State Act

The Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966

79. Revenue survey may be introduced by State Government into any part of State.— (1) It shall be lawful for the State Government whenever it may seem expedient to direct the survey of any land in any part of the State with a view to assessment or settlement of the land revenue, and to the record and preservation of rights connected therewith, or for any other similar purpose, and such survey shall be called a revenue survey. Such survey may extend to the lands of any village, town or city generally or to such land only as the State Government may direct and subject to the orders of the State Government, it shall be lawful for the Officers conducting any such survey to expect from the survey any land to which it may not seem expedient that such survey should be applied. (2) The control of every revenue survey shall vest in and be exercised by the State Government.