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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act stipulates that the Department of Public Lands shall not assess rental fees in respect to small parcels of public land, not in excess of 300 square meters, adjacent to land used for residential purposes where the residential land owner maintains the public land by removing undesirable vegetation and habitat for pests.

  2. Library Resource

    An Act amend 2 CMC, Div. 2, Article 2, Sections 4323 and 4327; to amend 2 CMC, Div. 2, Article 2 by adding a new 0 4328; and for other purposes.

    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    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

  3. Library Resource

    An Act requiring MPLC to waiver certain pre-1978 requirements in its agricultural homestead program by amending 2 CMC Section 4323 and for other purposes.

    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    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.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act requires the Marianas Public Lands Authority to waive any conditions, limitations or regulations relating to the agricultural homesteading program in effect prior to 9 January 1978.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act makes provision for the control of the development and use of publicly owned wetlands and submerged lands and especially of areas subject to adverse possession by virtue of adjacent private property. All exploration, development, water or non-water dependent uses of submerged lands or extraction of petroleum deposits or mineral deposits which may be located in submerged lands of the Commonwealth require an approved license, lease, or permit from the Secretary of Lands and Natural Resources.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act prescribes that an applicant for a village lot or his or her spouse must not own or have any interest in any village lot or have been a recipient of a village homestead lot.However, any applicant who has met all the above requirements and who had been a recipient of a village homestead lot may be eligible to receive a village homestead lot if he or she has been divested of a village homestead lot by a Court decree pursuant to a divorce proceeding which awarded that village homestead lot to either the children or the applicant's former spouse.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act establishes the status of first priority of persons that are not married or have no dependents to purchase village lots and have made an application for this purpose more than three years before consideration of status. The Act also prescribes that no person may be permitted to enter upon or acquire rights to a village homestead unless that person has been a domiciliary in the senatorial district in which such homestead is being applied.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act makes provision with respect to the control of the carrying out of designated village homestead programmes by the Marianas Public Lands Authority. The Authority shall grant certificates of compliance to homesteaders but may revoke such certificate if, within a prescribed period, the homesteader has not complied with requirements. However, the certificate may not be revoked if services such as public water and sewerage were not extended to the homestead concerned.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act restricts the use of public lands set aside for agricultural purposes to citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands and US nationals so as to prevent large-scale commercial exploitation of such lands which are scarce.Such lands as are leased or its use is permitted in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall be developed in accordance with their most appropriate use or uses, i.e. either agricultural, aquacultural, maricultural, or animal husbandry.

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act makes provision for the protection and conservation of public land of Managaha Island.These public lands that are of importance to culture, traditions and history of the people of the Northern Mariana Islands shall be leased preferentially to persons, including corporations, of Northern Marianas descent.

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