Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code, 1959

Bare Act · 1959

In the syllabus of: CG Civil Judge

Act number: 20 of 1959
Enacted: 21 September 1959
Contents: 238 sections · 18 chapters

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Contents

Chapter I — Preliminary

Chapter II — Board of Revenue

Chapter III — Revenue Officers, their Classes and Powers

Section 11 – Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 12 – Control over Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 13 – Power to alter, create or abolish divisions, districts, sub-divisions and tahsils (preview)
Section 14 – Power to appoint commissioners of division (preview)
Section 15 – Power to appoint Additional Commissioner (preview)
Section 16 – Power to appoint Collector (preview)
Section 17 – Power to appoint Additional Collectors (preview)
Section 18 – Appointment and powers of Assistant Collectors, Joint Collectors and Deputy Collectors (preview)
Section 19 – Appointment of Tahsildars, Additional Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars (preview)
Section 20 – Appointment of Superintendents of Land Records and Assistant Superintendents of Land Records (preview)
Section 21 – Other Officers (preview)
Section 22 – Sub-Divisional Officer (preview)
Section 23 – Subordination of Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 24 – Conferral by State Government of powers of Revenue Officers on Officials and other persons (preview)
Section 25 – Powers exercisable on transfer (preview)
Section 26 – Collector in case of temporary vacancy (preview)

Chapter IV — Procedure of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts

Chapter V — Appeal, Revision and Review

Section 44 – Appeal and Appellate Authority (preview)
Section 46 – No appeal against certain orders (preview)
Section 47 – Limitation of appeals (preview)
Section 48 – Copy of order objected to accompany petition (preview)
Section 49 – Power of appellate authority (preview)
Section 50 – Revision (preview)
Section 51 – Review of orders (preview)
Section 52 – Stay of execution of orders (preview)
Section 53 – Application of Limitation Act (preview)
Section 54 – Pending revisions (preview)
Section 55 – Application of Chapter (preview)
Section 56 – Construction of order (preview)

Chapter VI — Land and Land Revenue

Chapter VII — Land Survey and Land Revenue Assessment

Chapter VIII — Assessment and Re-Assessment of Land in Urban Areas

Chapter IX — Land Records

Section 104 – Formation of patwaris' circles and appointment of patwaris thereto (preview)
Section 105 – Formation of Revenue Inspectors' circles (preview)
Section 106 – Appointment of Revenue Inspectors, etc (preview)
Section 107 – Field map (preview)
Section 108 – Record of rights (preview)
Section 109 – Acquisition of rights to be reported (preview)
Section 110 – Mutation of acquisition of right in land records (preview)
Section 111 – Jurisdiction of Civil Courts (preview)
Section 112 – Intimation of transfers by Registering Officers (preview)
Section 113 – Correction of clerical errors (preview)
Section 114 – Land Records (preview)
Section 114A – Kisan Kitab (preview)
Section 115 – Correction of wrong or incorrect entry in land record (preview)
Section 117 – Presumption as to entries in land records (preview)
Section 118 – Obligation to furnish information as to title (preview)
Section 119 – Penalty for neglect to furnish information (preview)
Section 120 – Requisition of assistance in preparation of maps and record of rights (preview)
Section 121 – Power to make rules for land records (preview)
Section 122 – Exemption from provisions of this Chapter (preview)
Section 123 – Record-of-rights at commencement of Code (preview)

Chapter X — Boundaries and Boundary Marks, Survey Marks

Chapter XI — Realisation of Land Revenue

Section 137 – Land revenue first charge on land (preview)
Section 138 – Responsibility for payment of land revenue (preview)
Section 139 – Land revenue recoverable from any person, in possession (preview)
Section 140 – Dates on which land revenue falls due and is payable (preview)
Section 141 – Definitions of "arrear" and "defaulter" (preview)
Section 142 – Patel, Patwari, Gram Sabha or Gram Panchayat bound to give receipt (preview)
Section 143 – Penalty for default of payment of land revenue (preview)
Section 144 – Remission or suspension of land revenue on failure of crops (preview)
Section 145 – Certified account to be evidence as to arrear and defaulter (preview)
Section 146 – Notice of demand (preview)
Section 147 – Process for recovery of arrear (preview)
Section 148 – Costs recoverable as part of arrear (preview)
Section 149 – Enforcement of processes in other districts (preview)
Section 150 – Payment under protest and suit for recovery (preview)
Section 151 – Application of proceeds of sale (preview)
Section 152 – Land sold for arrears to be free from encumbrances (preview)
Section 153 – Purchaser's title (preview)
Section 154 – Purchaser not liable for land revenue due prior to sale (preview)
Section 154A – Powers of the Tahsildar to let out the holding in respect of which arrear is due or any other holding of the defaulter (preview)
Section 155 – Moneys recoverable as an arrear of land revenue (preview)
Section 156 – Recovery of moneys from surety (preview)

