CHHATTISGARH TRANSIT (FOREST PRODUCE) RULES, 2001
(1) These rules may be called the Chhattisgarh Transit (Forest Produce) Rules, 2001.
(2) They shall extend to the whole of Chhattisgarh.
(3) They shall come into force with effect from the date of their publication in the Chhattisgarh Gazette.
1. Published in C.G. Rajpatra Asadharan, dated 25-8-2001 at p. 374 (10-19).
In these rules, "Act" means the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (No. XVI of 1927).
No forest produce shall be moved into or outside the State or within the State of Chhattisgarh except in the manner as hereinafter provided without a transit pass in Form A, B or C annexed to these rules. The Transit Pass will be issued by a Forest Officer or Gram Panchayat or a person duly authorised under these rules to issue such pass :
Provided that no transit pass shall be required for the removal:--
(a) Of any forest produce which is being removed for bonafide domestic consumption by any person or in exercise of privilege granted in this behalf by the State Government or of a right recognised under the Act within the limits of a village in which it is produced.
(b) Of such forest produce as may be exempted by the State Government from the operation of these rules by notification in the O
The following officers and persons shall have power to issue passes under these rules :--
(a) For forest produce belonging to the Government, the Divisional Forest Officer, the Sub-divisional Forest Officer or any other officer authorised in this behalf in writing by the Divisional Forest Officer.
(b) For forest produce owned by any person, the Divisional Forest Officer or any officer or such other person authorised in writing by the Divisional Forest Officer or Gram Panchayat in whose jurisdiction the forest produce is found or grown.
(1) No transit pass will be required to transport the timber and fuel of the following species :--
(i) Casuarina Casuarina equsetifolia
(ii) Subabul Leucenea Sps.
The State Government or an officer authorised by the State Government from time to time, shall fix rate of fee for issue of transit pass as per the provisions of Rule 4.
(1) Every transit pass issued under Rule 3 shall specify :--
(a) The name of the person to whom such pass is granted.
(b) The quantity and description of forest produce covered by it; in case of logs, a list along with measurement shall be enclosed with the transit pass.
(c) The places from and to which such forest produce is to be conveyed.
(d) The route by which such forest produce is to be conveyed.
(e) The period of time for which the pass is to be in force.
(f) The impression of the valid hammer mark.
(2) The transit pass shall be issued in Form A, B or C as annexed to these rules, as indicated below :--
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No transit pass shall ordinarily cover more than one load, whether such load be carried by a person, an animal or a vehicle.
No alteration shall be made in anything printed or written on any transit pass, except in the matter of route and period and this may only be done by a forest officer not below the rank of a forester, for sufficient reason to be mentioned in the pass.
(1) When the Divisional Forest Officer authorises any officer or person under clause (B) and (C) of Rule 4 to issue transit passes, he shall furnish such officer or such person, or the Gram Panchayat from time to time with authenticated books of blank passes.
(2) The authorised person or Gram Panchayat, to whom such book is supplied, shall pay the sum if as fixed under sub-rule (3) of Rule 6.
(3) The person, who has been authorised to issue passes, shall issue transit passes only in accordance with the conditions of his authorisation.
(1) The Gram Panchayat or any person, to whom book of transit pass is supplied, shall submit a monthly account to the Divisional Forest Officer, of forest produce extracted, through the transit passes issued by him.
(2) The counterfoils of all used transit passes and unused passes, if any, shall be returned to the officer from whom the book of passes was obtained. No fresh Book of transit pass shall be supplied until the counterfoils of all passes previously used have been returned.
Gram Panchayat or any person who has been authorised to issue transit passes under clause (C) of Rule 4, shall be bound, if called upon by any forest officer not below the rank of forester, to produce for the inspection or to return the counterfoils of all passes which have been issued by such person or Gram Panchayat.
If the authority given under clause (C) of Rule 4, is cancelled or on the expiry of the period specified in such authority, the person whose authority is so cancelled shall forthwith return to the officer who gave the authority every unused book of transit passes and the unused portion of any such book in his possession, together with the counterfoils of used passes, if any, which has not already been returned.
No transit pass issued by the Gram Panchayat or any officer or persons authorised shall be valid :--
(a) If such pass is not prepared on a blank form supplied for this purpose under sub-rule (1) of Rule 9.
