LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of October 20, 2018 No. 76-VI

About land reclamation

This Law determines legal, economic and organizational basis of carrying out land reclamation and governs the relations arising in this area.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) land reclamation – complex of the agrotechnical, hydrotechnical, timber, kulturtekhnichesky, chemical and other meliorative actions directed to radical improvement adverse natural (hydrological, soil, agroclimatic) conditions of lands for the purpose of rational and stable use of land resources;

2) meliorative condition of lands – data on depth and mineralization of the ground waters influencing degree of moisture content of the upper layers of lands and also on amount of the salts containing in arable layer of lands;

3) meliorative system – property complex which part hydromeliorative systems and separately located hydraulic engineering constructions are (further – objects of water economy), protective forest strips, and also operational roads, bridges, necessary for their operation and servicing, and other interconnected constructions and devices providing creation of favorable meliorative condition of lands and maintenance optimum for agricultural plants and other plantings of the water, air, thermal, salt and nutritious modes of soils and also flood of pastures;

4) meliorative actions – designing, construction, reconstruction and operation of meliorative systems, land development, irrigation of lands, increase in fertility of soils, flood of pastures, creation of protective forest strips, and also scientific and technological ensuring these works;

5) agromeliorative actions – the layout, irrigation and plowing of lands, furrowing, razuplotneny soils, deep loosening, carrying out beds, and also other agrotechnical works;

6) the state meliorative systems – the meliorative systems which are in state-owned property and providing interregional and (or) intereconomic water distribution and water disposal, antiflood protection and also antierosion and pasture - the protective forest strips necessary for ensuring the state needs;

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