mXlCAii FISHERY LEGISLATION 



APPEMDIX XX7I 

 EXCERPTS FROM THE OEMERAL Uff OF NATIONAL PROPERTIES 

 Signed December 31, 19^L. Published August 26, 1944. 



FIRST CHAPTER 



General 



Article 1, The nationeil patrimony is comprised of: 



I, Properties of the public domain; and 

 II, Properties of the private domain of the Federation, 



SECOND CHAPTEK 



Concermng the public domain 



Article 8, Properties of the national public domain are inalienable or in^rescriptible 

 and are not subject, as long as their juridical situation does not change, to actions for 

 recovery or for definitive or provisional possession. Individuals and public entities shall 

 be able to acquire for the use or utilization of these properties only the rights conferred 

 in this law and in such special laws as may be issued by the Congress of the Union. 



However, accidental or accessory profits, conqjatible with the nature of these properties, 

 such as the sale of crops, materials or waste, or such as the authorization of uses alluded 

 to in Article 29, shall be governed by ccaimon law. 



No passive right of way can be imposed, in the terms of conmon law, over the properties 

 of the public domain. "Bie rights of transit, of inspection, of lighting, of drainage and 

 other similar things on such properties, shall be exclusively governed by administrative 

 law and regulations. 



Article 9, It corresponds to the Federal Ebcecutive: 



IV. To issue the rules to which the governing, vigilance and utilization of the 



properties of the public domain shall be subject, and to take administrative 

 measures designed to obtain, maintain or recover possession of these pro- 

 perties, as well as to remove any naturally or artificia3J.y created obstacle 

 to a use or purpose; 



V, To annul administratively the resolutions, concessions, permissions, or authori- 

 zations that may have been dictated in violation of a legal precept or 

 through error, fraud or violence, and that injure or restradn the rights of 

 the nation over properties of the public domEiin or the legitimate interests 

 of a third party; and 



VI. In general to issue the executive orders necessary to the fulfillment of this 

 law or of the special laws to which properties of the public domain are 

 subject. 



Article 12, Concessions to properties of the public domain do not create real rights. 



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