General:
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions given under shall have meaning indicated against each of them.

Words and expressions no defined in these regulations shall have the same meaning or sense as in the 

1. The Nagpur Improvement Trust Act, 1936.

2. City of Nagpur Municipal Corporation Act, 1948.

3. Maharashtra regional & Town Planning Act, 1966.

Commissioner/Chairman:
  "Commissioner" means Commissioner, Nagpur Municipal Corporation and 
  "Chairman" means Chairman, Nagpur Improvement Trust.

Act - Shall mean :

1. The Nagpur Improvement Trust Act, 1936 and

2. The City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948

3. Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act, 1966.

Advertising Sign - Any surface with characters, letters or illustrations applied thereto and displayed in any manner whatsoever out of door for purposes of advertising or to give information regarding or to attract the public to any place, person, public performance, article or merchandise whatsoever, and which surface or structure is attached to, forms of or is connected with any building, or is fixed or hoarding or displayed in space.

Air-conditioning - The process of treating air so as to control simultaneously its temperature, humidity, cleanliness and distribution to meet the requirement of conditioned space.

Alteration - A change from one occupancy to another, or a structural change, such as an addition to the area or height, or the removal of part of a building, or any change to the structure, such as the construction of, cutting into or removal of any wall, partition, column, beam, joist, floor, roof or other support, or a change to or closing of any required means of ingress or egress or a change to the fixtures of equipment, as provided under these regulations.  However modification in regards to gardening, white washing, painting, plastering, pointing, paving and retiling shall not be deemed to be alteration.

Approved - Approved by the Authority having jurisdiction.

Authority having jurisdiction - The authority which has been created by a statute and which for the purpose of administering the regulations may authorise Technical Committee or an official having a professional skill to act on its behalf hereinafter called the 'Authority'

Automatic Sprinkler System - An arrangement of piping and sprinklers, designed to operate automatically by the heat of fire and to discharge water upon that fire and which may also simultaneously give automatic audible alarm.

Balcony - A Horizontal projection including parapet and handrail ballustrade to serve as a passage or witting out place atleast one wide fully open. except provided with railing or parapet wall for safety.

Basement - The lower storey of a building below or partly below the ground level.

Building - 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, wells, door steps, fencing, plumbing and building services, fixed platforms, verandahs, balcony, cornice or projection, part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall fence enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space and signs and outdoor display structures. However, tents, SHAMIANAHS and the tarapulin shelters erected for temporary and ceremonial occasions with the permission of the Authority shall not be considered as building.

Built up Area - The area covered by a building on all floors including contilavered portion, if any, but excepting the areas excluded specifically under these regulations.

Building Height - The vertical distance measured in the case of flat roofs, from the average level of the surrounding ground and contiguous to the  building or as decided and in the case of pitched roofs, upto the midpoint between the eaves level and the ridge.  However, that of decoration shall be excluded for the purpose of ascertaining height.

Building Line - The line upto which the plinth of a building adjoining a street or an extension of a street or on a future street may lawfully extend.  It includes the lines prescribed, if any, in any scheme and/ or development plan.

Cabin - A non-residential enclosure constructed of non-load bearing, non masonary partition/s.

Carpet Area - The net usable floor area within a building excluding that covered by the walls or any other areas specifically exempted from floor space index computation in these regulations.

Chajja - A sloping or horizontal structural overhang usually provided over openings on external walls to provide protection from sun and rain and for purpose of Architectural appearance.

Chimney - The construction by means of which a flue is formed for the purpose of carrying products of combustion to the open air.  Chimney includes chimney stack and the flue pipe.

Combustin Material - A material, if it burns or adds heat to a fire when tested for combustibility in accordance with IS-3806-1966 'Method of Test for Combustibility of Building Materials', National Building Code.

Courtyard or Chowk - A space permanently open to sky enclosed fully or partially by buildings and be at ground level or any other level within or adjacent to a building.

Datached Building - A building whose wells and roofs are independent of any other building with open space on all sides as specified.

Development - Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of buildings, engineering, mining or other operations in, or over, or under, land or the making of any material change, in any building or land or in the use of any building or land or any material or structural change in any Heritage building or its precinct and includes demolition of any existing building, structure or errection or part of such building, structure of erection and reclamation, redevelopment and layout or sub-division of any land and to develop shall be construed accordingly.

Development Plan - The Development plan for the City of Nagpur framed under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 and amendments made from time to time including revised Development Plan.

Drain - A system or a line of pipes including all fittings and equipments such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps, gullies and floor traps used for drainage of building, or a number of buildings or yards appartment to the building, within the same cartilage.  Drain shall also include open channel used for conveying surface water.

Drainage - The removal of any liquid by the system constructed for the purpose.

Enclosed Stair-Case - A Staircase separated by fire resistant walls and door(s) from the rest of the building.

