(1) Where any tree standing or lying near an aerial ropeway, or where any structure or other object which has been placed or has fallen near an aerial ropeway, subsequent to the construction of such aerial ropeway interrupts or interferes with or is likely to interrupt or interfere with the constriction, maintenance, alteration or use of the ropeway, the Collector may, on the application of the promoter, cause the tree, structure or object to be removed or otherwise dealt with as he thinks fit.
Explanation-- For the purpose of this sub-section the expression "tree" shall be deemed to include any shrub, hedge, jungle-growth or other plant.
(2) When disposing of an application under sub-section (1) the Collector shall award to the person interested such compensation as the Collector thinks reasonable, and the Collector may recover such amount from the promoter a if it were an arrear of land revenue.
Procedure regarding disputes on matters referred to in sections 15, 16 and 17
18. No suit shall lie, in respect of any matter referred to in section 15, 16 or 17, but every order, other than an award, made by. a Collector under any of those sections shall be subject to revision by the State Government while every award of his may be questioned in the court of the District Judge in conformity, as far as possible, with the procedure prescribed in the Land Acquisition Act.
WORKING OF AERIAL ROPEWAYS Promoter to fix rates or fares
19. A promoter shall, for the purposes of working an aerial rope way and subject to such maximum and minimum rates as may be prescribed, have power from time to time to fix rates for the carriage of passengers, animals, or goods on the aerial ropeway.
Duty of promoter to work aerial ropeway without partiality
20. No promoter shall, for the purposes of working an aerial ropeway make or give any under unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or any particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person or any particular description of traffic to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.
Reporting of accidents Act no. XLV of 1860
21. When any of the following accidents occur in the course of working an aerial rope way, namely,-
(a) any accident attended with loss of human life or with hurt as defined in the Indian Penal Code, or with serious injury to property;
(b) any accident of a description usually attended with loss of human life or with such hurt as aforesaid or with serious injury to property;
(c) any accident of any other description which the State Government may notify in this behalf in the official Gazette;
39 [The United Provinces Aerial Ropeways Act, 1922] [Section 22-24] the promoter shall, without unnecessary delay, send notice or the accident to the State Government and the Inspector of the aerial ropeway, and the promoter's servant in charge of the station on the aerial. ropeway nearest to the place at which the accident occurred, or, where there is no station, the promoter's servant in charge of the section of the aerial ropeway on which the accident occurred, shall, with the least possible delay, give notice of the accident to the magistrate of the district in which the accident occurred and to the officer in charge of the police station within the local limits of which it occurred or such other magistrate and police officer as the State Government may appoint in this behalf and shall also send information to the nearest dispensary.
Power of State Government to close and reopen aerial ropeways