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Displaying 14731 - 14735 of 15550Law on the property of agricultural lands.
The objective of this Law is to: (a) provide security for organized farming; (b) to avoid the dismemberment and irrational use of farmland. It defines the rules on the purchase and sale of agricultural land as well as on State participation in the process of "normalisation of relations connected with agricultural land". The law defines farms, agrarian persons (farmers, etc.), and sets out rights and obligations connected to landownership and use, such as the right to freely alienate land.
Decree relative to impact assessment (No. 502 of 1999).
The scope of this Decree is to clarify the possible impact that certain measures may have on the environment. Planning of measures listed in Schedule I shall always be accompanied by an environment impact assessment. The Schedule specifies also the responsible authority and the legislation on which the assessment is based. Measures listed in the Second Schedule shall be reported in accordance with the Act relative to planning and construction of 1985. The criteria for an eventual assessment of those measures can be found in section 4 of this Decree.
Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act, 1996 (No. 1057 of 1996).
Subject to the provisions of subsection (4), and the provisions of the Expropriation Act, 1975 (Act No. 63 of 1975), or any other law which provides for the expropriation of land or rights in land, no person may be deprived of any informal right to land without his or her consent. Where land is held on a communal basis, a person may, subject to subsection (4), be deprived of such land or right in land in accordance with the custom and usage of that community.
Décret nº 97-2468 fixant les pièces constitutives des schémas directeurs d'aménagement.
Ce décret fixe les pièces constitutives des schémas directeurs d'aménagement, qui se composent d'un rapport, d'un schéma directeur proprement dit sous forme d'une ou de plusieurs cartes et d'un plan programme.
Met en oeuvre: Loi nº 94-122 portant promulgation du Code de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme. (1994-11-28)
Arrêté du Ministre de l'équipement et de l'habitat du 30 octobre 1996, fixant le contenu du dossier du programme d'intervention foncière et du plan d'aménagement de détail.
Cet arrêté fixe le contenu du dossier du programme d'intervention foncière et du plan d'aménagement de détail, prévu à l'article 33 du Code de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme.
Met en oeuvre: Loi nº 94-122 portant promulgation du Code de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme. (1994-11-28)