advertisement of any type in the following areas.
1. Kumara Krupa Road, Windsor Manor Jn to Shivananda Circle.
2. Rajbhavan Road. High Grounds to Minsk Square.
3. Sankey Road. High Grounds to Windsor Yield Signal.
4. Ambedkar Veedhi, K R Circle to Infantry Rd Jn.
5. Post Office Road, K R Circle to SBI Circle (K G Road)
6. Chalukya Circle
7. Maharani College Road/Sheshadri Road
8. K R Circle
9. Environs of Cubbon Park and Lalbagh
10. Nrupatunga Road, K R Circle to Police Corner Junction
11. Palace Road, SBI Circle to Chalukya Circle.
Only exceptions shall be the advertisements displayed on the already existing Foot Over Bridges/ Sky walks, Bus Shelters and e- Toilets constructed under PPP model.
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(1) Name and address of the applicant/Company/Government Department :
(2) Whether the applicant/Company/Government Department has been previously blacklisted by any other authority in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(3) Whether the applicant/Company/Government Department has any payable dues (permission fee, License fee, royalty, renewal fee etc) to any other authority in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(4) Whether the applicant/Company/Government Department has any payable penalties to any other authority in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(5) Whether the applicant/Company/Government Department was involved in any incident endangering the public safety, in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(6) Indicate enclosed whether the following documents have been :
1. Challan of Registration Fee paid :
2. Copy of Certificate of Incorporation or certificate under Shops and Establishment Act :
3. Copy of PAN card :
4. Copy of TAN
5. Copy of GST registration Certificate :
6. Bond comprehensively indemnifying BBMP/GoK from all damages and losses including life and property :
7. Copy of registration with ESI/PF organisation :
8. Copy of Professional Tax registration :
Signature of the applicant Received the application for erection of hoarding in BBMP at Ward No. - at from Sri/Smt.
Signature and date No………………………. Date…………………….
Reference: - (Application details) In pursuance of the above referred Application, following license has been issued by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike to enable the License Holder to undertake display of advertisements on behalf of other persons or agencies.
(1) License No :
(2) Name of the Licence Holder :
(3) Address of the License Holder :
(4) License Valid from :
(5) License Valid till :
(6) Online User ID :
(1) This license / Permission is not transferable.
(2) Any other condition that may be included from time to time Competent Authority By Order and etc……… –
(1) Name and address of the Licensed Agency(applicant) :
(2) License No (obtained under sub-rule (1) of rule 4) :
(3) Place of erection of hoarding (Exact location with identification land marks and direction of facing of the frontage of the hoarding, if on buildings, address of the building) :
(4) Name of the owner of the land/building on which the hoarding is to be erected :
(5) Size of the hoarding proposed to be erected (Length, breadth and width to be mentioned) :
(6) Nature of the materials to be used :
(7) Whether annual rent paid for land belonging to Government or BBMP, if so, the date of payment and other details :
(8) Indicate whether the following documents have been enclosed :
1. Copy of challan by which Application Fee has been paid :
2. No Objection Certificate for the land or building on which the hoarding is to be erected :
3. Plan of the hoarding indicating width, height, etc., duly approved by the qualified Engineer :
4. A Topo sketch indicating the proposed location of the hoarding :
5. Occupancy certificate of the building on which advertisement is to be erected/ Declaration in Form-X by the owner of the building in case Occupancy Certificate is not available.
Signature of the applicant Received the application for erection of hoarding in BBMP at Ward No.
at from Sri/Smt.
Signature and date –
(1) Name and address of the Licensed Agency(applicant) :
(2) License No (obtained under sub-rule (1) of rule 4) :
(3) Location of the existing hoarding with photographs (Exact location with identification land marks and direction of facing of the frontage of the hoarding, if on buildings, address of the building) :
(4) Name of the owner of the land/building on which the hoarding exists.
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(5) Size of the hoarding (Length, breadth and width to be mentioned) :
(6) Details of permission issued under Advertisement Byelaw 2006.
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(7) Whether the Hoarding presently conforms to the provisions of the rules or needs to be modified.
(8) Indicate whether the following documents have been enclosed :
1. Copy of challan by which Application fees has been paid :
2. No Objection Certificate for the land or building on which the hoarding exists :
3. Plan of the hoarding indicating width, height, etc., duly approved by the qualified Engineer :
4. A Topo sketch indicating the proposed location of the hoarding :
5. Occupancy certificate of the building on which advertisement exists/ Declaration in Form-X by the owner of the building in case Occupancy Certificate is not available.
Signature of the applicant Received the application for erection of regularisation of legacy advertisement billboard in BBMP at Ward No. --------------- at -------------- from Sri/Smt.
Signature and date – I, , Son of, ,have obtained an advertising Permission under the BBMP Advertisement Rules 2021 / BBMP Advertisement Byelaw 2006 bearing number , dated under the name of M/s. . A copy of the Permissions enclosed.
Further, I have decided to transfer this Permission to Mr. , son of _, residing at , who shall operate this Permission now under the Name of M/s. _, having their Offices at . Hereinafter referred to as the New Licensee.
