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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 12:56:12+00:00

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§101. Land commission; created; composition; appointment; primary purpose; powers generally. .
§102. Same; supervision of chief of lands and surveys; promulgation of rules and regulations; supervision of land registration teams.
§103. Same; appointment of land registration teams; conflicts of interests.
§104. Same; designation of registration areas.
§105. Filing of designation of registration area; actions concerning lands in designated areas.
§107. Land registration teams; duties generally.
§108. Same; settlement of disputed claims.
§110. Same; notice of hearing.
§111. Authority of land commission and registration teams to administer oaths, take testimony, etc.
§113. Hearings involving minors or incompetents.
§114. Notice of determination of ownership .
§115. Appeal from determination of land commission .
§116. Concurrence of majority present required for decision by commission.
§117. Issuance of certificate of title .
§118. Register of titles .
§119. Transfers and encumbrances of interest in lands registered.
§101. Land commission; created; composition; appointment; primary purpose; powers generally.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 101, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3, § 102, modified.
(a) Each land commission shall appoint one or more land registration teams and designate the area or areas for which each team shall be responsible. Members of these teams shall be Trust Territory citizens who are at least twenty-five years of age and shall have resided at least ten years in the area or areas within which the land lies concerning which they are to act. Such appointment shall be for a term not to exceed one year, but each member may be reappointed for additional such terms at the discretion of the land commission. The commission may appoint any number of members for each team, but the presence of three members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting business. Written notice shall be given to each member seven days prior to any meeting. If a commissioner is available, he shall preside at any meeting of a land registration team, but the teams may also proceed without any commissioner being present.
Source: 67 TTC 3, § 103, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3, § 104, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 105, modified.
§106. Survey and establishment of boundaries in designated registration areas.
Source: 67 TTC 3, § 106, modified.
(a) Upon its appointment, institute a preliminary inquiry regarding the title to all lands claimed by individuals, families, lineages, clans, or otherwise, within the area for which it is responsible and, if satisfied that such claims are well-founded, shall record the same for hearing.
(b) When the recording of such claims has been completed for the area for which it is responsible, proceed, after notice, to hear the parties and witnesses and adjudicate such claims, subject to review by the commission and the exceptions provided in this chapter.
(c) On a decision being reached on any claim, record the place name, if any, of the land, otherwise a brief description thereof, together with the names of individuals, families, lineages, clans, or other bodies found to be the rightful owners thereof and the type of ownership involved, and shall also record the name of any person or group who holds either any subordinate rights (such as rights of administration) or use or any encumbrance or easement with respect to such land.
(2) Where the parties to any claim agree to a settlement or compromise in the presence of the team, the particulars required by subsection (3) of this section shall be recorded and shall have the same force and effect as a decision under this section.
Source: 67 TTC 3, § 107, modified.
(1) Each land registration team shall endeavor to adjudicate the claims to as much land within the area for which it is responsible as is practicable within a year after that area has been designated. It shall endeavor to avoid becoming involved in such lengthy consideration of disputed claims as will seriously interfere with such adjudication.
(2) If the land registration team deems that consideration of a disputed claim will seriously interfere with accomplishment of the purpose of this chapter, it may refer the claim to the land commission for that district without the team's making any decision thereon.
(3) If a land commission deems that one of its teams is spending an undesirable amount of time on a particular disputed claim, it may withdraw that claim from consideration by the team.
(4) In either of the situations set forth in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the team shall submit to the commission its record concerning the claim including the substance of all pertinent testimony, if any, taken by the team, and the commission may then proceed itself to hear the parties and witnesses and make a determination on the claim based on both the testimony, if any, taken by the team and that taken by the commission, or the commission may refer the claim to the trial division of the high court for adjudication without any determination by the commission.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 108, modified.
§109. Same; review of record of adjudication by land commission.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 109, modified.
(ii) By registered air mail, postage prepaid, to the party's last known address, if outside the district where the land lies; provided however, that in the case of a clan or lineage, notice shall be so given to the two senior male members resident within the municipality where the land lies, the two senior female members resident within the municipality where the land lies, and to the senior male title holder, if any, and the senior female title holder, if any, or if two male members and two female members, residing within the municipality and over thirty-five years of age cannot be located then to such representative or representatives of such clan or lineage as the land commission for the district in which the land lies may designate.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 110, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 111, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 112, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 113, modified.
