CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
2. Definitions.
CHAPTER II
CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF THE REVENUE OFFICERS
3. Chief controlling authority in revenue matters.
4. State to be divided into Districts and Districts to consist of Taluks
comprising Circles and Villages.
5. Power of State Government to alter limits of or to amalgamate or constitute
villages.
6. Procedure for constitution, abolition, etc., of districts, taluks, circles or
villages.
7. Appointment, duties and functions of Regional Commissioners.
8. Deputy Commissioner.
9. Special Deputy Commissioner.
10. Assistant Commissioners.
11. Tahsildars.
12. Special Tahsildars.
13. A Tahsildar or A Special Tahsildar may depute subordinates to perform
certain of his duties.
14. Officers to discharge duties during temporary vacancy.
15. Revenue Inspectors.
16. Village Accountant.
17. Village Accountant to keep such records as he may be required to keep
and prepare public records.
18. Survey Officers.
18A. Appointment of lincensed Surveyors.
19. Other Officers.
20. Combination of Offices.
21. Seals.
22. Demands for money, papers, etc., in the hands of a Revenue Officer or
other person.
23. Recovery of public money or property from revenue officers or other
persons.
CHAPTER III
PROCEDURE OF REVENUE OFFICERS
24. Revenue Officers to be Revenue Courts.
25. Saving of inherent powers of a Revenue Court.
26. Place for holding enquiries or hearing cases.
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27. Power to transfer cases.
28. Power to take evidence, summon persons to give evidence and produce
documents.
29. Contents of summons and the manner in which it has to be issued and
served.
30. Mode of serving notices.
31. Procedure for procuring attendance of witnesses.
32. Compelling attendance of witnesses and examination of witnesses on
commission.
33. Formal inquiry.
34. Summary inquiry.
35. Formal and summary inquiry to be deemed judicial proceedings.
36. Hearing and decisions to be in public and after notice.
37. Inquiries other than formal or summary.
38. Power to enter upon any lands or premises for the purposes of
measurements, etc.
39. Manner of evicting any person wrongfully in possession of land.
CHAPTER IV
CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF THE KARNATAKA REVENUE APPELLATE TRIBUNAL
40. Constitution of the Revenue Appellate Tribunal.
41. Conduct of business of the Tribunal.
42. Sittings of the Tribunal.
43. Powers of the Tribunal.
44. Powers of review.
45. Finality of the orders of the Tribunal.
46. Powers of the Tribunal to call for returns, etc.
47. Proceedings of Tribunal to be judicial proceedings.
48. Power to make regulations.
CHAPTER V
APPEAL AND REVISION
49. Appeals from original orders.
50. Second Appeal.
51. Limitation of Appeals.
52. Application of the Limitation Act.
53. Copy of the order to accompany petition of appeal.
54. Powers of appellate authority.
55. Stay of execution of orders.
56. Power of Revision.
57. Orders expressly made final under the act.
58. Amendment of orders.
59. Orders not reversible by reason of error or irregularity not occasioning
failure of justice.
CHAPTER VI.
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REVENUE JURISDICTION.
60. Definitions.
61. Exclusive Jurisdiction of Revenue Courts and bar of Jurisdiction of Civil
Courts.
62. Savings of certain suits.
63. Plaintiff to exhaust his right of appeal before instituting a suit or other
proceeding against Government.
64. Power of Tribunal to refer questions for decision of High Court.
65. Power of Civil Court to refer questions of jurisdiction to High Court.
66. Composition of Bench.
CHAPTER VII.
LAND AND LAND REVENUE.
Land.
67. Public roads, etc., and all lands which are not the property of others belong
to the Government.
68. Extinction of rights of public and individuals in or over any public road,
street, lane or path not required for use of public.
69. Disposal of lands or other property belonging to State Government under
section 67.
69A. Disposal of lands or other property belonging to the Sate Government.
70. Right to mines and mineral products to vest in Government.
71. Lands may be assigned for special purposes and when assigned, shall not
be otherwise used without sanction of the Deputy Commissioner.
