Circular No. 16-NV on strengthening the unified management of residential land in cities and towns

CIRCULAR

OF THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS NO. 16/NV DATED FEBRUARY 9, 1965 ON
STRENGTHENING THE WORK OF UNIFIED MANAGEMENT OF LAND
IN CITIES AND PROVINCE-CITY LEVELS

RESPECTED: Provincial People's Committees, City People's Committees under the Central Government

Implementing Circular No. 73/TTg dated July 7, 1962 of the Prime Minister on the management of private land for rent, vacant land, and idle land within city centers and town centers, and Decision No. 114-CP dated July 29, 1964 of the Council of Ministers on the policy of unified management of houses and land in cities and towns, many localities have basically eliminated the system of renting private land and stopped illegal occupation of public land. Some places have unified the management and distribution of land to the People's Committee. However, in this matter, there are still some shortcomings as follows:

- The distribution and use of land in some localities are still handled by multiple agencies, causing overlapping situations, or indiscriminate allocation without planning, which when the State needs to reclaim land for use, must provide compensation, causing inconvenience to the people and financial loss to the treasury.

- Some land administration tasks such as surveying, building land-related documents and maps have been neglected for a long time, lacking proper guidance from local authorities, leading to loose land management, old documents and maps not being updated, thus failing to accurately reflect the current land situation, or due to poor preservation, a significant amount of documents have been lost.

- AT In some localities, land tax has not been applied. After abolishing the private land rental system, two phenomena have occurred: either no taxes are collected from land users, causing revenue loss to the State, or continuing to collect taxes based on the previous private rental rates, causing confusion among the people, and this does not align with the spirit of the policy stipulated in Circular No. 73/TTg dated July 7, 1962 of the Prime Minister.

This situation has caused difficulties for State land management since 1963.

Currently, although the country is in a state of war, localities continue to implement Circular No. 73/TTg dated July 7, 1962 of the Prime Minister to complete this task within a certain period, while also standardizing land management, distribution, and usage, gradually preparing necessary data and materials for urban planning when peace is restored.

Therefore, the Ministry of Home Affairs requests the provincial and city People's Committees to pay attention to strengthening the unified management of land in cities and towns and implement the following specific actions:

1. For private land rented out and transferred to State management according to Circular No. 73/TTg dated July 7, 1962 of the Prime Minister, completely abolish the collection of rental fees, and the State will collect land tax (if the land is used for construction) or agricultural tax (if the land is used for increased production). AT In places where the land tax policy has not been properly implemented, while waiting for policy supplementation, localities should base on the general land tax table to study and propose a temporary tax rate for land use fees to avoid revenue loss to the State.

2. Land distribution and usage should be entrusted to the housing and land management agency, which assists the People's Committee, to unify the process of granting land use rights so that land management and usage become more economical and reasonable. Previously granted lands, if unused or underutilized, should be temporarily reclaimed and reallocated when needed. Reclaimed lands should be distributed to meet other reasonable demands or temporarily allocated to agricultural cooperatives for food production, avoiding wasteful land idleness.

Effective land management requires accurate maps and scientific data. Therefore, it is necessary to urgently carry out land administration work in cities and towns such as investigation and measurement to establish new cadastral maps for various types of land within city centers and town centers, or update existing cadastral maps according to the current land situation. Based on this, rebuild registration files and books to standardize land management and gradually incorporate it into plans. For old land-related files and maps scattered across different departments, request these departments to collect and return them to the housing and land management agency to utilize necessary and beneficial data.

Regarding the organization of the land management department, immediately appoint one or two dedicated staff members to handle the above-mentioned tasks.

Former land administration staff with good technical skills and knowledge of local land conditions, if they have transferred to other sectors and are now deemed necessary, the provincial and city People's Committees should redeploy them to strengthen this sector.

Previously distributed surveying equipment should be recovered if necessary. Any shortage of surveying equipment should be budgeted for procurement with approval from the Government.

It is requested that the provincial and city People's Committees actively implement this circular and report to the Ministry about the difficulties encountered in current land management in cities and towns along with proposed solutions.

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(Signed)