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SECTION – A
ADMINISTRATION
1. SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT
Short title
1.1 : - These byelaws may be called the Meghalaya Building-Bye Laws
2011.
Extent:
1.2 - These byelaws shall apply to all the Master Plan Areas and Scheme
Areas notified or to be notified from time to time within the State.
Commencement
1.3 : -These byelaws shall come into force on such date as the
Meghalaya Urban Development Authority may make Notification in the Official
Gazette.
Applicability
1.4 : - They shall apply to the building activity given in 1.4.1 to 1.4.4
below: -
1.4.1. When a building is newly erected, the bye-laws shall apply to the designs and
construction of the building
1.4.2. Where the whole or any part of the building is dismantled/repaired.
1.4.3. Where the whole or any part of the building is demolished.
1.4.4. Where the occupancy or use of the building is changed.
2. DEFINITIONS
2.0. For the purpose of the Byelaws the following definitions shall have the
meaning indicated against each.
2.1. ‘Act’’ Means the Meghalaya Town and the Country Planning Act, 1973
(Assam Town and Country Planning Act, 1959, Assam Act, 11 of 1960 as
adopted by Meghalaya) and or as amended from time to time.
‘Alteration
2.2. :’ - Means a change from one occupancy to another or a structural
change or change of any component of the building.
2.3. ‘Approved’’ - Means approved by the Chairperson of Meghalaya Urban
Development Authority or any Officer to whom the power has been delegated
by the Chairperson of the Authority.
2.4. ‘Applicant’: - Means every person who writes to the Authority of his or her
intention to erect or re-erect or alter a building.
‘Authority
2.5. :’ - Means the Meghalaya Urban Development Authority.
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2.6. ‘Balcony’:- Means the horizontal projection of a building including handrail,
balustrade or a parapet to serve a passage or a sit-out place.
‘Basement or Cellar’ rd
2.7. : - The lower storey of a building which is minimum 2/3
of the floor height below the finished ground level.
The construction of the basement shall be allowed by the Authority in
accordance with the land use and other provisions specified under the Master
Plan.
Where the use, set backs, and coverage is not provided in the Master Plan
provisions, the same shall be allowed to be constructed in the plot leaving
mandatory set backs and can be put to any of the following uses:
a.
Storage of house-hold or other goods of non- flammable materials;
b.
Dark room;
c.
Strong-rooms, bank cellars, service floors etc.
d.
Air-conditioning equipment and other machines used for services and utilities
of the building;
e.
The use of basement for services & hotel infrastructure for the following items
shall not to be counted in Floor area.
“Air conditioning Plant and Equipment, Water storage, Boiler, Electric Sub-
Station, HT and LT panel rooms, Transformer Compartment, Control Room,
Air conditioning Plant and Equipment, Water storage, Boiler, Electric Sub-
Station, HT and LT panel rooms, Transformer Compartment, Control Room,
Pump House, Generator Room and other mechanical services and equipment
required for the maintenance of the Building”.
f. Parking places and garages;
g. Note: Uses of basement from 2.7 (i) to (vi) shall not be reckoned for the
purpose of FAR.
h. The basement shall not be used for living purposes. However, use of a
basement floor for living purpose or functional use will be permitted provided
the requirement of proper lighting, ventilation & environmental conditions as
prescribed are complied.
i. The basement shall have the following requirements:
(i) Every basement shall be in every part at least 2.4 m in height from the floor to
the underside of the roof slab or ceiling.
(ii) Adequate ventilation shall be provided for the basement. The standard of
ventilation shall be the same as required by the particular occupancy
according to Bye-laws. Any deficiency may be met by providing adequate
mechanical ventilation in the form of blowers, exhaust fan (one exhaust fan for
50 sq.m. of basement area), air-conditioning system etc.
(iii) The minimum height of the ceiling of any basement shall be 0.9 m and
maximum of 1.2 m above the average surrounding ground level.
