UDCPR 2020 / Chapter 14, Special schemes

14.1.1.11 Occupancy Certificate

UDCPR 2020 as amended to 30.01.2025

i) Application for obtaining the Occupancy Certificate for buildings in project, in full or part shall be submitted by Project Proponent/s to the concerned branch Officer of Town Planning (1) or to the concerned Authority, as the case may be. Such application shall be accompanied by -

a) All the relevant documents alongwith coloured Google Earth / Bhuvan / Drone survey image showing the area under Master Layout Plan;

(2) Inserted vide Corrigendum / Addendum No. CR 121/21, dt. 02nd December, 2021

(1) Modified vide Notification u/s.37(1AA)(c) & 20(4) bearing No.CR.105/2022/(Part-2)/UD-13, dt.05th September, 2024

b) Documents showing compliance of the conditions prescribed while according sanctions from time to time;

c) Appropriate declaration/s and undertaking/s made by the Project Proponent/s and his technical personnel‘s;

d) Any other requirement as may be prescribed by the Collector.

ii) The concern Branch Officer of Town Planning (1) or to the concerned Authority, as the case may be, shall grant Occupancy Certificate or reject the application giving specific reason within one month from the receipt of application.

iii) The (1) concerned Collector (1) or the Authority, as the case may be, before issuing the Occupancy Certificate for the project as a whole, shall verify and satisfy himself about the completion of erection / development / construction of all the basic required infrastructure in Master Layout plan. In case, an application for part occupancy, such completion shall be as prescribed in phase programme.

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The text of the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations for Maharashtra State, as amended to 30.01.2025. The notification of the Urban Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, is the authoritative text.