Draft Law Setting New Rules for Cadastral Works and Establishing a New Cadastre Administration

Haiti has never completed a national cadastre, and the diagnostic papers in this same collection identify that absence as the root of much else: an undefined state domain, unresolved undivided inheritance, and a land market that cannot support secure investment. This draft law is the legislative half of the response. It fixes new rules governing the execution of cadastral survey works and establishes a new administration to carry them out, replacing the existing arrangement rather than amending it. The preamble situates it against the civil code, the rural code and the 1984 law organizing co-ownership, which indicates the body of law it is designed to work with. It is one of four instruments in a coordinated package, alongside draft laws on land publicity and the notarial profession and a law regulating surveyors, all prepared under the CIAT and transmitted together to Parliament: the package treats cadastral survey, registration, and the two professions that produce and authenticate land records as one system rather than four separate reforms.