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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 26 - 30 of 69Chapter 1 of Title 46 of the Pohnpei State Code - Personal General Provisions.
This Chapter sets out general provisions relative to any agreement, regardless of its form, that is intended to give rights in personal property, including houses on land not owned individually or entirely by the party or parties purporting to give an interest in the house, as security for the performance of any obligation.
Chapter 2 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code -Lease and Use Agreements.
This Chapter concerns use and lease of public land. The Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees may, subject to provisions of this Chapter, authorize use and lease agreements in respect of public lands. Land may be leased to foreign companies but only for the time they are doing business in Pohnpei. Rights to minerals and exhaustible resources and other uses defined by the Board to be of public interest. The Chapter also places restrictions on subleases of residential leases issued by the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees.
Chapter 3 of Title 43 of the Pohnpei State Code - Relocation Assistance.
This Chapter establishes rules for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced by the acquisition of real property by the Pohnpei Government and local land acquisition programs or by programmes that require relocation. If an agency acquires real property for public use, it shall make fair and reasonable relocation payments to displaced persons and businesses in accordance with this Chapter. An Agency shall also set up a relocation assistance advisory programme.
Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code - Public Access.
This Chapter establish rules for securing public access to areas that are public lands and that are subject to subdivision into smaller parcels, tracts or lots for sale, lease, homestead, exchange or allocated for any other purposes or any public land abutting the sea or tidal areas that is proposed to be sold, leased, homesteaded , exchanged or allocated. The Board of Trustees shall have the power to promulgate Rules and Regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor, to implement the provisions of this Chapter. Such Rules and Regulations will have the force and effect of law.
Chapter 11 of Title 42 of the Pohnpei State Code - Pohnpei State Government Conveyance Act of 2003.
This Act requires the Pohnpei Public Lands Trust Board of Trustees to identify and convey specified land to the Government of Pohnpei. The State Government Land Use Plan Master Plan Map,” is hereby adopted as the zoning map for the purposes of this Act. The Governor shall submit to the Land Use Planning and Zoning Commission the Map and plan for integration into the public services element of the Land Use Zoning Master Plan of the state of Pohnpei.