Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976

No: 76 Dated: Dec, 04 1976

Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976

(As Amended by Acts 21 of 1977, 14 of 1979, 39 of 1987, 12 of 1998 and 20 of 2000)

An Act to make better provision for preservation of trees in the State.

WHEREAS with the growing pace of urbanisation, industrialisation and increasing population, there has been indiscriminate felling of a large number of trees in the rural and urban areas of the State of Karnataka leading to erratic rainfall, recurring famines and floods, soil erosion and consequent ecological disturbances;

WHEREAS It is expedient to provide for the preservation of trees in the State by regulating the felling of trees and for the planting of adequate number of trees to restore ecological balance and for matters connected therewith;

Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 

1. Short title, extent and Commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka.

(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the seventeenth day of July 1976 and other provisions shall come into force on such 1 [date]1 as the State Government may by notification appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different urban areas or rural areas or parts thereof.