Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2001 (Act No. 56 of 2001).

This Act, consisting of 15 sections and several notifications, aims to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and preserve their tourism potential. The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any place, monument, site, location to be a tourist place for the purposes of this Act, including any river, riverbed, beach, water spring, lake, water course or land, etc. In particular, it establishes that no person, company, association, firm or any other body shall cause any nuisance or carry out any activity, process, operation, etc., including the operation of or plying vessels, boats, etc. or omit to prevent or remove the nuisance, which damages or deteriorates or is likely to damage or deteriorate or is capable of being damaged or deteriorated or has damaged or deteriorated the tourism potentiality of any tourist place, declared as such under section 3 of this Act.
The competent authority may prohibit any nuisance being caused or prevent any activity, process, operation as referred as above being carried out, if in the opinion of the said competent authority, it has damaged or deteriorated or is likely to damage or deteriorate the tourism potentiality of any tourist place. Offences and penalties are appended to the text for illegal activities.