1 RULES THE MADHYA PRADESH BHUMI VIKAS RULES, 1984 ...

M.P.Bhumi Vikas Niyam, 1984(39) "Mezzanine Floor" means an intermediate Floor, between two floors aboveground level;(40) "Municipal Council" means the Council constituted under the Madhya PradeshMunicipalities Act, 1961 (No. 37 of 1961);(41) "Occupancy or Use Group" means the principal occupancy for which a buildingor a part of a building is used or intended to be used, for the purpose ofclassification of a building according to occupancy; an occupancy shall bedeemed to include subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon it.Explanation. - The occupancy classification shall have the meaning given as under:-(i) "Residential Buildings" include any building in which sleepingaccommodation is provided for normal residential purposes with or withoutcooking or dining or both facilities. It includes one or two or multifamilydwellings, lodging or rooming houses, dormitories, apartment houses andflats and residential hotels;(ii) "Educational Buildings" include any building used for school, college orday-care purposes for more than eight hours per week involving assemblyfor instruction, education or recreation incidental to educational buildings;(iii) "Institutional Building "include any building or part thereof which is used forpurposes such as medical or other treatment or care of persons sufferingfrom physical or mental illness, disease or infirmity care of infants,convalescents or aged persons and for penal or correctional detention inwhich the liberty of the inmates restricted, Institutional buildings ordinarilyprovided sleeping accommodation for the occupants. It includes hospitals,sanitoria, custodial institution and penal institutions like jails, prisons,mental hospitals and reformatories.(iv) "Assembly Building" include any building or part of a building wheregroups of people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social,religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes for example theatres,motion picture houses, assembly hall, auditoria, exhibition halls,museums, skating rinks, gymnasium, restaurants, place of worship, dancehalls, club room, passengers stations and terminals of air, surface andother public transportation services, recreation piers and stadium.(v) "Business building" means any building or part of a building which is usedfor transaction of business for the keeping of a accounts and records forsimilar purposes and include doctor's service facilities, city halls, townhalls, court houses, record and reference libraries where principal functionof these is transaction or public business and the keeping of books andrecords.7