This Act amends the Rota Agricultural Homestead Act by ratifying all actions taken in conformance with the provisions of sections 1 to 6 of Public Law No. 7-11 and related law, and all permits or other instruments issued, executed, or delivered in conformance therewith and otherwise in compliance with Commonwealth law and by blocking any challenge, defence, claim, remedy, cause of action, or other right, based on section 7 of Public Law 7-11 arising from such action.This Act also repeals and reenacts a section on the designation of Homestead Areas, i.e.

This Act amends the Tinian Agricultural Homestead Act by ratifying all actions taken in conformance with the provisions of sections 1 to 6 of Public Law No. 6-15 and related law, and all permits or other instruments issued, executed, or delivered in conformance therewith and otherwise in compliance with Commonwealth law and by blocking any challenge, defence, claim, remedy, cause of action, or other right, based on section 7 of Public Law 6-15 arising from such action.This Act also repeals and reenacts a section on the designation of Homestead Areas, i.e.

The present Act requires the Mariana Public Land Corporation to waive prior requirements or limitations regarding agricultural homesteads for persons that can demonstrate that for a continuous period of 15 years they have actually occupied public land and used for agricultural purposes. This change in law strenghtens rights of persons that have been relocated by the Government in respect of land occupied by them. The land in question shall be transferred by the Corporation by deed to the persons that have occupied the land.

The scope of this Law shall be to ensure the rational management of agricultural land, development of land market and land consolidation. This Act shall not be applicable to purchase of land in the gardening associations. The following categories of land managers shall have the state support in the form of instalment selling of the public land for the period of 15 years: (a) natural persons registered as farmers; and (b) legal persons manufacturing agricultural commodities annual sale proceeds of which exceeds 50 percent of annual income thereof.

This Law regulates purchase of land by the foreign legal and natural persons, and also by foreign institutions and organizations that have no status of legal person but have legal capacity. It also establishes terms, conditions and restrictions on the purchase of land by foreigners. The Act consists of four Chapters divided into 17 Articles: (1) general provisions; (2) right of foreigners to purchase land, internal water and forest; (3) temporary provisions regarding the right of foreigners to purchase non-agricultural land; and (4) final provisions.

This Law regulates the modalities of keeping the register of immovable property, including the plots of land. Register of immovable property has as its purpose data collection with a view of granting access to information to the consumers. Immovable property shall be considered plot of land with the constructions located thereon and plots of land. Formation of the plots of land shall be completed after the registration thereof in the register of immovable property. The boundaries of the plots of land shall be established after cadastre measurement, mapping and placing of landmarks.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the purposeful land use, the modalities of the modification thereof and the decision-making in this regard. The main purposeful land use shall be established in accordance with the territorial land use planning documentation and the local self-government shall make the decision on validation or modification of the main purposeful land use. It classifies land in accordance with the purposeful use thereof as agricultural land and forest estate land.

Article 1 of the above-mentioned Law establishes that water and soil associations are public bodies based on the law of the Reich or Land with the following tasks: 1) to create, modify and keep in orderly state waters and their banks, to regulate the discharge of waters and to ensure their elimination as appropriate; 2) to create, modify, keep in good state, run, exploit and as appropriate to eliminate navigation plants, dams, floodgates, hydropower stations and watersheds; 3) to drain, to irrigate, to lay dry and to protect land from flooding, 4) to eliminate, recycle and clean waste water

This Act concerns the waiving of any requirements, limitations or regulations relating to the agricultural homesteading program by the Marianas Public Land Corporation.Any person who can demonstrate continuous and actual occupancy or use of public land for agricultural purposes for period of 15 years prior to a specified date or who can demonstrate that he or she would have continuously and actually occupied or used public land for agricultural purposes for a period of 15 years prior to a specified date, shall be legally entitled to all the rights and interest of ownership of such land, and

The President establishes that basic annual rates of rent for lease of public land shall be fixed by local self-government with the application of factors depending on the purposeful use of land. The purposeful use of land shall be classified as agricultural land, urban land and industrial land. Local self-government shall be granted the right to double or to halve basic annual rates of rent depending upon lease period and land reclamation carried out by the lessees of the aforesaid land.

Cadastre valuation of land shall be integral part of land cadastre and it shall be carried out for the purpose of obtaining data on soil quality and location of land that characterize the conditions of agriculture and normative value of land. Cadastre land valuation data shall be used for the calculation of land tax. Only separate cultivated plots of agricultural land shall be subject to cadastre valuation of land.

The state supervision over land use and land protection shall have as its purpose to ensure the observance of land legislation by landowners and land tenants with a view of more efficient land use and land protection. The state supervision shall be carried out by the local self-government and land use planning organizations.