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The Telangana Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923

The Telangana Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923

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The Telangana Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923 provides a statutory framework for surveying government lands and private estates across the State of Telangana. It empowers the state government to appoint survey officers, order land surveys, and determine disputed or undisputed boundaries. The law applies to property owners, registered landholders, tenants, and local village officials, imposing legal duties on them to maintain and repair official survey marks on their properties. It also establishes mechanisms to levy survey costs or a land records cess, allows appeals against boundary decisions, permits civil lawsuits within three years to contest determinations, and provides legal immunity to officials acting in good faith.

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Chapter II THE SURVEY OF GOVERNMENT LANDS. →

  1. 5State Government may direct the survey of Government land or of any boundary of such land.
  2. 7Survey officer to carry out the survey or get the survey carried out in the manner prescribed.
  3. 8Cost to be charged to persons interested in the lands surveyed.
  4. 9Power to survey officer to determine and record an undisputed boundary.
  5. 10Power of survey officer to determine and record a disputed boundary.
  6. 13Completion of demarcation to be notified.
  7. 14Institution of a suit in civil court within three years to establish rights claimed in respect of the boundary of the property surveyed.
  8. 15Registered holders responsible for the maintenance of survey marks.
  9. 16Duties of village officers.

Chapter III THE SURVEY OF ESTATES. →

  1. 17State Government may direct the survey of an estate in certain cases.
  2. 18Procedure to be observed during survey.
  3. 19Cost of survey recoverable from proprietor.
  4. 20State Government may direct apportionment of costs among lands surveyed.
  5. 21Consequences ensuing on completion of survey of an estate. Duty of tenants.

Chapter IV MISCELLANEOUS. →

  1. 22Power to enter upon, examine and clear obstruction on lands.
  2. 23Power to summon witnesses and require production of documents.
  3. 24Reference to arbitration.
  4. 25Proprietor or registered holder may recover expenses paid by him from the owner of the estate or Government land and
  5. 26State Government may make rules under the Act.
  6. 27Immunity for acts done in good faith or purporting to be so done.

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