Power to make bye-laws as to mode of construction of buildings, etc.

A Municipality may, by bye-laws, regulate in respect of the erection or re-erection of any building within the municipal area or any part thereof- (a) the materials and method of construction to be used for external and party walls, roofs, floors, fire-places and chimneys; (b) the materials and method of construction and position of fire-places, chimneys, drains, privies, urinals and cesspools; (c) the height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operations are to be carried on; (d) the ventilation and the space to be left about the building to secure the free circulation of air and for the prevention of fire; (e) the line of frontage where the building abuts on a street; (f) the number and height of the storeys of which the building may consists; and (g) the means to be provided for egress from the building in case of fire.