Section 306: Prohibition of possession or cultivation of government, public or community land

1) No person shall possess any government, public, or community land by way of overlapping, encroachment, surrounding, or otherwise.

2) No person shall, except with the permission of the Government of Nepal, a concerned public organization, or a community, cultivate, or cause to be cultivated, any government, public, or community land.

3) If any person possesses or cultivates any government, public or community land in contravention of sub-section (1) or (2), the concerned Land Revenue Office, in the case of the government or public land, and the concerned Local Level, in the case of the community land, shall separate such land, recover the crops yielded in the land from that person and vacate the land.

4) The Land Revenue Office may punish any person who possesses or cultivates any government, public, or community land in contravention of this Section with a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees.