Section 209: Sanction of Municipality to projections over streets and drains

209. (1) Subject to any rules made by the [State Government] prescribing the conditions for the sanction by a Municipality of projections over streets or drains, a Municipality may give written permission, where provision is made by a by-law for the giving of such permission -

(a) to the owners or occupiers of buildings in or on streets to erect or re-erect open verandahs, balconies, or rooms, to project over the street from any upper story thereof, at such height from the surface of the street, and to such an extent beyond the line of the plinth or basement wall as are prescribed in such by laws ; and

(b) to the owner or occupier of any building or land to erect or re-erect any projection or structure so as to overhang, project into, or encroach on or over a drain in a street to such an extent, and in accordance with such conditions as are in like manner prescribed.

(2) In giving permission under clause (a) of sub-section (1), a Municipality may prescribe the extent to which, and the conditions under which, any roofs, eaves, weather-Municipalities, shopMunicipalities and the like may be allowed project over such streets.