URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Mantralaya, Mumbai 400032, dated 20th February 1991

NOTIFICATION
MAHARASHTRA REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING ACT, 1966
No. DCR.1090/RDP/UD-11.-Whereas the Municipal Corporation of Greater
Mumbai
(hereinafter referred to as "the said Municipal Corporation") being the Planning
Authority for the areas
under its jurisdiction under clause (19) of section 2 of the Maharashtra Regional
and Town Planning
Act, 1966 (Mah. Act No. XXXVII of 1966) (hereinafter referred to as "the said
Act") has by a declaration
under sub-section (1) of section 23 ,read with section 38 of the said Act ,given
notice of its intention to
prepared a revised Development Plan for Greater Mumbai, which has been
published in the
Maharashtra Government Gazette, Mumbai Divisional Supplement of 13th
January 1977;
And whereas the said Municipal Corporation after following the legal
formalities stipulated
under the said Act has submitted under subsection (1) of section 30 of the said
Act, the Revised Draft
Building bye-laws and Development Control Rule to the State Government on
30th April, 1985 for
sanction;
And whereas the Government of Maharashtra after consulting the Director of
Town Planning
considered the said draft Building bye-laws and Development Control Rules
submitted by the said
Corporation and published, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section
(1) of section 31 of the
said Act, revised draft Development Control Rules for Greater Mumbai as in the
Schedule appended
to the Government Notice, Urban Development Department, No. DCR
1089/3814/RDP/UD-11-1, dated
14th December 1989 in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Extra-ordinary
Part I , Konkan
Divisional Supplement, dated 14th December 1989, inviting objections and
suggestion from any
person in respect of the, said revised draft Development Control Rules for
Greater Mumbai and by
Government Notification , Urban Development Department , No. DCR. 1084 /
3814/(a)/RDP/UDO 11,

dated 14th December 1989, published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette

Extra-ordinary, Part I,
Konkan Divisional Supplement, dated 16th December 1989 appointed Shri G.S.
Pantbalekundri,
Deputy Director of Town planning and Ex-officio Deputy Secretary to
Government Urban Development
Department, as the officer (hereinafter referred to as " the said officer" ) to hear
objections and
suggestion from any person in respect of the said draft revised Development
Control Rules for Greater
Mumbai and to submit to the State Government his report thereon as required
under sub-section (2) of
section 31 of the said Act;
And whereas the said officer after hearing and consideration of objections and
suggestions,
submitted his report to Government on 29th June, 1990;
And whereas in accordance with sub-section (3) of section 31 of the said Act,
Government has
taken into consideration the objections and suggestions received and the report
of the said officer;
And whereas in accordance with the first proviso to sub-section (1) of section
31 of the said
Act, the State Government has, by its Notification, Urban Development
department, No. TPB.
4387/716/UD-11 (RDP), dated the 12th June 1990, extended the period for
sanctioning the said draft
Building Bye-laws and Development Control Rules for the said Corporation up
to and inclusive of 31st
March 1991;
And whereas the Government of Maharashtra considers it appropriate and
proper that the said
Development Control Rules for Greater Mumbai shall be called the
Development Control Regulations for
Greater Mumbai.
Now, therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 31
of the said Act
and all other powers enabling in that behalf the Government of Maharashtra(a ) sanctions the Development Control Regulations for Greater Mumbai, 1991
as
specified in the Schedule appended hereto; and
(b) fixes 25th March 1991 to be the date on which the final Development
Control

Regulations for Greater Mumbai, 1991 as specified in Schedule I of this

notification
shall come into force.
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Note. - Copies of the Development Control Regulations for Greater Mumbai as
in the
Schedule to this Notification as sanctioned by the State Government are kept for
sale at the
Government Printing , Stationary and Publication , Publications Branch, Netaji
Subhash Road, Charni
Road, Mumbai 400 004 and shall be kept open for inspection by the public
during working hours for a
period of one year at the office of the(1) The Chief Engineer (Development Plan), Municipal Corporation of Greater
Mumbai, Municipal Head Office, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai 400 001.
(2) The Deputy Director of Town Planning Greater Mumbai," E" Block, Ensa,
Hutments Azad Maidan. Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai 400 001.
SCHEDULE
PART-I
ADMINISTRATION
1. Short title, extend and commencement. (1) Title-These Regulations shall
be called the
Development Control Regulations for Greater Bombay, 1991 (hereinafter called
these
Regulations).
(2) Jurisdiction. -These Regulations apply to building activity and development
work in areas under
the entire jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
(hereinafter called "the
Corporation "). If there is a conflict between the requirements of these
Regulations and those of
any other rules or byelaws, these Regulations shall prevail:
Provided however that in respect of areas included in a finally sanctioned Town
Planning
Scheme, the Scheme Regulations shall prevail, if there is a conflict between the
requirements
of these Regulations and the Scheme Regulations.
(3) Date of coming into force.- These Regulations shall come into force on 25th
March 1991 and
shall replace the existing Development Control Rules for Greater Bombay
framed under the
Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 (Mah. Act No. XXXVII of
1966).

