HOW IS THE DISTANCE FROM 3.60 METER WIDE ROAD AND SOAK PIT AND LEACH PIT?

(a) `access’ means the way to a plot or building;
(b) `accessory building' means a building attached or detached to a
building in a plot, and containing one or more accessory uses;
© `accessory use' means any use of the premises, subordinate to the
principal use and customarily incidental to the principal use;
(d) `Act' means the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Act 13 of 1994);
(e) `advertising sign' means any sign either free, supported or attached to
a building or other structure which advertises an individual, a firm, a society, an
establishment or a product displayed on the said premises for identification purposes;
(f) `alteration' means a structural change, such as an addition to the area
or height, or addition of floor/floors or mezzanine floor within any existing floor height, or
change of existing floor or change of roof to concrete slab or re-construction of existing
walls or construction of concrete beams and columns amounting to structural change, or
construction of internal walls for sub-dividing the existing rooms with the intention of
changing the use of the room/ rooms which amount to change in the occupancy group of the
building under these rules, or closing of any required means of ingress or egress to the
building ;

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(g) `apartment ' means a part of a building intended for any type of
independent use including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces located on one or more
floors or parts thereof in a building, intended to be used for residential purposes and with a
direct exit to a public street, road or highway or to a common area, leading to such street,
road or highway. This word is synonymous with residential flat;
(h) `appendix' means the appendix to these rules;
(i) ‘approved plan’ means the set of drawings and statements submitted
under these rules for obtaining development permit or building permit duly approved by the
Secretary;
(j) ‘balcony’ means a horizontal projection, including a handrail, or
balustrade to serve as passage or sitting out place;
(k) `basement floor' means the lower storey of a building below or partly
below the ground floor. This word is synonymous with cellar;
(l ) `bathroom' means a room or cubicle for bathing;
(m) 'building' includes any structure for whatsoever purpose and of
whatsoever material constructed and every part thereof whether used for human habitation or
not and includes foundations, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, plumbing and building
services, verandah, balcony, cornice or projections, part of a building, wells or anything
affixed there to or any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space and signs and
outdoor display structures;
(n) 'building line' means a line which is away from the street boundary
and upto which the main wall of the building facing that street may lawfully extend; no
portion of the building may extend beyond this line except as prescribed in these rules;
(o) ‘built-up area’ means the covered area at any floor, covered by roof
other than cornice, roof or weather shades permissible;

(p) `carpet area' means the usable floor area excluding staircases, lift
wells, escalators, ducts, toilets and air conditioning plant room and electrical control room;
Note:- In calculating carpet area, for avoiding the area of wall,
twenty percent of the floor area, shall be deducted from the total floor area in each floor.
(q) Category –I Village Panchayat means a Village Panchayat notified as
Category I Village Panchayat by the Government under sub-rule (4) of rule 3.
® Category –II Village Panchayat means a Village Panchayat notified
as Category II Village Panchayat by the Government under sub-rule (4) of rule 3.
(s) `ceiling' means the internal roof lining of any room; in case there is no
such lining, the roof membrane shall constitute the ceiling;
(t) ‘Centre line of road’ means the line along the middle of the entire width
of land earmarked for the road;