Title : Repeal of Karnataka Ordinance No. 14 of 1976
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The Karnataka Preservation of Trees Ordinance, 1976 (Karnataka Ordinance No. 14 of 1976) is hereby repealed. 1 [(2) Notwithstanding such repeal any action taken or any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law made or issued under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been taken, made or issued under this Act and shall continue in force accordingly unless and until superseded by any action taken or any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law made or issued under this Act.] _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 14 of 1979 w.e.f. 4.12.1976. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Recovery of Expenditure on Failure to Comply with Orderfor Planting Trees
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Where the owner or occupier fails to comply with an order made by the Tree Officer under Sec. 8, 9 or 10, the Tree Officer may, after giving a reasonable opportunity to owner or occupier of making representation and without prejudice to any other action which may be taken against the defaulter under this Act take necessary action and recover the expenditure incurred from the owner or the occupier, as the case may be. If such expenditure is not paid within the time specified by the Tree Officer, the amount along with interest at six per cent per annum and other expense, if any, shall be recovered as if it were an arrear of land revenue. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definitions
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) 'appointed day' in relation to any area means the date notified under sub-section (3) of section 1; (b) 'local authority' means a Municipal Corporation, or a Municipal Council or a 1 [Town Panchayat or a Taluk Panchayat]; (c) 'preservation of trees' means, maintenance and protection of trees to encourage normal growth and prevent damage or cutting or felling and includes planting of new trees and transplanting trees; (d) 'relevant Act' means the enactment under which a local authority is constituted; (e) 'rural area' means an area and of the kind specified in Schedules I and II; (f) 'to fell a tree' means severing the trunk from the roots, uprooting the tree and includes burning or cutting or girdling or applying..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appointment of Other Officers
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
The1[Principal Chief Conservator] of Forests (General) may from time to time, appoint such other officers and servants to assist the Tree Officer as he may consider necessary who shall be subordinate to the Tree Officer. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 12 of 1998 w.e.f. 11.5.1998. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Recovery of Expenditure on Failure to Comply with Order for Planting Trees
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Where the owner or occupier fails to comply with an order made by the Tree Officer under sections 8, 9 or 10 the Tree Officer may, after giving a reasonable opportunity to such owner or occupier of making representation and without prejudice to any other action which may be taken against the defaulter under this Act take necessary action himself and recover the expenditure incurred therefor from the owner or the occupier, as the case may be. If such expenditure is not paid within the time specified by the Tree Officer, the amount along with interest at six per cent per annum and other expenses, if any, shall be recovered as if it were an arrear of land revenue. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appeal
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) Against the order of the Tree Officer under section 8,1[8A], 9 or 10, an appeal shall lie to the Tree Authority. (2) Such appeal shall be field within thirty days from the date the decision is communicated to the owner or occupier of the land and shall be accompanied by a fee of one hundred rupees. (3) The Tree Authority shall decide the appeal after giving to the appellant a reasonable opportunity of being heard. The decision of the Tree Authority shall be final. (4) Where an appeal is made in time, the period for compliance specified in the order of the Tree Officer shall be reckoned from the date on which the appeal is decided against the appellant and where the appeal is allowed the fee paid under sub-section (2) shall be refunded to the appellant. (5) Every appeal shall..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Report by Tree Officer
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
If, on any investigation by a Tree Officer empowered under sub-section (1), of section 15A, it appears that there is sufficient evidence to justify the prosecution of the accused , the investigating officer shall submit a report (which shall, for the purposes of section 190 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 be deemed to be a police report) to a Magistrate having jurisdiction to enquire into or try the case and empowered to take congnizance of offence on police reports.]1 View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title, Extent and Commencement
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka. (3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the seventeenth day of July 1976 and other provisions shall come into force on such date as the State Government may by notification appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different urban areas or rural areas or parts thereof. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Release Property Seized Under Sec. 15
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
The Tree Officer may release the properties seized under Sec. 15 if the owner or occupier executes a bond for their production whenever required. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Arrest Without Warrant
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) Any Tree Officer may arrest with a warrant any person reasonably suspected of having been concerned in any offence under this Act, if such person refuses to give his name and residence or gives a name of residence which the Tree Officer has reason to believe is false or if he has reason to believe that the person will abscond. (2) Any person arrested under this section shall be informed, as soon as may be, o: the grounds for such arrest and shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Court of the Magisterial and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate. ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section