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The Bombay Ferries and Inland Vessels Act, 1868

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The Bombay Ferries and Inland Vessels Act, 1868, is a legislative framework designed to regulate water transport and public ferry services within the state. It empowers authorities to establish public ferries, set toll rates, and manage ferry operations through leasing or direct control. The Act ensures public safety by mandating vessel licensing, prescribing load-line standards, and prohibiting rash navigation. It also grants officials the power to inspect vessels, requisition boats during emergencies, and penalize those who evade tolls or endanger lives. For the ordinary citizen, this Act provides a framework for safe, regulated, and orderly water travel across rivers, creeks, and lakes.

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  1. 1. Definitions
  2. 2. Commissioner may constitute public ferries, establish new and discontinue existing ferries
  3. 2A. Vesting of public ferries in local bodies; Powers of local bodies in respect thereto
  4. 3. Rates of toll
  5. 4. Appointment and salaries, of toll-keepers, etc
  6. 5. Commissioner] may lease public ferries by public auction or private contract
  7. 5A. Power to cancel lease
  8. 5B. Surrender of lease
  9. 5C. Power to take possession of boats, etc., on surrender of lease
  10. 6. Acts of servant of contractor
  11. 7. Table of tolls to be hung up
  12. 8. Penalty in respect of table of tolls
  13. 9. Penalty for taking unlawful toll
  14. 10. Penalty for wilful delay
  15. 11. Penalty for refusal or evasion of toll and for obstruction or damage
  16. 11A. Penalty for rash navigation and stacking of timber
  17. 11B. Power to arrest without warrant
  18. 11C. Magistrate may assess damage
  19. 12. Officers who may make rules for regulation of public ferries
  20. 13. Penalty for conveying passengers or goods without licence at Bombay
  21. 14. Penalty for carrying passengers, etc., without licence
  22. 14A. Penalty for conveying passenger etc. along river etc. near toll bridge
  23. 14B. Penalty for conveying passengers etc. in a ferry boat with a submerged load-line or without prescribed free-board
  24. 14C. Licence required to ply any vessel on any river, etc
  25. 14D. Inspection of vessels and suspension of the licence if vessels are not sea-worthy, etc
  26. 14E. Power to prohibit plying of vessels to avert any accident and to requisition vessels, etc
  27. 14F. The decision of the Magistrate or the officer regarding the amount of compensation and the person to whom such compensation is payable shall be final.
  28. 14G. Both the owner and the person in charge to be liable for any breach
  29. 15. Trial of offences in Bombay: In places out of city. Recovery of fines
  30. 16. Application of proceeds of tolls, farms and penalties
  31. 17. Government may delegate powers
  32. 17A. Government] may delegate, under such restrictions as [State] may seem fit, any of the powers conferred on it by this Act, ex officio, to any * * * Commissioner, Collector, Magistrate or other person.
  33. 17B. Definition of "vessel."
  34. 17C. Provisions of sections 14A to 14G and 17A and 17B not applicable in certain cases
  35. 18. Short title
  36. 19. Repeal and savings
  37. I. SCHEDULE

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