Republic of Haiti
Document Library
5,214 documents 224,262 pages
Law of 28 August 1951 coordinating the agriculture department's services and defining the Water and Forests Division's duties

Law of 28 August 1951 coordinating the agriculture department's services and defining the Water and Forests Division's duties

Corps Législatif d'Haïti 1951-08-28 1 pages
Summary — Article 11 lists what the Water and Forests Division owes: preliminary study of irrigation and drainage projects, administration and upkeep of every state irrigation system and control of private ones, control of groundwater use, natural-resource conservation, forest protection and administration, wood conservation, and the compilation of meteorological and hydrological data.
Key Findings
Full Description

The law of 28 August 1951, published in Le Moniteur No. 75 of 6 September 1951. The FAOLEX record carries the article that defines the duties and obligations of the Division des Eaux et Forêts.

Article 11 lists them: preliminary studies of irrigation and drainage projects; administration and upkeep of all state irrigation systems and control of private systems; control of groundwater use; extension and application of methods for conserving renewable natural resources; protection, organisation and administration of state forests and reserved zones, protection and control of privately owned forests, and control of the exploitation of state forests by private parties or concession companies; extension and application of methods for conserving wood and by-products; and compilation of meteorological and hydrological data for irrigation, flood prevention, use of water power, soil conservation and river control.

This is the clearest statement in the corpus of what the Haitian state undertook to do about water. Meteorological and hydrological data collection is placed inside the same division as irrigation administration, which is the institutional root of the series now published by the agriculture ministry and used across the data lane.

Sectors
Geography
Time Coverage
1951 — 1951
Full Document Text

Extracted text from the original document for search indexing.

- 58 Loi du 28 ao~t 1951 coordonnant les activites des Services du Departement de l' ~1ciiiture en vue d•un meilleur am~agement de oee- serv1ces·-(Art-;-·1r-dlifinissant fee attributionset obilgations-dEt1a'I>ivisioli'deEi Eau.x et""Forl!'te) • Ref.: Moniteur No.75 du jeudi 6 eeptembre 1951. EAUlC ET FORET$ Article 11.- Les principalee attributions et obligations de la Division des Eaux et For6ts sont: a) les etudes preliminaires des projete d'irrigation et de drainage; l'a.dminietration et l'entretien de tousles systemee d'irrigation de l 1Etat et le contr6le des systemes prives; b) le contr6le de l'utilisation des eaux souterraines; o) la vulgarisation et l'applioation des methodes de conservation des ressouroes naturelles renouvelables; d) la protection, l'organisation 1 l'adlninistration des ForOts de l'Etat et des zones reservees; la protection et le contr6le des forOts appartenant A. des particuliers; le contr6le de l'exploitation des :forets de l'Etat par des particuliere cu des societes concessionnaires; e) la vulgarisation et !'application des methodes de la conservation du bois et des sous-produits; f) la compilation des donnees meteorclogiques et hydrologiques en vue de l'irrigation, de la prevention des inondations, de l'utiliaation de la force bydraulique, de la conaervation du sol et du oontr6le des rivieres.

How to cite

Corps Législatif d'Haïti, Law of 28 August 1951 coordinating the agriculture department's services and defining the Water and Forests Division's duties, https://www.fao.org/faolex/country-profiles/general-profile/en/?iso3=HTI

Rights holder
Government of Haiti