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An Act to amend 2 CMC 941 11 by the addition of a new subsection (e) and to amend 2 CMC 91222 in order to protect the public ownership of wetlands and submerged lands by curtailing private claims, especially to areas subject to adverse possession by vi...

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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…

An Act to amend 4 CMC $ 1708 to ensure equitable treatment between landowners who receive public land from the government in exchange for their private land and those who receive cash compensation from the government in exchange for their private land;...

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This Act introduces a 100 percent tax reduction for persons that received cash compensation by the Commonwealth Government in exchange of transfer of the title in their land to the Government. Other landowners that exchanged their land for publicly-owned land were not required to pay taxes on…

Rota Agricultural Homestead Amendment Act of 2001 (P.L. 12-53).

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The amendments of the Rota Agricultural Homestead Act concern the designation of homestead areas by the Board of Public Lands. Designated lands shall be allotted to qualified persons for purposes of farming. Those persons shall have the right to acquire title upon the fulfilment of conditions…

An Act to restrict the leases of public agricultural land to the resident citizens of the CNMI and of the U.S., and to similarly restrict the use of publicly owned marine and wetlands areas that come under agricultural, aquacultural, or maricultural de...

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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…