Object & Reasons 6
Statement of Objects and Reasons.
Statement of Objects and Reasons - (Act No. 1 of 1999).
(1) Any person who is in lawful possession and enjoyment of the land can claim membership and shall pay the water charges and the fees as may be prescribed.
(2) The President and the members of the Managing Committee shall hold office for a period of 5 years from the date of the first meeting instead of 3 years.
(3) The Government is empowered to delineate every command area of the irrigation system comprising of two or more water users organisations and declare it to be a distributary area.
(4) A member of the water users association shall cease to be a Member or a Chairman or a President or a Member of the Managing Committee as the case may be and shall become disqualified to continue in office, if he ceases to be a land holder.
(5) If any person violates the Warabandi or the Water distribution and regulation schedule made by the water users association or the Distributary Committee or the Project Committee as in the case may be, it shall be an offence under the provisions of this Act.
(6) The Government or as the case may be Commissioner is empowered to give directions to any farmers organisation for the proper working of the organisation and such farmers organisation shall implement those directions and if the member of the organisation violates any of the provisions of the Act, wilfully omits or refuses to carry out the directions, abuses his position, guilty of misconduct and violates any of the provisions of the Act or the Rules, they are empowered to remove such members or the President, after giving reasonable opportunity.
(7) The Government or the Commissioner may exercise revisional powers and pass orders after giving an opportunity of making a representation.
Section 1 • Andhra Pradesh Farmers Management of Irrigation Systems Act, 1997
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
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Section 1
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