HAÏTI : LOI SUR LES ETRANGERS

DECRET LOI DU 1er JUILLET 1941

SUR LA NATURALISATION

ELIE LESCOT

PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE

Considérant que l’expérience a démontré la nécessité d’assujettir à une sérieuse réglementation les demandes tendant à l’acquisition de la qualité d’Haïtien par la naturalisation.

Considérant qu’il y a lieu d’abolir les droits de timbre auxquels sont assujetties les déclarations d’adoption et les requêtes établissant qu’un individu se trouve dans les conditions requises pour bénéficier de la nationalité Haïtienne.

Sur le rapport des Secrétaires d’Etat de la Justice, de l’Intérieur et des Finances.

DECRET

Article 1er.- L’étranger ne peut devenir Haïtien par la naturalisation qu’après dix (10) années consécutives de résidence en territoire Haïtien.

Article2.- Il adresse, à cette fin, au Département de la Justice, une requête assujettie à une taxe de cent (100) gourdes, payable au Bureau des Contributions contre récépissé définitif. Aucune autre taxe ne sera perçue pour l’acte de naturalisation.

Dr. Winston W. Riddick
Professor of Law
Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
wriddick@sulc.edu
1-225-771-4900

Dr. Winston Riddick has been a full-time professor of law since 1995, and also taught part-time from 1973-1995, at the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, LA, where he teaches civil law property, constitutional law and administrative law. He earned the J.D. from Louisiana State University Law Center and the Ph.D in Political Science from Columbia University in New York City. 

By Dr. Winston W. Riddick
Attorney and Professor of Law
Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Palais de Justice de Port-au-Prince, Haiti

20 Mai 2003

Introduction:

Three great revolutions almost two hundred years ago – American, French and Haitian – began the world’s movement toward goals of democracy, self-determination, recognition of fundamental rights of man, the rule of law, and justice for minorities and the disadvantaged. The first two republics of modern times – the U.S. and Haiti – were truly turning points in world history. Ironically, this struggle for the attainment of these goals continues in the United States, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan-and every other nation throughout this world. Substantial progress has been made; but these idealistic goals have still not been fully achieved in much of the world.

I am honored to be here with you at this particular time in History as Louisiana and America celebrate the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and you begin celebration of the Haitian Revolution. It is most appropriate that we should celebrate together, because: we share idealistic goals and values growing out of our revolutions and your ancestors played a major role in the creation of Louisiana.

Without your uprising and revolt against the French and the destruction of the French Army occupying Haiti, Napoleon would not have sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States. At eight cents per acre and $15 million, it was one of the best real estate deals ever transacted by two nations. The acquisition of the Louisiana Territory was the beginning of the establishment of the U.S. as a major world power.

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