No: 11 Dated: Jun, 12 1973

UTTAR PRADESH URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1973

-: Preliminary :-

1. Short title and extent.-
(1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973.
(2) It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh, excluding Cantonment areas and lands, owned, requisitioned or taken on lease by the Central Government for the purposes of defense.
2. Definitions.-
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) 'amenity' includes road, water supply. street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public works and such other convenience as the State Government may, by notification in the Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act.,
(b) 'building' includes any structure or erection or part of a structure or erection which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not:
(c) building operations' includes rebuilding structural alterations of, or additions to, buildings operations normally undertaken in connection the construction of buildings:
(d) 'bye-law' means a bye-law made under this Act by the Development Authority:
1 [(dd) 'Chairman' and 'Vice-Chairman shall mean respectively the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Development Authority.]
2 [(ddd) ‘City development charge’ means the charge levied on a private developer under section 38-A for development of land;]
(e) 'development' with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change in any building or land, and includes re-development:
(f) 'Development Area' means any area declared, development area under Section 3:
(g) 'the Development Authority' or 'the Authority', in relation to any development area, means the Development Authority constituted under Section 4 -for that area:
3 [(gg) 'Development Authorities Centralised Service' means a Centralised Service created under Section 5-A):]
4 [(ggg) 'development fee 'means the fee levied upon a person or body under Section 15 for construction of road, drain, sewer line, electric supply and water supply lines in the development area by the Development Authority):]