This Act regulates the carrying out of surveys of land by, appointment of, qualifications of, etc. land surveyors including Government surveyors, i.e. land surveyors who are public officers of the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Town and Country Planning.

This Act regulates the alienation, lease and use of and control over “State land”, i.e. defence lands, ‘pas géométriques’ and all lands belonging to or in possession of the State. The Minister may sell State land other than defence lands, mountain reserves which belong to the State, ‘pas géométriques’ or river reserves which belong to the State (sect. 3).

There is hereby laid down the legislative framework relevant to land expropriation, which shall be allowed only for public purposes. The Act defines with detail the procedure to be followed and provides for the compensation which is to be paid to owners.

Una vez que el Instituto de Bienestar Rural (sustituido por el Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra) tenga por iniciados los trámites administrativos previstos en el ámbito del procedimiento de expropiación, el mismo podrá solicitar de oficio o a instancia de parte interesada al Juzgado de Primera Instancia en lo Civil y Comercial medida cautelar autónoma de no innovar, en las

An Act to provide for the validation of a replacement register of native lands for Nikunau. The principal object of this Act is to enable the Government to establish a Land Commission which shall undertake to compile a replacement Register of Native Lands for Nikunau which has been destroyed. Section 3 imposes certain duties on the Commission when compiling the replacement register.

From the records or judgment, or order or decision of various specified courts, a Commission appointed under section 3 shall compile a replacement Register of native lands recording therein all titles to native lands, pits, ponds, fish traps and sea walls in South Tarawa.

Toda expropiación por causa de utilidad pública o de interés social o nacional estará sujeta al procedimiento establecido por el presente Decreto Ley, el cual se compone de los siguientes títulos: (I) De los actos preparatorios y de la determinación provisional de la indemnización; (II) Del acto expropiatorio y de sus efectos inmediatos; (III) De la fijación definitiva de la expropiación; (IV)

If any person, who, at the time of his death, is the owner of any personal property in this Territory, and died, intestate, without heirs or known kindred, capable of inheriting the same, and without leaving a surviving spouse, such personal property, shall escheat to the Territory.

This Chapter provides for certain aspects of the enforcement of a mortgage. The High Court may assess the amount due upon a mortgage whether of real or personal property, and shall render judgment for the amount awarded, and the foreclosure of the mortgage. Execution may be issued on the judgment, as ordered by the court.

This Chapter provides for certain matters relating to title in land. The owner of any land in American Samoa, not previously registered, may register his or her title thereto with the Territorial Registrar, but no title shall be registered unless the Registrar is satisfied that there is no conflicting claim thereto and unless the description clearly identifies the boundaries of the land.

This Act declares that it shall be the public policy of American Samoa and the purpose of this Chapter to promote soil and water conservation by creating a Soil and Water Conservation District to advise on methods of preventing erosion, and protecting and improving water quality.

The present Law includes 4 Chapters: Objectives (I): Documents related to the Country Planning, Urbanization and Construction (II); Land Use master Plan (III); Work and construction (IV).