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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Act makes provision for the preservation and protection of historic, archaeological, and cultural properties of the State of Pohnpei. One of its objectives is to limit effects of uncontrolled development and land use.For purposes of this Act, the Pohnpei Historic and Cultural Preservation Review Board is established and, within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, a Division of Historic Preservation is created.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Act concerns land use planning in the State of Pohnpei. Its objectives are to promote responsible and balanced development, to preserve and enhance cultural and traditional values, to conserve and protect the natural environment, and to assure adequate provision for community facilities and requirements. All use of land, both public and private, must be consistent with provisions of this Act.The Act establishes the Pohnpei Land Use Planning and Zoning Commission. The Commission shall prepare a master land use plan, the scope and contents of which are set out in this Act.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Act makes provision with respect to the management and administration of public lands. The Act establishes a division within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the management and administration of public lands and transfers the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust to this division. The Board of Trustees of the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust is hereby continued and recognized as trustees to all rights, title, and interest to public lands in Pohnpei for the benefit of the people of Pohnpei, subject to the obligations and restrictions of the Pohnpei Constitution and the laws of Pohnpei.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Chapter provides rules relative to the acquisition of real property under the laws of the state of Pohnpei for use in any project or programme of the Pohnpei Government, local government or state agencies.The Chapter sets out certain requirements the Government shall observe in acquiring real property and the procedures for such acquisition. For example, the Government will, to the greatest extent practicable, make every reasonable effort to acquire real property expeditiously through negotiation and shall give at least 90 days notice of leave to occupants.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Chapter sets out general provisions relative to any agreement, regardless of its form, that is intended to give rights in personal property, including houses on land not owned individually or entirely by the party or parties purporting to give an interest in the house, as security for the performance of any obligation.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Act prescribes rules of succession when a person dies without making a valid will or without otherwise disposing of his or her real and personal property of which that person has the right to dispose at the time of his death (“intestate succession”). The rules concern succession both in the case of heirs and without heirs of the intestate. In the latter case, the succession to any real property of the intestate shall be determined jointly by the local authority where the property is located and the Governor, or his or her authorized representative.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Chapter empowers the Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to sell, lease or dedicate for public purpose specified lands held in trust by the Board for specified purposes. The Chapter specifies for each piece of land conditions or restrictions applying to the power of the Board to sell, lease or dedicate to public purposes such land. The Chapter defines “active use” by the Government. Land shall revert to the Board if such active use of the Government ceases.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Act requires the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to identify and convey specified land to the Government of Pohnpei. The State Government Land Use Plan Master Plan Map,” is hereby adopted as the zoning map for the purposes of this Act. The Governor shall submit to the Land Use Planning and Zoning Commission the Map and plan for integration into the public services element of the Land Use Zoning Master Plan of the state of Pohnpei.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Chapter introduces a coordinated system for the survey and mapping of land and provides rules for the use of the system. It also prescribes the form of boundary markers, prohibits specified cultivation of crops near boundary markers and boundary lines which have been surveyed by the Office of Land Management, introduces a programme for the acceleration of the surveying and mapping of lands in Pohnpei and provides for compensation of surveyors.

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Micronesia, Oceania

    This Chapter concerns use and lease of public land. The Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees may, subject to provisions of this Chapter, authorize use and lease agreements in respect of public lands. Land may be leased to foreign companies but only for the time they are doing business in Pohnpei. Rights to minerals and exhaustible resources and other uses defined by the Board to be of public interest. The Chapter also places restrictions on subleases of residential leases issued by the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees.

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