law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  41. Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest
  
  produce  –
  (1) The control of all rivers and their banks
  
  as regards the floating of timber, as well as the control of all timber and
  
  other forest-produce in transit by land or water, is vested in the State
  
  Government, and it may make rules to regulate the transit of all timber and
  
  other forest-produce.
  (2) In particular and without prejudice to the
  
  generality of the foregoing power such rules may-
  (a) prescribe the routes by which alone timber or other
  
  forest-produce may be imported, exported or moved into, from or within (14)[the
  
  State];
  (b) prohibit the import or export or moving of such timber or other
  
  produce without a pass from an officer duly authorized to issue the same, or
  
  otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of such pass;
  (c) provide for the issue, production and return of such passes
  
  and for the payment of fees therefor ;
  (d) provide for the stoppage, reporting, examination and marking
  
  of timber or other forest-produce in transit, in respect of which there is
  
  reason to believe that any money is payable to the Government on account of the
  
  price thereof, or on account of any duty, fee, royalty of charge due thereon,
  
  or, to which it is desirable for the purposes of this Act to affix a mark;
  (e) provide for the establishment and regulation of depots to
  
  which such timber or other produce shall be taken by those in charge of it for
  
  examination, or for the payment of such money, or in order that such marks may
  
  be affixed to it, and the conditions under which such timber or other produce
  
  shall be brought to, stored at and removed from such depots;
  (f) prohibit the closing up or obstructing of the channel or
  
  banks of any river used for the transit of timber or other forest-produce, and
  
  the throwing of grass, brushwood, branches or leaves into any such river or any
  
  act which may cause such river to be closed or obstructed;
  (g) provide for the prevention or removal of any obstruction of
  
  the channel or banks of any such river, and for recovering the cost of such
  
  prevention or removal from the person whose acts or negligence necessitated the
  
  same;
  (h) prohibit absolutely or subject to conditions, within
  
  specified local limits, the establishment of sawpits, the converting , cutting,
  
  burning, concealing or making of timber, the altering or effacing of any marks
  
  on the same, or the possession or carrying of marking hammers or other
  
  implements used for marking timber;
  ( i ) regulate the use of property marks
  
  for timber, and the registration of such marks; prescribe the time for which
  
  such registration shall hold good; limit the number of such marks that may be
  
  registered by any one person, and provide for the levy of fees for such
  
  registration.
  (3) The State Government may direct that any
  
  rule made under this section shall not apply to any specified class of timber
  
  or other forest-produce or to any specified local area.(15)[41A.
  
  Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs
  
  frontiers.- Notwithstanding anything in section 41, the Central Government may
  
  make rules to prescribe the route by which alone timber or other forest-produce
  
  may be imported, exported or moved into or from (16)[the territories
  
  to which this Act extends] across any customs frontier as defined by the
  
  Central Government, and any rules made under section 41 shall have effect
  
  subject to the rules made under this section.]