CLASSIFICATION OF LAND

 

2 GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF LAND ACCORDING TO OWNERSHIP

1.       PRIVATE

2.       PUBLIC

LEGAL CLASSIFICATION OF LAND ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUION

1.       Forest or Timber Lands

2.       National Parks

§  Should have declaration

3.       Mineral Lands

4.       Public Agricultural lands

§  Only PAL can be alienated

§  May be further reclassified by LGU

WHO HAS THE POWER TO CLASSIFY LANDS?

·         Executive Brach – President thru DENR can classify the lands into forest, mineral, national parks, and agricultural lands

·         Agricultural lands may be further classified by law (Congress) according to uses

·         Congress shall determine, by law, the specific limits of forest lands and national parks

RECLASSIFICATION V. CONVERSION

RECLASSIFICATION	CONVERSION
LGU	DAR
Act of specifying how agricultural lands shall be utilized for non-agricultural uses such as residential, industrial, commercial, as embodied in the land use plan	The act or process of changing the current physical use of a piece of agricultural land into some other use or for another agricultural use other than the cultivation of the soil, planting of crops, growing of trees, including harvesting of produce