Chapter XIX RULES, REGULATIONS AND BYE-LAWS

RULES

1[after previous publication]

by notification make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act:

¹ Omitted by Act 13 of 1983 w.e.f. 24.2.1983 and inserted by the same Act w.e.f. 1.3.1983

² Inserted by Act 40 of 1981 w.e.f. 1.6.1977.

2[Provided that no previous publication shall be necessary for any rule made for the first time after the commencement of this Act.]

1. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may,-
   • (a) provide for all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed;
   • (b) regulate or prohibit the moving of any resolution or the making or any motions on or the discussion of any matter unconnected with the municipal administration;
   • (c) prescribe the accounts to be kept by the corporation, the manner in which such accounts shall be audited and published and the conditions under which the rate-payers may appear before auditors, inspect books and vouchers and take exception to items entered therein or omitted therefrom;
   • (d) prescribe the forms of all registers, reports and returns, the manner in which such registers shall be maintained, the dates on which the reports and returns shall be made and the officers to whom they shall be sent, as also of warrants and notices of sale;
   • (e) regulate sharing between local authorities of the proceeds of the tax 1[x x x] or income levied or obtained under this or any other Act;
   • (f) prescribe the powers of auditors, inspecting and superintending officers authorised to hold inquiries to summon and examine witnesses and to compel the production of documents and all other matters connected with audit, inspection and superintendence.
2. (3) The Government may, by notification, and after previous publication make rules altering, adding to or cancelling any of Schedules to this Act except Schedules XI and XII.
3. (4) All reference made in this Act to any of the aforesaid Schedules shall be construed as referring to such Schedules as for the time being amended in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3).

¹ Omitted by Act 35 of 1994 w.e.f. 1.6.1994.

1[(4A) A rule under this Act may be made with retrospective effect, and

¹ Inserted by Act 8 of 1982 w.e.f. 9.11.1981.

when such a rule is made, the reasons for making the rule shall be specified in a statement laid before both Houses of the State Legislature, and subject to any modification made under sub-section (6), every rule made under this Act, shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.]

1. (5) In making any rule, the Government may provide that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to 1[one thousand rupees]
2. (6) Every rule made under this section or any other provisions of this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall from the date on which the modification or annulment is notified by the Government in the Official Gazette have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

¹ Substituted by Act 55 of 2013 w.e.f. 20.08.2013.

The Corporation may with the previous approval of the Government by notification make regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder in respect of matters which are required to be provided for by regulations by this

Power to make bye-laws.- Subject to the provisions of this Act, the rules and regulations, the corporation may make bye-laws,-