72. Regulation of use of pasturage.
73. Recovery of value of natural product unauthorisedly removed from certain
lands.
74. Right to trees in villages to which survey settlement has not been
introduced.
75. Right to trees in villages, to which survey settlement has been introduced.
76. Trees and forests vesting in the Government.
77. Road-side trees.
78. Recovery of value of trees, etc., unauthorisedly appropriated.
79. Regulation of supply of firewood and timber for domestic or other
purposes.
Land Revenue.
80. All land liable to pay land revenue, unless specially exempted.
81. Alluvial land and its liability to land revenue.
82. Remission of assessment in cases of diluvion.
83. Manner of assessment, commutation of non-agricultural assessment and
prohibition of use of land for certain purposes.
84. Assessment by whom to be fixed.
85. Register of alienated lands.
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86. Settlement of assessment with whom to be made.
87. Land Revenue to be a paramount charge on the land.
88. Forfeited holdings may be taken possession of and otherwise disposed.
89. Receipts.
90. Penalty for failure to grant receipts.
CHAPTER VIIA
CONSTRUCTION OF WATER THROUGH LAND OF ANOTHER
90A. Construction of water course through land belonging to other persons.
90B. Failure to pay rent and to keep water course in good repair.
90C. Removal or discontinuance of water course.
CHAPTER VIII
GRANT, USE AND RELINQUISHMENT OF UNALIENATED LAND.
91. Unoccupied land may be granted on conditions.
92. Grant of alluvial land vested in Government.
93. Permission for taking up unoccupied land.
94. Penalties for unauthorised occupation of land.
94A. Regularisation of certain cases of unauthorised occupation by constituting
committee, etc.
94B. Grant of land in certain cases.
94C. Grant of land in case of construction of dwelling house in occupied land.
94CC. Grant of Land in case of construction of dwelling house in occupied
land in urban area
94-D. Regularization and grant of land of dwelling house along with site thereof
and land immediately appurtenant thereto built on Government land in
unrecorded habitations
95. Uses of agricultural land and the procedure for use of agricultural land for
other purpose.
96. Penalty for using agricultural land for other purpose without permission.
97. Diversion of non-agricultural land held for a specific purpose.
98. Permission may be granted on terms.
99. Rights of occupants.
100. Occupancy not transferable without sanction of prescribed authority nor
liable to process of a Civil Court.
101. Occupancy right transferable and heritable.
102. Relinquishment.
103. Right of way to relinquished or forfeited land or to land used for purpose of
agriculture.
104. Summary eviction of person unauthorisedly occupying land.
105. To prevent forfeiture of occupancy certain persons other than occupant
may pay land revenue.
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CHAPTER IX
REVENUE SURVEY, DIVISION OF SURVEY NUMBERS AND PARTITION OF ESTATES
106. Revenue Survey may be introduced by State Government into any part of
the State.
107. Power of Survey Officer to require assistance from land holders.
108. Minimum extent of a survey number.
109. Division of Survey Numbers into Sub-divisions.
110. Provisions applicable on relinquishment or forfeiture of a subdivision.
111. Recovery of expenses of partition.
112. The State Government may direct a fresh survey.
113. Preparation of statistical and fiscal records.
CHAPTER X
ASSESSMENT AND SETTLEMENT OF LAND REVENUE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND
114. Government may direct an original or revision settlement of land revenue
of any land.
114A. Revision of settlement of land revenue in certain cases.
115. The term of settlement.
116. Assessment how determined.
117. Increase in average yield due to improvements by holders not to be taken
into account.
118. Procedure to be followed by the Settlement Officer in making a settlement.
119. Publication of the Settlement Report.
120. Deputy Commissioner to submit to Government the Settlement Report with
statement of objections, etc., and his opinion thereon.
121. Settlement Report to be approved by State Legislature.
122. Introduction of Settlement.
122A. Notice of assessment to occupants.
122B. Determination of assessment of lands.
123. Determination of assessment of lands wholly exempt from payment of land
revenue.
