State Act

The Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966

82. Survey numbers not to be of less than certain extent.— (1) Except as hereinafter provided no survey number comprising land used for purpose of agriculture only shall be made of less extent than the minimum to be fixed from time to time for the several classes of land in each district by the Director of Land Record, with the sanction of the State Government. A record of the minima so fixed shall be kept in the office of the Tahsildar in each taluka, and shall be open to the inspection of the public at reasonable times. (2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall not apply to survey numbers which have already been made of less extent than the minima so fixed, or which may be so made under the authority of the Director of Land Records given either generally or in any particular instance in this behalf; and any survey number separately recognized in the land records shall be deemed to have been authorizedly made whatever be its extent.