State of Haryana - Act
Haryana Municipal Building Bye-laws 1982
HARYANA
India
India
Haryana Municipal Building Bye-laws 1982
Rule HARYANA-MUNICIPAL-BUILDING-BYE-LAWS-1982 of 1982
- Published on 1 March 1982
- Commenced on 1 March 1982
- [This is the version of this document from 1 March 1982.]
- [Note: The original publication document is not available and this content could not be verified.]
1. Title, extent and commencement.
2. Definitions.
- In these bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires-(i)'Act' shall mean the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 ;(ii)'Abut' - A building is said to abut on a street when the outer face of any of its external walls is on the street boundary ;(iii)'Applicant' shall mean a person who gives notice to the municipality of his intention to erect or re-erect a building and shall include his legal representatives ;(iv)'Architect' shall mean a person holding any of the qualifications laid down in Schedule I appended to these bye-laws and duly registered with a committee whether employed for preparation of plans or for supervision of construction or for both ;(v)'Area Plan' shall mean the plan of a space or piece of ground ; a portion of surface ;(vi)'Architectural Control Sheets' shall mean sheets of drawing with directions signed by the [Executive Officer or the Secretary, as the case may be,] [Substituted by Haryana Notification No. GSR 543/HA24/73 Sections 201, 202 & 214/90 dated 29.6.1990.] and kept in his office showing the measure of Architectural Control and prepared under bye-law 15 ;(vii)'Balcony' shall mean a cantilevered horizontal projection from the wall of a building without any vertical support and having balustrade or railing not exceeding one metre in height to serve as a passage or a sitting out place;(viii)'Barsati' shall mean a habitable space on the roof of the building with toilet facilities;(ix)'Base' applied to a wall or a column, shall mean the underside or that part of the wall or of the column which immediately rests upon the footing or foundation or upon any bressummer or other structure by which such wall or column is carried ;(x)'Basement' or 'Celler' shall mean the lower storey of a building below or partly below ground level ;(xi)'Bressummer' shall mean a wooden beam or re-inforced concrete or a stone slab or a metallic girder which cornices a wall ;(xii)'Building' shall mean any structure for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof whether used as human habitation or not and includes foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, plumbing and building services, fixed platforms, verandah, balcony, cornice or projection, part of building or anything affixed thereto or any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any kind of space and signs and outdoor dis-play structures, tents and shamianas as tarpaulin shelters shall not be considered as building ;(xiii)'Building line' shall mean the line upto which the plinth of a building adjoining on a street or an extension of a street or on a future street may lawfully extend and includes the lines prescribed, if any, in any scheme ;(xiv)'Classification of buildings based on occupancy' shall mean all buildings, whether existing or hereafter erected and shall be classified, according to the use or the character of occupancy, in one of the following grounds :-Group A ... 'Residential Buildings'Group B ... 'Public Buildings'Group C ... 'Commercial Buildings'Group D ... 'Warehouses and Industrial Buildings'(A)'Residential Building' shall mean a building used or constructed or adopted to be used wholly or principally for human habitation and includes all garages, stables or other houses appurtenant thereto;(B)'Public Building' shall include a building used or intended to be used either ordinarily or occasionally, as a Church, Chapel, Temple, Mosque or any other place of public worship, Dharamashalla, College, school, hostel, theatre, cinema hall, public concert room, public hall, public bath, hospital, Government offices and those of local bodies, [* * *] [The words and signs 'hotel, restaurant' omitted by Haryana Notification No. S.O. 95/H.A. 24/1973/Sections 200 and 214/2007. dated 16.11.2007.] lecture room, library, orphanage or rescue room or any other place of public assembly ;(C)'Commercial Buildings' shall mean a building of which the whole or a substantial part, such part being not less than 2/3rd of the entire floor area is used or intended to be used for business purpose ; and(D)'Warehouse and Industrial Building' shall mean a building wholly or principally used as a factory, a workshop, motor-garage, warehouse, laundry, brewery, distillery, iron foundry or for any other similar purpose.