124. The fixing of assessment under Act limited to ordinary land revenue.
125. Power of State Government to direct assessment for irrigation facilities.
126. Continuance of certain Survey and Settlement operations.
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CHAPTER XI
RECORDS OF RIGHTS
127. Record of Rights.
128. Acquisitions of rights to be reported.
129. Registration of mutations and register of disputed cases.
129A. Patta book.
130. Obligation to furnish information.
131. Requisition of assistance in preparing maps.
132. Certified copies of records to be annexed to plaint or application.
133. Presumption regarding entries in the records.
134. Certified copies.
135. Bar of suits.
136. Appeal and Revision.
CHAPTER XII
BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARY MARKS
137. Determination of village boundaries, etc.
138. Settlement of village boundaries by agreement.
139. Procedure in case of disagreement or dispute.
140. Determination of boundaries of lands forming a survey number or a
holding.
141. Settlement of boundary dispute by arbitration.
142. Effect of the settlement of a boundary.
143. Construction and repair of boundary marks.
144. Description of boundary marks.
145. Responsibility for the maintenance of boundary marks.
146. Deputy Commissioner to have charge of boundary marks after introduction
of the survey settlement.
147. Penalty for injuring boundary marks.
CHAPTER XIII
SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT OF LANDS AND OF BOUNDARY DISPUTES WITHIN THE SITES OF
VILLAGES AND THE LIMITS OF TOWNS AND CITIES
148. Limits of sites of villages, towns and cities, how to be fixed and assignment
of building sites.
149. Disposal of Building sites.
150. Existing exemptions to be continued in certain cases.
151. Right to exemption to be determined by the Deputy Commissioner.
152. Survey of lands and their boundaries within sites or villages or the limits of
cities and towns how to be conducted.
153. Procedure in certain cases of survey under section 152 and charge of a
survey fee.
154. Certificate to be granted without extra charge.
155. Duties of local authority for protecting boundary or survey marks.
156. Contributions payable by local authority.
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CHAPTER XIV
REALISATION OF LAND REVENUE AND OTHER PUBLIC DEMANDS
157. Liability for revenue.
158. Claim of State Government to have precedence over all others.
159. Land Revenue when becomes due and payable.
160. Arrear of land revenue and defaulter.
161. Process for recovery of arrears.
162. Notice of demand.
163. Forfeiture of occupancy or alienated holding.
164. Distraint and sale of moveable property.
165. Attachment and sale of immoveable property.
166. Attachment how to be made.
167. Claims to immoveable property attached.
168. Procedure in effecting sale of immoveable property.
169. The sale to be by auction.
170. Prohibition to bid at auction.
171. Purchase of property by Government.
172. Sale of perishables.
173. Sale not to be excessive.
174. Deposit by purchaser of immoveable property.
175. Failure to make deposit.
176. Setting aside sale.
177. Confirmation of sale.
178. Refunds.
179. Certificate of purchase.
180. Removal of obstruction.
181. Application of proceeds of sale.
182. Liability of certified purchaser.
183. Recovery by attachment of the defaulter’s village and taking it under
management.
184. Lands of such village to revert to Government free of encumbrances.
185. Application of surplus profits.
186. Restoration of village so attached.
187. Village, etc., to vest permanently in the State Government if not redeemed
within twelve years.
188. Precautionary measures in certain cases.
189. Precautionary measures to be relinquished on security being furnished.
190. Recovery of other public demands.
191. Recovery of moneys from survey.
192.Recovery of arrears due in any one district by Deputy Commissioner of
another district.
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192-A. Offences and Penalties.
192-B. Abetment of offences.
192-C. Punishment under other laws not barred.
192-D. Cognizance of Offences.
CHAPTER XV
MISCELLANEOUS
193. Inspection and grant of copies of maps and land records.
194. Suspension or remission of land revenue.
195. Delegation of powers.
196. Protection of action taken in good faith.
197. Power of State Government to make rules.
198. Laying of rules and Regulations and notifications before the State
Legislature.
199. Transitional provisions.
200. Offences by Companies.
201. Power to remove difficulties.
202. Repeal and Savings.
SCHEDULE.
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