Power to provide for management of ferries and fix rates of tolls

(1) The State Government may— (a) provide for the management of any public ferry and fix rates of tolls. (b) authorize any person to convey passengers, animals, vehicles or goods across a channel by means of vessels at any public ferry, or (c) assign the management of any public ferry to a local board or municipal council. (2) All vessels used by a person authorized under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be licensed, and the State Government may fix the fees payable for such licence. (3) In the cases referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), the State Government may levy tolls at such rates as they may fix upon passengers, animals, vehicles and goods conveyed across the ferry. (4) Where under clause (c) of sub-section (1), the management of a public ferry is assigned to a local board or municipal council, the local board or municipal council may levy tolls upon passengers, animals, vehicles and goods conveyed across the ferry at such rates as it may, subject to the control of the State Government, fix. The net revenues derived from the management of the ferry shall be distributed between the authorities (including the State Government) maintaining approach roads at either end of the ferry, in such proportions and subject to such conditions as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification, direct. (5) A notice in English and in the language of the district specifying the tolls leviable at a ferry under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4), as the case may be, shall be exhibited to public view on each side of the ferry.