(1) Before proceeding to cover up drains or appliances connected with the drainage the applicant shall give a notice to the ULB in Form ‘|’ stating that such drains or Page 30
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appliances are ready for inspection and shall specify the date and hour not being a date earlier than 7(seven) days from the date of the notice on which he will proceed to cover up such drains or appliances.
(2) An officer of the ULB duly authorized by the ULB in this behalf shall inspect the work at the site, within 3(three) days of such inspection, issue necessary direction, if any.
Power of Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB, to guard against accidents during construction or repairs. -
(1) The Mayor/ Chairperson of the Local Body, so far as practicable during the construction or repair of any building, street, drain, water-supply line or other premises vested in the ULB or in an owner, cause proper precaution for guarding against accident to be taken by shorting up and protecting the adjoining buildings, and shall cause such bar, char or post as it shall think fit, to be fixed across or in any street to prevent the passage of any carriage, cart or other vehicle, or of cattle, and avert danger while such construction or repair is being carried on, and shall cause such construction or repair work in a street to be sufficiently lighted and guarded during the night.
(2) Whoever takes down, alters or removes any such bar, chain or post or removes or extinguishes any such light without the authority or consent of the Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB shall be published with fine which may extend to Rs. 250/—( two hundred and fifty) only.
Power of Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB to cause hoards or fences to be set up during construction, repair, etc.- A person intending to construct or take down any building or any other structure or to alter or repair any other structure externally shall, if the position or circumstances of the work is or are likely to cause, or may cause obstruction, danger or inconvenience in any street, before beginning such work -
(a) obtain beforehand permission in writing from the Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB so to do; and
(b) cause sufficient hoards or fences to be put up in order to separate the area where the work is to be carried on, from the street, and shall maintain such hoards or fences standing and in good condition to the satisfaction of the Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB during such time as the Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB considers necessary for the public safety or convenience and shall cause the same to be sufficiently lighted during the night and shall remove the same when directed by the Mayor/ Chairperson of the ULB.
Power as to inflammable structures.-
(1) (a) The ULB may, by public notice, direct that within certain limits to be fixed by the competent authority, the roofs and external walls of huts or other buildings shall not be made or renewed with grass, mats, leaves or other highly inflammable materials without the consent of the Mayor/ Chairperson in writing.
(b) The competent authority may, at any time, by written notice, require the owner of any building(s), which has an external roof or wall made of such material as aforesaid, to remove such roof or wall within such reasonable time as shall be specified in the, notice, notwithstanding that the public notice has not been issued or that such roof or wall was made with the consent of the competent authority or before the issue of such notice, if any, provided that in case of any such roof or wall in existence before the issue of such notice or made with the consent of the competent authority, the competent authority shall pay compensation for any damage caused by the removal, which shall not exceed the original costs of construction of the roof or wall.
(2) The floors of the lobbies, corridors, passages and landings of a building other than Page 3 1 residential or educational shall be, constructed of incombustible materials; the doors shall be constructed of fire-resisting materials and the flights of stairs shall be constructed either of incombustible materials or fire-resisting material.
(3) The following material shall, for the purpose of this rule, be deemed to be incombustible: -
(a) brick-work constructed of bricks, well-burnt, hard and sound, properly bounded and solidly put together with -
(i) mortar compounded of lime and sharp clean sand, hard clean broken brick, broken flint, gills or slag, well pulverized, or
(ii) cement mixed with any of the materials mentioned in subclause(i);
(b) granite or other stone which is suitable for building purposes by reasons of its solidity and durability;
(c) slate, tiles, bricks and terracotta, when used for covering or corbels;
(d) flag-stones when used for floors over arches, if not exposed on the underside and if not supported at the ends only;
(e) concrete, composed of broken brick, stone chippings of selected slag and lime, cement or calcined gypsum, when the concrete is used for filling is used for filling in between joints of floors to a depth of not less than ten centimeters;
(f) any combination of concrete, steel or iron or any other materials approved in this behalf from time to time by the Local Body.
Explanation:- In this rule, the expression, brick, lime or cement shall mean respectively such brick, lime or cement as conform to the standard and quality specified in this behalf in the latest edition of the National Building Code.
(4) The following materials shall, for the purpose of sub-rule (2), be deemed to be fire-resisting, but not incombustible:-
(a) sal, teak, and other hard timber, when used for beams or posts or in combination with steel, the timber and the steel(if any) being protected by plastering in cement or other incombustible or nonconducting external coating;
(b) in the case of staircase, sal, teak or other hard timber, not less than four centimetres thick; and
(c) in the case of staircase, sal, teak or other hard timber, the treads and risers being not less than four centimetres thick.