State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

315- In this Chapter the expression "to erect building" shall include- (a) subject as may be prescribed by rules the re-erection of a substantial portion or any existing building; (b) the conversion into a dwelling house of any building or part of a building not originally intended or already used for human habitation; (c) the conversion by any structural alteration of a single tenement or two or more tenements in a building into a greater or lesser number of dwelling houses so as to affect its drainage or sanitary arrangement or its stability; (d) the conversion by any structural alteration of any building into a place of religious worship or into a sacred building not originally meant or constructed for such purpose; (e) the covering or roofing of an open space between walls or buildings as regards the structure which is formed by roofing or covering such space; (f) the conversion into a stall, shop, warehouse or godown of a building not originally constructed for any such use; (g) the construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not vested in the owner of the wall, a door opening on such street or land, and (h) any other operation declared by a bye-law made in this behalf to be deemed to be erection of a building.