AMC Act 206Chapter VII · Chapter XIII

Section 206 · Power to regulate future construction of building in particular streets of localities

(1)

The Corporation may give public notice of its intention to declare-

(a)

that in any street or portion thereof specified in such notice the elevation and construction of the frontage of all building or any classes of buildings erected or re-erected after such notice shall, in respect of their architectural features, be such as the Corporation may consider suitable to the locality; or

(b)

that in any locality specified in such notice, there shall be allowed the re-erection of any detached or semi-detached buildings or both and that the land appurtenant to each such building shall be of an area not less than that specified in such notice; or

(c)

that the division or sub-division of building plots in a particular locality shall be of a specified area; or

(d)

that in any locality specified in the notice, the construction of more than a specified number of buildings on each acre of land shall not be allowed; or

(e)

that in any street, portion of street or locality specified in such notice, the construction of any one or more of the different classes of buildings like residential, commercial, mercantile, industrial, institutional, storage or hazardous buildings, shall not be allowed without the special permission of the Corporation.

(2)

The Mayor-in-Council at a meeting shall consider all suggestions or objections, received within a period of three months of the publication of such notices, and may confirm the declaration or may modify it but not so as to extend its effect.

(3)

The Corporation shall publish any declaration so confirmed or modified in Official Gazette and the declaration shall take effect from the date of such publication.

(4)

No person shall, after the date of publication of such declaration, erect or re-erect any building in contravention of such declaration.

(5)

The Corporation shall, before making a declaration under sub-section (1), obtain the views of the Municipal Building Committee upon it and also ensure that such declaration is in conformity with the provisions of any Development Plan in force under the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act, 1979.

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