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Biblioteca Law No. 50-1 on peasant associations.

Law No. 50-1 on peasant associations.

Law No. 50-1 on peasant associations.

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LEX-FAOC054042
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5
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The present Law determines economic, legal and social basis of the organization and functioning of peasant associations. Peasant association is and autonomous economic entity with the status of legal person set up on voluntary basis by persons engaged in agricultural production. Peasant associations can be set up as state, cooperative, mixed and other forms of property (art. 1). The main tasks of peasant associations are: 1) production, processing, procurement and trade of agricultural commodities; 2) execution of state order regarding the main types of commodities on contractual basis; 3) extensive reproduction on the basis of the rational use of allotted land and other natural resources (art. 2). Plots of virgin and nonutilizable land can be allotted to the former members of peasant associations at their request upon cessation of their membership at the peasant associations (art. 3). Public land shall be transferred to peasant associations on lease and shall be indivisible. Peasant associations shall be granted the right of redemption of land granted on condition of long-term lease as the production extends and the profit increases (art. 5). Peasant associations shall be liable for the damage caused by irrational land tenure and management of other natural resources, environmental pollution and the infringement of other regulations in conformity with the national legislation (art. 18). The Law consists of 5 Sections composed of 19 articles.

Amended by: Law amending Law No. 50-1 on peasant associations. (2014-05-03)

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Gnetii, Vsevolod (CONSLEGB)

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