(b) If the pass is not covered by recommendation of the Panchayat Level Committee, or
(c) If the pass is issued after receipt by such officer or person or Gram Panchayat, of an order cancelling the authority to issue such passes.
No timber shall be moved from or within any district of Chhattisgarh unless it bears a Government transit mark or Gram Panchayat property marks, of such design as shall be prescribed from time to time in this behalf by the Divisional Forest Officer.
(1) Every Gram Panchayat on submitting an application shall be allotted a property mark by the Divisional Forest Officer, which shall be affixed on every timber piece for which transit pass is being issued by the Gram Panchayat.
(2) Any person may apply to the Divisional Forest Officer to have property mark to be attached to timber belonging to him registered in the office of the Divisional Forest Officer of the Division into which it is sought to be transported.
(3) Every property mark shall consist of a device to be approved by the Divisional Forest Officer:
Provided that no person shall be allowed to register a mark identical with or liable to be mistaken with one already registered by another person or Gram Panchayat or used by the State Government. In case of dispute as to whether the mar
Except with the special permission of the Divisional Forest Officer in writing, no forest produce shall be transported between hours of sunset and sunrise within the forests.
(1) Any person, who intends to import any forest produce into the State of Chhattisgarh, shall get himself registered in the office of the concerned Divisional Forest Officer where the forest produce is to be transported.
(2) The Divisional Forest Officer upon receipt of the application for registration, after necessary verification, and on payment of Rs. 500.00 by the applicant, shall register and give the applicant registration certificate of import in Form D and such registration shall be valid for the calender year.
(3) Format of transit pass for the import of forest produce shall be registered in the office of the Divisional Forest Officer, in whose jurisdiction the forest produce is intended to be imported. Registered format shall be intimated to the border checking barrier. The person importing the forest produce shall submit a qu
(1) (a) All forest produce which is being imported into the State of Chhattisgarh must be covered with a transit pass issued by the exporting state and in case of timber every piece should bear a hammer impression indicated on the transit pass.
(b) At the border-checking barrier of Chhattisgarh new transit pass shall be issued by a forest officer authorised in this regard in lieu of original pass which shall be deposited at the barrier.
(c) In case of forest produce passing through State of Chhattisgarh, the transit pass from the first border-checking barrier shall be issued for the place of final destination, mentioning the last border-checking barrier of the State.
(2) Every transit pass must be in a form which has been registered in the office of the Divisional Forest Officer of the Div
No person, other than a forest officer or the person authorised by the Gram Panchayat whose duty is to use such marks, shall use any property mark for timber identical with or resembling any Government transit mark or any mark with which timber belonging to Government is marked and no person shall, while any timber is in transit under a pass issued by an officer, Gram Panchayat or person authorised in this behalf under clause (C) of Rule 4, alter or efface any mark on the same.
(1) Any forest produce in transit to which these rules apply and any animal, vehicle, vessel or craft carrying such forest produce, may be stopped, detained, examined and checked at any place by any forest, police or revenue officer if such officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that it is being transported in contravention of these rules or any money which is due to Government in respect thereof has not been paid or that any forest offence has been or is being committed in respect thereof:
Provided that no such officer shall vexatiously or unnecessarily detain any forest produce which is lawfully in transit, nor vexatiously or unnecessarily unload any such forest produce or cause the same to be unloaded for the purpose of examination.
(2) The person in charge of such forest produce shall furnish to any such officer all the inform
Within the limits of any reserved, protected or unclassed forests under the control of the Forest Department and within eighty kilometres of such limits no person shall manufacture charcoal, or Katha without the previous sanction in writing of a forest officer not below the rank of the Conservator of Forests.
(1) Who so ever contravenes any of the provisions of these rules or issues transit passes without authority or in contravention of the provision of these rules shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to one year or with fine, which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both.
(2) In cases where offence is committed after sunset and before sunrise, after preparation for resistance to lawful authority or where the offender has been previously convicted of a like offence, the penalty to be inflicted shall be double of those mentioned in sub-rule (1) above.
On coming into force of these rules, all rules corresponding to these rules in force in any region of the State of Chhattisgarh immediately before the commencement of these rules shall stand repealed :
Provided that anything done or any action undertaken under any rules so repealed shall, unless such thing or action is inconsistent with any of the provisions of these rules, be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of these rules.
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