UP REVENUE CODE

1. Short title, extent and commencement

2. Aplicability of the Code

3. Extension of the Code

4 . Definitions

5. Division of State into revenue areas

6. Constitution of revenue areas

7. Board of Revenue

8. Jurisdiction of the Board

9. Power to distribute business

10. Decisions of the Board

11. Commissioners and Additional Commissioners

12. Collectors and Additional Collectors

13. Sub-Divisional Officers and Additional Sub-Divisional Officers

14. Tahsildars and Tasildars Judicial.

15. Naib-Tahsildars

16. Revenue Inspectors and Lekhpals

17. Combination of Offices

18. Recovery of money, papers and other Government property

19. Other power of Revenue Officers

20. Fixation and demarcation of boundaries

21. Obligation regarding maintenance and repair of boundary marks.

22. Destruction etc. of boundary marks.

23. Power to require erection, repair or renewal of boundary marks.

24. Disputes regarding boundaries.

25. Rights of way and other easements.

26. Removal of obstacle.

27. Revisional powers of Sub-Divisional Officer.

28. Order not to debar from establishing any right of easement.

29. List of villages.

30. Maintenance of Map and Field Book.

31. Record of Rights.

32. Correction of records.

33. Mutation in cases of succession.

34. Duty to report in cases of transfer.

35. Mutation in cases of succession or transfer.

36. Intimation of transfer and deposit of land revenue.

37. Bar against certain suits.

38. Correction of error and omission.

39. Certain orders of revenue officers not to debar a suit.

40. Presumption as to entries.

41. Kisan Bahi.

42. Duty to produce information or documents

43. Notification of record and survey operations.

44. Record Officer and Assistant Record Officer.

45. Power of Record Officer during record or survey operation.

46. Revision of records during record operation.

47. Revision of records during survey operation.

48. Powers of Record Officer as to erection of boundary marks.

49. Procedure of revision of map and records.

50. Finalisation of record of rights.

51. Preparation of new record of rights.

52. Procedure for villages where no records are available.

53. Presumption as to the entries.

54. Title of State in all lands etc.

55. Mines and minerals.

56. Rights in trees.

57. Fruit bearing trees.

58. Disputes to be decided by the Collector.

59. Entrustment of land etc. to Gram Panchayats and other local authorities.

60. Superintendence, management and control by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti.

61. Management of village tanks.

62. Conduct of suits and legal proceedings.

63. Land which may be allotted for abadi sites.

64. Allotment of abadi sites.

65. Delivery of possession to allottee.

66. Inquiry into irregular allotment of abadi sites.

67. Power to prevent damage, misappropriation and wrongful occupation of Gram Panchayat property.

67-A . Certain house sites to be settled with existing owners thereof.

68. Gaon Fund.

69. Consolidated Gaon Fund.

70. Orders and directions of the State Government and the Collector. -

71. Alternative arrangement.

72. Standing Counsel and other lawyers.

73. Representation of Gram Panchayat.

74. Classes of tenures.

75. Bhumidhar with transferable rights.

76. Bhumidhar with non-transferable rights.

77. Bhumidhari rights not to accrue in certain lands.

78. Asami.

79. Right of Bhumidhars to exclusive possession.

80 . Use of holding for Industrial, Commercial or Residential purposes.

81. Consequences of declaration -

82. Cancellation of declaration.

83. Recording of declaration or cancellation

84. Right of an asami for exclusive possession of his holding.

85. Consequences of using the land in contravention of the provisions of this Code

86. Extinction of interest of bhumidhar with non -transferable right or asami

87. Improvement not to be removed.

88. Transferability of a bhumidhar’s interest.

89. Restrictions on transfer by bhumidhar.

90. Persons other than Indian nationals not to acquire land.

91. Restrictions on transfer by mortgage.

92. Mortgage of land by bhumidhar with non-transferable rights-

93. Transfer of possession for securing money shall be deemed to be a sale.

94. Private Lease by a Bhumidhar.

95. Lease- how made, its termination and any dispute arising therto.

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98. Restrictions on transfer by bhumidhars belonging to a scheduled caste.

99. Restrictions on transfer by bhumidhars of scheduled tribes.

100. Mortgage by members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribes.

101. Exchange.

102. Consequences of exchange.

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104. Transfer in contravention of this Code to be void.

105. Consequences of transfer by bhumidhar in contravention of the Code.

106. Consequences of transfer made by asami in contravention of this Code.

107. Bequest by bhumidhar or asami.

108. General order of succession to male bhumidhar, asami or government lessee.

109. Succession to woman inheriting interest as a female heir.

110 . Succession to woman holding otherwise than as a female heir

111. Savings as to religious endowments. etc.

112. Interest of co-tenure-holders to pass by survivorship.

113. Persons other than Indian citizens and persons of Indian origin not to inherit.

114. Other conditions regarding devolution.

115. Escheat.

116. Suit for division of holding.

117. Duty of Court in suits for division of holding.

118. Surrender by bhumidhar.

119. Surrender by asami.

120. Effect of surrender.

121 Liability for rent or revenue in case of surrender.

122. Abandonment by bhumidhar.

123. Consequence of abandonment.

124. Delivery of possession to Gram Panchayat.

125. Admission by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti to land entrusted to Gram Panchayat.

126. Order of preference in admission to land by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti.-

127. Consequences of allotment.

128. Cancellation of allotment and lease.

129. Restoration of possession to allottee or the Government lessee.

130. Bhumidhars not to be ejected. -

131. Suit for ejectment etc. against asami.

132. Right to crops and trees.

133. Suit for injunction, compensation etc.

134. Ejectment of persons occupying land without title.

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136. Ejectment of trespassers of Gram Panchayat land.

