The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make Regulations for the purpose of prohibiting, annulling or in any manner restricting the taking or acquisition directly or indirectly of, or the succession to, any interest in controlled land (as defined), provided that they do not operate so as to prohibit, annul or in any manner restrict the ownership by a person of interests in controlled land consisting of not more than 2 parcels containing, in the aggregate, not more than 20 acres.

This Decree-Law establishes the obligation to draw up a map concerning urban areas subject to flood risk. It consists of 5 articles establishing the requirements to be satisfied by the Municipal Plans for Territory Management (PMOT) in order to prevent water flood and to guarantee soil protection within the involved areas. PMOT Regulations establish necessary restrictions in order to avoid flood risks.

The President decrees that normative cost of land for the sale of the plots of land to privatized enterpises situated on them must be estimated as the land tax rate for a unit of area multiplied by ten times.

An Act to provide for the classification and administration of public land, and to regulate use of and the disposal of such land and and the acquisition of other land and related matters. The Minister may by order made under section 10 classify public land and declare the use for which he considers different classes to be adaptable.

These Instructions establish the modalities of the registration of the contracts of granting of the share of land on lease. The contract of lease can be concluded by the owner of the share of land (Landlord), and an agricultural enterprise or a farmer (Lease-holder). Either a single landlord or a group of landlords can grant on lease shares of land. In the latter case the contract of lease is concluded with multitude of physical persons on the part of landlords.

The President, for the purpose of regulating free-of-charge transfer of the plots of land to the private ownership, decrees that in establishing an average district quota for the transfer, the total area of agricultural land (except for areas allotted to the local administrations) must be divided into the number of agricultural workers. The local administrations are authorized, in accordance with the notification of the committees on land reform and land policy, to differ the average quota of the free-of-charge transfer in connection with the density of population.

This Act creates the Fund for Lands and Agricultural Reform - 'Banco da Terra' aimed to give financial assistance in order to enforce rural programmes. It consists of 14 articles specifying the requirements to be satisfied in order to obtain these incentives for agricultural development. Beneficiaries of this financial assistance programme are: farmers non-owners (working under concession, leasing, etc. for more than 5 years in agro-zootechnics); owners of agricultural lands for family sustenance (according to article 4 of Law No. 4.504 of 30 November 1964).

This Decree-Law establishes measures to be applied for enforcing the Agricultural Reform. It consists of 16 articles establishing intensive programmes in order to localize the place and to install new agricultural exploitation centres within priority areas, according to the Brazilian Institution of Agricultural Reform (IBRA) and Executive Agricultural Reform (GERA).

Amends: Act No. 4.504 regulating rights and obligations regarding rural real estates in order to implement the Agricultural Reform and to promote the Agricultural Policy. (1964-11-30)

The Government decrees to validate the Regulation. Special land fund is set up at the expense of agricultural land that is either not used according to its predestination or is used in violation of the legislation currently in force, and of abandoned land. The plots of land that can't be used for growing agricultural produce in conformity with sanitary requirements must not be included into special land fund.

The necessity of transfer of agricultural land from one type into another is substantiated by natural factors and economic expediency of its further use within the stock of land. The transfer of land can be carried out on request of the land tenant forwarded to a local executive body. The transfer is carried out by the departments of the State Committee on Land and Land Survey. Agricultural land comprises arable land, fallow land, land covered by perennial plantations, hayfields and pastures.

Implements: Presidential Decree No. 2717 of 1995 "On Land". (1995-12-22)

This Law regulates the particulars of the privatisation of the property of state agricultural enterprises and is aimed at overcoming of the monopoly in the production of the agricultural commodities by creating various form of property and management, by creating the conditions for the transition to market economy in agriculture, by promoting free competition among producers, by stimulating free enterprise for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of agricultural production and the improvement of the delivery of foodstuffs and industrial raw materials to the population.

El presente Decreto reglamenta parcialmente la Ley Nº 160 de 1994, en lo relativo a la elaboración del avalúo comercial de predios y mejoras que se adquieran para fines de reforma agraria y la intervención de peritos en los procedimientos administrativos agrarios de competencia del Instituto Colombiano de la Reforma Agraria (INCORA). En los procedimientos administrativos de adquisición de tierras y mejoras rurales que adelante directamente el INCORA, se ordenará la realización de un avalúo comercial de los inmuebles y bienes respectivos por parte de un perito.