KARNATAKA FOREST ACT, 1963

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Definitions

S.3 Powers to constitute reserved forests

S.4 Notification by Government

S.5 Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer

S.6 Bar of accrual of forest rights

S.7 Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer

S.8 Powers of Forest Settlement Officer

S.9 Extinction of rights

S.10 Treatment of claims relating to shifting cultivation

S.11 Power to acquire land over which right is claimed

S.12 Order on claims to rights of way or pasture or to forest produce or water

S.13 Record to be made where claim is admitted

S.14 Exercise of rights admitted

S.15 Compensation for rights

S.16 Appeal from order passed under Section 11, Section 12, Section 14 or Section 15

S.17 Notification declaring forest a reserved forest

S.18 Publication of notification

S.19 Power to revise arrangements made under Section 14 and to redefine the limits of reserved forests in certain cases

S.20 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as provided

S.21 Alienation of right in reserved forest

S.22 Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests

S.23 Reserved forests constituted previous to passing of this Act

S.24 Acts prohibited in reserved forests

S.25 Acts excepted from Section 24. Nothing in Section 24 shall be deemed to prohibit

S.26 Privileges may be granted in reserved forests

S.27 Penalties for offences committed by persons having rights in reserved forest

S.28 Power to declare forests no longer reserved forests

S.29 Constitution of village forests

S.30 Power to make rules for village forests

S.31 Inquiry into and settlement of rights

S.31(A) Constitution of Village Forest Committee for Joint Forest Planning and Management of Forest

S.32 Power to grant privileges in district forests

S.33 Power to make rules for district forests

S.34 Suspension of rights in cases of fires caused wilfully or by gross negligence

S.35 Minor forests constituted previous to the commencement of this Act

S.36 For the purpose of this Chapter

S.37 Preservation of private forests

S.38 Power to make rules. For the purpose of Section 37, the State Government may make rules prescribing

S.39 Protection of forests for special purposes

S.40 Appeals

S.41 Penalties

S.42 Bar of suits

S.43 Power to assume management of forests

S.44 Consequences of assumption of management

S.45 Period of management

S.46 Termination of management

S.47 Government management of forests at request of owners

S.48 Acquisition of forests in certain cases

S.49 Power to remove difficulties

S.50 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce

S.51 The State Government and Forest Officer not liable for damage to forest produce at depot

S.52 All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot

S.53 Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of State Government until title thereto proved

S.54 Notice to claimants of drift timber

S.55 Procedure on claim preferred to such timber

S.56 Disposal of unclaimed timber

S.57 State Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber

S.58 Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him

S.59 Power to make rules

S.60 Application of Cattle Trespass Act, 1871

S.61 Power to alter fines fixed under that Act

S.62 Seizure of property liable to confiscation

S.62(a) Powers of Forest Officer in the matter of Investigation

S.62(b) Report by Investigation Officer

S.62(c) Certificate of Forest Officer to be an evidence

S.63 Power to release property seized under Section 62

S.69 Appeal from orders under Sections 65, 66 and 67

S.70 Vesting of forfeited property in State Government

S.71 Saving of power to release property seized

S.71(a) Confiscation by Forest Officers in certain cases

S.71(b) Issue of show-cause notice before confiscation under Section 71-A

S.71(c) Revision

S.71(d) Appeal

S.71(e) Award of Confiscation not to interfere with other punishments

S.71(f) Property confiscated when to vest in Government

S.71(g) Bar of jurisdiction in certain cases

S.72 Punishment for wrongful seizure

S.73 Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees

S.74 Power to arrest without warrant