Section 275

Section 275 of the Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022. The Commissioner may, subject to the prior approval of the Empowered Standing Committee, give notice of his intention to declare - Ist dico wered to the that in Go Intention (a) that in any street or portion thereof specified in such notice, the elevation and construction of the frontage of all buil

(1) The Commissioner may, subject to the prior approval of the Empowered Standing Committee, give notice of his intention to declare - Ist dico wered to the that in Go Intention (a) that in any street or portion thereof specified in such notice, the elevation and construction of the frontage of all buildings or any classes of buildings erected or re-erected after such notice shall, in respect of their architectural features, be such as the Empowered Standing Committee may consider suitable to the locality, or (b) that in any locality specified in such notice, there shall be allowed the erection of only detached or semi-detached building or both and that the land appurtenant to each such building shall be of an area, being 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 minimum 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 a street, or locality, specified in such notice, the construction of any one or more of the different classes of buildings (such as residential, educational, institutional, assembly, business, mercantile, industrial, storage, and hazardous buildings) shall not be allowed without the special permission of the Empowered Standing Committee. de (2) The Empowered Standing Committee shall consider all suggestions or objections, received within a period of three months of the publication of such notice, and may confirm the declaration, or may modify it, so, however that the effect of such notice is not extended.

(3) The Commissioner shall publish any declaration so confirmed or modified in the 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 Empowered Standing Committee shall ensure that such declaration is in conformity with the provisions of any State law relating to urban land use planning. Power to stop excavation.

Section 275, The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022 (Act 8 of 2022).