(a) regulate the occupation, clearing, ploughing or breaking up of land for cultivation or other purposes ;
(b) regulate or prohibit the kindling of fire and provide for the precautions to be taken to prevent and spreading of fire ;
(c) regulate the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and timber and the collection and removal of natural produce ;
(d) regulate the quarrying of stone, the boiling of catechu or the buring of lime or charcoal ;
(e) regulate or prohibit the cutting of grass or the pasturing of cattle, and regulate the payments, if any to be made for such cutting or pasturing ;
(f) regulate or prohibit hunting, shooting, fishing poisoning of water and setting traps or snares ;
(g) regulate the sale or free grant of timber or other natural produce ;
(h) specify the fees, royalties, or other payments for such timber or other natural produce and the manner in which such fees, royalties or other payments shall be levied.
(i) in every case where such contravention relates to sandalwood or red sanders wood, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which shall not exceed one year and with fine which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees ;
(ii) in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with both.
Section 27 • Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967
27. Power to make rules.
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Section 27
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