Title : Rules
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
(1) The State Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall from the date on which the modification or annulment is notified by the Government in the Official Gazette have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Transit of Felled Materials
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
The provisions of section 50 of the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963 (Karnataka Act 5 of 1964) and Chapter XVI of the Karnataka Forest Rules shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the transit of the felled trees under this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Operation of Other Laws Not Barred
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for any act or commission which constitutes an offence under this Act or from being liable under such other law to any higher punishment or penalty than that provided by this Act or the rules made thereunder: Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Exemption of Certain Areas from the Operation of This Act
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
1[27A. Exemption of certain areas from the operation of this Act The State Government may, by notification and subject to such restrictions and conditions as may be specified in such notification exempt any area or areas from the provisions of this Act.] _______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 14 of 1979 w.e.f. 22.9.1978. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Karnataka Forest Act, 1963 Not Affected
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect the operation of the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963 or the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 and the rules made thereunder and the Provisions of this Act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of the said Acts and rules. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Offences by Companies
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
1[22A. Offences by companies (1) If the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, the Company as well as every person incharge of, and responsible to the Company for the conduct of its business at the time of the commission of the offence shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly: Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) where an offence under this section has been committed within the consent or connivance of, or that the commission of the offence is attributable to, any..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976
State : Karnataka
Year : 1976
THE KARNATAKA PRESERVATION OF TREES ACT, 1976 PREAMBLE An Act to make better provision for preservation of trees in the State Whereas with the growing pace of urbanisation, industrialisation and increasing population, there has been indiscriminate felling of a large number of trees in the rural and urban areas of the State of Karnataka leading to erratic rainfall, recurring famines and floods, soil erosion and consequent ecological disturbances; Whereas it is expedient to provide for the preservation of trees in the State by regulating the felling of trees and for the planting of adequate number of trees to restore ecological balance and for matters connected therewith; Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : 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 Notified Area Committee, 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 Notified Area Committee, 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..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Restriction on Felling of Trees and Liability for Preservation Oftrees
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. (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 number, kind and girth of the tree sought be cut and the reasons therefor along with the consent of the owner or occupant. (3) On receipt of the application, the Tree Officer may, after inspecting the tree and holding such inquiry as he..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Chapter I
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. Section 2 - Definitions (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "appointed day" in relation to any area means the date notified under subsection (3) of Sec. 1; (b) "local authority" means a Municipal Corporation, or a Municipal Council or a Notified Area Committee or a Taluk Development Board; ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section