§114. Notice of determination of ownership.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 114, modified.
§115. Appeal from determination of land commission.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 115, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 116, modified.
§117. Issuance of certificate of title.
(c) Any lease or use right for a term not exceeding one year.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 117, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 118, modified.
(1) All transfers and encumbrances (other than those excepted in section 117 of this chapter) of any interest in the land covered by such certificate of title shall be noted thereon or therewith by the senior commissioner, or by the registrar if one has been appointed for that district, instead of being recorded with the clerk of courts under sections 301 and 302 of title 57 of this Code, and such notation shall have the same force and effect as to such land as a recording under those sections 301 and 302 would have as to land not registered. It shall be the duty of the owner in requesting any transfer or upon notice that any involuntary transfer has been effected to submit his owner's duplicate certificate for proper endorsement or cancellation, if it is physically practicable for him or it to do so. If the owner's duplicate certificate has actually been lost or destroyed, the owner may, by petition under oath, request the commission to issue him a new duplicate and the commission after such notice, if any, as it may order and a hearing, may direct the issuance of a new duplicate certificate which shall contain a memorandum of the fact that it is issued in place of a lost certificate. Before accepting and noting on the certificate of title any transfer of any interest therein, the senior commissioner or the registrar, if one has been appointed for that district, shall be responsible for seeing that the document of transfer is properly executed and properly describes the land affected. If the certificate holder's entire interest is transferred, his certificate shall be canceled and a new certificate of title issued to the transferee. If only a part of the land is transferred the certificate holder may be required, at his own expense, to have the area to be transferred surveyed and a map thereof submitted showing to the satisfaction of the senior commissioner, or the registrar, as the case may be, the area so transferred and a new certificate of title shall then be issued for each part of the land covered by the former certificate.
(2) When an owner of any interest in land dies and that land has been registered in accordance with section 118 of this chapter and a certificate of title issued in accordance with section 117 or this section of this chapter and that interest in land is devised by will, the person or persons entitled thereto may submit to the senior commissioner, or the registrar if one has been appointed for that district, the owner's duplicate certificate issued to the testator, and the senior commissioner or registrar shall cancel the testator's owner's duplicate certificate and the original certificate of title and the land commission shall issue new certificates to the devisee or devisees entitled thereto. When an owner of any interest in land dies, without having devised the same by will, the person or persons entitled thereto may submit the owner's duplicate certificate, issued to the intestate and the senior commissioner or registrar shall cancel the intestate's owner's duplicate certificate and the original certificate of title and the land commission shall issue new certificates of title. Provided that where the land is to be divided the devisees or heirs shall be required, before the issuance of new certificates of title, to have the area devised or inherited surveyed and a map thereof submitted showing to the satisfaction of the senior commissioner or registrar the area so devised or inherited and the new certificate of title shall then be issued by the land commission for each part of the land covered by the former certificate.
(a) Upon the death of a decedent, the land commission shall conduct a hearing at which evidence shall be heard for the purpose of determining the heir or heirs or devisee or devisees entitled to the decedent's land. The land commission shall conduct such hearing within sixty days after being requested to do so by any person claiming to be an heir or devisee.
(b) The land commission shall make a finding as to the heir or heirs or devisee or devisees and the respective interest or interests to which each are entitled within thirty days after the conclusion of such hearing.
(c) The chief of lands and surveys shall promulgate rules and regulations subject to the approval of the High Commissioner to implement the provisions of this section. Rules and regulations may be promulgated regarding the conduct of hearings, notice to prospective heirs and devisees and regarding any other matter necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. Such rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 119, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 3 § 120, modified.
§151. Public access prerequisite; generally.
§152. Same; lands abutting sea or tidal areas.
Source: 67 TTC 4 § 151, modified.
Source: 67 TTC 4 § 152, modified.

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§106
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§109
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§114
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§115
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