(xv)'Canopy' shall mean a cantilevered projection from the face of a wall over an entrance to the building at the lintel level provided that, -(a)it shall not exceed five square meters in area ;(b)it shall not be lower than 2.3 metres when measured from the ground;(c)it shall not be allowed at more than one entry ;(d)it shall not extend 1.8 metres beyond the building line ; and(e)there shall be no platform underneath it ;(xvi)'Chhaja' or 'Sunshade' shall mean a sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain ;(xvii)'Chimney' shall mean an upright shaft containing and encasing one or more flues ;(xviii)'Courtyard' shall mean a space open to the sky within the boundary of a plot, which is enclosed or partially enclosed, by building, boundary-walls or railing and may be at the ground-floor level or any other level within or adjacent to a building ;(xix)'Covered Area' shall mean ground immediately above the plinth level covered by the building but does not include the spaces covered by :-(a)garden, rockery, well and well structures, plant nursery, waterpool, swimming pool (if uncovered), platform round a tree, tank, fountain, bench, Chabutra with open top and unenclosed on sides by walls and the like ;(b)drainage culvert, conduit, catch-pit, gully-pit, chamber, gutter and the like ; and(c)compound wall, gate, unstoreyed porch and portico, slide, swing, uncovered staircases, areas covered by Chhajja and the like ;Note. - For the purpose of these bye-laws, covered area equals the plot area minus the area due for open spaces.(xx)'Damp proof' shall mean a course consisting of some appropriate water proofing material provided to prevent penetration of dampness or moisture from any part of the structure to any other part at a height of not less than 15 cms. above the surface of the adjoining ground;(xxi)'Detached Building' shall mean a building whose walls and roofs are independent of any other building with open space on all sides ;(xxii)'Drainage' shall mean act, process, method or means of drainage, mode of discharge of water ; the system of drains ;(xxiii)'Engineer' shall mean a person holding any of the qualifications laid down in Scheduled II appended to these bye-laws and duly registered with any Class 'A' or 'B' committee, whether engaged for the supervision, construction or for the preparation of structural drawing or both ;(xxiv)'Erect or re-erect any building' includes :-(a)any material alteration or enlargement of any building ;(b)the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation ;(c)the conversion into more than one place 'for human habitation, of a building originally constructed as one such place ;(d)the conversion of two or more places of human habitations into a greater number of such places ;(e)such alterations of a building as affect an alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrangement or materially affect its security ;(f)the addition of any rooms, buildings, out-houses or any other structures to any buildings ; and(g)the construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on such street or land ;(xxv)'Exit' shall mean a passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storeys or floor area to a street or other open space of safety ;(xxvi)'External wall' shall mean an outer wall or vertical enclosure of any building not being a party wall, even though adjoining to a wall of another building and shall also include a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building but shall not include an outer verandah wall.(xxvii)'Factory' shall have the same meaning as given to it in the Factories Act, 1948 (Act 63 of 1948) ;(xxviii)'Floor Area' shall mean usable covered area of a building at any floor level;(xxix)'Floor Area Ratio' or 'F.A.R.' shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing the multiple of the total of the covered area (plinth area) on all floors and 100 by the areas of the plot i.e. -| F.A.R. Total covered area of all floors x100Plot Area |
4. Site Plan.
5. Building plan.
6. Colouring the plan.
- The colours to be used in the plans shall be as specified in the following table :-| Item | Site Plan | Building Plan | ||||
| Existing work | White Plan | Blue Print | White Plan | Blue Print | ||
| Black outline | White | Black | White | |||
| Proposed work | Red filled in | Red | Red | Red | ||
| Drainage and Sewerage work | Red dotted | Red dotted | Red dotted | Red dotted | ||
| Water-supply work | Black dotted | Black dotted | Black dotted | Black dotted | ||
| Work proposed to be dismantled | Yellow hatchet | Yellow hatchet | Yellow hatchet | Yellow hatchet | ||
| Open spaces | No colour | No colour | ... | ... | ||
| Plot lines | Thick black | Thick black | ... | ... | ||
| Permissible | Thick dotted | Thick dotted | ... | ... | ||
| Building lines | Black | Black | ... | ... | ||
| Existing streets | Green | Green | ... | ... | ||
| Future street, if any | Green dotted | Green dotted | ... | |||
| Work to be regularised or deviation made | Red hatchet | Red hatchet | Red hatchet | Red hatchet | ||
| *[Fire Safety | Orange dotted | Orange dotted | Orange dotted | Orange dotted.] |
