Subject: Re: Mexican internal maritime allocation
Date: Sep 24, 2003 @ 20:37
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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> At www.funcionpublica.gob.mx/unaopspf/dgapi/lgbn_c4.htm is the text of Ar=ticle
> 49 of Mexico's General Law of National Goods, in which is delimited the Z=oFeMaT.
>and
> Section I says:
>
> "When the coast presents beaches, the federal maritime land zone will be
> constituted by the strip of twenty meters of width of firm land, passable=
> contiguous to these beaches or, in their case, to the shores of the river=s, from
> their mouths in the sea, unto one hundred meters upriver;"ío
>
> [Mike, this somewhat rearranges your concept of the "boca chica" of the R=
> Grande.]hahaha
>ace of
> Furthermore, Section II includes in the ZoFeMaT "the totality of the surf=
> the keys and reefs located in the territorial sea." Section III deals wi=th a
> 20-meter strip from the annual high-water mark in "lakes, lagoons, estuar=ies or
> natural deposits of sea water that communicate directly or indirectly wit=h the
> sea." Section IV deals with the special cases of artificial marinas orf
> acquicultural facilities, and I'll let you translate those for yourself i=
> interested.causes,
>
> Whenever land is gained from or lost to the sea by natural or artificial =
> the boundaries of the ZoFeMaT move to conform to the new physical configu=ration
> of the land.ion
>
> Nowhere does this particular article of the law deny state territorial
> sovereignty or jurisdiction over the ZoFeMaT, but it does place it in the=
> federal public domain and place its regulation, management, and exploitat=
> exclusively under the Secretariat of Urban Development and Ecology (since=eaward
> succeeded by the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources).
>
> I'm still looking for other clarification on the question of the actual s=
> territorial extent of the states.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA