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The Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1975

.....of this Act (a) "preservation of trees" includes planting of new trees and other operations for survival and propagation of the trees; (b) "relevant Act" means the Act under which the urban local authority concerned is constituted; (c) "to fell a tree' includes burning or cutting or in any way damaging a tree]; (d) "tree" means any perennial woody plant, whether in the seeding or sappling stage of fully grown stage, and includes shrubs whose branches spring from the ground level;] (e) "Tree Officer" means an officer appointed as such by the Tree Authority for the purpose of this act; (f) "urban area" means a municipal corporation area for which a municipal corporation is constituted under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 or the City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948, or a municipal area for which a Municipal Council is constituted under the Maharashtra Municipalities Act,1965, and includes a notified area for which a Special Planning Authority is constituted or appointed under section 40 of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 or an area designated as the site for a new town for which a Development.....