1. (1) for all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be provided for by bye-laws;
2. (2) for the due performance by all corporation officers and servants of the duties assigned to them;
3. (3) for the regulation of the time and mode of collecting the taxes and duties under this Act;
4. (4) for determining the conditions under which lands shall be deemed to appurtenant to building;
5. (5) (a) f or the use of public tanks, wells, conduits and other places or works for water supply;
   • (b) for the regulation of public bathing, washing and the like;
6. (6) for the cleansing of privies, earth-closets, ashpits and cess-pools, and the keeping of privies supplied with sufficient water for flushing;
7. (7) (a) for the laying out of streets, for determining the information and plans to be submitted with applications for permission to layout street; and for regulating the level and width of public streets and the height of buildings abutting thereon;
   • (b) for the regulation of the use of public streets, and the closing thereof or part thereof; 2[(bb) for the regulation of the laying of any cable including Optical Fibre Cables and imposing the conditions thereof and levying of 3[such one time fee] and annual track rent on the cable including Optical Fibre Cables so laid]
   • (c) for the protection of avenues, trees, grass and other appurtenances of public streets and other places;
8. (8) for the regulation of the use of parks, gardens and other public or corporation places;
9. (9) (a) for the regulation of building;
   • (b) for determining the information and plans to be submitted with applications to build; 4[(c) for the licensing of plumbers, surveyors, architects, engineers and structural designers and for the compulsory employment of licensed architects, plumbers and surveyors and for empanelling various professionals to avail their services to inspect the building sites before, during and after construction and to certify the constructions made are as per the provisions of the approved plans and report to the Local Authority and also to sanction building plans of certain buildings as notified by the Government and to clearly define their roles, responsibilities, and the penal provisions applicable in cases of violation.]
10. (10) for the regulation and licensing of hotels, lodging houses, boarding houses, choultries, rest houses, restaurants, eating houses, cafes, refreshment rooms, coffee houses and any premises to which the public are admitted for repose or for consumption of any food or drink or any place where any food or drink is exposed for sale;
11. (11) for regulating the mode of constructing stables, cattlesheds and cow-houses and connecting them with corporation drains;
12. (12) for the control and supervision of public and private cart-stands, for the regulation of their use and for the levy of fees therein;
13. (13) for the sanitary control and supervision of factories and places used for any of the purposes specified in Schedule X and of any trade or manufacture carried on therein;
14. (14) (a) for the control and supervision of slaughter houses and of places used for skinning and cutting up of carcasses;
    • (b) for the control and supervision of the methods of slaughtering;
    • (c) for the control and supervision of butchers carrying on business in the city or at any slaughter-house outside the city provided or licensed by the corporation;
15. (15) for the inspection of milch-cattle and the regulation of the ventilation, lighting, cleaning drainage and water-supply of dairies and cattle- sheds in the occupation of persons following the trade of dairyman or milk- seller;
16. (16) for enforcing the cleanliness of milk-stores and milk-shops and vessels and utensils used by the keepers thereof or by hawkers for containing or measuring milk or preparing any milk product and for enforcing the cleanliness of persons employed in the milk trade;
17. (17) for requiring notice to be given whenever any milch-animal is affected with any contagious disease and prescribing the precautions to be taken in order to protect milch-cattle and milk, against infection and contamination; (18)(a) for the inspection of public and private markets and shops and other places therein;
    • (b) for the regulation of their use and the control of their sanitary condition; and
    • (c) for licensing and controlling brokers, commission agents and weighmen and measurers practising their calling in markets;
18. (19) for the prevention of the sale or exposure for the sale of unwholesome meat, fish or provision and securing the efficient inspection and sanitary regulation of shops in which articles intended for human food are kept or sold; (20)(a) for the regulation of burial and burning and other places for the disposal of corpses;
    • (b) for the levy of fees for the use of such burial and burning grounds and crematoria as are maintained by the Corporation;
    • (c) for the verification of deaths and the cause of death;
    • (d) for the period for which corpses must be kept for the inspection; e) for the period within which corpses must be conveyed to a burial or burning ground, and the mode of conveyance of corpses through public places;
19. (21) for the prevention of dangerous diseases of men or animals;
20. (22) for the enforcement of compulsory vaccination;
21. (23) for the prevention of out-breaks of fire;
22. (24) for the prohibition and regulation of advertisements;
23. (25) for the maintenance and protection of lighting system;

1[(26) and (27) x x x]

1. (28) for stopping, abating or controlling any excessive noise whether within or outside a building which may amount to a nuisance;
2. (29) in general, for securing cleanliness, safety and order and the good governance and well being of the city and for carrying out all the purposes of this Act. 2[(30) manner of segregation and disposal of solid waste including bulk generation of solid waste and bio-medical solid waste and penalty for contravention of the same.]

¹ Omitted by Act 21 of 1979 w.e.f. 31.3.1979.

² Inserted by Act 55 of 2013 w.e.f.20.08.2013.

³ Substituted by Act 08 of 2020 w.e.f. 27.04.2020

⁴ Substituted by Act 65 of 2025 w.e.f. 12.09.2025.

penalties for breaches of bye-laws.- (1) Bye-laws with regard to the drainage of, and supply of water to, buildings and water-closets, earth closets, privies, ash-pits, solid waste management and cess-pools in connection with buildings and the keeping of water-closets supplied with sufficient water for flushing may be made so as to affect buildings erected before the making of bye-laws under this Act.

1. (2) In making any bye-law under sections 423 and this section the corporation may provide that a breach thereof shall be punishable.- (a)

2[“with penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees]

, and in case of a continuing breach, with

2[penalty which may be extended to three thousand rupees] for every day during which the breach continues after conviction for the first breach, or (b)

¹ Substituted by Act 55 of 2013 w.e.f.20.08.2013.

² Substituted by Act 61 of 2025 w.e.f. ...................

2[with penalty which may be extended to two thousand rupees] for every day during which the breach continues after receipt of notice from the Commissioner to discontinue such breach.]