Chapter XII — Tenure-Holders

Section 157 – Class of tenure (preview)
Section 158 – Bhumiswami (preview)
Section 159 – Land revenue payable by bhumiswamis (preview)
Section 160 – Revocation of exemption from liability for land revenue (preview)
Section 161 – Reduction of revenue during the currency of settlement (preview)
Section 162A – Disposal of Government Land (preview)
Section 163 – Pending applications for conferral of bhumiswami rights (preview)
Section 164 – Devolution (preview)
Section 165 – Rights of transfer (preview)
Section 166 – Forfeiture in cases of certain transfers (preview)
Section 167 – Exchange of land (preview)
Section 168 – Leases (preview)
Section 170 – Avoidance of transfer in contravention of Section 165 (preview)
Section 170A – Certain transfers to be set aside (preview)
Section 170B – Reversion of land of members of aboriginal tribe which was transferred by fraud (preview)
Section 170C – Advocate not to appear in proceedings under Section 170-A or 170-B without permission (preview)
Section 170D – Second appeal barred (preview)
Section 171 – Right to make improvements (preview)
Section 172 – Diversion of land (preview)
Section 173 – Relinquishments (preview)
Section 175 – Right of way to relinquished land (preview)
Section 176 – Abandonment of holding (preview)
Section 177 – Disposal of holdings (preview)
Section 178 – Partition of holding (preview)
Section 178A – Partition of land in life time of bhumiswami (preview)
Section 178B – Disposal of applications received for partition of holding (preview)
Section 179 – Rights to trees in holding (preview)
Section 180 – Restriction on transfer of trees (preview)

Chapter XIII — Government Lessees and Service Land

Section 181 – Government lessees (preview)
Section 182 – Rights and liabilities of a Government lessee (preview)
Section 183 – Service land (preview)

Chapter XV — Alluvion and Diluvion

Section 203 – Alluvion and diluvion (preview)
Section 204 – Power to make assessment and decide disputes (preview)

Chapter XVI — Consolidation of Holdings

Section 205 – Definitions (preview)
Section 206 – Initiation of consolidation proceedings (preview)
Section 207 – Rejection of application (preview)
Section 208 – Admission of application (preview)
Section 209 – Preparation of scheme for consolidation of holdings (preview)
Section 210 – Confirmation of scheme (preview)
Section 211 – Procedure on confirmation (preview)
Section 212 – Right of bhumiswamis to possession of holdings (preview)
Section 213 – Transfer of rights of bhumiswamis in holdings (preview)
Section 214 – No instrument necessary to effect transfer (preview)
Section 215 – Costs of carrying out scheme (preview)
Section 216 – Recovery of compensation and cost (preview)
Section 217 – Suspension of partition proceedings during currency of consolidation proceedings (preview)
Section 218 – Transfer of property during proceedings (preview)
Section 219 – Rights of bhumiswamis after consolidation same as before (preview)
Section 220 – Encumbrances of bhumiswamis (preview)
Section 221 – Power to make rules (preview)

Chapter XVII — Village Officers

Section 222 – Appointment of patels (preview)
Section 223 – Remuneration of patels (preview)
Section 224 – Duties of patels (preview)
Section 225 – Duties imposed under any law upon land holders deemed to be imposed on patels (preview)
Section 226 – Removal of patels (preview)
Section 227 – Punishment of patels (preview)
Section 228 – Appointment of substitute patel (preview)
Section 229 – Entrustment of village management (preview)
Section 230 – Appointment of kotwars and their duties (preview)
Section 231 – Remuneration of kotwars (preview)

Chapter XVIII — Rights in Abadi and Unoccupied Land and Its Produce

Section 233 – Record of unoccupied land (preview)
Section 234 – Preparation of Nistar Patrak (preview)
Section 235 – Matters to be provided for in Nistar Patrak (preview)
Section 236 – Provision in Nistar Patrak for certain matters (preview)
Section 237 – Collector to set apart land for exercise of Nistar rights (preview)
Section 238 – Rights in waste land of another village (preview)
Section 239 – Rights in fruit bearing trees and other trees planted in unoccupied land and Bhata Land and Bade Jhad/ Chhote Jhad Ka Jungle (preview)
Section 240 – Prohibition of cutting of certain trees (preview)
Section 241 – Measures to prevent theft of timber from Government forest (preview)
Section 242 – Wajib-ul-arz (preview)
Section 243 – Abadi (preview)
Section 244 – Disposal of abadi sites (preview)
Section 245 – Rights to hold house site free of land revenue (preview)
Section 246 – Right of persons holding house site in Abadi (preview)
Section 247 – Government's title to minerals (preview)
Section 248 – Penalty for unauthorisedly taking possession of land (preview)
Section 249 – Regulation of fishing, hunting etc (preview)
Section 250 – Reinstatement of bhumiswami improperly dispossessed (preview)
Section 250A – Confinement in civil prison on failure to restore possession under Section 250 (preview)
Section 250B – Failure to vacate land in favour of allottee of land to be an offence (preview)
Section 251 – Vesting of tanks in State Government (preview)
Section 253 – Punishment for contravention of provisions (preview)

Chapter XIX — Miscellaneous

Section 256 – Inspection and copies of maps and land records (preview)
Section 257 – Exclusive jurisdiction of revenue authorities (preview)
Section 257A – Burden of proof and bar of legal practitioners in certain proceedings (preview)
Section 258 – General rule making power (preview)
Section 259 – Reference to certain tenures (preview)
Section 260 – Reference to laws not in force in any region (preview)
Section 261 – Repeal and savings (preview)
Section 262 – Transitory provisions (preview)
Section 263 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
Section 264 – Code not to apply in certain cases (preview)