137. Remedies for wrongful ejectment.

138.Rent payable by an Asami.

139. Application for fixation of rent.

140. Remission for calamity by Court decreeing claim for arrears.

141. Commutation of rent.

142. Recovery of arrears of rent from asami of Gaon Panchayat, etc.

143. Power to write off arrears.

144. Declaratory suits by tenure holders.

145. Declaratory suit by Gram Panchayat.

146. Provision for injunction.

147. Definition of Government lessee.

148. Government lessee’s right to hold land.

149. Ejectment of Government lessee.

150. Provisions of U.P. Act No.22 of 1972 to apply.

151. Trespass on land held by a Government lessee.

152. Dues recoverable as arrear of land revenue.

153. Land held by bhumidhar liable to payment of land revenue.

154. Land revenue payable by bhumidhar.

155. Variation of land revenue.

156. Exemption of land revenue in certain cases.

157. Remission or suspension of land revenue on the occurrence of agricultural calamity.

158. Power of State Government to remit rent in certain cases.

159. Consequences of suspension of rent.- Where the payment of any rent has been suspended under section 157

160. Annual enquiry of revenue free land.

161. Rounding off the amount of land revenue.

162. Finality of orders.

163. Land revenue to be the first charge.

164. Bhumidhars to be jointly and severally liable.

165. Land Revenue when becomes due and payable.

166. Arrangements for collection of land revenue.

167. Defaulters.

168. Certified account to be evidence of arrears.

169. Writ of demand.

170. Process for recovery of arrears.

171. Arrest and detention.

172. Attachment and sale of movable property.

173. Attachment of bank account and locker of the defaulter.

174. Attachment of holding.

175. Lease of holding.

176. Sale of holding.

177. Attachment and sale of other immovable property.

178. Appointment of receiver.

179. Procedure of recovery.

180. Recovery of costs and collection charges.

181. Recovery proceedings against legal representatives etc.

182.Attachment of immovable property.

183. Objection against attachment.

184. Proclamation of sale.

185. Affixation of proclamation.

186. Sale when and by whom made.

187. Stoppage of the sale.

188. Prohibition to bid.

189. Deposit by purchaser and re-sale on default.

190. Deposit of purchase money.

191. Auction sale of land held by Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.

192. Application to set aside the sale on deposit of arrears.

193. Application to set aside sale for irregularity.

194. Confirmation of sale.

195. Setting aside of sale by Collector or Commissioner.

196. Bar of claims against in certain cases.

197. Refund of purchase money.

198. Certificate of sale.

199. Certified purchaser to be put in possession.

200. Application of sale proceeds.

201. Summary ejectment of unauthorized occupants.

202. Bar of suits.

203. Payment before suit.

204. Other payments not to be a valid discharge.

205. Applicability of the Chapter.

206. Jurisdiction of civil Courts and revenue courts.

207. First appeal.

208. Second Appeal.

209. Bar against certain appeals.

210. Power to call for the records.

211. Board’s power of review.

212. Power to transfer cases

213. State Government to be necessary party in certain cases.

214. Applicability of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and Limitation Act, 1963.

215. Orders not to be invalid on account of irregularity in procedure.

216. Service of notice.

217. Revenue Courts to have no power to adjudicate upon the validity of enactment.

218. Power to exempt from the provisions of the Code.

219. Delegation.

220. Power to enter upon land.

221. Right to inspect and obtain copies.

222. Computation of areas in certain districts.

223. Mode of recovery of fines etc.

224. Power to call for statement.

225. Protection of action taken in good faith.

225- A Determination of questions in summary proceeding.

225-B Lodging of Caveat.

225-C Constitution of Committee.

225-D Power of an Assistant Collector of First Class not in charge of a subdivision.

225- E Powers of Assistant Collector of second class.

225-F Consolidation of cases.

226.Penalty for encroachment etc.

227. Damages for destruction etc. of boundary marks.

228. Penalty for cutting or removing trees illegally.

229. Penalty for not furnishing required statement or information etc.

230. Repeal.

231- Applicability of the Code to pending proceedings.

232. Power to remove difficulties.

233. Power to make Rules.

234- Power to make Regulations.

Enactments of general applications

Enactments having special reference to territories now comprised in the State of Uttarakhand

Matters excluded from the jurisdiction of the Civil Court

THIRD SCHEDULE (See Sections 206, 207 and 208)

LIST “A” (List of villages of Pargana Ahraura)

LIST “B” (List of villages of Pargana Bhagwat)

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