Documents of the New Licensee:
1. Challan of Registration Fee Paid.
2. Copy of the Certificate of Incorporation or Certificate under the Shops and Establishments Act.
3. Copy of PAN Card.
4. Copy of TAN.
5. Copy of GST Registration certificate.
6. Bond comprehensively indemnifying BBMP / GOK from all damages and losses including life and property.
7. Copy of registration with ESI / PF Organisation.
8. Copy of Professional Tax Registration.
9. No Objection Certificate for the land or building on which the hoarding is to be erected
10. Demand Draft favouring the Commissioner, BBMP for the amount of Rs.10,000 towards the Transfer of Permission Fee.
Sign & Seal of the License Holder. Sign & Seal of New Licensee No………………………. Date…………………….
Reference: - Application details Your Application for issuing licence/permission for the advertisement (hoarding) is provisionally admitted and you are hereby informed to pay a sum of Rs…………………….. as Permission Fee for erection of ……………………………………………………number of hoardings of size………………………………………………………at…………………………. in the land belonging to……………………………subject to conditions prescribed below: -
(1) This Demand Note shall not be construed as permission in any which way, form or manner.
(2) Applicant shall not begin any work to establish the Hoarding at site, preparatory or otherwise, before obtaining the permission in Form-III.
(3) Due payment shall be remitted and the payment challan shall be produced before the Competent Authority within 15 days of this demand note.
(4) This Demand Note is not transferable.
(5) Any other condition that may be included from time to time Competent Authority By Order and etc……… No………………………. Date…………………….
Reference: - Application details This Permission is valid upto ………………..
Permission is granted to…………………………………. for erection of ……………………………………………………number of hoardings of size………………………………………………………at…………………………. in the land belonging to……………………………subject to conditions prescribed below: -
(1) The permitted hoarding/billboard shall be erected within 30 days from the date of receipt of this permission.
(2) All requisite safety measures shall be undertaken by the Agency.
(3) Any other condition that may be included from time to time Competent Authority By Order and etc……… From Date - To Reference: Order No-………………Dated: ……………. of …………………… Sir, I, hereby appeal against Order No-………………Dated ....... of …………………refusing to grant or renew a license/permission or cancellation or suspension of the license/permission for the period from …………………….to ……………………applied by me/granted to me (copy enclosed).
I enclose herewith a copy of challan for payment of Rs.1000/- towards fee for filing appeal.
I appeal for reconsideration of the decision on following grounds only.
(Details of the Grounds): --
(1).
(2).
(3).
(4).
Signature of the applicant Received the appeal against the orders refusing to grant or renew a license/permission for erection or cancelling or suspending a license bearing Application No: from Sri/Smt.
Signature and date No………………………. Date…………….
(1) Name and address of the Licensed Agency :
(2) License No. :
(3) Date of expiry of the License :
(4) Whether the applicant has been previously blacklisted by any other authority in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(5) Whether the applicant has any payable dues (permission fee, License fee, royalty, renewal fee etc) to either BBMP or any other authority in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(6) Whether the applicant has any payable penalties to either BBMP or any other authority in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(7) Whether the applicant was involved in any incident endangering the public safety, in connection with display of advertisements : Yes/No
(8) Indicate whether the following documents have been enclosed :
1. Copy of the License :
2. Copy of Certificate of Incorporation or certificate under Shops and Establishment Act :
3. Copy of PAN card :
4. Copy of TAN :
5. Copy of GST registration Certificate :
6. Bond comprehensively indemnifying BBMP/ GoK from all damages and losses including life and property :
7. Copy of registration with ESI/PF organisation :
8. Copy of Professional Tax registration :
Signature of the applicant Received the application for renewal of License No: -------------------- from Sri/Smt.
Signature and date No………………………. Date…………….
(1) Name and address of the Licensed Agency :
(2) License No. :
(3) Permission No :
(4) Location of the hoarding with photographs (Exact location with identification land marks and direction of facing of the frontage of the hoarding, if on buildings, address of the building) :
(5) Permitted size of the existing advertisement
(6) No objection certificate for the land or building on which advertisement is erected :
(7) Occupancy Certificate of the building/Declaration in Form-XI by the owner of the building in case Occupancy Certificate is not available.
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Signature of the applicant Received the application for renewal of permission No: ---------------- from Sri/Smt.
Signature and date –
(1) Name of the applicant :
(2) License/Permission number and date :
(3) License/Permission fee paid
(4) Location of the hoarding
(5) Size
(6) Name of the land owner/competent Authority if on Government land and Name and address of the owner of the building :
Competent Authority By Order and etc……… – Date - To Sir, This is to undertake that I, ………… (Name) am the lawful owner of building ………. (Name, PID and landmarks) situated at ……………….
(address of the building) Said building has been constructed in …………….(year of construction) and the said building does not have the Occupancy Certificate. Now …………………… (Name of the License holder) has approached me to install a hoarding / has already installed a hoarding of size ………. and the said structure will be/has been strictly established in line with the provision of these Rules.
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