Rural Code of Haiti (1963)
- Second edition, 1963, in 19 laws, replacing the Rural Code of 1864.
- Law 1 and Law 2 define the rural section and its organization as an administrative entity under the 1957 Constitution.
- Laws 3 and 17 give rural residents special rules of proof for civil status facts and for land ownership.
- Laws 6 to 9 cover livestock, water, irrigation and drainage, forests, and hunting and fishing.
- Laws 18 and 19 set up rural police and the penalties for offenses.
The second edition of the Rural Code of Haiti, issued in 1963 by the Secretary of State for Justice and printed in Port-au-Prince. A recital says the code then in force dated from 1864 and had to be adapted to current conditions, and that the 1957 Constitution makes the rural section an administrative entity. The code is made up of 19 laws: the rural section and its organization, civil status of peasants, rural property, cultivation, livestock, water and irrigation, forests, hunting and fishing, rural industries, trade and transport of farm products, roads, contracts, rural hygiene, leisure, surveying and proof of property, rural police, and offenses and penalties. A foreword signed by President François Duvalier introduces it.
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Government of Haiti, Rural Code of Haiti (1963), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/hti-1963-code-rural