Act Info:Preamble 1 - THE KARNATAKA AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKETING (REGULATION) ACT, 1966
Chapter I
Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 - Definitions
Chapter II
Section 3 - Notification of intention of regulating the marketing of specified agricultural produce in specified area
Section 4 - Declaration of market area and of regulation of marketing of specified agricultural produce therein
Section 5 - Alteration of market area and of items of regulated agricultural produce
Section 6 - Markets, market yards, market sub-yards, sub-markets and sub-market yards
Section 7 - Establishment of markets
Section 8 - Control of marketing of agricultural produce
Chapter III
Section 9 - Establishment of Market Committee and its incorporation
Section 10 - Constitution of the first market committee
Section 11 - Constitution of second and subsequent market committees
Section 12 - Provisions for elections
Section 13 - Superintendence, direction and control of elections
Section 14 - Constituencies for election of certain members
Section 15 - Qualification for candidates for election
Section 16 - Disqualifications for membership
Section 17 - Disqualification of sitting member
Section 18 - Constituency or institution failing to return representative
Section 19 - Prohibition of simultaneous membership
Section 20 - Determination of validity of election
Section 21 - Grounds for declaring election to be void
Section 22 - Grounds for which a candidate other than the returned candidate may be declared to have been elected
Section 23 - Procedure in case of an equality of votes
Section 24 - Corrupt practices
Section 25 - Other orders to be made by the Munsiff
Section 26 - Appeal against orders of Munsiff
Section 27 - Publication of names of elected members
Section 28 - Casual vacancies
Section 29 - Prohibition of canvassing in or near polling stations
Section 30 - Penalty for disorderly conduct in or near polling station
Section 31 - Penalty for misconduct at polling station
Section 32 - Maintenance of secrecy of voting
Section 34 - Officers, etc., at elections not to act for candidates or influence voting
Section 35 - Breaches of official duty in connection with elections
Section 35 - Removal of ballot papers from polling stations to be an offence
Section 36 - Other offences and penalties therefor
Section 37 - Prosecution of certain offences
Section 38 - Term of office of members
Section 39 - Commencement of term of office
Section 40 - Resignation of members
Section 41 - Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman
Section 42 - Term of office of Chairman or Vice- Chairman [x x x]
Section 43 - Vacancy in office of chairman and Vice- Chairman
Section 44 - Motion of no-confidence
Section 45 - Leave of absence to Chairman and Vice-Chairman and consequences of absence without leave
Chapter IV
Section 46 - Powers and duties of Chairman
Section 47 - Powers and duties of Vice-Chairman
Section 48 - Meeting of the market committee
Section 49 - Quorum and procedure at meetings
Section 50 - Modification or cancellation of resolutions
Section 51 - Minutes
Section 52 - Confirmation of minutes
Section 53 - Interpellation and resolutions
Section 54 - Bye-laws to regulate detailed procedure at meetings
Section 55 - Mode of making contracts
Section 56 - Powers, functions and duties of the Secretary
Section 57 - Acts of market committee, etc., not to be invalidated
Chapter V
Section 58 - Appointment of Secretary and technical staff to the market committee
Section 59 - Absorption of [x x x] staff of market committees in Government service
Section 60 - [Omitted]
Section 61 - Appointment of other staff of market committee
Section 61A - Reservation of posts in appointments
Section 62 - Karnataka State Marketing Service etc
Chapter VI
Section 63 - Powers and duties of market committee
Section 63A - [XXX]
Section 64 - Appointment of sub-committees
Section 65 - Levy of market fees
Section 65A - Power of market committee to impose penalty
Section 65 - Power to order production of accounts and power of entry, inspection and seizure
Section 67 - Power to stop vehicles, etc
Section 68 - Power to borrow
Section 69 - Acquisition of lands
Section 70 - Composition of offences
Section 71 - Power to write off irrecoverable amount
Chapter VII
Section 72 - Grant of licences
Section 73 - Power to cancel or suspend licences
Section 74 - Appeal
Section 75 - Payment of price
Section 76 - Sale of agricultural produce
Section 77 - Agreement of sale
Section 77A - XXX
Section 78 - Commission agent's commission and responsibility
Section 79 - Prohibition of certain collections
Section 79A - Market charges by whom payable
Section 80 - No deductions in weight or payment other than those specified
Section 81 - Reports by market functionaries
Section 82 - Assistance by the market functionaries
Section 82A - No market functionary to participate in strike, etc
Section 83 - Production of account books, etc., by market functionaries
Section 83A - Best of judgement assessment of market fee
Section 84 - Provision for settlement of disputes
Section 84A - Omitted
Section 85 - Security by traders
Section 86 - Security by commission agents
Section 87 - Deposit of cash security in bank
Section 88 - Charge on security and refund of security deposit
Section 89 - Power of committee and Chairman to impose penalties
Chapter VIII
Section 90 - Market Fund, its custody and investment
Section 91 - Contribution to the Consolidated Fund of the state
Section 92 - Contribution to State Agricultural Marketing Board
Section 93 - Purposes for which the market fund shall be expended
Section 94 - Honorarium and travelling allowances to the Chairman
Section 95 - Manner of preparing budget, etc
Chapter IX
Section 96 - Establishment of independent markets and market committees for special commodities
Chapter X - MANDAL PANCHAYATS AS AGENTS OF MARKET COMMITTEES[MANDAL PANCHAYATS] AS AGENTS OF MARKET COMMITTEES
Section 97 - Mandal Panchayats as agents of market committees
Section 98 - Grants and Loans to Mandal Panchayat
Section 99 - Effect of entrustment of powers and functions to Mandal Panchayat
Chapter XI
Section 100 - State Agricultural Marketing Board
Section 101 - Composition of the State Marketing Board
Section 102 - Publication of the names of the elected members of the Board
Section 103 - Determination of the validity of election
Section 104 - Cessation of membership of elected members of the Board
Section 105 - By-election
Section 106 - Term of office of the members of the Board
Section 106A - XXX
Section 107 - Powers and duties of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman
Section 108 - Conduct of business of the Board
Section 109 - Grants by the State Government
Section 109A - 109A
Section 110 - Marketing Development Fund
Section 110A - Power to borrow
Section 111 - Purposes for which the Marketing Development Fund shall be expended
Section 112 - Functions of the Board
Section 113 - Provisions of Act and Rules to apply to the Board
Chapter XII
Section 114 - Penalties for evasion of payment of fee, etc.
Section 115 - Liability of accused to pay fee, cess or other amount
Section 116 - Power of Magistrate to recover summarily fee, or other amount
Section 117 - Penalty for contravention of section 8
Section 117A - Penalty for contravention of section 66
Section 118 - Penalty for contravention of sections 78, 79 and 80
Section 119 - Penalty for failure to obey order under section 123
Section 120 - Penalty for contravening the provisions of section 123 or 124
Section 121 - Penalty for contravention of section 125
Section 122 - General provisions for punishment of offences
Chapter XIII
Section 123 - Inspection, inquiry, submission of statements, etc.
Section 124 - Duty of officers and members to furnish information to Director of Agricultural Marketing, authorised officers and State Government
Section 125 - Seizure of account books and other documents
Section 126 - Power of State Government to call for proceedings of market committee and to pass order thereon
Section 126A - Government's power to give directions to the market committee
Section 127 - Supersession of market committee
Section 128 - Liability of members, officers and employees of market committee for loss, waste, misappropriation, etc.
Section 129 - Liability of Chairman, Vice- Chairman and members for removal from office
Section 130 - Administrator to exercise powers and perform duties of market committees not validly constituted or in the working of which a deadlock is created
Section 131 - Recovery of sums due to Government from market committee or Board
Chapter XIIIA - NATIONAL INTEGRATED PRODUCE MARKET
Section 131A - Establishment of National Integrated Produce Market etc.
Section 131B - Removal of difficulties
Chapter XIV
Section 132 - Recovery of sums due to market committee or Board
Section 133 - Power to exempt certain class of co-operative societies etc from the provisions of Act.
Section 134 - Provisions of Act not to apply to Central and State Governments
Section 135 - Proof of entries in market committee's or Board's registers, etc
Section 136 - Chairman, Vice-Chairman, members, officers and servants of market committee or Board to be public servants
Section 137 - Bar of suit or other legal proceeding in absence of notice
Section 137A - Appeal
Section 138 - Powers and duties of Police Officer
Section 139 - Duty of local authorities to give information and assistance
Section 139A - Duty of Officers of the Departments to give information and assistance
Section 140 - Delegation of powers of State Government and Director of Agricultural Marketing
Section 141 - Protection to persons acting in good faith
Section 142 - Effect of mere alteration of limits of market area
Section 143 - Denotification of a market area and its consequences
Section 144 - Amalgamation of market committees
Section 145 - Division of market area into two or more separate market areas
Section 146 - Rules
Section 147 - Regulations
Section 148 - Bye-laws
Section 149 - First bye-laws on the establishment of markets
Section 150 - Director of Agricultural Marketing's power to direct the making or amendment of bye-laws
Section 151 - Power to make standing orders
Section 152 - Orders for bringing this Act into force
Section 152A - Power to amend the Schedule
Section 153 - Rules, orders and notifications to be laid before Legislature
Section 154 - Repeal and savings
Section 154A - Transitory provisions
Section 155 - Power of State Government to transfer assets etc., in cases of market committees constituted for excluded areas under replaced Acts
Section 156 - Amendment of Karnataka Act 16 of 1958
Section 157 - Amendment of Karnataka Act 11 of 1959
Schedule I - FIRST SCHEDULE