Section 228(1) in Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act, 2000
(1)The Commissioner may give a written permission on such terms and on payment of such fee as he in each case thinks fit, to the owner or occupier of the building or any street-(a)to erect an arcade, over such street or any portion thereof, or(b)to put up a verandah, balcony, arch connecting passage, sunshade, weather frame, canopy, awning or other such structure or thing projecting from any story over or across any street or portion thereof :Provided that no permission shall be given by the Commissioner for the erection of an arcade in any public street in which construction of an arcade has not been generally sanctioned by the Corporation.