Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The State Government may, by notification, order the establishment of Mobile Squads for checking of the vehicles to ensure collection of the cess and prevent evasion and the Mobile Squads so established shall be under the charge of an officer of the Government, who shall be a collecting authority under this Act. (2) When so required by the collecting authority, the driver or the person-in-charge of the motor vehicle shall stop the motor vehicle and keep it stationary as long as may be necessary, and allow the collecting authority to examine receipt or token of payment of cess paid and the driver or the person-in-charge of such motor vehicle shall also furnish such other information as may be required by the collecting authority. (3) 1{The driver or person-in-charge of the vehicle shall keep in the receipt of payment of cess paid, at the time of entering into the Uttarakhand State, in the motor vehicle during his stay in the State and shall present it to the collection authority when demanded.} (4) If the driver or the person-in-charge of the motor vehicle fails to produce the receipt of payment of cess or token, as required under sub-section (3), then the collecting authority shall recover the cess at the place of inspection at the 1{prescribed rate under sub-section (1) of section 3: Provided that in case the Government decides to give on lease the right to collect Cess under section 4, the provisions of sub-section (3) shall not apply.}1 (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4), the collecting authority may also order detention of the motor vehicle, including the goods, if any, being carried therein, for such period as may reasonably be necessary and shall allow the same to proceed only after the driver or the person-in-charge of the motor vehicle making payment of the cess and the amount of collection fee imposed under this section or furnishing to his satisfaction a security or executing a bond with or without sureties for securing the amount of cess and collection fee. .................................................................................. 1- Subs. by section 3 (a) and (b) of Uttrakhand Act no 13 of 2016. - 16 - Penalties