6.1 The department of buildings shall be created by the Authority and a team of building officials shall be appointed to carry out work of such department.
6.2 Appointment of Team of Building Officials
The team of building officials shall be appointed by the Authority. The team shall comprise officials drawn from concerned disciplines such as engineer, architect, town planner, landscape architect and urban designer as may be decided by the Authority. For scrutiny of layout plans of plots of one hectare and above in metro cities and two hectares and above in other places, town planner shall be part of the team of building officials. For plots of five hectares and above, landscape architect shall also be part of the team. An urban designer shall also be required to be the part of team of building officials for examining proposals on integrated urban design and development for residential/business/institutional and assembly building.
NOTE — Metro cities are cities with population more than 1 000 000.
6.3 Organization
In the department of buildings, such number of officers, technical assistants, inspectors and other employees shall be appointed to assist the team of building officials as shall be necessary for the administration of the Code and as authorized by the Authority.
6.4 Delegation of Powers
The Authority may designate one of the building officials who shall exercise all the powers of the team of building officials. The work of the team of building officials may be outsourced to competent professional/agency/group as may be deemed necessary.
6.5 Qualification of Building Officials
The qualification of building officials scrutinizing the plans and carrying out inspection of buildings shall not
in any case be less than those prescribed in Annex A.
6.5.1 In small local bodies having insufficient resources to appoint such officials with the above qualifications, two or three such bodies contiguously located could join together and share the services of one team of building officials.
6.6 Qualifications of Assistant
No person shall be appointed as assistant unless he has got the qualifications prescribed in Annex A for a registered supervisor.
6.7 Restriction on Employees
No official or employee connected with the department of buildings except one whose only connection is that of a member of the Board of Appeals, established under 8 shall be engaged directly or indirectly in a work connected with the furnishing of labour, materials or appliances for the construction, alteration or maintenance of a building, or the preparation of plans or of specifications thereof unless he is the owner of building; nor shall such official or employee engage in any work which conflicts with his official duties or with the interests of the department.
6.8 Records
Proper records of all applications received, permits and orders issued, inspections made shall be kept and copies of all papers and documents connected with the administration of its duties shall be retained and all such records shall be open to public inspection at all appropriate times.