The Maharashtra Vacant Lands (Prohibition of Unauthorised Occupation and Summary Eviction) Act, 1975
The Maharashtra Vacant Lands (Prohibition of Unauthorised Occupation and Summary Eviction) Act, 1975
This law addresses the unauthorized occupation of vacant land and illegal construction within urban areas across Maharashtra, starting with the Bombay Metropolitan Region. It applies to individuals occupying urban lands without permission, property developers, local municipal bodies, and designated competent authorities. The law prohibits unauthorized squatting or building on specified vacant lots and empowers designated officers to summarily evict trespassers, seize property, and bypass lengthy judicial proceedings. By establishing strict penalties and non-bailable offences, it aims to prevent land encroachment while directing collected penal charges toward urban land management, eviction procedures, and the rehabilitation of affected occupants.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Prohibition against unauthorised occupation of vacant land
- 4. The amount so collected shall, as far as possible, be utilised for purposes connected with the eviction, rehabilitation and improvement of conditions of unauthorised occupans of vacant lands.
- 5. Penalty
- 6. Power to try summarily
- 7. Offences to be non-bailable
- 8. Bar of jurisdiction of Courts
- 9. Power of State Government and Controller of Slums to give directions to Competent Authority
- 10. The Controller of Slums shall also exercise such other powers and perform such other duties within his jurisdiction as are conferred or imposed on him by or under any other provisions of this Act.
- 11. Rules of orders
- 12. Repeal of Mah. Ord. XVIII of 1975 and savings
- Schedule. Schedule
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