Coastal Zone Management Act Article 2

The terms used in this act are defined as follows:1. Coastal zone: A zone of land, water, seabed, and subsoil designated and announced by the Central Competent Authority based on environmental characteristics, ecological integrity, and management requirements in accordance with the following principles; boundaries for marine area may be drawn using the coordinates of points to link a straight line.(1) Shore land area: The area from the average high tide line to the first provincial highway, coastal road, or mountain ridge.(2) Offshore area: The area from the average high tide line to the 30-meter isobaths or 3 nautical miles towards sea whichever is longer in distance, but not exceeding territorial sea and its seabed and subsoil.(3) Shore land area and offshore area of offshore islands: Designated based on environmental characteristics and actual management requirements within the limit of territorial sea.2. Coastal disaster: Disasters at coastal zones caused by earthquake, tsunami, storm surge, waves, sea level rise, land surface changes, or other natural and artificial factors.3. Coastal protection works: Embankment, groin, detached breakwater, revetment, parapet, retention pond, ground water recharge facilities, water pumping facilities, floodgate, and other facilities to prevent seawater intrusion and coastal erosion.
中文原文 海岸管理法第2條
本法用詞,定義如下:
一、海岸地區:指中央主管機關依環境特性、生態完整性及管理需要,依下列原則,劃定公告之陸地、水體、海床及底土;必要時,得以坐標點連接劃設直線之海域界線。
(一)濱海陸地:以平均高潮線至第一條省道、濱海道路或山脊線之陸域為界。
(二)近岸海域:以平均高潮線往海洋延伸至三十公尺等深線,或平均高潮線向海三浬涵蓋之海域,取其距離較長者為界,並不超過領海範圍之海域與其海床及底土。
(三)離島濱海陸地及近岸海域:於不超過領海範圍內,得視其環境特性及實際管理需要劃定。
二、海岸災害:指在海岸地區因地震、海嘯、暴潮、波浪、海平面上升、地盤變動或其他自然及人為因素所造成之災害。
三、海岸防護設施:指堤防、突堤、離岸堤、護岸、胸牆、滯(蓄)洪池、地下水補注設施、抽水設施、防潮閘門與其他防止海水侵入及海岸侵蝕之設施。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.