An Act to Amend 2 CMC 8 4323 to requiring the Marianas Public Lands Authority to grant title to public land to qualified persons who demonstrated fifteen (15) years of continuous and actual occupancy of public land, but did not receive such title despi...

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This Act requires the Marianas Public Lands Authority to waive any conditions, limitations or regulations relating to the agricultural homesteading program in effect prior to 9 January 1978. Any person who can demonstrate continuous and actual occupancy or use of public land for agricultural purposes for a period of 15 years prior to this date, or who can demonstrate that he or she would have continuously and actually occupied or used public land for agricultural purposes for a period of 15 years prior to this date but has been removed from such land in specified circumstances, shall be legally entitled to all the rights and interest of ownership of such land.

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