2 Definitions of Terms and Expressions.- (1) General--In these Regulations,

unless the
context otherwise requires, the terms and expressions shall have the meaning
indicated against each of
them.
(2) Meaning as in the Acts, Rules, etc.- Terms and expressions not defined in
these
Regulations shall have the same meanings as in the Maharashtra Regional and
Town
Planning Act, 1966 (Mah. Act No. XXXVII of 1966) or the Mumbai Municipal
Corporation
Act, 1888 (Mumbai Act No. II of 1888) and the rules or bye-laws framed
thereunder, as the
case may be, unless the context otherwise requires.
(3) Definitions. (1) "Accessory building" means a building separated from the
main
building on a plot, and put to one or more accessory uses.
(2) "Accessory use" means use of the building subordinate and
customarily incidental to the principal use.
(3) "Act" means(i) The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 (Mumbai Act No. III of
1888); or
(ii) The Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 (Mah. Act No.
XXXVII of 1966); as stated in the text.
(4) "Advertising sign" means any surface or structure with characters, letter or
illustrations applied
thereto and displayed in any manner whatsoever out of doors for the purpose of
advertising or
giving information regarding or to attract the public to any place, person, public
performance article
or merchandise, and which surface or structure is attached to, forms part of, or
is connected with
any building, or is fixed to a tree or to the ground or to any pole, screen, fence
or hoarding or
displayed in space, or in or over any water body included in the limits of
Greater Mumbai i.e. City,
suburbs or extended suburbs as defined in section 3 of the Mumbai Municipal
Corporation Act,
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1888, and area specified in Part II to IV of Schedule `A` to the Greater Mumbai
Laws and Mumbai
High Court (Declaration of Limits) Act, 1945.

(5) "Air-conditioning" means the process of treating air to control

simultaneously its temperature,
humidity, cleanliness and distribution to meet the requirement of an enclosed
space.
(6) "Addition and/or alteration" means change from one occupancy to another,
or a structural change,
such as addition to the area to the area or height, or the removal of part of a
building, or a change
to the structure, such as the construction or cutting into or removal of any wall
or part of a wall,
partition, column, beam, joist, floor including a mezzanine floor or other
support, or a change to or
closing or any required means of ingress or egress, or change to fixtures or
equipment, as
provided in these Regulations.
(7) "Amenity" means roads, streets, open spaces, parks recreational grounds,
play grounds, gardens,
water supply, electric supply, street lighting, sewerage, drainage, public works
and other utilities,
services and conveniences.
(8) "Automatic sprinkler system" means an arrangement of pipes and sprinklers,
automatically
operated by heat and discharging water on fire, simultaneously setting an
audible alarm.
(9) "Balcony" means a horizontal projection, including a parapet, hand-rail
balustrade, to serve as a
passage or sitting out place.
(10) "Basement or cellar" means the lower storey of a building below, or partly
below the ground level.
(11) "Building " means a structure, constructed with any materials whatsoever
for any purpose, whether
used for human habitation or not, and includes(i) Foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, plumbing and building
services, fixed
platforms;
(ii) Verandahs, balconies, cornices, projections;
(iii) part of a building or anything affixed thereto;
(iv) any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space, signs and
outdoor display
structures;
(v) tanks constructed for storage of chemicals or chemicals in liquid form;
(vi) all types of buildings defined in (a) to (p) below, but tents, shamianas and
tarpaulin

shelters erected for temporary purposes for ceremonial occasions, with the
permission
of the Commissioner, shall not be considered to be "buildings".
(a) "Assembly building" means a building or part thereof where groups of
people
congregate or gather for amusement, recreations, social, religions, patriotic,
civil, travel and
similar purposes. "Assembly buildings" include buildings of drama and cinema
theatres, "drive-intheatres,
assembly halls, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums,
"mangal
karyalayas" skating rinks, gymnasia, stadia, restaurants, eating or boarding
houses, places of
worship, dance halls, clubs, gymkhanas, road, air, sea or other public
transportation stations, and
recreation piers.
(b) "Business building" means any building or part thereof used for transaction
of business and/or
keeping of accounts and record therefor; offices, banks, professional
establishments , court
houses being classified as business buildings,if their principal function is
transaction of business
and/or keeping of books and records.
(c) "Detached building " means a building with walls and roofs independent of
any other building and
with open spaces on all sides.
(d) "Educational building" means a building exclusively used for a school or
college, recognised 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 as a library or a research institution. It shall
also include
quarters for essential staff required to reside in the premises, and a building used
as a hostel
captive to an educational institution whether situated in its campus or not.
(e) "Hazardous building" means a building or part thereof used for