Section PRP.02.03 — Purpose And Legislative Intent

(a) The purpose of this code is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the members of the Tribe and to protect and preserve the environment and all natural resources including land, forests, wildlife, air and waters, through appropriate uses of Mother Earth.

(b) This Code incorporates and implements the 1999 Land Use Plan, the 1999 Land Use Impact Review, and the 1996 Forestry Management Plan.

(c) The Tribal Council's intent in adopting this Chapter is to preserve and protect the political integrity and the economic survival of the people of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community by exercising the Tribe's inherent powers of self-government, and as a means of regulating and directing the overall impact of reservation land development.