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| In this article, we will discuss By Law and Code. |
By-Law & Code
By-Law is a rule established by a community or an organization to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authority.
The higher authority, generally a legislature (the legislative body of state ) or some other governmental body, establishes the degree of control or criteria that the by-laws may exercise.
By-laws may be established by different agencies such as a business corporation, a neighborhood association, municipality, state, etc.
The collection of laws and constitutions made by different authorities is “THE CODE”.
A body of law established by the legislative authority, and intended to set uniformity, in generalized and systematic form.
Eg. The minimum acceptable dimension of a column for Kerala municipality is 1′.
A minimum diameter of reinforcement for a column is 12 mm there are a number of codes related to NS or IS or AS.