Existing Building or Use - A building, structure or its use existing authorisedly before the commencement of these regulations.

Exit - A passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storeys or floor area to a street or other open space of safety.

Vertical Exit - A Vertical Exit is a means of exit used for ascension or descension between two or more levels including stairways, smoke proof towers, ramps, escalators and fire escapes.

Horizontal Exit - A horizontal exit is protected opening through or around a fire wall or a bridge connecting two buildings.

Outside Exit - An outside exit is an exit from the building to a public way, to an open area leading to public way, to an enclosed fire resistive passage on an interior open space of any building.

External Wall - An outerwall of a building not being a party wall even though adjoining to a wall of another building and also means a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building.

Fire and/ or Emergency Alarm System - An arrangement of call points or detectors, sounders and other equipments for the transmission and indication of alarm signals, for testing of circuits and whenever required for the operation of auxiliary services.  This device may be workable automatically of manually to alert the occupants in the event of fire or other emergency.

Fire lift - On of the lifts specially designed for use by fire service personnel in the event of fire.

Fire Proof Door - A door or shutter fitted to a wall opening, and constructed and erected with the requirement to check the transmission of heat and fire for a specified period.

Fire Resisting Material - Material which has certain degree of fire resistance.

Fire Resistance - The time during which it fulfils its function of contributing to the fire safety of a building when subjected to prescribed conditions of heat and load or restraint.  The fire resistance test of structures shall be done in accordance with " IS-3809-1966 Fire Resistance Test of Structures".

Fire Separation - The distance in metres measured from any other building on the site, or from other site, or from the opposite side of a street or other public space to the building.

Fire Service Inlets - A connection provided at the base of a building for pumping up water through in - built fire fighting arrangements by fire service pumps in accordance with the recommendations of the Fire Services Authority.

Fire Tower - An enclosed staircase which can only be approached from the various floors through landings or lobbies separated from both the floor areas and the staircase by fire resisting doors, and open to the outer air.

Floor - The lower surface in a story on which one normally walks in a building.  The general term floor, unless otherwise specifically mentioned shall not refer to a mezzanine floor.

NOTE :  The sequential numbering of floor shall be determined by its relation to the determining entrance level.  For floor at or wholly above ground level the lowest floor in the building with direct entrance from to road/ street shall be termed as Ground floor.  The other floors above ground floor shall be numbered in sequence as Floor 1, Floor 2, etc., with number increasing upwards.

Floor space index (F. S. I.) - The quotient obtained by dividing the total covered area (plinth area) on all floors, excluding exempted area by the area of the plot.

               Total covered areas on all floors
 F. S. I.=  ---------------------------------------------  
                           Plot area

Footing - A foundaaation unit constructed in brick work, masonry or concrete under the base of wall or  column for the purpose of distributing the load over a large area.

Foundation - That part of the structure which is in direct contact with an transmitting loads to the ground.

Front - The space between the boundary line of plot abutting the means of access/road/street and the building line.  In case of plots facing two or more means of accesses/road/streets, the plot shall be deemed to front on all such means of access/road/streets.

Gallery - An intermediate floor or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium or a hall providing extra floor area, additional seating accommodation etc.  These shall also include the structures provided for seating in stadia.

Garage, Private - A building or portion thereof designed and used for parking of private owned motor driven or other vehicles.

Garage, Public - A building or portion thereof designed as other than a private garage, operated for gain, designed or used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling or storing or parking motor driven or other vehicles.

Habitable Room - Habitable room or living room means, a room constructed or intended for human habitation.

Holding, contiguous - A contiguous piece of land in one ownership irrespective of separate property register cards.

Home Occupation - Customary home occupation other than the conduct of an eating or a drinking place offering services to the general public, customarily carried out by a member of the family residing on the premises without employing hired labour, and for which there is no display to indicate from the exterior of the building that it is being utilised in whole or in part for any purpose other than a residential or dwelling use, and in connection with which no article or service is sold or exhibited for sale except that which is produced therein, which shall be non-hazardous and not affecting the safety of the inhabitants of the building and the neighbourhood and provided that no machanical equipment is used except that as is customerily used for purely domestic or household purposes and/or employing licensable goods.  If motive power is used, the total electricity load should not exceed 0.75 KW.  'Home Occupation' may also include such similar occupations as may be specified by the Commissioner/ Chairman with the approval of Corporation and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.

Ledge or Tand - A shelf like projection, supported in any manner whatsoever, except by vertical supports within a room itself but not having projection wider than half meter.

Licensed Architect - An Architect who is associated or corporate member of the Indian Institute of Architects or who holds a degree or diploma which makes him elligible for such membership for such qualifications listed in shchedule XIV of the Architects Act, 1972, and being duly registered with the Council of Architecture under that act.

