Section 111

define and determine the number and extent of forest administrative and management divisions, units or sections;

regulate or prohibit the kindling of fire on State land and alienated lands immediately adjoining any permanent reserved forest and prescribe the precautions and actions to be taken to prevent the spreading of fires;

regulate or prohibit the felling, cutting, ringing, marking, lopping, tapping or injuring by fire or otherwise, of any tree or timber, the removal of timber, and the collection and removal of other forest produce generally;

regulate the free grant or the grant at reduced rates for forest produce;

regulate the methods to be employed by the licensee in taking forest produce on and from a licence area and all activities connected therewith including the precautions to be taken for the prevention and spread of fires;

prohibit any dealings in specified kinds of forest produce;

prescribe the place, routes, the mode and manner by which forest produce may be brought into, taken out of or moved within the State;

prohibit the collection or removal of forest produce without a removal pass and to provide for the issue, production and return of such passes;

in the case of timber formed into a raft or fastened to the foreshore or any river bank, prohibit the loosening or

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National Forestry setting adrift of such timber by any person not the owner thereof or not acting on behalf of the State Authority;

provide for the stoppage, reporting, examination and marking of forest produce in transit;

establish checking stations to which forest produce is to be brought by the person in charge of it for examination or for the realization of money due to the State Authority in respect thereof or in order that a mark may be affixed thereto for the purposes of this Act, and prescribe the conditions under which forest produce is to be brought to, detained at, and removed from, such checking stations;

provide for the management and control of such checking stations;

prescribe the methods of measuring forest produce for the purpose of assessing royalty, premium, cess or other charges payable under this Act;

regulate the possession of marking hammers or other implements used for marking timber;

regulate the use of property marks and prescribe the procedure and the fee payable for the registration of such marks;

generally prescribe fees and other payments payable under this Act and the manner for collecting and disbursing such fees;

prescribe forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;

regulate the manner and standards of construction of forest roads and their use and their control;

prescribe the rules and the manner for the multiple use of the forests;

provide for matters relating to the issue of licences, minor licences, use permits, removal licences, road permits and entry permits;

prescribe fees payable in respect of licences, minor licences, use permits, removal licences, road permits and entry permits;

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prescribe the penalties with which the contravention of any rules made under this section shall be punishable provided such penalties shall not exceed those prescribed by section 87;

in so far as they do not fall within any of the preceding paragraphs, provide for all procedural and other matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Act.