Title : Power to Prevent Commission of Offence
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Every Tree Officer or his subordinates or any forest, revenue or Police Officer shall prevent and may interfere for the purpose of preventing, the commission of any offence under this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Compound Offences
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The State Government may, by order empower a Tree Officer, (a) to compound on payment of a sum not exceeding five thousand rupees for any offence under this Act; (b) to release any property seized or liable to confiscation, on payment of the value thereof, as estimated by such offence. (2) On the payment of such sum or such value or both as the case may be to such officer, the offender, if in custody, shall be released. The property, if any, seized shall be released and no further proceedings shall be taken against such offender or property. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Powers of Tree Officer in the Matter of Investigation
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
1[15A. Powers of Tree officer in the matter of investigation (1) Any Tree officer within such area as the State Government may, by notification specify, may as regards offences under section 22 exercise powers conferred on an Officer incharge of a police station by the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Provided that any such power shall be subject to such restrictions and modifications if any, as the State Government may specify. (2) For the purposes of section 156 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 the area in regard to which the Tree Officer is empowered under sub-section (1), shall be deemed to be a police station and such Officer shall be deemed to be the Officer-in-charge of such station. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 20 of 2000 w.e.f...... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Release Property Seized Under Section 15
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
The Tree Officer may release the properties seized under section 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 without 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 or 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, of 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 Magistrate 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 sectionTitle : Power to Prevent Commission of Offence
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Every Tree Officer or his subordinates or any forest, revenue or police officer shall prevent and may interfere for the purpose of preventing, the commission of any offence under this Act. 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 such1[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. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 12 of 1998 w.e.f. 11.5.1998 View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appointment of Tree Officer
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The 1 [Principal Chief Conservator] of Forests (General) may, subject to sub-section (2) appoint for each urban area and rural area one or more Forest Officers as Tree Officers for the purpose of this Act. (2) Such Tree Officer shall,- (i) in an urban area comprising of a 1 [larger urban area], be not below the rank of an Assistant Conservator of Forests; (ii) in an urban area comprising of a 1 [smaller urban area or a transitional area], be not below the rank of a Range Forest Officer; (iii) in a rural area of the kind specified in Schedule II, be not below the rank of a Range Forest Officer. (iv) in a rural area of the kind specified in Schedule, I, be not below the rank of a Divisional Forest Officer. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 12 of 1998 w.e.f...... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Restriction on Felling of Trees
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) With effect on and from the appointed day, notwithstanding any custom, usage, contract or law for the time being in force, no person shall fell any tree or cause any tree to be felled in any land, whether in his ownership or occupancy or otherwise, except with the previous permission of the Tree Officer: 1[Provided that no permission shall be granted under this section for felling of trees if it involves felling of all trees in the areas proposed for cultivation or extension of cultivation of rubber or tea.] (2) Any person desiring to fell a tree, shall apply in writing to the concerned Tree Officer for permission in that behalf. The application shall be accompanied by a site plan or survey sketch specifying clearly the site or survey numbers, the numbers, kind and girth of the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Compound Offences
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The State Government may, by order, empower a Tree Officer,- (a) to compound on payment of a sum1[equivalent to twenty-five per cent of the value of the property involved in the offence,] any offence under this Act; (b) to release any property seized or liable to confiscation, on payment of the value thereof, as estimated by such officer. (2) On the payment of such sum or such value or both, as the case may be, to such officer, the offender, if in custody, shall be released. The property, if any, seized shall be released and no further proceedings shall be taken against such offender or property. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 12 of 1998 w.e.f. 11.5.1998. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section