o. Lease – is a privilege granted by the State to a person to occupy and possess, in consideration of specified rental, any land of the public domain in order to undertake any authorized activity therein.
p. License – is a privilege granted by the State to a person to utilize natural resources within any land, without any right of occupation and possession over the same, to the exclusion of others, or establish or operate a manufacturing plant, or conduct any activity involving the utilization of the natural resources covered by the license.
q. Locational/Zoning Clearance – is a clearance issued to a project that is allowed under the provisions of this Code as well as other standards, rules and regulations issued by the Municipal/City Planning and Development Officer /Deputized Zoning Officer.
r. Land Use – refers to the manner of utilization of land, including its allocation, development and management.
s. Municipal waters – include not only streams, lakes, inland bodies of water and tidal waters within the municipality which are not included within the protected areas as defined under Republic Act No. 7586 (The NIPAS Law), public forest, timberlands, forest reserves or fishery reserves, but also marine waters included between two (2) lines drawn perpendicular to the general coastline from points where the boundary lines of the municipality touch the sea at low tide and a third line parallel with the general coastline and fifteen (15) kilometers from such coastline. Where two municipalities are so situated on opposite shores that there is less than thirty (30) kilometers of marine waters between them, the third line shall be equally distant from the opposite shores of the respective municipalities.
t. Network of Protected Areas for Agricultural Development (NPAAAD) – consists of lands subject to laws highly restricting conversion. This covers the “most efficient” agricultural lands, which are the traditional sources of food and cash crops. These are the most stable crop lands and they can be grown to a wide range of crops with minimum to moderate levels of farm management requirements. These lands are usually supported by large investments in infrastructure. They include:
i. all irrigated and potentially irrigable land;
ii. all alluvial plains that are highly suitable for agricultural production and/or can be devoted to food production, as determined by the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM);
1. all sustainable lands that are traditional sources of food;
2. all crop land that supports the existing economic scale of production required to
sustain the economic viability of existing agricultural infrastructure and agriculture- based enterprises in the province or region;
3. all productive land in low calamity-risk areas that are suitable for the production of
economic trees and other cash crops; and
4. all agricultural lands that are ecologically fragile and whose conversion will result in
severe environmental problems.
u. Permit – is a short-term privilege or authority granted by the State to a person to utilize any limited natural resources or undertake a limited activity within a piece of land/water without any right of occupation or possession therein.
v. Person – includes natural as well as juridical persons.
w. Primary tourism enterprises – are facilities and services that are directly related to tourism such as, but not limited to, travel and tour services: inbound travel agencies and tour operators, local tour operators, ecotour operators and tour guides; tourist transport services whether for land, sea and air transport exclusively or majority of its seats are for
