Decision of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on Amending the Regulations on Contracts for Agricultural Collective Economy in Liaoning Province and 37 Other Regulatio

Decision of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on Amending the Regulations on Contracts for Agricultural Collective Economy in Liaoning Province and 37 Other Regulations (2006) Announcement of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress

(No.39)

The Decision on the Amendment of the Regulations on Contracting Contracts for the Agricultural Collective Economy of Liaoning Province and 37 Other Regulations has been deliberated and adopted by the Standing Committee of the Tenth Liaoning Provincial People's Congress at its Twenty-third Meeting held on January 13, 2006, and is hereby promulgated. This decision shall come into force on the date of its publication.

The texts of the amended regulations are published in the Bulletin of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress (No. 5 of 2006).

Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress

January 13, 2006

Decision of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on the Amendment of 37 Statutes, Including the Regulations on Contracts for Agricultural Collective Economy in Liaoning Province

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Adopted at the Twenty-third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on January 13, 2006)

The Twenty-third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth Liaoning Provincial People's Congress has decided to amend the Regulations on Contracting Contracts for the Agricultural Collective Economy of Liaoning Province as follows:

1. Delete the second paragraph of Article 9.

2. Paragraph 2 of Article 11 is amended as follows: "The contract period for arable land shall be thirty years; the contract period for grassland shall be from thirty to fifty years. The contract period for forest land shall be from thirty to seventy years; the contract period for forest land of special forest trees may be extended with the approval of the forestry administrative department of the State Council."

3. Article 16 is amended to read: "The contractor shall, in accordance with national laws, regulations and policies, safeguard the interests of the collective economy, ensure the necessary inputs to the contracted project, pay taxes in accordance with the law, and pay the contracted sums of money on time."

4, delete the second paragraph of Article 21.

This decision shall come into force on the date of its publication.

The Regulations on Contracting Contracts in the Collective Agricultural Economy of Liaoning Province shall be amended accordingly and the order of the articles shall be adjusted accordingly in accordance with this Decision, and shall be re-published.

Decision of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on the Amendment of the Regulations on the Management of Expenses and Labor Undertaken by Farmers in Liaoning Province

(Adopted at the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth Session of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on January 13, 2006)

The Standing Committee of the Tenth Session of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress, at its Twenty-Third Meeting, decided to make a decision on the Amendment of the Regulations on the Management of Expenses and Labor Undertaken by Farmers in Liaoning Province. Regulations on the Administration of Fees and Labor Undertaken by Farmers" is amended as follows:

Article 37 is amended to read: "Where any of the following acts is committed, the competent department of agricultural administration or the people's government at the present level shall order rectification and return the illegally collected sums as much as possible; and in the case of a staff member of a state organ, he or she shall be given an administrative penalty by the unit to which he or she belongs, by the competent department of the next higher level, or by the supervisory department:< /p>

(1) illegal collection of funds from farmers or collective economic organizations, the unauthorized issuance of licenses, documents, books, etc., or to raise fees and charges;

(2) unauthorized increase in the standard of water and electricity tariffs;

(3) violation of state regulations to force farmers to participate in the insurance;

(4) mandatory subscription to newspapers and books by farmers or collective economic organizations;

(v) forcing farmers to provide financial, material and human resources to carry out standardization and upgrading as well as acceptance and evaluation activities;

(vi) assessing the required funds or other funds to farmers for the execution of their duties, setting up of institutions, purchasing of equipment, and staffing;

(vii) forcing farmers to do labor in lieu of capital."

This decision shall take effect from the date of its publication.

The Regulations on the Management of Expenses and Labor Undertaken by Farmers in Liaoning Province shall be amended accordingly in accordance with this Decision and re-published.

Decision of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on the Amendment of the Regulations on the Administration of Forestry and Tree Seeds in Liaoning Province

(Adopted at the Twenty-third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on January 13, 2006)

The Standing Committee of the Tenth Liaoning Provincial People's Congress decided at its Twenty-third Meeting to amend the Regulations on the Administration of Forestry and Tree Seeds in Liaoning Province as follows. Regulations on the Administration of Forest Tree Seeds in Liaoning Province shall be amended as follows:

The second paragraph of Article 14 shall be amended to read as follows: "Those which have not been approved for validation but are really needed for production shall be validated by the Provincial Committee for Validation of Forest Tree Varieties, and shall be used for a specified period of time and in fixed ecological zones."

This decision shall come into force on the date of publication.

The Regulations on the Management of Forest Tree Seeds in Liaoning Province shall be amended accordingly in accordance with this Decision and re-published.

Decision of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress on the Amendment of the Regulations on the Management of Watercourses in Liaoning Province

(Adopted at the Twenty-third Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth People's Congress of Liaoning Province on January 13, 2006)

The Standing Committee of the Tenth People's Congress of Liaoning Province, at its Twenty-third Meeting, has decided to make the following amendments to the Regulations on the Management of Watercourses in Liaoning Province. The following amendments are made:

Article 32 is deleted.

This decision shall come into force on the date of its publication.

The Regulations on River Management in Liaoning Province shall be reorganized in accordance with this Decision, and shall be made public again.