"Licensed Surveyor/ Engineer/ Structural engineer/ Supervisor" - A qualified surveyor/ Engineer/ Structural Engineer or supervisor licensed by the Commissioner/ Chairman.

Lift - An appliance designed to transport persons or materials between two or more levels in a vertical or substantially vertical directions, by means of a guided car platform.

Loft - An intermediate floor between two floors or a residual space in a pitched roof, above normal floor level which is constructed and adopted for storage purposes.

Masonry - An assemblage of masonry units properly bound together with mortar.

Masonry Unit - A unit whose net cross-sectional area in every plans parallel to the bearing surface is 75 per cent or more of its gross cross-sectional area measured in the same plane.  It may be either clay brick, stone, concrete block or sand-lime brick.

Mezzanine floor - An intermediate floor, not being a loft. between the floor and ceiling of any storey.

Non-Combustible - A material which does not burn nor add heat to a fire when tested for combustibility in accordance with IS-2808-1966 ' Method of Test for Combustibility of Building Materials'.

Occupancy of Use Group - The principal occupancy or use for which a building or a part of a building is used or intended to be used for the purposes of classification of a building according to the occupancy, an occupancy shall be deemed to include subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon it.  Buildings with mixed occupancies are those buildings in which more than one occupancy are present in different portions of the buildings.

The occupancy classification shall have the meaning unless otherwise spelt out in Development Plan.

Residential Buildings - These shall include any building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes with or without cooking or dining or both facilities.  It includes one or two or multi family dwellings, lodging or rooming houses hostels, dormitories, apartment houses and flats, and private garages.

Educational Buildings - A building exclusively used for a school or college, recognized by the appropriate board or University, or any other competent authority involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational use, and including a building for such other users incidental thereto such a library or a research Institution whether situated in its campus or not.

Institutional Buildings - A building constructed by Government, Semi-Government organizations or registered Trusts and used for medical or other treatment, a hostel for working women of for an auditorium or complex for cultural and allied activities or for an Hospice, care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, handicap, disease or infirmity, care of orphans, abandoned women, children and infants, convalescents, destitute or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention with restricted liberty of the inmates ordinarily providing sleeping accommodation, and includes dharmshalas, hospitals, sanatoria, custodial and penal institutions such as jails, prisons, mental Hospitals, houses of corrections detention and reformatories.

Assembly Buildings - These shall include any building or part of building where groups of people congregate of gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes for example theatres, motion picture houses, drive-in-theatres, assembly halls, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, restaurants, eating houses, boarding houses, place of worship, dance halls, club rooms, gymkhana, passenger stations and terminals of air, surface and other public transportation services, recreation piers and stadia, residential hotels including star category hotels.

Business Buildings - These shall include any building of part of building, which is used for transaction of business for the keeping of accounts and records for similar purposes offices, banks, professional establishments, court houses, libraries shall be classified in this group in so far as principal function of these is transaction of public business and the keeping of books and records.

Offices Building (Premises) - The premises whose sole or principal use is to be used as an office or for office purposes "office purposes" includes the purpose of administration, clerical work, handling money, telephone and telegraph operating and operating computers and "Clerical work" includes writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, typing filing, duplicating, drawing of matter for publication and the editorial preparation of matter for publication.

Mercantile Buildings - These shall include any building or part of a building, which is used as shops, stores, market, for display and sale of merchandise either wholesale or retail. Office, storage and service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and located in the same building shall be included under this group.

Wholesale Establishments - These shall include establishments wholly or partly engaged in whole sale trade, manufacturers, wholesale outlets including related storage facilities, warehouses and establishments engaged in truck transport including truck transport booking agencies.

Industrial Buildings - These shall include any building or part of a building or structure, in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed like assembly laboratories, power plant, smoke houses, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies, factories etc.

Storage Buildings - These shall include any building or part of a building used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise, like warehouses, cold storage, freight depots, transit sheds, store houses, public garages, hangers, truck terminals, grain elevators, barns and stables.

Hazardous Buildings - These shall include any building or part of a building which is used for the storage, handling, manufacture or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and/ or which may produce poisonous gases or explosions during storage, handling, manufacturing or processing, which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalies, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing flame, fumes and explosives, mixtures of dust or which result in the division of matter into fine particle subject to spontaneous ignition.

Open space - An area, forming an integral  part of the site, left open to the sky.

Owner - The owner shall have the meaning as assigned thereto in the Act.

Parapet - A low wall or railing built along the edge of a roof or a floor.

Parking Space - An enclosed or unenclosed covered or open area sufficient in size to park vehicles.  Parking space shall be served by a driveway connecting them with a street or alley and permitting ingress or egress of vehicles.

Partition - A interior no-load bearing divider, one storey or part storey in height.

