{"act":{"id":"assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022","short_title":"The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022","long_title":null,"act_number":"8","act_year":2022,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":368,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"259","heading":null,"text":"No person shall erect, or commence to erect, any building or execute any of the works specified in section 258 of the Act in any Municipal Corporation area, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder in relation to such erection of building or execution of work, as the case may be: Central Act 20 of 1972. Provided that the erection of a residential building upto Ground +2 storied or a height of 9.60 metre, whichever is lower, on a plot of land of six hundred and seventy square metre or less, may be commenced and may be proceeded with if the building plan has been prepared by an architect registered under the Architects Act, 1972, and authenticated by him certifying that the building plan for such erection conforms to the provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder: Provided further that any such plan shall be submitted to the Commissioner before the commencement of the work referred to in the first proviso for sanction thereof in due course: tha C'iso for sanction Provided also that if any deviation from the provisions of this Act, or the rules, or the regulations made thereunder or any material deviation from such plan is detected in erection of any such building, the Commissioner may take necessary action against such person in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or the rules, or the regulations made thereunder and, in the case of any deviation from the provisions of this Act, or the rules, or the regulations made thereunder, send a report to the Institution of Architects against the architect who prepared the building plan and authenticated it by certifying that the building plan conforms to the provisions of this Act, or the rules or the regulations made thereunder for such action as the Institution of Architects may deem fit: Provided also that the Commissioner shall, by order, direct that no certification by such architect in respect of any building plan shall be accepted by the Corporation till a decision on the aforesaid report is received from the Institution of Architects by the Commissioner. Central Act 20 of 1972. Erection of building.","html":"<p>No person shall erect, or commence to erect, any building or execute any of the works specified in section 258 of the Act in any Municipal Corporation area, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder in relation to such erection of building or execution of work, as the case may be: Central Act 20 of 1972. Provided that the erection of a residential building upto Ground +2 storied or a height of 9.60 metre, whichever is lower, on a plot of land of six hundred and seventy square metre or less, may be commenced and may be proceeded with if the building plan has been prepared by an architect registered under the Architects Act, 1972, and authenticated by him certifying that the building plan for such erection conforms to the provisions of this Act and the rules and the regulations made thereunder: Provided further that any such plan shall be submitted to the Commissioner before the commencement of the work referred to in the first proviso for sanction thereof in due course: tha C'iso for sanction Provided also that if any deviation from the provisions of this Act, or the rules, or the regulations made thereunder or any material deviation from such plan is detected in erection of any such building, the Commissioner may take necessary action against such person in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or the rules, or the regulations made thereunder and, in the case of any deviation from the provisions of this Act, or the rules, or the regulations made thereunder, send a report to the Institution of Architects against the architect who prepared the building plan and authenticated it by certifying that the building plan conforms to the provisions of this Act, or the rules or the regulations made thereunder for such action as the Institution of Architects may deem fit: Provided also that the Commissioner shall, by order, direct that no certification by such architect in respect of any building plan shall be accepted by the Corporation till a decision on the aforesaid report is received from the Institution of Architects by the Commissioner. Central Act 20 of 1972. Erection of building.</p>","words":366,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/259/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/610a677f-104b-48d6-a380-d50e09198f79/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. 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