SPECIFIC MULTI-PURPOSE DAMS ACT

CHAPTER Ⅰ GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to promote development of the economy of this nation by means of facilitating construction of multi-purpose dams and of reasonable development and utilization of water resources, providing necessary matters concerning the exceptional cases, to the River Act, of construction and management of multi-purpose dams, and necessary matters concerning utilization of the turnover of the construction investment fund and support for the persons who must move to some places due to the loss of their living places.

[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 4601, Dec. 10, 1993]

Article 2(Definitions) #

For the purpose of this Act, the definition of terms shall be as follows:

1. The term “multi-purpose dams” refers to such dams which are built by the Minister of Construction and Transportation under the conditions as prescribed by the River Act, and of which the reserved water is used for any two purposes or more, from among those of the generation of electricity, the supply of the tap water, the supply of the water for industrial or agricultural purposes, the control of floods, and other purposes (hereinafter referred to as the “specific purposes”); and the term under consideration includes spare water roads, subsidiary dams, or facilities or structures which are integrated into the dams under consideration in order to maximize the usefulness of the said dams (excluding the facilities or structures which are exclusively used for the specific purposes);

2. The term “right of utilizing a dam” refers to the right of securing, by means of a multi-purpose dam, a certain quantity of water in a certain region and using the said water for the specific purposes; and

3. The term the “persons who must move due to the loss of their living places” refers to the persons, as prescribed in Article 8 of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Aquisition of Lands for Public Use and the Compensation for their Loss, who must move because they have come to lose their living places through providing their lands, etc. for the construction of multi-purpose dams.

[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 4601, Dec. 10, 1993]

SPECIFIC MULTI-PURPOSE DAMS ACT

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

(Restrictions on Occupation and Utilization of Waters of Rivers for Specific Purposes)

Article 4(Delegation of Rights) #

Article 5(Basic Plan) #

Article 5-2(Execution Plan) #

Article 5-3(Designation of Regions in Which Multi-Purpose Dams are to be Constructed) #

Article 5-4(Presumption, etc. of Permission and Rescission under Other Acts) #

Article 5-5(Expropriation and Use of Land, etc.) #

Article 6(Requirements for Persons who are to Establish Right of Utilizing Dams) #

Article 7(Succession to Legal Status of Persons Who are Scheduled to Establish Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 8(Bearing Construction Cost) #

Article 9(Order, Released to Local Government, to Bear Part of Construction Cost for Multi-Purpose Dam) #

Article 10(Shares, of Construction Cost, to be Borne by Beneficiaries) #

Article 11(Refund of Shares, Borne, of Construction Cost) #

Article 12(Utilization of Multi-Purpose Dams before Establishment of Right of Utilizing Dams) #

Article 13(Completion of Construction) #

Article 14(Preinvestment by Government) #

Article 15(Requirements for Establishment of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 16(Establishment of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 17(Matters that Require Special Attention in Process of Establishment of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 18(Dismissal of Applications for Establishment of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 19(Areas for Which Reserved Water is to be Secured) #

Article 20(Nature of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 21(Same as before) #

Article 22(Restrictions on Disposal of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 23(Special Rule for Mortgaged Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 24(Measures of Cancellation, etc. of Right of Utilizing Dam) #

Article 25(Order for Transferral of Right of Utilizing Dam and Measure of Cancellation Thereof) #

Article 26(Registration) #

Article 27(Money to be Paid) #

Article 28(Refund of Share Borne) #

Article 29(Management Office) #

Article 30(Entrusted Management) #

Article 31(Basic Principles of Management) #

Article 32(Management Regulations) #

Article 33(Measures to Prevent Potential Danger and Damage) #

Article 34(Bearing Management Expenses) #

Article 35(Exclusion from Application of this Act) #

Article 36(Rights of Minister of Construction and Transportation) #

Article 37(Compulsory Collection of Share to be Borne, etc.) #

Article 38(Dams Constructed by Public Organizations or Private Persons to be Authorized as Multi-Purpose Dams) #

Article 39(Giving Financial Assistance and Mediating Loans, and Supervision in this Case) #

Article 40 #

Article 41(Compensation for Loss) #

Article 42(Assistance to Persons who Do not Want to Move to Places of New Settlement) #

Article 42-2(Support for Persons who must Move Somewhere Due to Loss of their Living Places) #

Article 42-3(Support Projects for Areas Near Dams) #

Article 42-4(Financial Sources of Support Programs) #

Article 42-5(Hearings) #

Article 43(Penal Provisions) #

Article 44(Penal Provisions) #