Rules for rural lands

In the case of rural lands, the following rules shall be observed. (1) Reservations for roads not exceeding sixty-six feet in width shall be made wherever required. (2) Reservations not exceeding twelve feet for rights of way shall be made wherever required. (3) Reservations not exceeding sixty-six feet in width measured from high water mark along all water frontages shall be reserved for Government or public purposes. (4) Access shall be provided from all surveyed lands to any public road, navigable river, creek, lake or sea shore contiguous thereto. (5) All intersections of boundaries shall be marked by wooden or concrete posts or by mounds of stones. (6) All boundary lines shall be cleared to a width of not less than six feet, and shall be marked on both sides at frequent intervals by trees blazed with three horizontal notches. (7) All artificial boundaries shall be laid out along geographical meridians and parallels. (8) The main survey lines from the starting point shall be linked to one another by traversing and shall be brought to a closure at the starting point or at some other point, the co- ordinates of which are known with reference to the starting point. Whenever practicable surveys should be connected by traverse or triangulation with the trigonometrical framework of Belize. National Lands 17 (9) (a) The surveys of the boundaries of all adjacent parcels shall be joined to others previously established and defined when within reasonable distance. (b) No application for the sale, lease, alienation or disposal in any manner whatsoever, of all the national lands described in paragraph (c) below shall be accepted by the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Environment, Commerce and Industry from the date of commencement of these Rules, and from that date, such lands shall not be sold, alienated, leased or disposed of in any manner whatsoever, provided that the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Environment, Commerce and Industry may sell, lease, alienate or dispose in any manner the lands described in paragraph (c) below after the commencement of these Rules if application for that land is made by a villager within a particular village and that application is supported by the elected representative of that village. (c) The lands referred to in paragraph (b) above consist and are made up of all that strip of land, four miles in parallel and perpendicular width, two miles on each side of the center line of the road leading from Dump to Jalacte and to the border with Guatemala. (d) No application for the sale, lease, alienation, or disposal in any manner whatsoever, of any of the national lands described in paragraph (e) below shall be accepted by the Ministry of Natural Resources from the date of commencement of these Rules, and from that 18 National Lands date such lands shall not be sold, alienated, leased or disposed of in any manner whatsoever, provided that the Ministry of Natural Resources may sell, lease, alienate or dispose in any manner the lands described in paragraph (e) below after the commencement of these Rules if application for that land is made by a villager within a particular village and that application is supported by the elected village leader of that village. (e) The lands referred to in paragraph (d) above consist and are made up of all that strip of land, four miles in parallel and perpendicular width, two miles on each side of the center line of the road leading from Dump to Jalacte and to the border with Guatemala.