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Post Office Box 23
Pago Pago , American Samoa 96799
We are the licensing body and the official bar association for all of those who practice law in American Samoa. The American Samoa Bar Association serves to promote justice, the rule of law, and the interests of the legal system. We do this through public education, legislative review, promoting the judiciary, and advocating the rule of law. We also offer a legal scholarship to a student that shows exemplary academics and a desire to promote the rule of law in American Samoa.
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Resources
Displaying 16 - 20 of 21Wills - Estates and Fiduciary Relations (Chapter 01 of Title 40).
This Chapter provides for the disposal of (real) property by will and execution of wills. It defines certain requirements regarding execution, rights of spouse of the deceased person and legal procedures. A surviving spouse may elect to take dower instead of property devised or bequeathed to such spouse.
Agricultural Loans - Natural Resources and Environment Ecosystem Protection and Development.
Subject to certain conditions, the Director of the Department of Agriculture is authorized to make agriculture crop loans in accordance with this Chapter. Section 2 specifies the purposes for which an agricultural loan may be granted. Each loan shall be made upon basis of a written loan agreement signed by the borrower and the Matai controlling the family land if family land is involved.
American Samoa Coastal Management Act of 1990.
This Act provides for the establishment of coastal management program and the designation of coastal zone and special management areas and related matters. The American Samoa Coastal Management Program (ASCMP) is established as an office within the Executive branch. The Office of Development Planning shall be the designated territorial agency, as required by federal law, for the administration and implementation of Program. The general purpose of ASCMP is to provide effective resource management by protecting, maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the resources of the coastal zone.
Village Soils Conservation Lands - Natural Resources and Environment Ecosystem Protection and Development.
This Chapter formulates the land and soil conservation policy of the Government and empowers all village councils to issue Land Use Ordinances.
American Samoa Soil and Water Conservation District Act.
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.