(1) The State Government or such officers as may be authorised by the State Governemt in this behalf may, by notification in official Gazette, appoint the following classes of Officers, namely :-
(a) A Director for the whole of the State and as many Additional Director as may be necessary from time to time.
(b) A Survey Officer either by name or by virtue of his office for all or any of the purpose of this Act.
(2) All the Survey Officers in the Survey and Land Records Department shall be subordinate to the Director.
(3) The Director shall be in charge of all matters relating“to survey, measurement, demarcation and valuation of any land or local area or any boundary, assessments and settlements of land revenue and the settlement of boundaries, preparation, revision and maintenance of land records throughout the State and shall in respect thereof exercise such powers and discharge such duties as are conferred on him by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.
(4) Subject to the control of the Government, the Director or authority appointed by the Government in this behalf, every officer appointed as Survey Officer shall exercise the powers and form the duties of a Survey Officer within such local limits as the Government may, from time to time, direct.
(5) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, delegate that the power exereisable by them under sub-sections (3) and (4) may also be exercised by such Officer or authority, subject to such restrictions and conditions, as may be specified in the said notification.
Appoinment duties and functions of Survey Officer - 4 -Ex-52/1994
CHAPTER - II SURVEY AND RECORD OPERATION
4. Subject to the control of the Government, the Director authority authorised by the Government in this behalf may by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that survey of survey of any land or any local area or any boundary of a land, as may be specified in the order, Shall be made and every such land or local area or of any boundary of any land shall from the date of the said notification, be held to be unsurvey and record operations, until the issue of another notification declaring such operations to be closed therein.
5. The State Government or subject to the control of the Govement, Director or authority authorised by the Government in this behalf, may likewise direct, in respect of any land or any local area or of any boundary of any land which was already been surveyed that a general or partial revision of the records of such local area shall be made and thereupon such any land or any local area or of any boundary of any land shall be held to be under record operations until such operations are similarly closed..