7. Type or design.
- In case the applicant wishes to follow a type or design of a building approved by the municipal committee, he may obtain the same, if any, from the [Executive Officer or the Secretary as the case may be,] [Substituted by Haryana Notification No. GSR 543/HA24/73 Sections 201, 202 & 214/90 dated 29.6.1990.] on the prescribed fee. These building plans along with relative site plan shall nevertheless be submitted as required by bye-law 3.8. Information necessary to validate application.
- No application under bye-law 3 shall be considered to be valid unless it is made on the prescribed form and is accompanied by the requisite number of plans and documents together with the required fee as laid down in the schedule IV.In case of failure of such compliance, the application together with plans shall be returned to the applicant for resubmission in accordance with the bye-laws.9. Sanction to erect or re-erect.
- After an application in the prescribed form containing the required information and accompanied by necessary documents and fee is received, the [committee] [Substituted by Haryana Notification No. GSR 543/HA24/73 Sections 201, 202 & 214/90 dated 29.6.1990.] shall, after making such inquiry as it may consider necessary, pass an order within the period prescribed in section 205, either sanctioning it or rejecting it and convey the same in BR IV along with one mounted copy of the plan duly sanctioned or rejected as the case may be :[Provided that no building plan shall be sanctioned by the committee unless it provides for a water seal latrine :Provided further that where the proposed building provides for more than two storeys, no building plan shall be sanctioned unless a letter box at some suitable place on the ground floor is provided for occupants of each floor of the building, separately.] [Inserted vide Notification, dated 7.4.1995.]10. Validity of sanctioned plans.
- Every sanction for the erection or re- erection of any building which shall be given or be deemed to have been given by a [committee] [Substituted by Haryana Notification No. GSR 543/HA24/73 Sections 201, 202 & 214/90 dated 29.6.1990.] shall remain in force for one year only from the date of such sanction. Should the erection or re-erection of the building is not commenced with one year and completed within [three] [Substituted for the words 'two' by Haryana Notification No. S.O. 95/H.A. 24/1973/Sections 200 and 214/2007. dated 16.11.2007.] years, as the case may be, the sanction shall be deemed to have lapsed with respect to that portion of the building which has not been completed but such lapse shall not bar any subsequent application for fresh sanction.11. Notice of commencement of work.
- A person who has been given sanction under bye-law 9 and intends to commence erection or re-erection of building shall give to the committee notice in writing of not less than one week stating therein the date and time on which the erection or re-erection of the building will commence.12. Occupation of building.
13. Use of site, type and character of building.
14. Proportion of the site which may be covered with building.
| Area of the plot | Maximum permissible coverage |
| (i) (a) for thefirst 225 sq. metres of the total area of the site. | 55% of the areas of the site. |
| (b) for the next225 sq. metres i.e. portion of the area between 225 and 450 sq.metres | 35% of the such portion of the site. |
| (c) for theremaining portion of the site i.e. for the portion of the areaexceeding 450 sq. metres. | 25% of such portion of the site. |
| Maximum permissible coverage on the ground | Maximum permissible floor Area/Ratio excluding the ancillaryzone | Maximum Height of the industrial building excluding chimney |
| 60% of area of the site | 125.00% | 21 metres." |
| Areaof plot | Maximumpermissible coverage |
| (1) | (2) |
| Upto 10,000 sq. metres | 33-1/3% of the area of the plot. |
| Above 10,000 sq. metres | 25% of the area of the plot. |
| (ii) F.A.R. | (a) Maximum F.A.R. = 100% |
| (b) Maximum height = 20 metres. |
15. Architectural Control.
- in the case of building sites where architectural control is considered necessary by the Executive Officer or Secretary as the case may be, he shall cause to be prepared Architectural control sheets for this purpose showing the extent of architectural control on the various units of the building or a portion of such building, in the following respects:-16. Building lines.
- No building shall project beyond the building lines as shown on the zoning plan. However, in cases where zoning plan has not been prepared, the minimum set backs shall be as provided below:-| Depth of the plot | Minimum set back from the boundary of the plot | |
| 1 | 2 | |
| Upto 10 metres | 1 metre | |
| Above 10 metres and upto 20 metres | 2 metres | |
| Above 20 metres but not exceeding 30 metres | 3 metres | |
| Above 30 metres but not exceeding 40 metres | 5 metres | |
| Above 40 metres but not exceeding 50 metres | 7.5 metres | |
| Above 50 metres but not exceeding 60 metres | 9 metres | |
| Above 60 metres | 12. 5 metres |
17. Maximum height of a building.
- Subject to the restriction shown in the zoning plan or architectural/frame control sheets the maximum height shall be limited according to the width of the street, as given below :-(a)(i)when the width of the street is less than 3.5 metres the maximum height shall be 4.6 metres ;(ii)when the width of the street is 3.5 metres or more but less than 7.6 metres, the a maximum height shall be 10.6 metres :Provided that a building with not more than two storeys with a barsati on top shall be allowed within the height of 10.6 metres;(iii)when the width of the street is 7.6 metres or more but less than 1.2 metres the maximum height shall be 12.2 metres ;(iv)when the width of the street is 12.2 metres or more the maximum height shall be the width of the street ;(v)where the building abuts [on] more than one street, its maximum height shall be regulated by the width of such street so far as it abuts upon such wider street and also, to a distance of 24.4 metres from such wider street in so far as it abuts up on the narrow of such streets ;Provided that -18. Height of mezzanine storey and internal balconies.
19. Minimum provision with regard to residential buildings.
- No building for residential use shall be constructed or allowed to be used till, in addition to living room or rooms, every dwelling until provides a kitchen and toilet facilities.20. Minimum area of courtyard for the purposes of ventilation.
- The minimum area every enclosed courtyard of a residential building upon which habitable rooms abut shall be one fourth of the aggregate floor area of the rooms and verandahs, on the groundfloor abutting on the courtyard :Provided that such courtyard shall not be less than 9 square metres in area and the minimum width of every such courtyard in any direction shall not be less than 3 metres. Notwithstanding the above the width of the courtyard shall not be less than half of the mean height of the abutting or enclosing walls:Provided further that in determining the said aggregate floor area :-21. Minimum height, size and other requirement of ventilation regarding a habitable room and kitchen.
22. Bath room and water closet.
23. Height of boundary wall, fence and type of gate.
- The height and design of the boundary wall, fence or gate, shall be in accordance with the provisions of the zoning plan and shall conform to the pattern laid down for such a plot on the zoning plan :Provided that where no zoning plan has been prepared, the height and design of the boundary wall or fence or gate shall be as per standard design issued by the Department of Town and Country Planning.["23A. Rain-Water Harvesting. - 1. (a) Arrangement of roof top rain-water harvesting will have to be made by the plot owner, constructing the building on the plot where the area of the roof is 100 square meters or more.3. Constitution of the building as laid down in sub-clause (I) shall be the part of the occupation certificate. Unless such construction is completed as per the approval, no occupation certificate shall be issued."] [Added by Haryana Notification No. 3/2/2002-R-1, dated 13th December, 2002.]
[Part-III A] [Part III inserted by Haryana Notification No. S.O. 95/H.A. 24/1973/Sections 200 and 214/2007. dated 16.11.2007.] Provision/facilities for physical handicapped persons23B. Scope.
- These bye-laws are applicable to all buildings and facilities used by the public. It does not apply to private and public residences.23C. Site Development.
- Level of the roads, access paths and parking areas shall be described in the plan along with specification of the materials.23D. Building Requirements.
