8. Preparation and signing of Plans-All plans shall be prepared and signed by Architect, registered with Council of Architecture or signed by such technical personnel as may be licensed by the Authority.

9. Fee for building permit-Application for building permit will be considered after payment of building permit fees through challan, a photocopy of which is to be submitted alongwith the application.

10 . Building permit fee and calculation thereof-

1. The scale of fees for building permit shall be as follows: (a) Residential buildings Rs. 1/- per sq. mtr. covered area on all floors. b) Mercantile or business buildings Rs. 10/- per sq.. mtr. covered area. (c) For all other type of buildings Rs. 5/- sq. mtr. of covered area.
2. The fee for internal additions and alterations shall be 10 per cent of the original building permit fee paid for plan in question. In case original building permit fee paid is not known, fee for the whole building shall be calculated on area basis and 10 per cent of this shall be charged as plan submission fee. If apart from internal alteration, some additional area is proposed to be covered then the fee for such additional area shall be worked out on the area basis and shall separately be added in the above fee.
3. If the use of the building is changed then the fee in case of additions and alterations of building, shall be calculated with reference to the use proposed.
4. In case of re-erection of existing building after demolition, fees chargeable shall be the same as erection of new buildings.
5. The fee for revised plan of a building which has already been sanctioned, shall be one fourth of the fee chargeable on the sanctioned plan, subject to the condition that the covered area of the building has not increased then in the original sanctioned plan.
6. The area covered under the basement, as the case may be, shall be counted towards the covered area.
7. The fee in case of buildings with principal and subsidiary occupancies, in which the fees leviable are different than the fees for the total building schemes shall be as per the rates for individual occupancies.
8. The revalidation fee of a building permit shall be 10 per cent of the original building permit fee paid with the application, if the application is made within the period of validity (two years) of the building permit. In case the building is under construction as per the sanctioned plans and the application is made after two years from the date of sanction then the revalidation fee shall be original building permit fee.

11. Stacking Changes-Stacking charges shall be levied and paid before the issue of building permit as below:

1. At the rate of Rs. 0.50 per sq. mtr. of plot area subject to the minimum of Rs. 50/- and maximum of Rs. 500.
2. At the rate of Rs. 100 per flat in group housing pockets.

12. Withdrawal of application-The applicant may withdraw his application for a building permit at any time prior to the sanction and such withdrawal shall terminate all proceedings with respect to such applications but the fees paid shall in no case be refunded.

13. Sanction or refusal of building permit-

1. The Officers authorised by the Authority shall verify or cause to be verified the facts given in the application for permit and Annexures, from technical, administrative and legal point of view. The title of land shall also be verified.
2. The Officers so authorised may either sanction or refuse a building permit or may sanction it with such modification and communicate the decision to the applicant in the prescribed form given in Appendix-3.