Section 10(1) in The Maharashtra Management of Irrigation Systems by Farmers Act, 2005
(1)A Canal Officer not below the rank of an Executive Engineer, duly empowered in this behalf may, by notification in the Official Gazette and in accordance with the rules delineate, on hydraulic basis and having regard to the administrative convenience, command area of Distributary Level Association (DLA) within lands under irrigable command and declare it to be an area of operation of, Distributary Level Association for the purposes of this Act. The area so declared may include both, the flow and lift irrigation.