- The specified facilities for the building for physically handicapped persons shall be as follows :-| Clear internal depth | ..1100 millimeter. |
| Clear internal width | ..2000 millimeter. |
| Entrance door width | ..900 millimeter. |
24. Materials.
- All materials to be used for the erection or re-erection of a building shall conform to the specification and standards laid down in the Punjab Public Works Department specifications, 1963 edition as amended from time to time and as applicable to the State of Haryana.25. Site.
- No person shall erect or re-erect any building on any ground which has been filled up with offal or offensive vegetable or animal matter, or upon which any such matter is deposited unless and until the committee or an officer authorised by it certifies that such matter has been properly removed by excavation or otherwise has become or has been rendered innocuous.26. Foundations.
| Safe allowable pressure in Metric Ton/sq. metres | At and beyond depths (in metres) | ||
| Soft wet pasty or muddy clay | ... | 54 | 2.5 |
| ... | 1.5 | ||
| Alluvial earth | ... | 5 | 0.5 |
| Artificial filling | ... | 3 | 0.5 |
| Loams (loose) | ... | 8 | 0.5 |
| Loams (compact) | ... | 11 | 0.5 |
| Sandy loam | ... | 16 | 0.75 |
| Sandy loam | ... | 16 | 1.0 |
| Sandy loam | ... | 8 | 0.5 |
| Clay (loose) | ... | 11 | 0.75 |
| Clay (compact) | ... | 8 | 0.5 |
| Clay (compact) | ... | 11 | 0.75 |
| Clay (compact) | ... | 16 | 1.0 |
27. Damp proof course.
28. Loads.
- In addition to the dead load, the building shall be designed for the following live loads ;-| Type of Floor | Minimum live load Kg. per sq. metre of floorarea | |||
| 1. | Roof (Flat) | ... | 150 | |
| 2. | Floors of residential purposes including dwellinghouses. | ... | 200 | |
| 3. | Floors of tenements, hospital ward, bed room andprivate sitting room in hostel and dormitories | ... | 200 | |
| 4. | Office floors other than entrance hall floors oflight work rooms | ... | 250 to 400 | |
| 5. | Floors of banking halls, office entrance halls andoffice floors below entrance halls and reading rooms | ... | 300 | |
| 6. | Shop floors used for display and sale ofmerchandise floors of class- rooms in schools floors of workrooms garages for vehicles not exceeding 2.5 tons gross weightfloors of places of assembly with fixed seating churches chapelsrestaurants circulation space in machinery halls power stationsetc. where not occupied by plant or equipment | .... | 400 | |
| 7. | Floors of warehouses, workshops, factories andother buildings of similar category for light weight loadsoffice, floors for storage and filling purposes floors of placeof assembly without fixed seating public rooms in hostels/hotelsdance halls waiting halls etc. | ... | 500 | |
| 8. | Floors of warehouses, workshops factories andother buildings of similar category for medium weight loads,floors of garages for vehicle not exceeding 4 tons gross weight | ... | 750 | |
| 9. | Floors of warehouses, workshops, factories andother buildings of similar category for heavy weight loads,floors of book stores, roofs and pavement over basementprojecting under public footpaths | ... | 1000 |
| For item No. 1 loading | ... | 200 |
| For item No. 2 loading | ... | 300 |
| For all other classes | ... | 500 |
| Balconies liable to overcrowding | ... | 500 |
29. Floors.
- All floors of every building including floors of kitchen, bathrooms, latrines, urinals shall be damp and rot-proof and shall be constructed of materials so treated as to protect it from white ants, dry rot, wet rot and as per Punjab Public Works Department Specifications 1963 edition as amended from time to time and as applicable to the State of Haryana.30. Walls
