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6. Non-urban Land Utilization Assignment and Control
In Taiwan, non-urban land classifications have been established mandating that such land must be
managed in accordance with the rules of the Regulations for Non-urban Land Utilization Control. In ad-

dition, relevant local township or city offices must carry out timely inspections concerning land usages.
Any possible infraction of these regulations must be immediately reported to the responsible special
municipality or county/city governments.

During 2021, various local governments have discovered and dealt with regulatory infractions in-

volving 5,020 plots of land covering an area of 908.2 hectares. The largest such case involved farming
and grazing land totaling 4,416 plots of land covering an area of 823.62 hectares. All violators were
punished with approximately NT$280,790,000 in fines.

IX. National Land Surveys

1. Cadastral Re-survey

In order to clarify cadasters and to prevent disputes over boundaries, the MOI, in collaboration
with local governments, continued to implement a renewal survey of cadastral maps in Taiwan from
1973 to 2021. A total of 9,096,904 plots of land covering an area of 792,692 hectares were completed
during this period, including 187,337 plots of land covering an area of 25,755 hectares during 2021.

2. Management of Surveying Services
The management of the survey industry is regulated by the Land Surveying and Mapping Act. The
specific articles of which stipulate that the surveying business must operate within certain parameters, and

that it must function in a responsible manner. Thus, firms in this industry must employ professional survey
engineers with registered practitioner engineering licenses. In addition, these companies cannot com-
mence until the necessary business registration has been appropriately filed and the proper certification

by the central authority concerned has been issued. As of the end of 2021, 148 survey organizations have
been examined and approved. Among them, 16 companies had their businesses suspended and 13 were
closed. In total, there are 119 organizations in operation with 433 professional survey engineers.

3. Provision of Digital Terrain Model Results
In order to promote the planning of national land utilization and to fully achieve the sustained
operation of national land, the MOI provided high precision and high resolution DTM results for
all government agencies from 2006 to 2021. A total of 1,028,151 maps for 997 applications for data

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