Party wall - It includes

1. a wall forming part of a building, and being used or constructed to be used in any part of the height or length of such wall for separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners or occupied of constructed or adopted to be occupied by different persons. or

2. a wall forming part of building and standing in any part of the length of such wall, to a greater extent than the projection of the footing on one side on grounds of different owners.

Permanent open Air Space - Air space is deemed to be permanently open to the sky if

1. it is a street.

2. its freedom from encroachment in future by a structure of any kind is assured either by law or by contract or by the fact that the ground below it is a street or is permanently and irrevocably appropriated as an open space;

Provided that, in determining the open air space required in connection with construction work on a building, any space occupied by an existing structure may, if it is ultimately to become a permanently open air space, be treated as it it were already a permanently open space.

Permit - A permission or authorization is writing by the Authority i. e. Nagpur Improvement Trust or Nagpur Municipal Corporation to carry out the work regulated by the regulations.

Plinth - The portion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and surface of the floor, immediately above the ground.

Plinth Area - Built-up covered area measured at the floor level or basement or of any storey, whichever is higher.

A Plot - A parcel or piece of land enclosed by definite boundaries.

Porch - A covered surface supported on pillars or otherwise for the purpose of pedestrian or vehicular approach to a building.

Road/ Street - Any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passageway, carriageway, footway, square place public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a specified period, whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds, channels, ditches, storm-water drains, culverts, sidewalks, traffice islands, roadside trees and hedges, rataining walls, fences, barriers and railings within the street lines.

Road/ Street Level or Grade - The officially established elevation or grade of the central line of the street upon which a plot fronts and if there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street at its midpoint.

Road/ Street Line - The line defining the side limit of a road/ street.

Room Height - The vertical distance measured from the finished floor surface to the finished ceiling/ slab surface.  In case of pitched roofs, the room height shall be the average height between bottom of the eaves and bottom of ridge.

Row Housing - A row of houses with only front, rear and interior open surfaces.

Semi detached Building - A building detached on three sides with open spaces as specified.

Service Road - A road/ lane provided a the front/ rear or side of a plot for service purposes.

Site - A parcel/ piece of land enclosed by definite boundaries.

Site corner - The side at the junction of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets.

Site, Depth of - The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear wide boundaries.

Site, Double Frontage - A site, having a frontage on two streets other than a corner plot.

Site, Interior or Tandem - A site, access to which is by a passage from a street whether such passage from part of the site or not.

Smoke, Stop Door - A door for preventing or checking the spread of smoke from one area to another.

Stair Cover - A structure with a covering roof over a stair case and its landing built to enclose only the stair for the purpose of providing protection from weather and not used for human habitation.

Storage - A place where goods are stored.

Store Room - A room used as storage space.

Storey - The portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or of there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.

To Abut - To abut on a road such that any portion of the building is fronting on the road.

To Erect - To erect a building means :

1. To erect a new building on any site whether previously built upon or not;

2. to re-erect any building of which portion above the plinth level have been pulled down, burnt or destroyed; and

3. Conversion from one occupancy to another and subdivision of occupancy into more than one.

Travel Distance - The distance from the remotest point on a floor of a building to a place of safety, be it a vertical exit, horizontal exit or an outside exit measured along the line of travel.

Tower like structure - A structure in which the height of the tower like portion is atleast twice the width of the broader base.

Unsafe Building - Unsafe building are those which are structurally unsafe, insanitary or no provided with adequate means of egress or which constitute a fire hazard or are otherwise dangerous to human life or which in relating use constitute a hazard to safety or health or public welfare, by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment.

Volume to Plot Ratio (V. P. R. ) - The ratio of volume of building measured in cubic meters to the area of plot measured in square meters and expressed in meters.

Water Closet (W. C.) - A privy with arrangement for flushing the pan with water. It does not include a bathroom.

Water Course - A natural channel or n artificial one formed by draining or diversion of a natural channel meant for carrying storm and waste water.

Major Water Course - A water course which carries storm water discharging from a contributing area of no less than 160 Ha.
 Note - the decision of the Authority as regard the calculation of the contributing areas shall be final.

Minor Water Course - A water course which is not a major one.

Width of Road - The whole extent of space within the boundaries of road when applied to a new road, as laid down in the city surveys map of development plan or prescribed road lines by any Act or Law and measured at right angles to the course or intended course of direction of such road.

Stilts of Stilt floor - Stilts or stilt floor means ground level portion of a building consisting of structural column supporting the super structure done without any enclosures and not more than 2.5 mts. in the height from the ground level for the purpose of parking vehicles, scooters, cycles, etc.

Group Housing - Group housing means a building constructed or to be constructed with one or more floors, each floor consisting of one or more dwelling units and having common service facilities.  Common service facilities mean facilities like staircase, balcony and varandah, lift, etc.

Information Technology Establishment (ITE) means an establishment which is in the business of developing either software or hardware relating to computers or computer technology.