law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  32.  Power
  
  to make rules for protected forests . –
  The State Government may make rules to regulate
  
  the following matters, namely:-
  a) the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal
  
  of trees and timber, and the collection, manufacture and removal of
  
  forest-produce, from protected forests;
  b) the granting of licenses to the inhabitants
  
  of towns and villages in the vicinity of protected forests to take trees,
  
  timber or other forest-produce for their own use, and the production and return
  
  of such licenses by such persons;
  c) the granting of licenses to persons felling
  
  or removing trees or timber or other forest-produce from such forests for the
  
  purposes of trade, and the production and return of such licenses by such
  
  persons;
  d) the payments, if any, to be made by the
  
  persons mentioned in clauses (b) and (c) for permission to cut such trees, or
  
  to collect and remove such timber or other forest-produce;
   the other
  
  payments, if any, to be made by them in respect of such trees, timber and
  
  produce, and the places where such payment shall be made;
  f) the examination of forest-produce passing
  
  out of such forests.
  g) the clearing and breaking up of land for
  
  cultivation or other purposes in such forests;
  h) the protection from fire timber lying in
  
  such forests and of trees reserved under section 30;
  i ) the cutting of grass
  
  and pasturing of cattle in such forests;
  j) hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning water
  
  and setting traps or snares in such forests and the killing or catching of
  
  elephants in such forests in areas in which the Elephants' Preservation Act,
  
  1879, (6 of 1879), is not in force;
  k) the protection and management of any
  
  portion of a forest closed under section 30; and
  l) the exercise of rights referred to in
  
  section 29.