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Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980, when the new name of Vanuatu was adopted.
Vanuatu is a parliamentary republic.
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Displaying 41 - 45 of 69Chapter 9 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code - Mining and Dredging.
This Chapter authorizes the Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to regulate the removal of mined and dredged materials located on Public Trust Lands in areas listed in this Chapter. Dredging and removal of dredged material at any other site is prohibited. The Chapter sets out conditions for the mining of sand in a specified marine area which shall be monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Division of Forestry and Marine Conservation and establishes certain conditions for mining and dredging in general. A permit for such activities shall be obtained from the Board.
Chapter 5 of Title 41 of the Pohnpei State Code - Pohnpei Development Leasehold Act of 1996.
This Act provides rules relative to entering into or modification of a development lease, i.e. a commercial lease or combination of interconnected commercial leases that may contain an expanded term not to exceed 55 years. The Act provides also for control of (modification) of lease agreements and related procedures by the Director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. The Act prescribes, among other things, contents and conditions of an agreement and procedures for the notification of entering into or modification of a development lease.
Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code -Public Lands Act of 1987.
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.
Chapter 6 of Title 41 of the Pohnpei State Code -Pohnpei State Real Property Mortgage Act.
This Act makes provision for the establishment and execution of mortgages and other matters relating to land-based credit. Its purpose is to establish a system of mortgage law in Pohnpei which will induce lenders to make secured commercial and residential loans, while at the same time ensuring that borrowers who execute mortgages of property in Pohnpei have a full comprehension of the nature and consequences thereof and that the parties to the mortgage are protected against unfair practices.
Chapter 4 of Title 41 of the Pohnpei State Code - Ownership, Registration, And Conveyance.
This Chapter provides for selected matters relating to ownership of immovable property. Subject to certain exceptions, it declares that only citizens of the state of Pohnpei or corporations wholly owned by citizens of the state of Pohnpei may hold title to land in the state of Pohnpei. It refers to a provision of article 12 of the Pohnpei Constitution relative to acquisition of permanent interest in real property.