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The Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964

1964 · Government of Karnataka · In force · synced 03 Sept 2026

I — PRELIMINARY

1.Short Title, Extent and Commencement 2.Definitions

II — CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF THE REVENUE OFFICERS

3.Chief controlling authority in revenue matters 4.State to be 1[divided into Regions into Districts]1 and Districts to consist of Taluks comprising Circles and Villages 5.Power of State Government to alter limits of or to amalgamate or constitute villages 6.Procedure for constitution, abolition, etc., of 1[xxx]1, 2[regions, districts]2, taluks, circles or villages 7.Appointment, duties and functions of Additional Chief Secretary/ Principal Secretary/Secretary 7A.Appointment, duties and functions of Revenue Commissioner 7B.Appointment, duties and functions of Regional Commissioner 8.Deputy Commissioner 9.Special Deputy Commissioner 10.Assistant Commissioners 11.Tahsildars 12.Special Tahsildars 13.A Tahsildar or a Special Tahsildar may depute subordinates to perform certain of his duties 14.Officers to discharge duties during temporary vacancy 15.Revenue Inspectors 16.Village Accountant 17.Village Accountant to keep such records as he may be required to keep and prepare public records 18.Survey Officers 18A.Appointment of licensed surveyors 19.Other Officers 20.Combination of offices 21.Seals 22.Demands for money, papers, etc., in the hands of a Revenue Officer or other person 23.Recovery of public money or property from revenue officers or other persons

III — PROCEDURE OF REVENUE OFFICERS

24.Revenue Officers to be Revenue Courts 25.Saving of inherent powers of a Revenue Court 26.Place for holding enquiries or hearing cases 27.Power to transfer cases 28.Power to take evidence, summon persons to give evidence and produce documents 29.Contents of summons and the manner in which it has to be issued and served 30.Mode of serving notices 31.Procedure for procuring attendance of witnesses 32.Compelling attendance of witnesses and examination of witnesses on commission 33.Formal inquiry 34.Summary inquiry 35.Formal and summary inquiry to be deemed judicial proceedings 36.Hearing and decisions to be in public and after notice 37.Inquiries other than formal or summary 38.Power to enter upon any lands or premises for the purposes of measurements, etc 39.Manner of evicting any person wrongfully in possession of land

40.Constitution of the Revenue Appellate Tribunal 41.Conduct of business of the Tribunal 42.Sittings of the Tribunal 43.Powers of the Tribunal 44.Powers of review 45.Finality of the orders of the Tribunal 46.Powers of the Tribunal to call for returns, etc 47.Proceedings of Tribunal to be judicial proceedings 48.Power to make regulations

V — APPEAL AND REVISION

49.Appeals from original orders 50.Second Appeal 51.Limitation of Appeals 52.Application of the Limitation Act 53.Copy of the order to accompany petition of appeal 54.Powers of appellate authority 55.Stay of execution of orders 56.Power of Revision 57.Orders expressly made final under the act 58.Amendment of orders 59.Orders not reversible by reason of error or irregularity not occasioning failure of justice

VI — REVENUE JURISDICTION

60.Definitions 61.Exclusive Jurisdiction of Revenue Courts and bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts 62.Savings of certain suits 63.Plaintiff to exhaust his right of appeal before instituting a suit or other proceeding against Government 64.Power of Tribunal to refer questions for decision of High Court 65.Power of Civil Court to refer questions of jurisdiction to High Court 66.Composition of Bench

VII — LAND AND LAND REVENUE

67.Public roads, etc., and all lands which are not the property of others belong to the Government 68.Extinction of rights of public and individuals in or over any public road, street, lane or path not required for use of public 69.Disposal of lands or other property belonging to State Government under section 67 69A.Disposal of lands or other property belonging to the State Government by public auction 70.Right to mines and mineral products to vest in Government 71.Lands may be assigned for special purposes and when assigned, shall not be otherwise used without sanction of the Deputy Commissioner 72.Regulation of use of pasturage 73.Recovery of value of natural product unauthorisedly removed from certain lands 74.Right to trees in villages to which survey settlement has not been introduced 75.Right to trees in villages, to which survey settlement has been introduced 76.Trees and forests vesting in the Government 77.Road-side trees 78.Recovery of value of trees, etc., unauthorisedly appropriated 79.Regulation of supply of firewood and timber for domestic or other purposes 80.All land liable to pay land revenue, unless specially exempted 81.Alluvial land and its liability to land revenue 82.Remission of assessment in cases of diluvion 83.Manner of assessment, commutation of non-agricultural assessment and prohibition of use of land for certain purposes 84.Assessment by whom to be fixed 85.Register of alienated lands 86.Settlement of assessment with whom to be made 87.Land Revenue to be a paramount charge on the land 88.Forfeited holdings may be taken possession of and otherwise disposed 89.Receipts 90.Penalty for failure to grant receipts 90A.Construction of Water Course through land belonging to other persons 90B.Failure to pay rent and to keep water course in good repair 90C.Removal or discontinuance of water course