31. Thickness of walls.
- Where walls of buildings are constructed of bricks, stones blocks or of other hard and incombustible material laid in horizontal beds of courses, every wall or part of a wall shall be so designed and constructed as to be capable of safely sustaining and transmitting the dead loading and the superimposed loading to which it may be subjected calculated in accordance with the Scheduled V annexed to these bye-laws so far as it is applicable and the horizontal and inclined forces to which it may be subjected without undue settlement or deflection and without exceeding the intensity of pressure on the materials as given under:-Maximum permissible uniformly distributed compressive stresses on walls with slenderness ratio of unity :| Cement | Lime | Sand | Maximum Stress in K.G. /Sq cm. corresponding tobricks of crushing strength in K.G./Sq. Cm. | ||
| 36 | 70 | 106 | |||
| 1 | .... | 3 | 3.5 | 7.0 | 10.5 |
| 1 | .... | 4 | 3.5 | 7.0 | 10.0 |
| 1 | 1 | 6 | 3.5 | 7.0 | 10.0 |
| 2 | 2 | 9 | 3.5 | 5.5 | 8.5 |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 3.5 | 5.5 | 8.5 |
| 1 | 3 | 12 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 7.0 |
| ..... | 1 | 2 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 7.0 |
| ..... | 1 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| Burnt bricks in mud mortar | 3 |
| Coursed rubble masonry (other than Ashlar in cement mortar1:4) | 10 |
| Coursed rubble masonry (other than Ashlar in lime mortar 1:2or cement Mortar 1:6) | 5 |
| Random rubble masonry in cement mortar 1:4 | 9 |
| Random rubble masonry in lime mortar 1:2 or cement mortar 1:6 | 4.5 |
| Ashlar masonry in cement mortar 1:3 with 1:3:6 mass concretebacking | 13 |
| Ashlar masonry in lime mortar 1:2 or cement mortar 1:6 with1:4:8 mass concrete backing | 6.5 |
32. Slenderness ratio.
- Slenderness ratio must not exceed 12 and reduction in the permissible pressure figure given for slenderness ratio exceeding six shall be carried on according to the table given below :-| Slenderness ratio | Reduction in maximum permissible pressures due toslenderness ratio exceeding six. |
| 7 | 10.00% |
| 8 | 20.00% |
| 9 | 30.00% |
| 10 | 40.00% |
| 11 | 50.00% |
| 12 | 60.00% |
| For walls with no lateral support at top | 1⅓ actual storeyheight |
| For walls with lateral support at top | ¾ actual storeyheight |
| Piers with no lateral support at top | 2 actual storey height |
| Piers with lateral support at top | actual storey height |
33. Hollow bricks and block walls.
- Where any wall or any part of a wall is constructed as a hollow wall, -34. Roofs.
35. Staircases in residential buildings.
- Every building which is of more than one storey, intended to be used as a single family or two family residential building, shall be provided with at least one staircase having minimum width of 0.8 metre constructed of fire-resisting materials through- out.36. Residential buildings with multiple dwelling units other than the above, commercial, public and industrial buildings.
| Number of users up to 100 | ... | 1.2 metres |
37. Minimum dimension of steps.
38. Materials
- All staircases and walls enclosing the staircases in public buildings and industrial buildings shall be of fire proof materials.39. Uniformity treads in and in risers on staircases.
- Treads and risers of each flight in a staircases or of several flights in the same staircase in public and industrial or a residential building shall be of uniform width and height.40. Location of staircase.
- No part of any higher storey of any building shall be more than 30 metres from some staircase or ramp leading to the ground floor.41. Ventilation of staircase.
- Every staircase shall be adequately ventilated and lit to the satisfaction of the committee.42. Head room in staircase.
- The minimum clear head room in any staircase shall be 2.10 metres measured from the top of the riser to the lowest point of the ceiling above.43. Provision of hand rails.
44. Lobbies, corridors, passages and balconies.
- The minimum width of any lobby, corridor, passage or balcony in presidential building shall be at least one metre and shall be of fire-resisting materials, and if supported, shall be carried on supports of fires-resisting materials.45. Residential buildings with multiple dwelling, commercial and industrial building.
- The minimum width of any lobby, corridor, passage or a balcony in these buildings shall be as given below :-| (a) No. of users from 1 to 20 | ... | 1.0 metre |
| (b) No. of users from 20 to 100 | ... | 1.2 metre : |