Jharkhand Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2015
No: 16 Dated: Oct, 16 2015
The Jharkhand Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2015
An Act to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and to preserve their tourism potential. BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Jharkhand in the Sixty sixth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement – (i) This Act may be called the Jharkhand Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2015.
(ii) It extends to the whole of the State of Jharkhand.
(iii) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definition:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "Competent authority" means the authority appointed under section 4 of this Act;
(b) “Government” means the Government of Jharkhand;
(c) "Department" means Department of Tourism, Government of Jharkhand.
(d) ‘‘Public Nuisance" includes any act of commission or omission or carrying on of any activity, process, operation including the operation of or plying of vessels or boats or timber, raft or any other floating object in any part of Dam, River, or Lake which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property or act define under Cr.P.C 1973.
(e) "A Tourist Place or Zone" means a zone, place, site, location, riverbed, beach, water spring, lake, water fall declared by the Government as tourist place or zone under section 3 of this Act and shall also include any place or zone declared by the government as tourist place or zone.
(f) "Tourism potentiality" means the number of person or group of persons including pilgrims likely to visit a tourist place.
(g) "ASSISTANT (TOURIST) POLICE" means those persons appointed / deputed by the competent authority either from ex-servicemen selected through army welfare board or from educated unemployed youth from the local community or any other government servant deputed/authorised for the same purpose.
(h) "Act" means the Jharkhand tourist places (protection and maintenance) act, 2015.
3. Declaration of tourist places or zone - On and from the date of coming into force of this Act, the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any zone place, monument, site, location as a tourist place or zone for the purposes of this Act, including any river bank, riverbed, water spring, lake, water course or land, etc.
4. Appointment of competent authority – (i) Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint any gazetted officer of the Government to be a Competent Authority either for the whole of the State of Jharkhand or for each district of the State of Jharkhand for the purpose of the act.
(ii) The competent authority can appoint or nominate any officer of the government for the purpose of the act.
(iii) The competent authority can delegate some of his powers, obtained from the act, to the officers appointed / nominated under subsection (ii).
(iv) ASSISTANT (TOURIST) POLICE shall be deputed at all notified tourist place. These ASSISTANT (TOURIST) POLICE shall prevent any harassment happening to tourists and shall act as informant to competent authority regarding any public nuissance made at tourist place.