VIII — GRANT, USE AND RELINQUISHMENT OF UNALIENATED LAND

91.Unoccupied land may be granted on conditions 92.Grant of alluvial land vested in Government 93.Permission for taking up unoccupied land 94.Penalties for unauthorised occupation of land 94A.Regularisation of certain cases of unauthorised occupation by constituting committee etc 94B.Grant of land in certain cases 94C.Grant of Land in case of construction of dwelling house in occupied land 94CC.Grant of Land in case of construction of dwelling house in occupied land in urban area 95.Uses of agricultural land and the procedure for use of agricultural land for other purpose 96.Penalty for using agricultural land for other purpose without permission 97.Diversion of non-agricultural land held for a specific purpose 98.Permission may be granted on terms 99.Rights of occupants 100.Occupancy not transferable without sanction of prescribed authority nor liable to process of a Civil Court 101.Occupancy right transferable and heritable 102.Relinquishment 103.Right of way to relinquished or forfeited land or to land used for purpose of agriculture 104.Summary eviction of person unauthorisedly occupying land 105.To prevent forfeiture of occupancy certain persons other than occupant may pay land revenue

IX — REVENUE SURVEY, DIVISION OF SURVEY NUMBERS AND PARTITION OF ESTATES

106.Revenue Survey may be introduced by State Government into any part of the State 107.Power of Survey Officer to require assistance from land holders 108.Minimum extent of a survey number 109.Division of Survey Numbers into Sub-divisions 110.Provisions applicable on relinquishment or forfeiture of a sub-division 111.Recovery of expenses of partition 112.The State Government may direct a fresh survey 113.Preparation of statistical and fiscal records

X — ASSESSMENT AND SETTLEMENT OF LAND REVENUE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND

114.Government may direct an original or revision settlement of land revenue of any land 114A.Revision of settlement of land revenue in certain cases 115.The term of settlement 116.Assessment how determined 117.Increase in average yield due to improvements by holders not to be taken into account 118.Procedure to be followed by the Settlement Officer in making a settlement 119.Publication of the Settlement Report 120.Deputy Commissioner to submit to Government the Settlement Report with statement of objections, etc., and his opinion thereon 121.Settlement Report to be approved by State Legislature 122.Introduction of Settlement 122A.Notice of assessment to occupants 122B.Determination of assessment of lands 123.Determination of assessment of lands wholly exempt from payment of land revenue 124.The fixing of assessment under Act limited to ordinary land revenue 125.Power of State Government to direct assessment for irrigation facilities 126.Continuance of certain Survey and Settlement operations

XI — RECORD OF RIGHTS

127.Record of Rights 128.Acquisitions of rights to be reported 129.Registration of mutations and register of disputed cases

III — , that a Revenue Officer has in making a formal or summary enquiry under this

129A.Patta Book 130.Obligation to furnish information 131.Requisition of assistance in preparing maps 132.Certified copies of records to be annexed to plaint or application 133.Presumption regarding entries in the records 134.Certified copies 135.Bar of suits 136.Appeal and Revision

XII — BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARY MARKS

137.Determination of village boundaries, etc 138.Settlement of village boundaries by agreement 139.Procedure in case of disagreement or dispute 140.Determination of boundaries of lands forming a survey number or a holding 141.Settlement of boundary dispute by arbitration 142.Effect of the settlement of a boundary 143.Construction and repair of boundary marks 144.Description of boundary marks 145.Responsibility for the maintenance of boundary marks 146.Deputy Commissioner to have charge of boundary marks after introduction of the survey settlement 147.Penalty for injuring boundary marks

XIII — SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT OF LANDS AND OF BOUNDARY DISPUTES WITHIN THE SITES OF VILLAGES AND THE LIMITS OF TOWNS AND CITIES

148.Limits of sites of villages, towns and cities, how to be fixed and assignment of building sites 149.Disposal of building sites 150.Existing exemptions to be continued in certain cases 151.Right to exemption to be determined by the Deputy Commissioner 152.Survey of lands and their boundaries within sites of villages or the limits of cities and towns how to be conducted 153.Procedure in certain cases of survey under section 152 and charge of a survey fee 154.Certificate to be granted without extra charge 155.Duties of local authority for protecting boundary or survey marks 156.Contributions payable by local authority

XIV — REALISATION OF LAND REVENUE AND OTHER PUBLIC DEMANDS

157.Liability for revenue 158.Claim of State Government to have precedence over all others 159.Land Revenue when becomes due and payable 160.Arrear of land revenue and defaulter 161.Process for recovery of arrears 162.Notice of demand 163.Forfeiture of occupancy or alienated holding 164.Distraint and sale of moveable property 165.Attachment and sale of immoveable property 166.Attachment how to be made 167.Claims to immoveable property attached 168.Procedure in effecting sale of immoveable property 169.The sale to be by auction 170.Prohibition to bid at auction 171.Purchase of property by Government 172.Sale of perishables 173.Sale not to be excessive 174.Deposit by purchaser of immoveable property 175.Failure to make deposit 176.Setting aside sale 177.Confirmation of sale 178.Refunds 179.Certificate of purchase 180.Removal of obstruction 181.Application of proceeds of sale 182.Liability of certified purchaser 183.Recovery by attachment of the defaulter’s village and taking it under management 184.Lands of such village to revert to Government free of encumbrances 185.Application of surplus profits 186.Restoration of village so attached 187.Village, etc., to vest permanently in the State Government if not redeemed within twelve years 188.Precautionary measures in certain cases 189.Precautionary measures to be relinquished on security being furnished 190.Recovery of other public demands 191.Recovery of moneys from surety 192.Recovery of arrears due in any one district by Deputy Commissioner of another district

XV — MISCELLANEOUS

193.Inspection and grant of copies of maps and land records 194.Suspension or remission of land revenue 195.Delegation of powers 196.Protection of action taken in good faith 197.Power of State Government to make rules 198.Laying of rules and Regulations and notifications before the State Legislature 199.Transitional provisions 200.Offences by Companies 201.Power to remove difficulties 202.Repeal and Savings

The Schedule.(See section 202)

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