Preamble 1 - KARNATAKA FOREST ACT, 1963
Chapter 1 Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 - Definitions
Chapter 2 Section 3 - Powers to constitute Reserved Forests
Section 4 - Notification by Government
Section 5 - Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer
Section 6 - Bar of accrual of forest rights
Section 7 - Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer
Section 8 - Powers of Forest Settlement Officer
Section 9 - Extinction of rights
Section 10 - Treatment of claims relating to shifting cultivation
Section 11 - Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
Section 12 - Order on claims to rights of way or pasture or to forest produce or water
Section 13 - Record to be made where claim is admitted
Section 14 - Exercise of rights admitted
Section 15 - Compensation for rights
Section 16 - Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 14 or section 15
Section 17 - Notification declaring forest a reserved forest
Section 18 - Publication of notification
Section 19 - Power to revise arrangements made under section 14 and to redefine the limits of reserved forests in certain cases
Section 20 - No right acquired over reserved forest except as provided
Section 21 - Alienation of right in reserved forest
Section 22 - Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests
Section 23 - Reserved forests constituted previous to passing of this Act
Section 24 - Acts prohibited in reserved forests
Section 25 - Acts excepted from section 24
Section 26 - Privileges may be granted in reserved forests
Section 27 - Penalties for offences committed by persons having rights in reserved forest
Section 28 - Power to declare forests no longer reserved forests
Chapter 3 Section 29 - Constitution of village forests
Section 30 - Power to make rules for village forests
Section 31 - Inquiry into and settlement of rights
Section 31A - Constitution of Village Forest Committee for Joint Forest Planning and Management of Forest
Chapter 4 Section 32 - Power to grant privileges in district forests
Section 33 - Power to make rules for district forests
Section 34 - Suspension of rights in cases of fires caused wilfully or by gross negligence
Section 35 - Minor forests constituted previous to the commencement of this Act
Chapter 5 Section 36 - Interpretations
Section 37 - Preservation of private forests
Section 38 - Power to make rules
Section 39 - Protection of forests for special purposes
Section 40 - Appeals
Section 41 - Penalties
Section 42 - Bar of suits
Section 43 - Power to assume management of forests
Section 44 - Consequences of assumption of management
Section 45 - Period of management
Section 46 - Termination of management
Section 47 - Government management of forests at request of owners
Section 48 - Acquisition of forests in certain cases
Section 49 - Power to remove difficulties
Chapter 6 Section 50 - Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
Section 51 - The State Government and Forest Officer not liable for damage to forest produce at depot
Section 52 - All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot
Chapter 7 Section 53 - Certain kinds of timbers to be deemed property of State Government until title thereto proved
Section 54 - Notice to claimants of drift timber
Section 55 - Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
Section 56 - Disposal of unclaimed timber
Section 57 - State Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
Section 58 - Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
Section 59 - Power to make rules
Chapter 8 Section 60 - Application of Cattle Trespass Act, 1871
Section 61 - Power to alter fines fixed under that Act
Chapter 9 Section 62 - Seizure of property liable to confiscation
Section 62A - Powers of Forest Officer in the matter of Investigation
Section 62B - Report by Investigation Officer
Section 62C - Certificate of Forest Officer to be an evidence
Section 63 - Power to release property seized under section 62
Section 64 - Omitted
Section 64A - Penalty for unauthorisedly taking possession of land constituted as reserved forest,district forest, village forest, protected forest and any other land under the control of the Forest Department
Section 65 - Forest produce, tools, etc., when liable to forfeiture
Section 66 - Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed
Section 67 - Procedure when offender is not known or cannot be found
Section 68 - Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 62
Section 69 - Appeal from orders under sections 65, 66 and 67
Section 70 - Vesting of forfeited property in State Government
Section 71 - Saving of power to release property seized
Section 71A - Confiscation by Forest Officers in certain cases
Section 71B - Issue of show cause notice before confiscation under section 71A
Section 71C - Revision
Section 71D - Appeal
Section 71E - Award of Confiscation not to interfere with other punishments
Section 71F - Property confiscated when to vest in Government
Section 71G - Bar of jurisdiction in certain cases
Section 72 - Punishment for wrongful seizure
Section 73 - Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees or timber and for altering boundary marks
Section 74 - Power to arrest without warrant
Section 75 - Power to release on a bond a person arrested
Section 76 - Power to prevent commission of offence
Section 76A - Prevention of Commission of offences etc.
Section 77 - Power to try offences summarily
Section 78 - Operation of other laws not barred
Section 79 - Power to compound offences
Section 80 - Presumption that forest produce belongs to Government
Section 81 - Compensation for damage caused by commission of offence
Section 82 - Forfeiture of leases
Section 82A - Criminal liability of licencee for acts of servants
Section 82B - Offence by Companies etc.
Chapter 10 Section 83 - Rights of certain persons entitled to sandal trees
Section 84 - Presumption in case of sandal wood
Section 85 - Responsibility of occupants and holders of land for the preservation of sandal trees etc.
Section 86 - Penalty for offence in regard to sandalwood
Section 87 - Regulation of sale and manufacture of sandalwood and sandalwood oil
Chapter 11 Section 88 - Definitions
Section 89 - Felling, etc., of catechu trees without permission prohibited
Section 90 - Felling, conversion or removal of catechu trees by the Forest or Revenue Department or by a person
Section 91 - Application for permit for felling catechu trees
Section 92 - Transport, etc., of catechu trees or timber without permit prohibited
Section 93 - Purchase or transport of cutch without permit prohibited
Section 94 - Manufacture of cutch to be carried on in specified places
Section 95 - Maintenance of accounts
Section 96 - Power of Revenue, Forest and Police Officers to search and seize property liable to confiscation
Section 97 - Power to make rules
Section 98 - Penalty
Chapter 11A Section 98A - Levy of Forest Development Tax
Section 98B - Forest Development Fund
Chapter 12 Section 99 - The State Government may invest Forest Officers with certain powers
Section 100 - Removal of forest produce from inam lands
Section 101 - Control over reserved trees
Section 101A - Grant of forest produce on seigniorage rate
Section 101B - Supply of forest produce under agreement by the State Government
Section 102 - General powers to make rules
Section 103 - Rules to be laid before State Legislature
Section 104 - Penalties for Contravention of Act or rules
Section 104A - Restrictions on trade and transport of blackwood or Bite trees and timber thereof
Section 104B - Certain offences to be cognizable
Section 104C - Abetment
Section 104D - Special provision regarding bail
Section 104E - Omitted
Section 104F - Persons not be released on probation
Section 104G - Removal of persons convicted of certain offences
Section 105 - Persons bound to assist Forest Officers
Section 106 - Management of forests which are the joint property of State Government and other persons
Section 107 - Power of State Government to apply provisions of this Act to certain lands of State Government or local authority
Section 108 - Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed
Section 109 - Recovery of money due to Government
Section 110 - Lien on forest produce for such money
Section 111 - Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act
Section 112 - Recovery of penalties due under bond
Section 113 - Forest Officers deemed to be public servants
Section 114A - Suits or prosecution in respect of acts done under colour of duty not to be entertained without sanction of the State Government
Section 115 - Forest Officer not to trade
Section 116 - Central Act No. 67 of 1957 to prevail
Section 117 - Repeal and savings
Section 118 - Power to remove difficulties