Section 100 - Seizure of Animals or Vehicles Not Bearing Numbers and Procedure After Seizure in Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964
Seizure of Animals or Vehicles Not Bearing Numbers and Procedure After Seizure.
Tax on vehicles, boats, animals and dogs.
100. Seizure of animals or vehicles not bearing numbers and procedure after seizure.--
(1) If any direction for the numbering and registration of a dog or vehicle contained in a bye-law made under clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 324 is not observed in respect of any dogor vehicle, then any authority empowered in this behalf by the municipal council may, at any time, seize and detain the dog or the vehicle or the animal, if any, by which it is drawn or both:
Provided that no vehicle other than a bicycle, tricycle or ricksha shall be seized and detained when actually employed in the conveyance of any passenger or goods.
(2) If a dog or vehicle or animal is detained under sub-section (1) and the owner or other person entitled thereto does not claim the same and pay the tax, if any, due thereon and other amounts due under sub-section (4) within ten days from the date of seizure, such authority as the municipal council may empower in this behalf may direct that the dog or vehicle or animal shall be sold in public auction and the proceeds of the sale applied to the payment of, --
(a) the tax, if any, due on the dog or vehicle,
(b) such penalty not exceeding the amount of the tax as the authority may direct, and
(c) the charges incurred in connection with the seizure, detention and sale.
(3) If there is a surplus after such payment the municipal council shall, on demand made within one year from the date of sale, make it over to the owner or other person entitled thereto. If no such demand is made, such surplus shall be forfeited to the municipal council.
(4) If the owner of the dog or vehicle or animal or other person entitledthereto claims the same within ten days from the date of seizure or at any time before the sale, it shall be returned to him on payment of, --
(a) the tax due on the dog or vehicle,
(b) such penalty not exceeding the amount of the tax as the authority specified in sub-section (1) may direct, and
(c) the charges incurred in connection with the seizure and detention.