section 18
Liability to maintain and repair
The Orissa Soil Conservation Act, 1965Environmental196531 sections5 chapters
Chapter III EXECUTION OF SCHEMES AND MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF WORKS
Statutory text
- (1) Every beneficiary in respect of any scheme executed in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or any scheme providing for any matter specified in section 4 or section 10 and commenced or executed prior to the date of commencement of this Act and declared by the State Government in the Official Gazette to be a scheme in force for purposes of this Act, shall be liable to maintain and repair to the satisfaction of the Collector any work carried out under any such scheme in his own land or in any other land in respect of which he is shown as liable so to do in the statement, if any, prepared under section 19: Provided that no such declaration shall be made by the State Government without obtaining the report and recommendations, if any, of the Committee constituted in respect of any scheme commenced or executed prior to the date of commencement of this Act and without considering the report and recommendations so obtained.
- (2) If such person fails to maintain or repair the work within the time that may be fixed by the Collector in that behalf under sub-section
- (1) the Collector shall himself get the work repaired and maintained and the expenses incurred on that account shall be recovered from such person.
- (3) Any dispute as to the amount of the expenses to be recovered under sub-section
- (2) shall be decided by the Collector and subject to the decision in appeal, if any, before the State Government in accordance with the rules made in that behalf, the decision of the Collector shall be final.
Study data processing for this section.
PDF: pending for this language.