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(1) The Karnataka Preservation of Trees Ordinance, 1976 (Karnataka Ordinance No. 14 of 1976) is hereby repealed. 1 [(2) Notwithstanding such repeal any action taken or any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law made or issued under the said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be deemed to have been taken, made or issued under this Act and shall continue in force accordingly unless and until superseded by any action taken or any appointment, notification, order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law made or issued under this Act.]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 : 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 : 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 : Establishment of the Tree Authority
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The State Government shall, by notification, constitute a Tree Authority for each urban area and for each rural area. (2) Such Authority shall consist of five members as follows:- (a) For an urban area,- (i) the Mayor or the President of the Municipal Corporation, the Municipal Council or the 1 [Town Panchayat], as the case may be; (ii) the Divisional Forest Officer or his nominee; (iii) the District Horticultural Officer having jurisdiction; (iv) the Municipal Commissioner or the Chief Executive Officer, as the case may be; and (v) one member of the Municipal Corporation, the Municipal Council or the 1 [Town Panchayat], as may be, nominated by the Mayor or the President , as the case may be: Provided that where the Corporation or the Municipal Council or the 1 [Town..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Meetings of the Tree Authority
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The Tree Authority shall meet at least once in three months at such place and time as the Chairman may decide and shall conduct its business in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) The quorum to constitute a meeting of the Tree Authority shall be one-third of the total number of its members. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Adoption of Trees
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, the Tree Authority may, subject to such terms and conditions as it may specify in that behalf, permit any individual, body corporate or institution to adopt any tree for such period as may be specified therein and during such period the said individual, body corporate or institution shall be responsible for the maintenance and preservation of the said tree. 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 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 : Planting of Adequate Number of Trees
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) Every owner or occupant of a land shall, within a period of five years from the appointed day or within such extended period as the Tree Authority may specify, plant trees so as to conform to the standards prescribed by the said Tree Authority under clause (c) of section 7. (2) If in the opinion of the tree Officer the number of trees in any land is not adequate according to the standards referred to in sub-section (1), the Tree Officer may, by order giving a reasonable opportunity to the owner or occupier of the land of making representation, require him to plant such trees, or additional trees, as the case may be, and at such places in the land as may be specified in the order. (3) The owner or occupier of the land shall comply with such order within thirty days from the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section