(1) The State Government may, by notification, appoint an Endowment Survey Officer and as many Assistant Endowment Survey Officers as may be necessary for the purpose of making survey of all the properties of the notified institutions in the State.
(2) All the Assistant Endowment Survey Officers shall perform their functions under the general supervision and control of Endowment Survey Officers.
(3) The Endowment Survey Officer shall, after making such enquiry, as he may consider necessary, submit his report in respect of the properties of every notified institutions or any part thereof to the State Government through the Endowment Commissioner containing the following particulars, namely:-
(a) the Survey number, extent, assessment of the each property of the notified institution;
(b) nature and description of the property with the object, if any;
(c) the income derived from each property to the notified institution;
(d) such other particulars relating to the property as may be prescribed.
(4) The endowment Survey Officer shall while making any enquiry with regard to any dispute have the same powers as are vested in a Civil Court under the code of civil procedure, 1908 in respect of the following matters, namely:-
(a) summoning and examining a witness;
(b) summoning and production of any document;
(c) requisitioning any public record from any office or any authority;
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(d) issuing commission for examination of any witness or accounts or records;
(e) making any local inspection or local investigation;
(f) such other matters as may be prescribed.
(5) If during any such enquiry, any dispute arises as to whether a particular property is a property of notified institution or not it shall be decided after holding enquiry summoning the interested parties.
(6) The State Government may direct the Endowment Survey Officer to make a second or subsequent survey of particular property of the notified institution and while resurveying the property, he shall follow the procedure specified under sub-sections (2) to
(5).
(7) On the receipt a report under sub-section (3) or sub-section (6), the State Government shall publish in the official Gazette the list of property of all the notified institutions on the date of commencement of the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments (Amendment) Act, 2011 or on subsequent dates to which the report relates containing such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(8) After publication of such list under sub-section (7), every notified institution shall maintain a register of movable and immovable properties of the institution including the lands, building vacant sites, structures, valuables such as gold, silver, idols, utensils, precious stones, articles of antique value, paintings, inscriptions on metal, palm leaves and such other movable properties and submit to the prescribed authority for approval.
(9) After approval of such register, the Committee of Management or Trustees or the Executive Officer shall scrutinize the entries in the register every year and submit to the prescribed authority, a verified statement showing the alterations, omissions or additions required in the register for approval.
(10) The prescribed authority on receipt of register or statement may verify or get it verified through local officers and after satisfying the entries made therein, may accord approval of the same.
(11) Any alienation or transfer by way of sale, lease, gift, mortgage or otherwise of any land or other immovable property granted to or belonging to a notified institution and any act purporting to create any interest adverse to such institution in respect of such land or property shall be null and void unless such alienation or transfer is in the best interest of the institution and unless it is sanctioned under section 62.
(12) No articles of gold, silver or white metal, idols, utensils, precious stones, articles of antique value, paintings, ancient documents containing inscription on stone, metal and palm leaves and such other movable shall be disposed of in any manner without the permission of the State Government granted based on the report of the Commissioner.]1
1. Substituted by Act 27 of 2011 w.e.f. 04.05.2011.