Chapter VII REVENUE SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT IN NON-URBAN AREAS

Application of this Chapter to lands in non-urban areas, —The provisions of this Chapter shall apply in respect of lands in non-urban areas.

Appointment of Settlement Commissioner. —The State Government may appoint a Settlement Commissioner who shall, subject to the control of the State Government, control the operation of the revenue survey and/or settlement.

Appointment of Additional Settlement Commissioners and their powers and duties. —

1. (1) The State Government may appoint one or more Additional Settlement Commissioners.
2. (2) An Additional Settlement Commissioner shall exercise such powers and discharge such duties, conferred and imposed on a Settlement Commissioner by this Code or by any other enactment for the time being in force or by any rule made under this Code or any such other enactment, in such cases or classes of cases, as the State Government or Settlement Commissioner may direct and while exercising such powers and discharging such duties, the Additional Settlement Commissioner shall be deemed to have been appointed as a Settlement Commissioner for the purposes of this Code or any other enactment or any rule made under this Code or such other enactment.

Appointment of Settlement, Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers . —

1. (1) The State Government may appoint an officer hereinafter called the Settlement Officer to be in charge of a revenue survey, and/or settlement and as many Deputy Settlement Officers and Assistant Settlement Officers as it thinks fit.
2. (2) All Settlement, Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers shall be subordinate to the Settlement Commissioner and all Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers in a local area shall be subordinate to the Settlement Officers.

Powers of Settlement, Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers. —

1. (1) The State Government may invest any Settlement Officer or Deputy Settlement Officer or Assistant Settlement Officer with all or any of the powers of a Collector under this Code, to be exercised by him in such cases or classes of cases as the State Government may direct.
2. (2) The State Government may invest any Deputy Settlement Officer or Assistant Settlement Officer with all or any of the powers of a Settlement Officer under this Code or any other enactment for the time being in force.

Definition of Revenue Survey. —The operations carried out in accordance with the provisions of this part, that is to say —

1. (1) All or any of the operations pertaining to the division of land into survey numbers and grouping them into villages, recognition of existing survey numbers, reconstitution thereof or forming new survey numbers and operations incidental thereto;
2. (2) Soil classification;
3. (3) Preparation or, as the case may be, revision or correction of field map;
4. (4) Preparation of record of rights, in order to bring the land records up to date in any local, over area; are called a revenue survey.

Notification of proposed revenue survey. -

1. (1) Whenever the State Government decides that a revenue survey should be made of any local area, it shall publish a notification to that effect, and such local area shall be held to be under such survey from the date of such notification until the issue of a notification declaring the operation to be closed.
2. (2) Such notification may extend to all lands generally in the local area or to such lands only as the State Government may direct.

Formation of survey numbers and villages. —Subject to rules made under this Code, the Settlement Officer, may —

1. (a) Take measurements of the land to which the revenue survey extends and construct such number of survey marks thereon as may be necessary;
2. (b) Divide such lands into survey numbers and group the survey numbers into villages; and
3. (c) Recognize existing survey numbers, reconstitute survey numbers or form new survey numbers Provided that except as hereinafter provided, no survey numbers, comprising land used for agricultural purposes shall henceforth be made of less extent than a minimum to be prescribed for the various classes of land Provided further that the limit prescribed under the aforesaid proviso shall not apply in the case of survey numbers, already existing immediately before the date of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 67.

Separate demarcation of land diverted or specially assigned. — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 68 when any portion of agricultural land is diverted under the provisions of Section 172 to any non-agricultural purpose, or when any portion of land is specially assigned under Section 237, or when any assessment is altered on any portion of land under sub-section (2) of Section 59, the Settlement Officer may make such portion into a separate survey number or sub-division of a survey number.

Power to re-number or sub-divide survey numbers.—(1) The Settlement Officer may either re-number or sub-divide survey numbers into as many sub-divisions as may be required in view of the acquisition of rights in land or for any other reason.

1. (2) The division of survey numbers into sub-divisions and the apportionment of the assessment of the survey number amongst the sub-divisions shall be carried out in accordance with rules made under this Code and such rules may provide limits either of area or of land revenue or both

Appointment of Settlement, Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers . — (1) The State Government may appoint an officer hereinafter called the Settlement Officer to be in charge of a revenue survey, and/or settlement and as many Deputy Settlement Officers and Assistant Settlement Officers as it thinks fit. (2) All Settlement, Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers shall be subordinate to the Settlement Commissioner and all Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers in a local area shall be subordinate to the Settlement Officers.

Powers of Settlement, Deputy Settlement and Assistant Settlement Officers. — (1) The State Government may invest any Settlement Officer or Deputy Settlement Officer or Assistant Settlement Officer with all or any of the powers of a Collector under this Code, to be exercised by him in such cases or classes of cases as the State Government may direct. (2) The State Government may invest any Deputy Settlement Officer or Assistant Settlement Officer with all or any of the powers of a Settlement Officer under this Code or any other enactment for the time being in force.

Power of Settlement Officer to divide or unite villages or exclude area there from Power of Settlement Officer to divide or unite villages or exclude area therefrom. — The Settlement Officer may, with the previous sanction of the Settlement Commissioner,—

1. (a) divide a village into two or more villages; or
2. (b) unite two or more villages into one; or
3. (c) exclude any area from a village and constitute such area into a separate village.

Notification of proposed revenue survey. - (1) Whenever the State Government decides that a revenue survey should be made of any local area, it shall publish a notification to that effect, and such local area shall be held to be under such survey from the date of such notification until the issue of a notification declaring the operation to be closed. (2) Such notification may extend to all lands generally in the local area or to such lands only as the State Government may direct.

Formation of survey numbers and villages. —Subject to rules made under this Code, the Settlement Officer, may — (a) Take measurements of the land to which the revenue survey extends and construct such number of survey marks thereon as may be necessary; (b) Divide such lands into survey numbers and group the survey numbers into villages; and (c) Recognize existing survey numbers, reconstitute survey numbers or form new survey numbers Provided that except as hereinafter provided, no survey numbers, comprising land used for agricultural purposes shall henceforth be made of less extent than a minimum to be prescribed for the various classes of land Provided further that the limit prescribed under the aforesaid proviso shall not apply in the case of survey numbers, already existing immediately before the date of the notification under sub-section (1) of Section 67.

Separate demarcation of land diverted or specially assigned. — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 68 when any portion of agricultural land is diverted under the provisions of Section 172 to any non-agricultural purpose, or when any portion of land is specially assigned under Section 237, or when any assessment is altered on any portion of land under sub-section (2) of Section 59, the Settlement Officer may make such portion into a separate survey number or sub-division of a survey number.

Power to re-number or sub-divide survey numbers.—(1) The Settlement Officer may either re-number or sub-divide survey numbers into as many sub-divisions as may be required in view of the acquisition of rights in land or for any other reason. (2) The division of survey numbers into sub-divisions and the apportionment of the assessment of the survey number amongst the sub-divisions shall be carried out in accordance with rules made under this Code and such rules may provide limits either of area or of land revenue or both

Power of Settlement Officer to divide or unite villages or exclude area therefrom. — The Settlement Officer may, with the previous sanction of the Settlement Commissioner,— (a) divide a village into two or more villages; or (b) unite two or more villages into one; or (c) exclude any area from a village and constitute such area into a separate village.

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