Uncultivated and waste lands and all property of nature specified in section 37 of Code vest in State Government.

For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that all uncultivated waste lands in a khoti village not appropriated by any khot and not entered in to the revenue or survey records as khoti or khoti khasgi, before the date on which this Act comes into force, and all other kinds of property referred to in section 37 of the Code, situate in a khoti village, which are not the property of the individuals or of any aggregate of persons legally capable of holding property and except in so far as any rights of such persons may be established in or over the same and except as may be otherwise provided in any law for the time being in force, are together with all rights in or over the same or appertaining thereto, the property of the State Government and it shall be lawful to dispose of or set apart the same by the authority in the manner and for the purpose provided in section 37 or 38 of the Code, as the case may be.