The purpose of this Chapter is to provide for proper development planning so as to safeguard public health, the environment and economic growth and well-being in American Samoa. There shall be a Zoning Board. In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Chapter, areas within the territory of Samoa are divided into ten zones, amongst others, an Agricultural Zone, a Watershed Conservation Zone and a Recreation Conservation Zone. For each zone permitted activities are specified.

These amendments and contemporary changes to the Native Lands Ordinance and the Magistrates’ Ordinance, are part of institutional strengthening of the lands and survey work particularly for South Tarawa. The amendments are introduced in order to implement the fairer and more certain settling of dealings with land by owners, lessees, neighbours and purchasers. The amendments to this Ordinance have the effect of bringing subdivision of land under the same system as Native Lands Ordinance transactions (i.e. sales and leases).

These amendments and contemporary changes to the Land Planning Ordinance, are part of institutional strengthening of the lands and survey work particularly for South Tarawa. By defining subdivision in the Ordinance (clause 2), and by adding Part VIA- Subdivision, persons who wish to divide a plot of land must satisfy the Court that there is sufficient land for the families on each of the subdivided parts. This brings the law on subdivision in line with the law on sale or lease or sublease.

Amends: Native Lands Ordinance. (1977)

The institutional frame that conditions today the institution and operation of professional laboratories and manufactures in the basin of Attica, it is radically reformed with Law 2965/2001. This Law comes forth to abrogate the Presidential Order No. 84 of 1984 which for more than fifteen years constituted the basic legislative frame for the development of craft-based activity in the region of Attica. With this Law the classification of industrial activities is divided in low, medium and high harmful-effect categories (in compliance with art. 3 and 4 of Law No. 1650/86).

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.

This Act completely repeals the Urban Land Act No. 23 of 1993.

Repeals: Urban Lands Act (No. 23 of 1993). (1993-09-06)

This Decree, composed of 4 articles and one Annex, approves the implementing Regulation of Act No. 21-C/92 on ownership, concession and use of agricultural land. The annexed Regulation, composed of 87 articles divided in 16 Chapters, defines the competences of all involved authorities, rules on rights and obligations under the concession regime, sets the guaranties and assurances for the State to creditors. Moreover, it regulates agricultural land property, transmission and rescission of land use right, land use restrictions, fiscal issues, registry procedures, fines and penalties.

This Act concerns the planning the use, development, management and protection of land in Samoa. One of the declared objectives (sect. 8) of this Act is to provide for the fair, orderly, economic and sustainable use, development and management of land including the protection of natural and man-made resources and the maintenance of ecological processes and genetic diversity. The Planning and Urban Management Agency is established under section 4 and the Planning and Urban Management Board under section 5. The functions of the Board are set out in section 9.

The State is the owner of land in the Republic, and some of these lands should be made available for development including permanent settlement of citizens and their families, who otherwise have no or limited access to land. The objectives of this Act are on the one hand to provide a framework for the tenure and alienation of such land and on the other hand to provide for the planning and sustainable development of such land in accordance with certain principles.

La Mission d'études pour l'Aménagement de la Vallée supérieure de la Bénoué prend, à compter de la date de signature du présent décret la dénomination de Mission d'études pour l'Aménagement et le Développement de la Province du Nord, en abrégé "MEADEN". La Mission a pour objet le développement harmonieux de la province du Nord.

With this Order, the following competences of the Minister of Environment are transferred to the General Secretary of the Prefecture of Central Macedonia: approval of physical planning and built-up appropriateness of land areas belonging to building cooperatives; approval of master plans of urban land; preliminary approval of environmental terms for works and activities within the Region.

The purpose of this Act is to contribute to the sound development of the national land by providing for fundamental matters concerning the formulation and implementation of plans for and policies on the national land. The Act consists of 33 articles divided into 6 Chapters: General provisions (I); Formulation, etc. of national land plan (II); Efficient promotion of national land plan (III); Construction of national land information system, etc. (IV); National Land Policy Committee (V); Supplementary provisions (VI).