14.4 Maharashtra Land Revenue Code 1966 notes

1. 14.4.1MLRC 1966 Sections 1–19: structure, revenue areas, chief controlling authority and revenue officers

   The Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 is the State's basic law on land, land revenue and land records; its first chapter of officers divides the State into divisions, districts, sub-divisions, talukas and villages (s.3), makes the Divisional Commissioner the chief controlling authority in revenue matters for a division (s.5), and sets up the Collector, Tahsildar and other revenue officers (s.7).

   Standard · 7 min · Full course
2. 14.4.2MLRC Sections 20–41: title of the State, classes of holders, tribal land transfer (s.36A) and use of agricultural land

   Section 20 vests in the State all land, roads and waters not owned by others; s.29 sorts those holding land from the State into Occupants Class I, Occupants Class II and Government lessees; occupancy is heritable and transferable (s.36) but a tribal's land cannot pass to a non-tribal without the Collector's previous sanction (s.36A); and s.41 says what an agricultural holder may use his land for.

   Standard · 7 min · Full course
3. 14.4.3MLRC Sections 42–51: non-agricultural use after the 2025 amendment, premium, minerals and encroachment

   Until 2025, agricultural land could be put to non-agricultural (NA) use only with the Collector's permission under s.42, followed by a sanad and a recurring NA assessment; the MLRC (Second Amendment) Act, 2025 removed the separate Collector permission where the use is allowed by the Development or Regional Plan, so the Planning Authority's development permission now suffices, and replaced the yearly NA tax with a one-time premium under s.47.

   Standard · 8 min · Full course
4. 14.4.4MLRC Sections 148–170 and 247–259: record of rights, mutation, land records, land revenue liability, appeals and revision

   Chapter X of the MLRC requires a record of rights for every village (s.148, the source of the 7/12 extract), makes every acquisition of rights reportable (s.149) and entered in the register of mutations (s.150), and presumes entries correct (s.157); later sections fix liability for land revenue and the State's priority (ss.168–170), and Chapter XIII provides appeals (s.247), revision (s.257) and review (s.258).

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