Chapter VIII NAVIGATION WORKS

It shall be lawful for the State Government from time to time, by notification to that effect published in the official Gazette to declare that the provisions of this chapter shall apply to any line of navigation specified in such notification and from and after such publication the provisions of this chapter shall apply to, and be in force as regards, such navigation channel.

It shall be lawful for the state Government from time to time, to authorise any of the concerned officers to make and open any line of navigation or to clear and deepen any navigable canal and to stop any watercourse, or make any tracking path, or do any other act necessary for the making or improvement of any such canal.

It shall be lawful for the state Government to appoint any person to be the supervisor of any line of navigation subject to the provisions of this chapter, and such person shall be empowered to cut down and remove any tree which may have fallen or may be likely to fall into such line of navigation and to remove any sunken vessel, and to prevent or remove any other obstruction to navigation, of whatever description, whenever he may think it necessary.

1. (1) Whenever such supervisor shall consider that the cutting down and removal of any tree or the removal of any other obstruction is necessary, he may in cases of emergency at once remove the same, and may for that purpose enter on any private property.
2. (2) In cases not of an emergent nature, he shall serve a notice in writing on the owner or occupier of such private property, directing him to remove the same within a reasonable time.
3. (3) If the owner or occupier can not be found, notice may be served by affixing it in some conspicuous place of his dwelling house.
4. (4) If the owner or occupier shall not remove the obstruction within the time given in the notice, the supervisor may proceed to remove it himself and may for that purpose enter on any private property.
5. (5) Payment of all expenses of such removal may be enforced by the sale of the thing removed in the manner provided for the recovery of tolls as provided in this Act. ဆဈ