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(iv) Adequate arrangement shall be made such that surface drainage does not
enter the basement.
(v) The walls and floors of the basement shall be water-tight and be so designed
that the effect of the surrounding soil and moisture, if any, are taken into
account in design and adequate damp proofing treatment is given.
(vi) The access to the basement shall be separate from the main and alternate
staircase providing access and exit from higher floors. Where the staircase is
continuous the same shall be enclosed type serving as a fire separation from
the basement floor and higher floors. Open ramps shall be permitted if they
are constructed within the building envelop subject to the provision of (iv).
(vii) Bathroom and toilet shall be permitted in the basement unless the sewer
levels permit the same and there is no chance of back flow and flooding of
sewerage. If permitted, this shall be placed against an external wall of the
basement.
(viii) Basement shall be adequately lighted and ventilated. The area of bathroom
and toilet so permitted in the basement shall be counted towards FAR
calculations.
‘Building Envelop’
2.8. – Means the horizontal spatial limits upto which a building
may be permitted to be constructed on a plot which shall not exceed the clear
setbacks as prescribed in the byelaws.
‘Chajja’
2.9. : - Means a projection or horizontal structure overhang usually
provided over opening of external walls to provide protection from sun and
rain or for architectural consideration.
2.10 ‘Chimney’:- Means an upright shaft containing one or more flues provided for
the conveyance to the outer air of any product of combustion resulting from
the operation of any heat producing appliance or equipment employing solid
or gaseous fuel.
‘Coverage’
2.11 : - Means the quotient obtained in the terms of percentage by
dividing the plinth areas of Ground floor by plot area, i.e.
Coverage: Plinth area of the Ground floor x 100
Plot area
‘Density’
2.12 : - Means concentration of population expressed in terms of number
of persons per hectare in a particular area.
‘Drain
2.13. : - Means a conduit, channel or pipe for carriage of storm water,
sewage, waste water or other water borne wastes in a building drainage
system.
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‘Demolished’
2.14 : - Means total dismantling of an existing building to erect a new
structure.
‘Drainage
2.15 : - Means the removal of any liquid by a system constructed for this
purpose.
‘Exit’:
2.16 - Means a passage channel or means of egress from any building or
floors area to a street or open space.
‘Floor’
2.17 : - Means the lower surface in a storey which one normally walks in a
building. The general terms ‘Floor’ shall also refer to a basement floor.
2.18 ‘Floor’ Area Ratio’ (F.A.R):- The quotient obtained by dividing the total
covered area (plinth area) on all floors by the area of a plot, i.e.,
F.A.R. - Total covered area of all floors
Plot area
‘Ground Level’
2.19 : - Means the finished surface after formation cutting of the site
from where erection of the building starts.
2.20 ‘Habitable Room: - Means a room occupied or designed for occupancy by
one or more persons for study, living, sleeping, eating, cooking, if it is used for
a living room, but not including bathrooms, water closet compartments,
laundries, serving & store pantries corridors, cellars attics and space that are
not used frequently or during extended period.
Height of a Room’
2.21 ‘ :- Means the vertical distance measured from the finished
floor surface to the finished ceiling/slab surface. The height of a room with a
pitched roof means the average height between the finished floor surface and
the bottom of the eaves and the bottom of the ridge.
2.22 HEIGHT OF FLOORS:-
Minimum height of floors in building at any point shall be 3.0 Mts.
Provided that in case of folded roof the minimum height of 3.0 Mts. shall be
measured from the lowest point of the fold.
Provided that in case of gabled or slopping roof the minimum height below the
lowest part of roof, shall not be less than 2.2 Mts. and an average of the
rooms shall not be less than the minimum prescribed here above.
Provided further that in case of trussed-roof, the minimum height shall be
measured from the pavement to bottom of the tie beam.
Provided that for verandah, Bathroom, W.C., passages, puja room, store
room, stair cabin, minimum height shall be 2.20 mts.
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