Section 10
Prohibited Acts In Land Vulnerable Or Likely To Be Vulnerable To Natural calamity
10. Prohibited acts in land vulnerable or likely to be vulnerable to natural calamity:
Notwithstanding anything contained in the prevailing law, no person shall, without permission of the watershed conservation officer, carry out any of the following acts in such land, out of the lands within a conserved watershed area, as specified by the watershed conservation office as a land that is vulnerable or
likely to be vulnerable to floods or landslide or soil-erosion or soil-cutting:
(a) To block or collect in any way the water of any stream, canal, rill, lake or reservoir or ground water or divert the blocked or collected water elsewhere or return the same through a ditch, diversion channel, drainage or in any
other manner or use such water in any work by so blocking, collecting, diverting, returning or otherwise,
(b) To cut or otherwise destroy any such trees, plants or other forest products as that person may deal with according to his/her will pursuant to the prevailing law relating to forests,
(c) To cut or otherwise destroy any existing forests, trees, plants, weeds, grasses or other natural vegetations,
(d) To carry out any act causing the collection or dumping of stone, sand mud, etc. or any act causing the collected or dumped stone, sand, mud etc. to be swept away,
(e) To dig, excavate or take away stone, sand or other kind of soil,
(f) To throw away solid wastes or similar other detritus contaminating the environment or build a site for collecting or keeping such solid wastes or detritus.
(g) To establish an industry, business or settlement of habitation,
(h) To carry, keep or graze cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats, chicken and similar
other domestic animals and bird
Notwithstanding anything contained in the prevailing law, no person shall, without permission of the watershed conservation officer, carry out any of the following acts in such land, out of the lands within a conserved watershed area, as specified by the watershed conservation office as a land that is vulnerable or
likely to be vulnerable to floods or landslide or soil-erosion or soil-cutting:
(a) To block or collect in any way the water of any stream, canal, rill, lake or reservoir or ground water or divert the blocked or collected water elsewhere or return the same through a ditch, diversion channel, drainage or in any
other manner or use such water in any work by so blocking, collecting, diverting, returning or otherwise,
(b) To cut or otherwise destroy any such trees, plants or other forest products as that person may deal with according to his/her will pursuant to the prevailing law relating to forests,
(c) To cut or otherwise destroy any existing forests, trees, plants, weeds, grasses or other natural vegetations,
(d) To carry out any act causing the collection or dumping of stone, sand mud, etc. or any act causing the collected or dumped stone, sand, mud etc. to be swept away,
(e) To dig, excavate or take away stone, sand or other kind of soil,
(f) To throw away solid wastes or similar other detritus contaminating the environment or build a site for collecting or keeping such solid wastes or detritus.
(g) To establish an industry, business or settlement of habitation,
(h) To carry, keep or graze cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats, chicken and similar
other domestic animals and bird