Buildings
Power to make bye-laws
186. A Board may make bye-laws prescribing-
(a) the manner in which notice of the intention to erect or re-erect a building in the cantonment shall be given to the Board and the information and plans to be furnished with the notice;
(b) the type or description of buildings which may or may not, and the purpose for which a building may or may not, be erected or re-erected in the cantonment or any part thereof;
(c) the minimum cubic capacity of any room or rooms in a building which is to be erected or re-erected;
(d) the fees payable on provision by the Board of plans or specifications of the type of buildings which may be erected in the cantonment or any part thereof;
(e) the circumstances in which a mosque, temple or church or other sacred building may be erected or re-erected; and
(f) with reference to the erection or re-erection of buildings, or of any class of building, all or any of the following matters, namely:-
(i) the line of frontage where the building abuts on a street;
(ii) the space to be left about the building to secure free circulation of air and facilities for scavenging and for the prevention of fire;
(iii) the materials and method of construction to be used for external and party-walls, roofs and floors;
(iv) the position, the material and the method of construction of fireplaces, chimneys, drains, latrines, privies, urinals and cesspools;
(v) height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operating are to be carried on;
(vi) the level and width of the foundation, the level of the lowest floor and the stability of the structure;
(vii) the number and height of the storeys of which the building may consist;
(viii) the means to be provided for egress from the building in case of fire;
(ix) the safeguarding of wells from pollution; or
(x) the materials and method of construction to be used for godowns intended for the storage of foodgrains in excess of fifty maunds in order to render them rat proof.