No bye-law made by the corporation under this Act shall have any validity unless and until it is sanctioned by the Government:

Conditions precedent to making of bye-laws.- The power to make bye-laws under this Act is subject to the conditions,-

1. (a) that a draft of the proposed bye-law is published in the Official Gazette and in the local newspapers;
2. (b) that the draft shall not be further proceeded with until after the

expiration of a period of thirty days from the publication thereof in the Official

Gazette or of such longer period as the corporation may appoint;

1. (c) that for at least thirty days, during such period a printed copy of the draft shall be kept at the corporation office for public inspection and all persons permitted to peruse the same at any reasonable time free of charge; and
2. (d) that printed copies of the draft shall be sold to any person requiring them on payment of such price, as the Commissioner may fix.

(1) If, in respect of any of the matters specified in section 423, the corporation has failed to make any bye-laws or if the bye-laws made by it are not, in its opinion adequate, the Government may make rules providing for such maters to such extent as it may think fit. (2) Rules made under this section, may add to, alter, or cancel any bye- law made by the corporation. (3) If any provision of a bye-law made by the corporation is repugnant to any provision of a rule made under this section, the rule shall prevail and the bye-law shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void. (4) The provisions of sections 424, 426, of the second sentence of sub- section (1) of section 428 and of section 430 shall apply to the rules made under this section as they apply to the bye-laws made under section 423. (5) Before making any rule under this section the Government shall give the corporation an opportunity of showing cause against the making thereof.

1. (2) Rules made under this section, may add to, alter, or cancel any bye- law made by the corporation.
2. (3) If any provision of a bye-law made by the corporation is repugnant to any provision of a rule made under this section, the rule shall prevail and the bye-law shall, to the extent of the repugnancy, be void.
3. (4) The provisions of sections 424, 426, of the second sentence of sub- section (1) of section 428 and of section 430 shall apply to the rules made under this section as they apply to the bye-laws made under section 423.
4. (5) Before making any rule under this section the Government shall give the corporation an opportunity of showing cause against the making thereof.

(1) When any rule or bye- law has been made under this Act, such rule or bye-law shall be published in the Official Gazette in English and in Kannada. A bye-law shall come into operation three months after it has been published as aforesaid.

1. (2) The Commissioner shall cause all rules and bye-laws in force to be printed in the said languages, and shall cause printed copies thereof to be sold to any applicant on payment of a fixed price.
2. (3) The Commissioner shall publish lists of officers and fines under this Act and the rules and bye-laws made under it, and shall cause printed copies thereof to be sold to any applicant on payment of fixed price.
3. (4) The Commissioner shall advertise in the local newspapers that copies of rules and bye-laws are for sale and specify the place where and the person from whom and the price at which, they are obtainable.

Regulations made under this Act shall be published in such manner as the corporation may determine.

(1) Printed copies of bye-laws under sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (7) and clause (8) of section 423 shall be affixed at the entrances to or elsewhere in the streets park, or other place affected thereby in such conspicuous manner, as the Commissioner may deem best, calculated to give information to the person using such place. (2) Printed copies of other bye-laws and of the rules and regulations shall be hung up in some conspicuous part of the corporation office. The Commissioner shall also keep affixed in a like manner in places of public resort, markets, slaughter-houses and other places affected, thereby copies of such portions of the rules, bye-laws and regulations as may relate to these places. (3) No corporation officer or servant shall prevent any person from inspecting at any reasonable time copies so exhibited. (4) No person shall, without lawful authority, destroy, pull-down, injure or deface any copies exhibited as above or any board to which the copies have been affixed.

1. (8) of section 423 shall be affixed at the entrances to or elsewhere in the

streets park, or other place affected thereby in such conspicuous manner, as the Commissioner may deem best, calculated to give information to the person using such place.

1. (2) Printed copies of other bye-laws and of the rules and regulations shall be hung up in some conspicuous part of the corporation office. The Commissioner shall also keep affixed in a like manner in places of public resort, markets, slaughter-houses and other places affected, thereby copies of such portions of the rules, bye-laws and regulations as may relate to these places.
2. (3) No corporation officer or servant shall prevent any person from inspecting at any reasonable time copies so exhibited.
3. (4) No person shall, without lawful authority, destroy, pull-down, injure or deface any copies exhibited as above or any board to which the copies have been affixed.