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The Maharashtra Horticulture Development Corporation Act 1984
General198471 sections
The Maharashtra Horticulture Development Corporation Act 1984 establishes a corporation under the State Government of Maharashtra to promote horticulture development, including better farming, infrastructure like irrigation, and processing and marketing of horticulture produce. This law targets horticulture producers and helps develop land into farms and estates, encouraging orderly growth of the sector and improving rural livelihoods. Its purpose is to support rapid and sustained growth of horticulture through coordinated development, ensuring economic benefits and infrastructure for growers and the broader community.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Establishment of Maharashtra Horticulture Development Corporation
- 4. Constitution of Corporation
- 5. Disqualification for membership and removal of member
- 6. Term of office and conditions of service of members
- 7. Meetings of Corporation
- 8. Cessation of membership and suspension or removal of member
- 9. Member not disqualified from being chosen as or for being members of State Legislature or local authorities
- 10. Provision for inviting Government authority etc., to assist or to advise
- 11. Filling up of casual vacancy of member
- 12. Members to act during vacancy, not to be invalidated by formalities.
- 13. Temporary absence of members.
- 14. Officers and servants of Corporation
- 15. Functions of Corporation.
- 16. General powers of Corporation.
- 17. Authentication of documents of Corporation.
- 18. Power of State Government to issue directions.
- 19. Application of Corporation's assets, etc.
- 20. Funds of Corporation.
- 21. Grants, subventions, loans and advances to Corporation.
- 22. Borrowing powers
- 23. Acceptance of deposits by Corporation
- 24. Reserve and other funds
- 25. Power to spend
- 26. Budget and programme
- 27. Accounts and audit
- 28. Concurrent and special audit of accounts
- 29. Application of certain provisions of Land Revenue Code
- 30. Application of Bombay Government Premises (Eviction) Act to Corporation premises
- 31. Non-application of Rent Control Acts to Corporation premises
- 32. Power to acquire land for purposes of this Act
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- 40. Disposal of land by Corporation
- 41. Voluntarily entrusting of land to the Corporation
- 42. Laying out plots of land
- 43. Allotment and priority in allotment of plots
- 44. Plot-holder owner of plot allotted to him
- 45. Terms and conditions of allotment
- 46. Apportionment of expenses
- 47. Liability to pay service charges
- 48. Earning wages by plot-holders for work in farm
- 49. Refusal to work on farm or estate by plot-holder
- 50. Adjustment and recovery of amounts
- 51. Standard yield
- 52. Surplus yield
- 53. Accounting of income from yields
- 54. Obligation to undertake storage, transport, processing, etc. of produce
- 55. Six monthly utilization of land
- 56. Transfer of lands to Corporation.
- 57. Corporation in lands alloted to beneficiary.
- 58. Powers of entry.
- 59. Nomination of authority.
- 60. Recovery of sums due as an arrear of land revenue.
- 61. Service of notices, etc.
- 62. Public notices how to be made known.
- 63. Notice of performance.
- 64. Furnishing of returns, etc.
- 65. Default in performance.
- 66. Dissolution of Corporation.
- 67. Offences and penalties.
- 68. Cognizance of offences.
- 69. Compounding of offences
- 70. Delegation of powers of Corporation
- 71. Power to make rules
- 72. Power to make regulatios by Corporation
- 73. Rules made under section 71 and regulations to be laid before both Houses of Legislature
- 74. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 75. Members, officers and servants to be public servants
- 76. Effect of provisions of Act
- 77. Power to remove doubts and difficulties
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